Yep, it’s a good week when we find out that Blank Slate Books is going to publish Nick Abadzis’ Hugo Tate. Above, the front cover image rough (might change before publication etc etc) and below, the front and back cover roughs complete with flaps. Blank Slate publisher Kenny Penman posted these cover roughs on Facebook [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 14, 2011
Nick Abadzis kindly drops me a line, clearly rather pleased with some great news – I’m sure a lot of you from a certain comics generation (like me) remember Deadline with fondness. Well I’m delighted to hear that Nick’s long-running Hugo Tate series from those days is finally going to be collected; from Nick’s blog: [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 4, 2011
Rather liking Nick Abadzis‘ take on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, inspired by some drawings he saw from a proposed Buffy animated cartoon series once (and yes, I’m with Nick on that, would be fab to have such a series, as long as the original cast lent their voices to it and Joss was involved): (Buffy [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 5, 2011
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New Nick Abadzis strip in Gourmet Live: “It’s called Chefs of America and fittingly, it’s about food… but of course, it’s not only about food. Food is all about people, after all… “ There’s more at the link and episode two comes next week. The free app to view the strip can be downloaded from [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Seeing as I loved Nick Abadzis’ Laika (review) and adored Howard Hardiman’s Badger (review and new review of Badger: Then & Now coming soon), this just had to be mentioned: (“Badger & Friend” by Nick Abadzis. © Nick Abadzis and Howard Hardiman) Seems Nick Abadzis is a big fan of Howard’s work, so he sent [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 4, 2009
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Nick Abadzis’ Laika is a stunning, beautiful book, described by me last year as: “It was a one way journey, necessitated through Khrushchev’s desire to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution with another propaganda victory to match that of Sputnik I. Yet Sputnik II’s little dog gave her life for little scientific advancement [...]
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
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