Tag Archive | "Propaganda"

Luchadoras…. into a Mexican nightmare

Friday, June 24, 2011

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Luchadoras By Peggy Adam Blank Slate Books Luchadoras are the female professional wrestlers of Mexico. But here, in this latest Blank Slate release, it’s one woman who assumes the role; fighting against her circumstances of her life, the terrible situation she finds herself in, and even the very town she lives in. There are moments of [...]

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The Fish Police – Hairballs. Or why sometimes the past should stay the past. It’s warmer, fuzzier and happier that way….

Thursday, June 23, 2011

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The Fish Police – Volume 1: Hairballs By Steve Moncuse IDW Oh, never go back, never go back…… It wasn’t long ago I was talking about the re-release of Steve Moncuse’s The Fish Police: “There’s almost part of me that’s terrified of picking this one up – will it live up to the memories? Only [...]

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XIII – familiarity can’t detract from the quality of this perfect thriller….

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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XIII – Volume 7 – The Night Of August Third By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook Right, here we are again, another volume of Van Hamme and Vance’s amnesiac mystery man adventure. If you’re new to the series, it’s definitely not too late to be jumping on, so please, if you haven’t already [...]

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The love we share…. seems to go nowhere…

Monday, June 20, 2011

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Tainted By Bartosz Sztybor and Piotr Nowacki This Polish book gets around the translation problem in the simplest way possible – it merely ignores words completely and concentrates instead on the universality of telling stories just through it’s highly stylised and cartoony imagery. In this wordless 60 page A5-sized beautiful little hardback tome, the subject [...]

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The New Ghost – pretty but hmmm….

Friday, June 17, 2011

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The New Ghost By Robert Hunter Nobrow Press The New Ghost is another of Nobrow’s 17×23 series – 24 page comics designed to give young artists an avenue to tell a tale without necessarily needing to commit to a full graphic novel length book. Previous examples I’ve looked at are Luke Pearson’s all-ages Hildafolk and Mikkel [...]

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Fancy a movie?

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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Multplex: Enjoy Your Show By Gordon McAlpin Ah, the joys of the crappy job, celebrated endlessly through film, television and literature. Whether it’s fast food, music, fashion, books, comics…. anywhere that there’s a minimum wage job you’ll find a story – and here, in Multiplex, we have another iteration of the idea. To cut to [...]

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The Valley Of Fear – completing a quartet of sublime Holmes graphic novels

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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The Valley Of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Adapted from the original novel  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard, text adapted by Ian Edginton SelfMadeHero Oh, this is a joy. An absolute joy. I’ve enjoyed every one of Edginton and Culbard’s Holmes adaptations so far - The Hound Of The Baskervilles, A Study [...]

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Blood Magic

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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Blood Magic By Karen Rubins Blood Magic is an interesting concept, an interesting idea. A 24 page comic all about the old magics, blood magics in medieval society and the matriarchal power structure that the power of blood magic necessitates. Rubins’ manga style art is very attractive, and the subtle, sparing use of red to [...]

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Pinocchio. But not the one you remember…. not that one at all…..

Monday, June 13, 2011

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Pinocchio By Winshluss Knockabout Comics Oh, this is gorgeous. Even before cracking it open, Knockabout’s production of this massive full colour book hardback is first class, and everything about it, from it’s reassuringly expensive heft to the gorgeous Chris Ware-ish cover design through to the thick matt feel paper that imbues a satisfying tactile feel [...]

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The delights of The Little Endless – The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party By Jill Thompson Based on The Endless characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg DC/Vertigo There’s a joy in listening to a story being read to you, and likewise there’s a joy in reading aloud for someone else. We read all sorts of books to Molly [...]

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Stray Bullets – Jerusalem West’s adventures continue….

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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Stray Bullets: A West Anthology Written by Andrew Cheverton, Illustrated by Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Jenika Ioffreda, Paul Rainey, Emma Price, Tim Keable and Andrew Cheverton Angry Candy I loved the collected West Volume 1: Justice and the 2 issue series Distance (issue 1, issue 2) that started off Volume 2. One of the best things of last [...]

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Orbital gets political and much better for it….

Monday, June 6, 2011

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Orbital Volume 3: Nomads By Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pellé Cinebook I didn’t do my research at the end of the first couple of volumes of Orbital (reviews – Volume 1 & Volume 2) and really thought it was a simple two volume series. But what I did see I thought was a decent enough [...]

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Propaganda’s 3 from… May 2011

Saturday, June 4, 2011

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Here’s the May edition of the roundup of my three favourites of the things reviewed on the blog this month…. Cindy and Biscuit By Dan White “…..that’s what Cindy and Biscuit does to me, each and every time of the multiple readings so far – it fills my heart with simple joy and then breaks it [...]

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Obselete – despair writ large upon the page in beautiful, evocative style.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Obselete By Mikkel Sommer Nobrow Press Mikkel Sommer’s Obselete is another of Nobrow’s 17×23 series – short comics produced with all the quality and beauty of Nobrow’s graphic novels, but allowing the artists to try out new things – and for Nobrow to try out new artists. As always with Nobrow, it’s beautifully put together, [...]

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Four from Toon Books – a magnificent debut from our youngest reviewers Katy (8) and Lucy (7)

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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Here at the FPI blog we’re very keen on Toon Books; the graphic novel series designed for the youngest of readers. But I’m definitely not the target readership, no matter how much I try to think younger. And even when I get my 11 year-old Molly to review them I still feel she’s slightly too [...]

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