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Chick & Chickie … sweet chicks terrorising the alphabet, one letter at a time.
Chick & Chickie Play All Day By Claude Ponti Toon Books We’ve reviewed a fair number of these gorgeous Toon Books graphic novels for younger readers here at the FPI Blog. They’re magnificent little things, well thought out, beautiful artwork, perfect stories for the youngest of readers, and a great introduction to comics. This is one [...]
Continue reading...Big Questions answered….
Friday, April 13, 2012
Big Questions By Anders Nilsen Drawn And Quarterly Anders Nilsen wants to talk about the big questions; life, death, philosophy, day to day existence, why we’re here and why we do what we do. But he’s going to do it through the lives of a group of birds. It shouldn’t work, it shouldn’t be anywhere [...]
Continue reading...Noble and Azzopardi – all about the Dark Matters
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Dark Matters By Sean Azzopardi and Douglas Noble Okay, we previewed this a while ago, but here’s what you should know about Dark Matters: It’s got three stories in from Sean Azzopardi and Douglas Noble, two previously published in comic form, one specially created for this collections. Both men are very talented writer/artists and when [...]
Continue reading...Thank Goodness For Herald Owlett
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Thank Goodness For Herald Owlett Volumes 1-3 By Nicola Stuart / Nikki Stu In 2010, Nicola Stuart was one of several impressive contributors to the Birdsong/Songbird anthology, with her TC. Acorn and Longtail strip which was fast, furious, raw fun, and as I said at the time: “Packed with potential but just a little bit [...]
Continue reading...Complex Issue 6 – The End Of The End
Monday, April 9, 2012
Complex Issue 6 By Douglas Noble For the last 5 issues we, along with the ever-diminishing souls in the Complex building have been waiting for the end of the world, watching as something dark, ominous, threatening, and completely unknown gets closer and closer. Communication with the outside world has been lost, most of the staff [...]
Continue reading...No More Heroes anymore…..
Friday, April 6, 2012
No More Heroes Issue 1 Written by Gordon Mclean, art by Caio Oliveira The cover pretty much tells the story of the whole comic here… Sid Miller’s phone is what sets everything off, a seemingly random bloke gets a seemingly random text “should I kill myself?” and his answer, sent in drunken haze, sets up the [...]
Continue reading...14 Nights – an adult, emotional, frustrating read….
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
14 Nights Volume 1 By Kristina Stipetic “Nikita Koshkin is an angry Russian immigrant who is dissatisfied with everything; his boyfriend, his job, himself. When he meets quiet, introverted Lucien, he thinks he’s found the relationship he’s always wanted – that is, until Lucien reveals a secret that makes them both wonder if a relationship [...]
Continue reading...Leeroy and Popo, slacker comedy animal style….
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Adventures Of Leeroy and Popo By Louis Roskosch Nobrow Leeroy and Popo is a slacker comedy. Yes, Leeroy might be a bear and Popo might be a …. well, it’s not really obvious, but the Nobrow website says he’s a dinosaur, so okay, Popo’s a dinosaur. But they’re definitely the model slacker adolescent males. Living [...]
Continue reading...Dive into the world of The Shark King
Monday, April 2, 2012
The Shark King By R. Kikou Johnson Toon Books Francoise Mouly’s Toon Books have only been in existence a few yars but they’ve really set a high standard for producing quite magnificent comics for children. We have a set in the school library and they’re invaluable, a wonderful source of fun and a great way [...]
Continue reading...Propaganda – Best Of March 2012
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Lots of comics get reviewed here on the FPI Blog each month, and sometimes I worry that they’re not getting enough blog time, hence each month I like to do something to pick the very best of the previous month’s reviews…. And this month it was a bloody tough decision… there’s just been so much [...]
Continue reading...TJ & Amal….. a roadtrip, a love story… maybe
Friday, March 30, 2012
TJ and Amal By E. K. Weaver “In the span of a single day, Amal calls off his arranged marriage, comes out to his conservative parents, promptly gets disowned, goes on a bender… and wakes up the next morning to find TJ, a lanky, dreadlocked vagrant, frying eggs and singing Paul Simon in his kitchen. [...]
Continue reading...Killjoy …. a boy’s tale, beautifully documented, emotionally lacking….
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Killjoy Issue 1 By Robert Brown Tom Humberstone picked out Robert Brown as one of his picks to watch in 2012. And after reading this first issue I can see why. Visually at least it’s really lovely. Killjoy Issue 1 tells the story of Brown’s very first cub camp, the longest he’d been away from [...]
Continue reading...In the dark in London…..
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
It’s Dark In London: A Graphic Collection Of Short Stories Edited by Oscar Zarate by Woodrow Phoenix, Neil Gaiman & Warren Pleece, Josh Appignanesi, Graeme Gordon & Dix, Alexei Sayle, Chris Webster & Carl Flint, Steve Bell, Stella Duffy & Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair & Dave McKean, Carol Swain, Chris Petit & Jonathan [...]
Continue reading...Lucky Luke – bringing gambling to the West
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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Lucky Luke Volume 33: The One-Armed Bandit Written by Bob de Groot, art by Morris Cinebook “Brothers Adolph and Arthur Caille are mechanical geniuses. They’ve just created one of the first slot machines and have presented it to their local senator, a notorious gambler. Much taken with the device, he agrees to send them on [...]
Continue reading...Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague….
Monday, March 26, 2012
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Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague By Steve Tanner and Graeme Howard Time Bomb Comics “Stand and deliver, because Dick Turpin is back! From the hanging tree at Tyburn to the pleasure houses of Pall Mall, there’s only one thing standing between notorious highwayman Dick Turpin leaving 18th Century London to return to the open [...]
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