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Sushi Karaoke! Genius & Fun stuff from Lizz Lunney

Friday, July 10, 2009

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Sushi Karaoke! by Lizz Lunney Self Published I last had a look at Lizz Lunney’s wonderful mini comics a while back. (damn, given away what I thought of the new comic already.) I started it with this: There are some mini-comics that really want to be grown up, proper comics, who want to be published [...]

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Another day at the office – I Like My Job

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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I Like My Job by Sarah Herman Jonathan Cape Here’s a strange one. What exactly is it that marks some proposal out for publication at one of those “proper” book publishers and not others? I ask this not to cast aspersions on I Like My Job but just to try to illustrate some of the [...]

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Orbital Volume 1: Scars – Sci-Fi Interruptus.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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Orbital Volume 1: Scars Written by Sylvain Runberg, Art by Serge Pelle Cinebook It’s the 23rd Century and humankind has finally been admitted to an 8000 year old intergalactic multi-species alliance and even then only grudgingly – we’re somewhere between annoying simpleton cousin and nasty virus in their eyes. Of course, this is mostly our [...]

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Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip Volume 4

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip Volume 4 by Tove Jansson Drawn & Quarterly I genuinely can’t remember if I’ve ever read any Moomin tales before or whether I just know of them in some pop culture generalist knowledge base. I may have read them as a child, picking them up along with Tintin and Asterix [...]

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Harker issues 3 & 4 – more classy detective fiction

Monday, July 6, 2009

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Harker issue 3 & 4 by Roger Gibson & Vince Danks Ariel Press Harker issue 1 & 2 were reviewed a few weeks back. The verdict: I thought it was great. So with issues 3 & 4 I was really hoping it was going to live up to the promise of the first issues. Well, [...]

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Reasons Why I’m Scared To Love You.

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Reasons Why I’m Scared To Love You by Philip Spence Self Published This is a beautiful handmade and bound comic by Philip, each one a unique piece of art. It’s one of those lovely, hand crafted individual things that only just clings onto the edges of the definition of comics, but comics is a big [...]

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Detective Comics 854: Batwoman takes over

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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Batwoman in Detective Comics 854 by Greg Rucka and JH Williams III DC Comics There’s only one reason I picked up this issue of Detective Comics: J H Williams’ artwork. Even just the preview pages were enough to show me this one looked perfectly gorgeous. It’s well worth it just for the art but as [...]

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Fools Errand by Philip Spence

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Fools Errand by Philip Spence Self Published You might know Philip from his very lovely comic and webcomic Ninja Bunny (reviews here, here and here). But you might not know that, as well as crafting perfect little comics about small battling ninja rabbits, Philip also makes his own autobiographical comics. The first of Philip’s autobiographical [...]

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Animation at the Film Fest

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Among the movies I was eager to see during my annual week off at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival were two animated features which we’ve mentioned on here before (regular readers will know of my fascination for all forms of animation) -- the Australian stop-motion film Mary and Max (that rare thing, a feature [...]

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“I’ll see you on the dark side of the Moon”

Monday, June 22, 2009

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“And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I’ll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon” (Pink Floyd, Brain Damage) I’m currently enjoying my annual smorgasbord of movies at the Edinburgh International Film [...]

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Batman & Robin #1, Morrison and Quitely do their thing on the other great DC icon…

Monday, June 22, 2009

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Batman And Robin #1 Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely DC Comics I’ve been a little down on Grant Morrison’s work lately. Not that I’ve really read that much. It’s just that his whole DC continuity heavy series just don’t appeal to me (and god knows I don’t have the time to get involved). In fact, [...]

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