Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi’s Necessary Monsters series looks like it may finally be getting it’s long promised book release. And from a newly ressurected First Comics of all places. Yes, First Comics. As in American Flagg, Grimjack, Badger, Nexus et al. Seems they’re back. Daniel Merlin Goodbrey has a few details on the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 8, 2011
We are Words and Pictures launched a window exhibition last Friday at the Bookartsbookshop in Hoxton. Organised by myself, with window dressing by Philippa Rice, it was another example of getting comics out into the public domain, beyond the normal comics community. Wawap have been active in music and poetry festivals and children’s workshops and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 6, 2011
You may have seen Richard mentioning a couple of times recently about a mysterious new project, Built of Blood and Bricks, a collaboration between two of our most intriguing Brit small press comics creators, Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi, following on from their very successful collaboration with Sightings of Wallace Sendek. We were curious, naturally, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 30, 2011
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One of our fave creators and a staunch supporter and flag waver for comics in general and good British comics talent in particular, Sean Azzopardi, was at a recent show of comics art in the London Print Studio. You might remember a while back we blogged that Karrie Fransman (no mean comics creator herself) and [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 26, 2011
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I’m looking forward to this one…. Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi’s Built Of Blood And Bricks. And Sean Azzopardi sent over some art for your enjoyment…..
Continue reading...Saturday, June 4, 2011
Coming at some point….. And that’s all I got in an email from Douglas Noble. A new series from Noble and Sean Azzopardi. Seeing as the last comic by Azzopardi & Noble was the great “Sightings Of Wallace Sendek“, I’m looking forward to this whenever it happens.
Continue reading...Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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ED By Sean Azzopardi I came to Azzopardi’s work after he’d produced the majority of his Ed strips and only saw his character for the first time last year with the second B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S. anthology where I said this: “The ED strip has a relaxed and more rounded art style than Azzopardi’s other work, and tied [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 13, 2010
Today’s Best of the Year picks come from a long-time stalwart of the Brit comics scene, a creator whose work I’ve really enjoyed for a number of years now, he’s been strongly involved in the promotion of the Brit comics scene too through London Underground Comics, flying the flag at Angouleme and Malta and numerous [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 13, 2010
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That man Sean Azzopardi was at the weekend’s Birmingham Zine Fest and he’s got a whole set of pics on Flickr to prove it: (browsing, reading, buying at the Birmingham Zine Fest, photo shamelessly borrowed from Sean Azzopardi’s Flickr. Were you at the Zine Fest too? How was it?)
Continue reading...Saturday, September 11, 2010
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Although I really enjoy Azzopardi’s work and have said so a fair bit on the blog, I’ve never read any of his Ed comics. Luckily for me (and you), that should change with the release of the collection at some point in 2010. Azzopardi’s been putting little glimpses up on his blog as he progresses, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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(cover art to Ukin by and (c) Josceline Fenton) Over on his blog Sean Azzopardi posts a new Artist’s Corner where he chats to Josceline Fenton about her comics work: “Sean: You are in the second year of your graphic and media design course, is it sympathetic to your comic making. I see so many [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 22, 2010
100 Days Of Winter by Sean Azzopardi Self Published This is Azzopardi’s version of the 100 Days project that saw many people committing to do one thing, everyday, for one hundred days (see here for the background to the project). We’ve looked at Tom Humberstone’s 100 Days already a few times on the blog, along [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Sightings Of Wallace Sendek by Sean Azzopardi and Douglas Noble Self Published Two stalwarts of small press, self publishing come together here: Douglas Noble makes complicated, dark, thoughful masterpieces (Strip For Me, Complex and Live Static), and Sean Azzopardi makes equally great comics on a wide variety of subjects, including the autobiog Twelve Hour Shift [...]
Continue reading...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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