Tag Archive | "Self Made Hero"

New For 2012 – SelfMadeHero

Saturday, January 21, 2012

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Mid December – I put out a twitter call for new work from UK comic people that would see the light of day in 2012. It’s not more than halfway through January 2012. I’m late, so here we go – lets start with publisher Self Made Hero…. here’s what they have coming up…. It’s Dark In [...]

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Glyn Dillon at SelfMadeHero – The Nao Of Brown

Sunday, June 6, 2010

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We remember Glyn Dillon – from way, way back in the days of Deadline. He was one of the secon generation of Deadline artists, coming in after the initial incediary rush of the mag had faded slightly  but that didn’t make his artwork any less attractive. And then ….. very little. Bits and bobs around [...]

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Not the perfect jewel heist, but possibly the perfect heist book – The Hot Rock

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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The Hot Rock Original novel by Donald Westlake, adapted and illustrated by Christian Lacroix (LAX) SelfMadeHero Donald Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, was responsible for one of the best books of 2009 in Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of Parker: The Hunter. The Hot Rock, first published by Casterman in France in 2008, is the darkly comic [...]

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The Man in Black

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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SelfMadeHero has a video up to accompany Alex Fitch‘s interview with German comics creator Reinhard Kleist discussing his brilliant Johnny Cash bio-graphic novel, with art from the book, photos from his Comica appearance and footage of Reinhard sketching: The Man in Black and White from SelfMadeHero on Vimeo.

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Best of the Year – Doug Wallace’s picks

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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Today’s guest for our annual Best of the Year slots is Doug Wallace, publisher at UK press SelfMadeHero who publish the Manga Shakespeare range and a number of excellent literary graphic novels adaptations we’ve been loving, as well as the recent Johnny Cash graphic biography by Reinhard Kleist. Let’s see what Doug’s been enjoying in [...]

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Cash: I See a Darkness, soundtrack edition

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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Doug at the fine indy press Self Made Hero (who have been publishing a variety of graphic novels we’ve really been loving this year) tells me that they’ve collaborated with Ave Comics on a digital version of Reinhard Kleist’s graphic biopic of Johnny Cash, I See a Darkness, a book which seriously impressed me this [...]

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The Man In Black – in perfect black and white….

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt (Hurt by Trent Reznor, but made perfect by Johnny Cash) I’ve just finished Reinhard Kleist’s wonderful graphic biography of Johnny [...]

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Manga Shakespeare Twelth Night – If music be the food of love…..

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Manga Shakespeare: Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare, adapted by Richard Appignanesi, illustrated by Nana Li Self Made Hero Another entertaining exploration of the world of Shakespeare using Manga stylings from Self Made Hero’s Manga Shakespeare line – but I knew what to expect this time, having only recently reviewed The Merchant Of Venice and really [...]

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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Cash: I See a Darkness Reinhard Kleist Self Made Hero “If you wanna save your soul from hell, cowboy, then change your ways today. Or you’ll ride with us through these endless skies, forever on the hunt for the Devil’s herd...” Ghost Riders in the Sky To say award-winning German comics creator Reinhard Kleist’s graphic [...]

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The Man In Black

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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“Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colours on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a sombre tone. Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, [...]

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