Tag Archive | "Sean Azzopardi"

Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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It’s a damp Thursday at the end of February, one half of the UK shivers in snow, the other half in dismal rain, but who cares when we can stay in by the fire and listen to the new-fangled wireless type talking entertainments of Alex Fitch. As ever for more information and links to podcasts [...]

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The Devil’s in the Details: an interview with Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

Friday, January 29, 2010

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Creators Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi have been writing, drawing and self-publishing comics since, respectively, 1998 and 2002. In 2008, they teamed up for the first time and brought us the espionage horror Necessary Monsters, which was initially available in weekly instalments online before seeing release in print form as mini-comics. The series is [...]

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Best of the Year: Sean Azzopardi’s faves

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year guest is one of our best indy creators on the UK small press scene, creator of the excellent 12 Hour Shift, co-creator of Necessary Monsters and many other works and a good chum of the blog, Sean Azzopardi: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the [...]

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69 love songs

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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(My Only Friend by and (c) Sean Azzopardi for 69 Love Songs) Here’s a nice union of two of our favourite things – music and comics. The How Fucking Romantic site has a great series of musically themed strips, with contributions from Huw Davies, Sean Azzopardi, Elizabeth Jordan, Tom Humberstone, Julia Scheele and more. I think [...]

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Necessary Monsters – the finale

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Necessary Monsters 5 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self-published And here we are, at the end of the five issue first series of Necessary Monsters; Goodbrey and Azzopardi’s monster action-thriller that I’ve reviewed in depth twice before (reviews of issues 1&2 and 3&4). Issue 5 ties it all up nicely, giving us the requisite number of [...]

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Sean Azzopardi’s 100 Days

Saturday, December 5, 2009

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Just like Tom Humberstone, Sean Azzopardi (artist on the soon to be collected Necessary Monsters) has decided that he fancies going a little bit mad for 100 days and is doing a cartoon update to his blog very day for the next 3 and a half months…. insanity beckons. Here’s the first…

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Necessary Monsters collection coming soon

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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We’ve really been enjoying Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi’s collaboration on Necessary Monsters, in individual issues and online. In fact Richard said of it: “Spy Horror Thrills galore with more than a touch of the magical thrown in. James Bond with Hellblazer characters perhaps. This is Necessary Monsters; a fantastic and fantastical series from [...]

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More of those Necessary Monsters…

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Necessary Monsters issue 3 & 4 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self Published. “There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know. Where the creatures of our nightmares stalk amongst humanity and play their games of vengence, murder and intrigue. To police this world there is the Chain; a covert agency of monsters [...]

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LUC 176 reports

Saturday, July 4, 2009

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(The LUC 176 sign – from Sean Azzopardi’s Flickr set – more here.) Last weekend saw the latest event from London Underground Comics: LUC 176. As you may have expected, it all went rather wonderfully well. Sadly I couldn’t make it down, despite really wanting to. But that doesn’t mean we can’t give you reports from [...]

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