Tag Archive | "UK comics"

UK Comics…. analysing the numbers and the reasons why….

Sunday, September 18, 2011

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(Pic borrowed from Lew Stringer’s excellent Blimey! blog) The news came in in the last few weeks of the rather depressing state of the circulation figures for newsstand comics. The real shocker being the plummet of The Dandy, with reported sales dropping from 15,000 a week to nearer 7,500 in just a year. The Beano and Toxic [...]

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Hitsville UK – a hit, oh such a hit

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Hitsville UK issue 1 Written by Dan Cox and John Riordan, art by John Riordan “No expense accounts, or lunch discounts, or hypeing up the charts, The band went in, ‘n knocked ‘em dead, in 2 minutes 59″ “No slimy deals, with smarmy eels – in Hitsville U.K. Lets shake’n say, we’ll operate – in [...]

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Lots of paper, lots of cardboard… the My Cardboard Life Book

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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My Cardboard Life Book By Phillipa Rice If you’ve been following Philippa Rice’s My Cardboard Life over the last few years as we have you’ll already be aware of just how much pure, unadulterated fun it is. If you haven’t then this 118 page collection of comics from the first two years of My Cardboard [...]

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Paragon Issue 8

Monday, September 12, 2011

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Paragon Issue 8 Written by Mark Howard, Dirk Van Dom, The Emporer, Mark McLaughlin Art by Dave Candlish, Stephen Prestwood, James Corcoran Published by Dave Candlish Another issue of Paragon, under a really nice Jikan cover by Chris Askham. Five strips, four stories, and pretty much the same problem I had with Paragon last time. I [...]

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Paul Rainey’s Thunder Brother ….

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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Yes, I know Joe mentioned this the other day, but I didn’t get chance to flick through until today and I have to say Paul Rainey’s new online comic Thunder Brother: Soap Division is off to a fine start, two strips in, with a cleaner, finer line than his previous work and a bright colour [...]

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Coming in November …. West – Confederate Dead

Friday, September 9, 2011

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Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable’s West is clever, thrilling, thoughtful and really pushes at the boundaries if what you expect from even the most unusual of Western tales. It’s also, as I’ve said a few times in the past, bloody brilliant. Sure, the last West – Stray Bullets was a little down on the usual [...]

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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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Something Reductive – the comic diaries of James Nash continue….

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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Something Reductive – Diary Comics 2010 By James Nash We looked at James Nash’s diary comics The Present Is Not A Purgatory (Diary Comics 2008) and Speaking Not Knowing (Diary Comics 2009) last year, and I was very impressed, both with his innovative “skyscraper format” (as coined by Matthew Craig) of A3 sized sheets folded [...]

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Vanguard… a hit and miss new anthology…

Monday, September 5, 2011

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Vanguard – Issue 1 Written by Dirk Van Dom. Art by David Blankley, Louis Carter, El Chivo, Owen Watts, Cover art by Liam Byrne. Vanguard is a new anthology series put together and featuring four strips all written by Dirk Van Dom. Van Dom’s previously featured on the FPI blog as the writer of Icarus [...]

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Pictures Made Of Light – frustrating and fascinating stuff…

Friday, September 2, 2011

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Pictures Made Of Light By Andrew Cheverton “A man sits alone in a movie theatre, watching a film that may be more than it seems. A silent movie. A family melodrama. An optical allusion. It’s not only the images on the screen – we are all pictures made of light.” Well this is going to [...]

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Mirabilis – a wonderful start to the year of wonders

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Mirabilis: Winter Volume One By Dave Morris and Leo Hartas Print Media Print Media have very sensibly decided to continue the formatting of the DFC Library with Mirabilis – the first strip from the DFC comic to see print from a non DFC publisher – and quite rightly the presentation is absolutely first class here [...]

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The Comix Reader Issue 2

Monday, August 29, 2011

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The Comix Reader Issue 2 Contributors include: Alex Levin, Alex Potts, Barnaby Richards, Bernadette Bentley, Daniel Locke, Ellen Lindner, Elliot Baggott, Gareth Brookes, Hannah Eaton, Jimi Gherkin, Joe Sumner, Julia Homersham, Kat Kon, Kevin Ward, Lord Hurk, Peter Lally, Ralph Kidson, Richard Cowdry, Saban Kazim, Steve Tillotson, Tanya Meditzky, Tim Levin, Tobias Tak Edited and Assembled [...]

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Everything We Miss….

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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Everything We Miss By Luke Pearson Nobrow Press Beautiful presentation, two tone orange and black, a style reminiscent (somehow to me) of a dark Ladybird book or something slightly beyond my memory from childhood. That’s the initial feel of this delicious hardback edition from Luke Pearson and Nobrow that we previewed here on the FPI [...]

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New at Birmingham Comicon – Ryan Taylor’s Grinning Mask 2

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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I looked at The Grinning Mask Issue 1 back in 2010, after Ryan Taylor had given me a copy at BICS 2010. And it was rather nice, a horror tale with great promise, from a young newcomer. There was certainly enough there to make me interested to see issue 2. And just under a year [...]

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Crikey goes digital…..

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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…… well, sort of. The print version of Crikey! has gone, a victim of the harsh financial times we live in right now, but the nostalgic magazine about the UK comic scene of days gone by continues in electronic form: The Crikey! Special is available to order from the Crikey! website. No digital download though, [...]

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