Tag Archive | "Rob Davis"

Hourly Comics Day ….

Friday, February 1, 2013

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Right, it’s hourly comics day once more. I forget every single year that it’s the 1st February. However, it’s also Richard has been to the dentist and really, really, really needs to lie down day… so I shall make this quick, yes there will no doubt be more being done around the world, but these [...]

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Best of the Year 2012: Rob Davis

Saturday, December 8, 2012

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As we enter week two of our annual tradition of daily guest Best of the Year posts we welcome one of our solid faves to the blog, a man who is adept at tilting at windmills with panache, Rob Davis: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve [...]

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Thoughts from Thought Bubble: Woodrow Phoenix

Thursday, November 22, 2012

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Nelson Editors Woodrow Phoenix (middle) & Rob Davis (right) receiving the British Comic Award for Best Book from host Adam Cadwell. Last weekend, Forbidden Planet International—Zordon style—unleashed its bloggers into the aisles of the UK’s most inclusive comics festival, Thought Bubble (read Zainab’s report here). My role was to frenetically dash about to conduct short [...]

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Upcoming: Don Quixote Volume 2

Saturday, October 13, 2012

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Don Quixote Volume 1 was rather bloody brilliant. Volume 2 is released from SelfMadeHero next year, as is the Complete Don Quixote for our American cousins from SelfMadeHero and distributed by Abrams. But things are already sneaking out… and best of all, we get Rob Davis talking about his work…. fascinating…. like this about the [...]

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Comics: Mick McMahon by Rob Davis, and Doctor Who by Mick McMahon…

Saturday, September 29, 2012

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Over on his Dinos and Skilldos blog, Rob Davis (Don Quixote, Nelson, Roy Of The Rovers, Phoenix Comic, Doctor Who) has a lovely post on the great Mick McMahon, including the text piece written for Vworp! Vworp! and that great pic I’ve posted above of McMahon and a classic Cyberman. I’ll let the man himself [...]

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Nelson at Hay 2012….

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

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Just popped up over on Sarah McIntyre’s Live Journal and Facebook – a report and photos of the Nelson panel and celebrations at Hay Festival 2012: “Hurrah! We got comics into this year’s Hay Festival! Here are our two fabulous editors (and fellow contributors!) Woodrow Phoenix and Rob Davis, holding a lovely copy of our graphic novel, NELSON.” “Here we [...]

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Illustration advice

Friday, June 1, 2012

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This is a repeat of an older post, but Rob Davis decided it was worth airing his 2009 blog post with his ten-point advice piece on making an actual paying career out of illustration – and he’s right, it is well worth repeating for new illustrators to have a wee look at for points such [...]

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Ask Blank Slate… ask Rob Davis

Sunday, April 15, 2012

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Over on their website, Blank Slate Books have instigated a new feature.. Ask Me Anything. Simple concept, once a month you get to ask a Blank Slate creator to answer your questions. And first to take the challenge is Rob Davis, editor and co-creator of the Eisner-nominated Nelson and creator of the equally brilliant Don Quixote from [...]

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Rob Davis and Ben Haggarty – The Girl With The Amber Eyes

Thursday, March 29, 2012

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This 4-page strip was in The Phoenix Comic Issue 11, but Rob Davis has done us the favour of sticking it up on his blog for everyone to see just how good the quality of strips in The Phoenix is. Here’s the first two pages, head to Dinos and Skilldos for the rest. And here’s [...]

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Don Quixote covered….

Saturday, March 3, 2012

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Rob Davis’ Don Quixote was one of the FPI Blog’s books of the year for 2011, and it had a cracking cover to make it stand out on the shelves: But there were other choices for that cover, and Davis has posted a few of them up on his blog:

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