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Interview: TCAF from the Indy Publisher’s perspective

Thursday, May 9, 2013

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I’ve never been fortunate enough to make it over to Toronto for TCAF yet, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it, not just from general reports but also first hand from some of our writer and artist friends in the Brit comics community who make the long trip over to Canada and love [...]

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Comics UK: Eisner Awards Nominations….

Sunday, April 28, 2013

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The Eisner Award nominations were announced a little while ago, meant to say something when these were announced, but what can I say… time eh? A couple of interesting things about the awards first. It’s going to be interesting to see just how dominant the triple unstoppable forces of comics that are Brubaker and Phillips’ [...]

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Preview: The Man Who Laughs

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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Out right now from SelfMadeHero, the striking cover is just the start of what looks like a very strong book, and one that may well find itself on various best of year lists; The Man Who Laughs, adapted from Victor Hugo, written by David Hine, drawn by Mark Stafford. “Victor Hugo’s scathing indictment of the injustice [...]

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Upcoming: Nick Abadzis’ Cigar and Pipe tale…..

Saturday, March 30, 2013

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At the end of 2012, Nick Abadzis sent in his best of year for the blog, complete with news of his plans for the coming year. We’ve already seen Cora’s Breakfast, currently serialised in the Phoenix Comic, and later in the year he’s got the intriguingly titled The Cigar That Fell In Love With A [...]

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Reviews: The Murder Mile

Friday, March 15, 2013

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The Murder Mile Paul Collicutt SelfMadeHero We’re back in the technicolour 50s here, right in the middle of one of the most intense periods of athletics history, when the entire running world seemed to be holding its breath, not wondering if the 4-minute mile could be broken, but wondering when, and perhaps more importantly …. [...]

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Comics: Sean’s take on Angoulême

Friday, February 15, 2013

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That wandering comics creator Sean Azzopardi‘s well-travelled feet took him to the fabled Angoulême comics festival in France at the end of January, and Sean has been kind enough to pen us a comic creator’s point of view of his and some of the other Brit comics pack’s Angoulême experience: This year I travelled to [...]

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Comics: Angouleme winners 2013

Monday, February 4, 2013

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The major European comics art festival, Angoulême, took place over the weekend, pretty much the festival for those with a deep love for the medium. The hugely prestigious awards were announced and I am absolutely delighted to see that not one but two UK creators, published by some of the Indy Brit comics publishers we have [...]

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Review: Pachyderme

Monday, October 29, 2012

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Pachyderme By Frederik Peeters SelfMadeHero “Our heroine, Carice, is visiting her husband – she has something important to tell him. He’s a diplomat, who’s lying in hospital following a car accident. Stuck in a traffic jam on her way to the hospital, she abandons her car and sets off on foot on a journey that [...]

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Reviews: Picture A Favela

Friday, October 19, 2012

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Picture A Favela By André Diniz SelfMadeHero André Diniz tells the extraordinary story of Maurício Hora, who lives in one of the most dangerous slums (favelas) in Rio, Brazil. Despite overwhelming odds, Hora has made an international name for himself as a celebrated photographer. We are led from his challenging childhood living with his drug-dealer [...]

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Upcoming: Don Quixote Volume 2

Saturday, October 13, 2012

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Don Quixote Volume 1 was rather bloody brilliant. Volume 2 is released from SelfMadeHero next year, as is the Complete Don Quixote for our American cousins from SelfMadeHero and distributed by Abrams. But things are already sneaking out… and best of all, we get Rob Davis talking about his work…. fascinating…. like this about the [...]

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