As a rather lovely spring day beckons here’s Alex Fitch in a patch of golden daffodils to bring us our weekly online and radio comics hit; as ever for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site: Panel Borders: Newspaper Comics, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 7, 2011
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Do not adjust your set, yes, Somersault is a little late this week due to unforseen circumstances (rumours abound that this includes a group of penguins dressed as Mexican bandits, a gambling-mad octopus called Fred, a pile of rare Estonian superhero comics and a giant pumpkin; Mr Cowdry refuses to confirm or deny these rumours), [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 31, 2011
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Slightly later this week but always worth waiting for, our weekly visit to the wonderfully weird world of Somersault, continuing the Real Men theme: (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and all of the previous episodes [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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Continuing on from the previous Real Men segments, that charming and thoughtfully refined chap Mr Cowdry ponders the place of masculinity in the modern era of gender politics: (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and all [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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Following on from last week’s Real Men tale and thinks are hotting up in Somersault… (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and all of the previous episodes archived here)
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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There’s more than one type of ‘real’ man and not just the mighty slabs of meat from last week’s strip. Some real men, it transpires, have something of a slight resemblance to 60s superspy Jason King… (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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Masculinity seems to be in flux and men are given frequently conflicting messages and images of what a ‘real’ man should be and how he should act. So here’s Somersault to add to the confusion… (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Oh we don’t mean to do it, do we? Listen in on other people’s conversations, I mean. At least, we wouldn’t admit to it, ’twas accidental, couldn’t help overhearing… Of course we all feel a little curious about them when we hear those conversational fragments and wonder what they were all about… (Somersault is (c) [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 12, 2011
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Richard Cowdry (whose latest Somersault strip Fat Charlie Chaplin is the best so far) gets in touch with some Comix Reader news: “Following last weeks Comix Reader launch, there’s going to be a regular monthly Comix Meeting. It’ll be on the first WEDNESDAY of every month at the Crown in New Oxford Street (the same [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Why, ’twas Mr Charles Chaplin who ate all those pies. Just what happened to the Little Tramp when he started thinking it was more jolly fun to scoff all those cream pies rather than slap them into the faces of his silent movie comedy colleagues? Somersault shows us… (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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If you get the cultural reference in the title to this week’s lyrical-based Somersault then you are showing your age! (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and all of the previous episodes archived here)
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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As we get to the final part of the compliance centre strand you will doubtless be relieved to find out our plucky hero (who doesn’t keep at all well, you know), getting lots of support back into employment from the caring and understanding authorities: (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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We often hear in the news that those trapped in long time unemployment need help getting out of the ‘benefit trap’, where a new but low paying job won’t offer enough to cover the most basic needs and they are better on benefits. In the land of Somersault this is doubly true; fortunate for us [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from one of our own regular contributors, the man who brings us our weekly visit to the strange and frequently disturbing world of Somersault, as well as creating some fab small press comics and regularly posting some fascinating thoughts on the comics medium on his Love the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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There’s nothing like a caring, supportive hand from government when you have been ill and unemployed and really need it. Sadly in Somersault there is nothing like caring or supportive help… Thank goodness the real world isn’t like this, eh? (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you [...]
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
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