Tag Archive | "Rob Davis"

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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My Family and Other Gypsies

Monday, February 20, 2012

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The excellent Rob Davis travelled to Russia last year and out of part of his visit he was asked to take part in a discussion as part of the Respect project, which involved talking about comics and human rights in Russia, resulting in him being asked to create a comic work that might help raise [...]

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Nelson – repeated….

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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A little cheating here…. we put my Nelson review up (finally) on Christmas Day. I say finally, not because it had taken a long while to post the thing, but because Richard (me) had dragged and dragged and dragged his/my feet over the review. Wanted to read it again, and again, and again. Wanted to [...]

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A Christmas Day present to you – NELSON…..

Sunday, December 25, 2011

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NELSON Edited by Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix by 54 of the great and the good of UK comics….. Paul Grist, Rob Davis, Woodrow Phoenix, Ellen Lindner, Jamie Smart, Gary Northfield, Sarah McIntyre, Suzy Varty, Sean Longcroft, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Luke Pearson, Paul Harrison-Davies, Katie Green, Paul Peart-Smith, Glyn Dillon, I.N.J.Culbard, John Allison, Philip Bond, D’Israeli, [...]

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A week of Blank Slate Previews part 4 ….. NELSON

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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Blank Slate have 5 new books out this week, all ready for Thought Bubble at the weekend…. so here we are, at number 3 for the week. So far we’ve previewed Hector Umbra and Dinopopolous, and My Skateboard Life. Time to look at one of THE books of the year, certainly the one that’s really caught the attention [...]

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This girl’s life: Nelson

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Nelson Edited by Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix, contributions by over 50 UK based creators. Blank Slate Books It’s 1968; Jim and Rita Baker are eagerly awaiting their first child. In a sequence evoking that long-gone swinging Sixties era, Rob Davis’ lovely art sees Jim puttering around town on his scooter, a cool, hip 60s [...]

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Don Quixote ….. we’re all men of La Mancha

Friday, October 14, 2011

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Don Quixote Volume 1 By Miguel De Cervantes, adapted and illustrated by Rob Davis SelfMadeHero “Don Quixote, what do you say? Are we proud, are we brave, or just crazy? Don quixote, what do you say? are we shouting at windmills like you? (Nik Kershaw, Don Quixote 1985) “Quixotic: Resembling or befitting Don Quixote, extravagantly chivalrous [...]

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Don Quixote Volume 1 – a preview of the quest….

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Okay, treat time… Here’s the first several pages from Rob Davis’ Don Quixote Volume 1, coming from SelfMadeHero in September, and a book many have already marked down for great, great things. “In a sleepy village in medieval Spain, a retired country gentleman spends his waking hours consuming tales of chivalry. Viewing logic, propriety or [...]

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I went down to the crossroads…

Sunday, May 8, 2011

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It is 100 years today since the birth of one of the greatest musical figures to come out of the 20th century, master of the blues Robert Johnson. A stunningly innovative singer and guitarist, legend had it that he went to a rural crossroads at midnight to sell his soul to the Devil in return [...]

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Rob Davis – letting the puppet strings show.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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Over at his blog, Rob Davis takes us through a little of the process involved in putting together his upcoming Don Quixote book. It’s out in September from Self Made Heroand it looks, frankly, stunning. “A phrase you’ll hear a lot when people discuss the styles of comic artists is “Raw or Cooked”, it’s self [...]

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Slang!

Friday, January 28, 2011

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Rob Davis mentioned on his Twitter that he’d recently unearthed some early self published comics he and his pal Sean Longcroft had made back in their misbehaving youth of drink, drugs and comics (not like the solid, upstanding, respected gentleman and pillar of the community that Rob has developed into today, of course). There are [...]

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Go Look – My Family and Other Gypsies by Rob Davis

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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New from Rob Davis, as part of the international RESPECT campaign – “My Family And Other Gypsies“, a 14-page “pocket comic”. And just as good as you’d expect from the artist behind the SelfMadeHero published Don Quixote and co-editor of Blank Slate published Nelson. Here’s the first 4, the rest here: The RESPECT campaign? – [...]

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Rob Davis gets inside soaps….

Monday, January 3, 2011

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Over on his Dinlos and Skilldos blog, Rob Davis posts the results of a year’s worth of labour from the pages of Inside Soap magazine. This is just a small crropped section – lots more at Rob’s blog. I only recognise the Corrie references through the ladies of the household, but from what I know, [...]

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