Tag Archive | "Nick Abadzis"

Hugo Tate launch in Gosh tomorrow

Friday, May 11, 2012

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A reminder to London peeps, the excellent Nick Abdzis has been sent back to these shores for a short while and will be in Gosh in London tomorrow, Saturday May 12th from 7 to 9pm for the launch of the much anticipated new collected edition of his Hugo Tate series by Blank Slate Books.

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Director’s Commentary – Nick Abadzis

Friday, May 4, 2012

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Today we have a very special treat for you – regular readers will know we’ve been pretty excited about the upcoming Blank Slate Books release of something many readers have been clamouring after for some time – a definitive collected edition of Nick Abadzis‘ brilliant Hugo Tate, one of the standout strips from the glory [...]

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Nick Abadzis on Comics Are Great

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Nick Abadzis guest on Jerzy Drozd’s Comics Are Great podcast, discussing the upcoming Blank Slate Books release of his collected Hugo Tate, a series a lot of us have wanted to see collected for many years and which is figuring pretty highly in the blog crew’s “I want” list. Nick will be in the UK [...]

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Hugo Tate blog

Monday, March 19, 2012

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(pencil rough sketch for a bookplate design by and (c) Nick Abdzis, shamelessly borrowed from his tumblr) Nick Abadzis has started a tumblr blog featuring art and musings on his iconic – and thanks to Blank Slate Books – about to be reprinted in a new collected edition Hugo Tate. The Megazine & the FP [...]

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Hugo Tate – Coming Soon…..

Sunday, March 4, 2012

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Blank Slate Books are publishing Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis very soon, described by The Comics Journal as “Britain’s Love & Rockets” and promotion is happening all over the place. Joe’s already told you about the book’s launch party on May 12th, but there’s also this: Like it says on the Blank Slate website: “The [...]

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Hugo Tate launch at Gosh

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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We’ve been blogging about how delighted we are at the prospect of a long-overdue collection being published of Nick Abadzis‘ brilliant Deadline strip Hugo Tate (available now for pre-order) – the nice folks at Blank Slate are bringing this unusual slice of Brit comics history out this spring and the equally nice folks at Gosh! [...]

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Trip City Round Table part two

Friday, February 24, 2012

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In December, the Forbidden Planet International blog sent maverick reporter Stilts McGoon to Noo Yawk to talk to some of the boys (and gals) behind Trip City. The result was the first part of our Trip City roundtable. In this much-delayed second part (Sorry, Joe – Stilts) McGoon chats to more of the people  – [...]

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Abadzis’ Cora (finally) in the Phoenix…

Saturday, February 4, 2012

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Nick Abadzis’ Cora strip was originally serialised in The Times (April 2008), and was always expected to be in The DFC at some point, as Abadzis was heavily involved with the development and launch of the comic (June 2008). But now, nearly 4 years later, it’s finally seeing print in The Phoenix Comic. A long [...]

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Best of the Year 2011: Nick Abadzis

Monday, December 12, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes via the good offices of the excellent Nick Abadzis, who has brought us some fabulous comics work over the years, not least the magnificent, touching and inspiring Laika, a tale of a dog and the heroic dawn days of what would become the Space Age. The new edition [...]

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Nick Abadzis’ alternate Laika – one last time…

Friday, August 5, 2011

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Nick Abadzis has been posting alternate endings to Laika over on the Big Planet Comics site as as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations. And he’s just put up the very last one. It’s a perfect ending, summarising everything that attracted him to the subject in the first place and…. oh, just look at it…

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What if Laika……

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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Nick Abadzis‘ Laika is a wonderful book, but in the end it’s heartbreaking, as we all know that poor Laika doesn’t return from her epic journey onboard Sputnik II. But now, as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of Big Planet Comics in Washington DC, Abadzis is playing a game of What If…? And he’s [...]

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Hugo Tate, Hugo Tate, Hugo Tate, Hugo Tate…..

Saturday, April 16, 2011

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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 [...]

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Hugo Tate coming from Blank Slate

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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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: [...]

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Nick’s Buffy

Monday, April 4, 2011

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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 [...]

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Chefs Of America by Nick Abadzis…..

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 [...]

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