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Both Sides – good and bad – in Matthew Craig’s latest
Both Sides By Matthew Craig, Jack Davies and Lee Grice Produced by Matthew Craig via dictation software and a headset as he waits for his poor knackered drawing hand to recover, Both Sides is a double header, exploring the nature of heroes and villains, first through misguided youth, then through broken-hearted Iron Age blacksmith. You [...]
Continue reading...Zig And Wikki in (literally as it turns out) The Cow
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Zig and Wikki in The Cow By Nadja Spiegelman and Trade Loeffler Toon Books “When alien pals Zig and Wikki lose their spaceship on Earth, their friendship is definitely in trouble. In order to get home, they must travel through a farm and into a cow, picking up fun facts about ecology (and picking fights) along [...]
Continue reading...More from Lizz Lunney… mini, mini comics and dreamy postcards
Monday, April 23, 2012
Curse Of The Bogmen / Horsome By Lizz Lunney In addition to making some great mini comics and mini books, Lizz Lunney makes these marvellous mini-mini flip book comics …. 16-pages including covers, 7 comic pages for each story. How mini? Well, if you’ve got anything like a 20″ monitor, then those covers above and [...]
Continue reading...Beautiful Bilal, Bargain Bilal – The Hunting Party
Sunday, April 22, 2012
We don’t do this very often, in fact we don’t do it as often as we should, but this is one of those times we’re going to jump up and down in front of you telling you about a GREAT BARGAIN OVER AT THE FPI WEBSTORE that you should really be taking advantage of. The [...]
Continue reading...2012 2000AD Pledge – Prog 1779
Saturday, April 21, 2012
In February 2012, for the 35th anniversary of 2000AD, I made a pledge: “But here’s a deal for you. If you’ll do it, so will I. 2012 will be the year I read 2000AD. 2012 will be the year YOU read 2000AD.” Cover by James Mckay Here we go again then, with another so so cover, [...]
Continue reading...Lizz Lunney’s back… this time she’s taking her cast of wonderful odd bods to the Caves
Friday, April 20, 2012
At The Caves By Lizz Lunney This is the second of Lizz Lunney’s proposed collection of “At The …” stories reflecting her love of the old “I Spy” books. She promises more to come on her blog, with such titles as At the Cinema, At the Post Office, At the Car Boot Sale, At the [...]
Continue reading...I’m an alien, I’m a legal alien…
Friday, April 20, 2012
Resident Alien #0 Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse Dark Horse Comics Last year the Dark Horse Presents anthology comic series carried a pretty interesting strip from Paul Hogan and Steve Parkhouse, Resident Alien. Harry Vanderspiegle is the titular resident alien – not one of those who sneaked over the Tex-Mex border that get right wing [...]
Continue reading...Lovecraft… stylish, polished, yet sadly lacking the chills
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Lovecraft Anthology Volume II Edited by Dan Lockwood Jamie Delano, Steve Pugh, Chris lackey, Adrian Salmon, David Camus, Nicolas Fructus, Dwight L. MacPherson, Paul Peart-Smith, Chad Fifer, Bryan Baugh, Pat Mills, Attila Futaki, Benjamin Dickson, Mick McMahon, Simon Spurrier, Matt Timson, Dan Lockwood, Warwick Johnson Cadwell. Cover by Francisco Francavilla. SelfMadeHero It doesn’t really [...]
Continue reading...The Wolf Man
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Wolf Man By Richard Appignanesi and Slawa Harasymowicz SelfMadeHero We’re back to Vienna in 1910 here, with Europe on the brink of war and revolution in the air. Against this backdrop young Russian aristocrat Sergei Pankejeff comes to Sigmund Freud to unravel his troubled life, depression, and crippling neurosis. Freud’s analysis of the Russian [...]
Continue reading...Halcyon And Tenderfoot Issue 1
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Halcyon And Tenderfoot Issue 1 By Daniel Clifford and Lee Robinson We reviewed the preview issue, and previewed this issue in March, but now Daniel Clifford and Lee Robinson have released the first issue of their all-ages superhero comic. And no surprise, it carries on all the fun of the preview issue. I loved the [...]
Continue reading...Chick & Chickie … sweet chicks terrorising the alphabet, one letter at a time.
Monday, April 16, 2012
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...2012 2000AD Pledge – Prog 1778
Saturday, April 14, 2012
In February 2012, for the 35th anniversary of 2000AD, I made a pledge: “But here’s a deal for you. If you’ll do it, so will I. 2012 will be the year I read 2000AD. 2012 will be the year YOU read 2000AD.” You know, I am enjoying these 2000AD’s reviews, especially some of the interesting comments [...]
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 [...]
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