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Fish + Chocolate = a flawed work of lyrical, literate beauty

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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Fish + Chocolate By Kate Brown SelfMadeHero Kate Brown, on the basis of Fish + Chocolate and her 2010 debut Spider-Moon, is a rising star, and has incredible potential. But here, with just her second major work, it’s not quite all there yet. She’s stretching herself, and I applaud that, but she reaches just that [...]

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Don Quixote Volume 1 – a preview of the quest….

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Okay, treat time… Here’s the first several pages from Rob Davis’ Don Quixote Volume 1, coming from SelfMadeHero in September, and a book many have already marked down for great, great things. “In a sleepy village in medieval Spain, a retired country gentleman spends his waking hours consuming tales of chivalry. Viewing logic, propriety or [...]

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New Incal edition from SelfMadeHero

Monday, August 15, 2011

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I am so looking forward to Jodorowsky and Moebius’ seminal European science fiction comic The Incal getting a much deserved new English language edition – coming from our friends at SelfMadeHero this autumn. If you haven’t read it, it’s one of those works that belong on the shelves of any serious collector of quality comics [...]

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Propaganda’s 4 from …. June 2011

Saturday, July 2, 2011

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We review a lot here at the FPI Blog and thought it might be nice to do a quick round up, a best of the month if you will. Normally I like to do a 3 of the best, but this month, because I can’t narrow it down, let’s have four…. Luchadoras By Peggy Adam [...]

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Contributors for second Lovecraft Anthology announced

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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Editor Dan Lockwood, fresh from the success of the recently released and rather fine Lovecraft Anthology has been revealing the line up of writers and artists involved in the second volume, which is due next spring from SelfMadeHero. Yes, various many tentacled creatures have slithered forth through the jagged cracks in reality from their dark [...]

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The Valley Of Fear – completing a quartet of sublime Holmes graphic novels

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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The Valley Of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Adapted from the original novel  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard, text adapted by Ian Edginton SelfMadeHero Oh, this is a joy. An absolute joy. I’ve enjoyed every one of Edginton and Culbard’s Holmes adaptations so far - The Hound Of The Baskervilles, A Study [...]

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Propaganda’s 3 from… May 2011

Saturday, June 4, 2011

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Here’s the May edition of the roundup of my three favourites of the things reviewed on the blog this month…. Cindy and Biscuit By Dan White “…..that’s what Cindy and Biscuit does to me, each and every time of the multiple readings so far – it fills my heart with simple joy and then breaks it [...]

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it’s Dark in London…

Monday, May 30, 2011

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Looking through the dinky and newly arrived SelfMadeHero catalogue and as with the previous catalogue I find myself going ohhh, I want to read that… and that one… and that one… Again SMH have, as with 2010′s frankly brilliant crop of graphic novels, assembled another list of forthcoming attractions that makes my reading soul very, [...]

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Getting graphic with Sherlock

Monday, May 23, 2011

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SelfMadeHero has created a cool short video promo for their series of four Sherlock Holmes graphic novel adapations, just as the fourth and final volume, The Valley of Fear, hits the racks/ It’s a series which we have absolutely loved here (including me and I’m something of a purist when it comes to my Holmes, [...]

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Chico & Rita – fifty years of a musical love story

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

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Chico & Rita By Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba SelfMadeHero I’ll start this by telling you that the ending made me cry, which is always a good sign with a love story. Chico & Rita built so well, established and developed the characters so vividly that by the end, in a swell of emotional intensity, despite [...]

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Hairshirt – dark, enthralling and absolutely unputdownable

Friday, April 22, 2011

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Hairshirt By Patrick McEown SelfMadeHero “Hairshirt: A garment of rough cloth made from animal hair and worn in the form of a shirt, by way of mortification and penance.” And that, more than anything I could write here, coupled with McEown’s great cover, full of promises of dark, labyrinthine dreamlike emotional landscapes, sums up the [...]

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The Lovecraft Anthology

Friday, April 22, 2011

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The many tentacled Elder Gods are stirring once more. Not content with the excellent adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness last year SelfMadeHero now interfere once more with Powers That They Cannot Possibly Comprehend, with the first volume of the Lovecraft Anthology (edited by the evil mad wizard of words, Dan ‘Demonicus’ Lockwood), which [...]

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Rob Davis – letting the puppet strings show.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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Over at his blog, Rob Davis takes us through a little of the process involved in putting together his upcoming Don Quixote book. It’s out in September from Self Made Heroand it looks, frankly, stunning. “A phrase you’ll hear a lot when people discuss the styles of comic artists is “Raw or Cooked”, it’s self [...]

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Le Morte D’Arthur

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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Le Morte D’Arthur: Volume One – The Coming Of The King By Thomas Malory, adapted by John Matthews, illustrated by Will Sweeney SelfMadeHero This is the first graphic novel adaptation of Malory’s epic tale of King Arthur, and it covers the first four books of Malory’s epic tale; from the boy king’s intoduction to the [...]

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Self Made Hero line up for 2011 – impressive….

Sunday, April 10, 2011

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SelfMadeHero are amongst a new group of Brit publishers reallly trying to push things forward in comics. There’s them, Cinebook, Blank Slate, Fanfare/Ponent Mon and Nobrow Press alongside a rejuvenated looking Knockabout – and between them I think they’ve hoovered up a remarkable amount of the talent in UK comics, together with going out of [...]

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