(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...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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...Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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...Thursday, February 11, 2010
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...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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...Monday, February 8, 2010
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...Sunday, February 7, 2010
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...Thursday, February 4, 2010
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...Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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...Sunday, January 31, 2010
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...Friday, January 29, 2010
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...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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...Monday, January 25, 2010
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 [...]
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Friday, March 12, 2010
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