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More ice-cream adventures….

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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It’s A Man’s Life In The Ice-Cream Business Part 2 By Rob Jackson This is exactly what I love about the UK comic scene – you wouldn’t really expect one issue of a self-publishers expansion into the home-made ice-cream business, and now we get the second issue of Rob Jackson’s comic about his adventures at various markets around [...]

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Rob Jackson’s Ice Cream Adventure….

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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It’s A Man’s Life In The Ice Cream Business …. The Hardest Game In The World By Rob Jackson Rob Jackson’s last comic was “Flying Leaf Creatures“, a fantasy adventure. Before that was “The Gods Are Bastards“, a ridiculously funny adventure. So of course, as a follow-up here’s a 24-page b&w comic about starting an [...]

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Angoulême: Rob Jackson and Dan Berry’s take

Thursday, February 3, 2011

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Writer and artist Rob Jackson was at Angoulême with fellow Brit Indy creators (those glorious B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S.!) and he’s posted up several blog posts back to back reporting on how it went, liberally illustrated with piles of photographs from all around the Festival, go have a look: (the BASTARDS at Angou, pic shamelessly borrowed from Rob [...]

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Gin Palace 2 – not much gin this time round….

Monday, January 24, 2011

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Gin Palace Volume 2 by Rob Jackson, Andrew Cheverton, John Robbins, Dave Hughes, Francesca cassavetti, Jarod Rosello, Pete Batchelor, Barry Cook, Paul Rainey, Sin-Cat, Brad Foster. Curated and published by Rob Jackson The second volume of Rob Jackson’s Gin Palace anthology title – review of Volume 1 here. Gorgeous cover, don’t you think? Last time [...]

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24 Hour Comics? That’s nothing – here’s Rob Jackson’s 3 hour comic….

Sunday, October 24, 2010

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The 24 hour 24 page comic has been around for many years now, and it’s something that sometimes throws up some absolutely classy comics. But it seems 24 hours is just a little too easy for Rob Jackson: Hence Rob Jackson’s 4 pager in 3 hours – just as a warm up: “As I was [...]

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Goblin Hall – a medieval comedy of errors

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Goblin Hall by Rob Jackson Self Published Rob’s changed his usual A5 format to a near US comic sized 32 page self-contained full story. It’s a nice format, still handy, but the increased size of the pages gives Rob more space to work with and allows him to get the entire story in without overwhelming [...]

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Bastille Day

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Since today is the 14th of July (le quatorze Juillet), which marks the Fête Nationale – more commonly known as Bastille Day in the Anglophone world – we thought that was a perfect excuse (not that we need one, usually) to celebrate some of the great comics work which comes out of the French language [...]

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Welcome to the Gin Palace

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

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Gin Palace by Rob Jackson, Francesca Cassavetti, Dave Hughes, Ant Mercer, Jarod Rosello, Lee Johnson, and Simon M. Self Published Another anthology title – this one masterminded by Rob Jackson, artist behind Great Deeds Against The Dead and Bog Wizards, and who already has one good anthology under his belt with the Pasty Anthology. Gin [...]

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More Great Deeds Against The Dead

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Great Deeds Against The Dead Issue 2 by Rob Jackson Self Published The second and concluding chapter of Rob Jackson’s surrealistic tale of madness, mysticism and creepy looking toys. When we finished issue 1 (reviewed here), everything looked very dark indeed; with ageing artist Tisdale Carnegie being controlled by his dead wife and her suspiciously [...]

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Tha Ballad of Hatty Jack

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Rob Jackson has started on a new work, The Balld of Hatty Jack. “Expect a lot of hats,” he says. Rumours that the title is an oblique reference to the great Carry On actress, the late Hattie Jacques, who Rob is said to be obsessed with, may prove to be totally made up for the [...]

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Best of the Year: Rob Jackson

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Continuing the annual December tradition of our Best of the Year posts, today we have respected UK indy comics creator Rob Jackson sharing some of his favourites from 2009 with us. FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? [...]

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Rob Jackson’s Great Deeds Against The Dead

Monday, September 28, 2009

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Great Deeds Against The Dead Issue 1 by Rob Jackson Self-published The first part of Jackson’s new supernatural horror story two-parter is a  horror of the psychological kind rather than an all out gore-fest. Much the better type I’ve always found. And Jackson’s creeping tale of lost love, old age and voices from beyond the [...]

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Great Deeds Against the Dead

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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Rob Jackson has a new comic out, Great Deeds Against the Dead,the first of a two-part story which Rob describes as “a sort of haunted house/horror story”. Knowing Rob it will be a bit different from you might expect from most horror tales, which is a Good Thing; the cover (below) certainly has a nicely [...]

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Rob Jackson – In praise of the pasty

Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Yes, that’s pasty. The food. And Rob Jackson’s got an anthology to celebrate this glorius foodstuff. Review soon(ish), it looks like a nice anthology indeed and includes Rob, Jim Medway, Francesca Cassavetti, Steve Butler, Dave Hughes, Ant Mercer and our own Matt Badham. Here’s Rob: “It’s called ‘The Pasty Anthology’ and contains stories (mainly) about [...]

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