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It’s Dark in London
Orbital Comics has video from the recent launch of the new edition of It’s Dark in London from SelfMadeHero, complete with the mighty Steve Bell, one of our Great Cartooning Beards of Britain, reading from the short tale War and Penge:
Continue reading...Lovecraft… stylish, polished, yet sadly lacking the chills
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Lovecraft Anthology Volume II Edited by Dan Lockwood Jamie Delano, Steve Pugh, Chris lackey, Adrian Salmon, David Camus, Nicolas Fructus, Dwight L. MacPherson, Paul Peart-Smith, Chad Fifer, Bryan Baugh, Pat Mills, Attila Futaki, Benjamin Dickson, Mick McMahon, Simon Spurrier, Matt Timson, Dan Lockwood, Warwick Johnson Cadwell. Cover by Francisco Francavilla. SelfMadeHero It doesn’t really [...]
Continue reading...The Wolf Man
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Wolf Man By Richard Appignanesi and Slawa Harasymowicz SelfMadeHero We’re back to Vienna in 1910 here, with Europe on the brink of war and revolution in the air. Against this backdrop young Russian aristocrat Sergei Pankejeff comes to Sigmund Freud to unravel his troubled life, depression, and crippling neurosis. Freud’s analysis of the Russian [...]
Continue reading...Self Made Hero’s The Wolf Man
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
From SelfMadeHero: A short video about the making of the graphic novel ‘The Wolf Man‘ (the first of SelfMadeHero’s Graphic Freud series) by Richard Appignanesi and Sława Harasymowicz. Review coming shortly, but until then, here’s the PR: “Vienna, 1910. A young Russian aristocrat, Sergei Pankejeff , desperately seeks the help of Sigmund Freud at his [...]
Continue reading...In the dark in London…..
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
It’s Dark In London: A Graphic Collection Of Short Stories Edited by Oscar Zarate by Woodrow Phoenix, Neil Gaiman & Warren Pleece, Josh Appignanesi, Graeme Gordon & Dix, Alexei Sayle, Chris Webster & Carl Flint, Steve Bell, Stella Duffy & Melinda Gebbie, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair & Dave McKean, Carol Swain, Chris Petit & Jonathan [...]
Continue reading...Director’s commentary: Dan Lockwood, Si Spurrier and Matt Timson talks us through some Lovecraftian fun
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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We loved the first Lovecraft Anthology that Dan Lockwood put together for SelfMadeHero. Now with the second anthology about to launch this week – tomorrow in actual fact, after many sacrifices by Dan to the Elder Gods for their dark blessings – we have a treat for you: Si Spurrier and Matt Timson created one [...]
Continue reading...New For 2012…. More from Mr Culbard….. Deadbeats
Monday, February 6, 2012
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INJ Culbard already has a busy 2012, with the new Deadwardians series at Vertigo, a story in SelfMadeHero’s Lovecraft Anthology II, a new collaboration with Ian Edginton – Princess Of Mars, and a new Lovecraft full length graphic novel The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward all in the next couple of months. But that’s certainly [...]
Continue reading...Best of the Year 2011 – Dan Lockwood
Thursday, December 15, 2011
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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes via editor extraordinaire and a man who is a close, personal friend of the Elder Gods, invoking their hellish powers to assist SelfMadeHero’s Lovecraftian desires, it’s Dan Lockwood: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us [...]
Continue reading...The new Vanistendael is very promising
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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Only a year ago, SelfMadeHero published the English edition of Flemish cartoonist Judith Vanistendael‘s moving graphic novel, Dance By The Light Of The Moon (which was an official “Sélection” for the prestigious Angoulême Festival, usually a great mark of quality comics work), a gripping story about life, love, differences and similarities and how you never [...]
Continue reading...Hellraisers – celebrating the cartoon drunks…
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Hellraisers – A Graphic Biography By Robert Sellers and JAKe SelfMadeHero “The story of four of the greatest boozers of all time: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed. Robert Sellers and Jake seamlessly weave their four stories into one fast-paced adventure of drunken binges, orgies, parties and fun. Told through the eyes [...]
Continue reading...Born to raise hell
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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SelfMadeHero, one of our consistently solid fave publishers, is starting to establish a bit of a rep for some pretty cool graphic biographies, following the excellent Cash: I See a Darkness, Baby’s in Black and Gonzo. And they’re doing it again as this week sees the launch of Hellraisers – no, not the inside story [...]
Continue reading...Oesterle, Mawil, Pearson, Appleby, Peeters, Nelson and more at Gosh!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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November is going to be a pretty busy month for some top comics events at London’s fine Gosh! Comics in their stylish new home in 1 Berwick Street, Soho, with some great comics creators, including, I am delighted to see, a slew of writers and artists from some of our favourite Indy UK comic presses [...]
Continue reading...Sandcastle …. death comes quickly
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sandcastle Written by Pierre Oscar Lévy, illustrated by Frederik Peeters SelMadeHero “Early morning on a perfect summer’s day, people begin to descend on an idyllic, secluded beach. Amongst their number, a family, a young couple, a refugee and some American tourists. Its fine white sand is fringed with rock pools filled with crystal clear water. [...]
Continue reading...The Incal. Sci-Fi genius…..
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
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The Incal Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Illustrated by Moebius SelfMadehero A justifiably acclaimed comics masterpiece, The Incal has a writer and artist absolutely ablaze with creativity; where the brilliance of Moebius’ visual storytelling is in absolute synergy with Jodorowsky’s utterly out-there ideas. Described by many as a seminal works of science fiction …. and yes, I’m [...]
Continue reading...Adapting Austen – “It is a truth universally acknowledged….”
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Pride & Prejudice Adapted from the original novel by Jane Austen, text adapted by Ian Edginton, illustrated by Robert Deas SelfMadeHero “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” For one reason or another, I’m utterly unaware of Jane Austen’s [...]
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