Tag Archive | "Sean Azzopardi"

TCAF 2012 – Sean’s view

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Writer, artist, good chum of the blog and seasoned comic con goer Sean Azzopardi returned to Canada recently to be a part of the parcel of comics delights that is TCAF; he even managed to fit in some more days off in Toronto and took in some related comics culture events taking part in the [...]

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Noble and Azzopardi – all about the Dark Matters

Thursday, April 12, 2012

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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 [...]

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D’ACCORD – Sean Azzopardi’s new international anthology

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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D’ACCORD issue 1 By Sean Azzopardi, Chris Malapitan, Jessica Penfold, Shamisa Debroey, Thomas Gosselin, Marios Constantinides Hmmmm. The reviewers quandry. I like Sean Azzopardi. He’s a lovely guy who makes some great comics. And this new anthology he’s put together is done for the very best of reasons – a feeling that UK anthology works were all getting a bit [...]

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Upcoming: Dark Matters and Pirouette from Azzopardi and Noble

Saturday, March 31, 2012

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Joe put the teaser image up last week, but Douglas Noble has been in touch with some preview pages and a few words about the forthcoming Pirouette story and the new book it features in: “Dark Matters: A collection of the collaborations between Sean Azzopardi and Douglas Noble, this volume contains Built Of Blood And [...]

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Sean Azzopardi’s Sketchbook

Monday, March 26, 2012

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Sketchbook 3 By Sean Azzopardi I like Sean Azzopardi’s comics, I do. And some of his recent comics have certainly had elements of sketchbook in the, Have a look at the reviews of 100 Days Of Winter, Nine Months Of Beige, and Eight Tablet Dream for examples of what I’m talking about. But these were [...]

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Pirouette

Friday, March 23, 2012

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi announces news and a first glimpse of a new work he has coming up in the near future with regular collaborator Douglas Noble: Piroutte. It’s a short tease with some imagery and the promise of more details to follow soon, but frankly here on the blog we’re always [...]

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Eddie at Angou

Friday, February 3, 2012

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I love Sean Azzopardi‘s sketch of the brilliant Eddie Campbell at Angoulême at the weekend:

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Angouleme – Sean’s French Diary

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Continiung our reports from this year’s Angoulême comics festival  which Wim kicked off live from the event on Friday, today we have a special treat as the excellent Sean Azzopardi, now a confirmed veteran of the BD festival, kindly agreed to give us his take on Angoulême from the point of view of an independent [...]

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Images of Angouleme

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi was again at the Angoulême comics festival in France and he’s posted up a whole bunch of photographs so those of us who couldn’t go can at least have a glimpse of some of what it looked like:

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Eight Tablet Dream by Sean Azzopardi

Friday, December 23, 2011

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Eight Tablet Dream By Sean Azzopardi Sean Azzopardi ends the year with a comic very similar to the much enjoyed Nine Months Of Beige in July; another comic sitting somewhere between his longer, formal works and his sketchbook comics. There are dreamlike full pages of multiple imagery, sans panels, and we flow through the pages [...]

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Best of the Year 2011 – Sean Azzopardi

Thursday, December 8, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from a long-time good chum of the blog – a writer, artist and keen supporter of the British small press comics scene, as well as an occassional contributor to this very blog (in fact he kindly penned a report on the Brit comics contingent’s trip to the [...]

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Malta Comic-Con – Sean’s report

Monday, December 5, 2011

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From some of our chums on Twitter it sounds like this year’s Malta Comic Con was again a huge and enjoyable success, not to mention being very popular with the Brit contingent who headed over to the sun-kissed, George Cross-winning island nation in the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Among the Brit comics contingent in [...]

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Sean’s having a Flashback…

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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Two weeks ago Flashback records hosted an exhibition organised by myself in partnership with We are Words and Pictures. The theme was music related  comics and so naturally a record shop was a good venue to exhibit the artwork in.  Not a typical gallery space – the general agreement was to fit the work around [...]

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We Are Words + Pictures Exhibition coming

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi drops us a line to let us know that the very funky We Are Words + Pictures crew are planning a new exhibition and it sounds oh so damned cool: comics inspired by music. Among those with work on display will be Adam Cadwell, John Cei Douglas, Julia [...]

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Built Of Blood And Bricks

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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Built Of Blood And Bricks By Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi “Bricks are built from history And history is built in blood. That’s all that families are – blood that endures for a little while.” Dark. Very dark. And very, very good. Like Kieron Gillen says: “A nasty cackle of a book I recommend you [...]

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