Tag Archive | "UK comics"

Matthew Badham wants your thoughts….

Friday, March 12, 2010

2 Comments

(Honestly, when I first saw that my first thought was “oooh, huge post-it note”. Matthew Badham pic by D’Israeli and his Flickrstream, grabbed from Down The Tubes) Matthew Badham, features writer at Judge Dredd Megazine, and contributor to this blog, has been in touch regarding a project that he needs some help with, particularly those readers [...]

Continue reading...

Birdsong/Songbird – yet another fantastic anthology!

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

5 Comments

Birdsong Track One: Winter 2009 by Will Kirkby, Naniiebim, Nikki Stuart, David O’Connell, Sarah McIntyre, Warwick Johnson Cadwell. Failboat Press Birdsong is another entry in what is becoming an increasingly crowded category of beautifully designed and executed anthology titles. With just 6 strips in it’s 80 pages, some self-contained stories, some opening entries in serials, this is [...]

Continue reading...

Paragon 5 – the elephant’s back…..

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

2 Comments

Paragon Issue 5 Published by Dave Candlish Contributors: Dave Candlish, The Emperor, Stephen Prestwood. The Paragon anthology title, last seen with issue 4 is back with a pretty striking cover by Dave Candlish, featuring Battle Ganesh, “the six limbed superhero from the sub-continent!“.  And inside it’s full (a little too full, but we’ll get into that later) of [...]

Continue reading...

Outcastes – magic, mystery and murder…..

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

0 Comments

Outcastes issues 1-6 by Tony McGee True Stories Comics Outcastes opens with a pair of witchy, mysterious, amnesiac twins; Winter and Summer who are found in a cave on moors in what looks like some variation of Victorian era Britain. Taken to the local orphanage it seems as if madness and magic are following [...]

Continue reading...

Pjang 4 – more of those people who just aint no good

Thursday, February 11, 2010

0 Comments

Pjang 4 by Rol Hirst, Chris Askham, Ryan Taylor, Tony McGee, cover by Nigel Lowrey and Davey Metcalfe Self Published The latest issue of Rol Hirst’s Pjang sticks to the format of three short stories per comic, and just about sticks to the title’s theme of “people just ‘aint no good”. It certainly gets off to a great [...]

Continue reading...

All the little joys of being in Coupledom….

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

0 Comments

Coupledom by Andrew Waugh Self published Here’s a little something that should warm the cockles of anyone who’s a fan of things like Mark Ellerby’s Ellerbisms or Adam Cadwell’s The Everyday. Yes, Coupledom by Andrew Waugh is yet another autobiog strip with pretty pictures, cartoony style and a focus on the daily life and relationship of the cartoonist [...]

Continue reading...

Douglas Noble’s Live Static – difficult, complex, brilliant.

Monday, February 8, 2010

2 Comments

Strip For Me: Live Static by Douglas Noble Self published “It’s a horror story about love. It’s a romance about memory. It’s a dream of forgetting.” That’s how Noble describes the 3 part Live Static – told in issues 28-30 of his Strip For Me series. There’s a man, there’s a woman, they live together in something that [...]

Continue reading...

Keiko Panda …

Sunday, February 7, 2010

0 Comments

Over on his Cobblers blog Jason Cobbley has started posting finished pages from his new collaboration with artist Mitzi – a story of Keiko Panda. Keiko first appeared in Jason’s excellent Bulldog Adventure Magazine (review of the collection) and I’m hoping that the print version of this will be finding it’s way out into the [...]

Continue reading...

Ethel Sparrowhawk’s Terrible Hangover

Thursday, February 4, 2010

0 Comments

Ethel Sparrowhawk’s Terrible Hangover by Jemima Von Schindelberg and Steven Tillotson Banal Pig Comics A sad, somewhat bizarre and somewhat brilliant tale of a lonely, rather pathetic life here. This is the second part of the Ethel Sparrowhawk story, but everything you ever needed to know is either neatly summarised on the inside front and back covers or [...]

Continue reading...

Comics of Decadence

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

0 Comments

Comics from the Decadence Collective Published by Dave Lander (Lando) and Stathis Tsemberlidis (Covers to Decadence anthology # 6 and #7) Decadence is both the name of the anthology and the name of the artists collective started in 2003 by artists Lando and Stathis Tsemberlidis. They’re a collective that operates very much at the artistic end of [...]

Continue reading...

“In my line of work you see a lot of death” – irritable, grumpy and wonderful; Harker’s back

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

0 Comments

Harker issue 10 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press Here we go again….. by now you know how much I enjoy Harker (see the review of Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon for a reminder), so when I got the latest issue I was almost tempted just to write a quick piece announcing it’s release and [...]

Continue reading...

Lucky 13 for Rainey?

Sunday, January 31, 2010

0 Comments

Over on his blog Paul Rainey writes that he’s just finished plotting out the finale to his most enjoyable series “There’s No Time Like The Present“. In the past he always said he reckoned 12 issues would see it finish and wrap up satisfactorily. But after plotting it all out, he’s decided it needs an [...]

Continue reading...

Le Mot Faux – one last chance to get it right, but at what cost?

Friday, January 29, 2010

0 Comments

Le Mot Faux by Matthew Craig Self Published “One more time. One more night. One more chance to set things right.” That’s the idea behind Matthew Craig’s latest comic, something a little different from his usual fare at first glance. But this tale of technology allowing the grieving one last day with the dead has, at it’s heart, the [...]

Continue reading...

The Abortion – creepy and creeping horror

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

1 Comment

The Abortion by Jamie McMorrow and Garry McLaughlin Self Published I’m not the greatest fan of gore horror, not in comics, not in films, not anywhere. So I came to The Abortion expecting to dislike it. But, although it’s nasty and possibly in rather bad taste, I enjoyed it (if that’s the right word). It certainly made me [...]

Continue reading...

New British Comics 2

Monday, January 25, 2010

1 Comment

New British Comics # 2 Editor In Chief: Karol Wisniewski The second issue of anthology title “New British Comics” is available, just like the first issue in both English and Polish. The Polish edition successfully premiered at the 2009 International Festival of Comics in Lodz, and it’s an interesting and brave attempt at breaking new artists in [...]

Continue reading...