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Dan Haycock: working through Brunetti with some nice results
Thanks to John Welding for the heads up on this one: “Off to me big computer for a better neb at this… “@_unbatondecolle: New comic!! ‘Licking Piss off a Peashooter‘” It’s a new post from Dan Haycock. He’s been working his way through the Ivan Brunetti Cartooning: Philosophy & Practice book, and this time the [...]
Continue reading...John Cei Douglas – so lovely, yet so little….
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Here’s a young artist that doesn’t get enough work out there; John Cei Douglas. It was nearly 4 years ago I first looked at his debut comic Buffalo Roots, and even interviewed him about it. Such talent, yet so little comics work since then. Odd strips here and there; Solipsistic Pop 3, Paper Science 3, [...]
Continue reading...Paris – ab-fab fashionistas in the city
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Paris By Maarten Vande Wiele Knockabout Faith sings, Hope dreams of making it as a model, and Chastity just wants to be rich and famous. And they’re all looking to find it in fashionable Paris, where everything is designer, everything luxuriates in glamour, everyone parades in head to toe couture (all neatly recorded in the [...]
Continue reading...Thank Goodness For Herald Owlett
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Thank Goodness For Herald Owlett Volumes 1-3 By Nicola Stuart / Nikki Stu In 2010, Nicola Stuart was one of several impressive contributors to the Birdsong/Songbird anthology, with her TC. Acorn and Longtail strip which was fast, furious, raw fun, and as I said at the time: “Packed with potential but just a little bit [...]
Continue reading...Complex Issue 6 – The End Of The End
Monday, April 9, 2012
Complex Issue 6 By Douglas Noble For the last 5 issues we, along with the ever-diminishing souls in the Complex building have been waiting for the end of the world, watching as something dark, ominous, threatening, and completely unknown gets closer and closer. Communication with the outside world has been lost, most of the staff [...]
Continue reading...14 Nights – an adult, emotional, frustrating read….
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
14 Nights Volume 1 By Kristina Stipetic “Nikita Koshkin is an angry Russian immigrant who is dissatisfied with everything; his boyfriend, his job, himself. When he meets quiet, introverted Lucien, he thinks he’s found the relationship he’s always wanted – that is, until Lucien reveals a secret that makes them both wonder if a relationship [...]
Continue reading...Leeroy and Popo, slacker comedy animal style….
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Adventures Of Leeroy and Popo By Louis Roskosch Nobrow Leeroy and Popo is a slacker comedy. Yes, Leeroy might be a bear and Popo might be a …. well, it’s not really obvious, but the Nobrow website says he’s a dinosaur, so okay, Popo’s a dinosaur. But they’re definitely the model slacker adolescent males. Living [...]
Continue reading...2012 2000AD Pledge: Prog 1776
Sunday, April 1, 2012
In February 2012, for the 35th anniversary of 2000AD, I made a pledge: “But here’s a deal for you. If you’ll do it, so will I. 2012 will be the year I read 2000AD. 2012 will be the year YOU read 2000AD.” 2000AD Prog 1776 Great, great Chris Weston cover there. Dredd is a bit of [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming: Dark Matters and Pirouette from Azzopardi and Noble
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Joe put the teaser image up last week, but Douglas Noble has been in touch with some preview pages and a few words about the forthcoming Pirouette story and the new book it features in: “Dark Matters: A collection of the collaborations between Sean Azzopardi and Douglas Noble, this volume contains Built Of Blood And [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming: Halcyon & Tenderfoot #1
Friday, March 30, 2012
The preview issue has been available for a while, and was reviewed here back in March, but Daniel Clifford has now announced that Halcyon and Tenderfoot, by Clifford and artist/ co-creator Lee Robinson is now available. You can buy the comic from ArtHeroes.co.uk with options for physical copy, digital copy, or annual 4-issue subscriptions in print [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming: Spandex Book 1
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Another in our series of UPCOMING posts, this time highlighting Martin Eden’s Spandex. We’ve featured Spandex here on the FPI blog since issue 1 and have continued our support with each issue since as Eden’s multi-coloured gay superhero title started strong and just got better and better. Here’s a little of what it’s all about: [...]
Continue reading...Killjoy …. a boy’s tale, beautifully documented, emotionally lacking….
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Killjoy Issue 1 By Robert Brown Tom Humberstone picked out Robert Brown as one of his picks to watch in 2012. And after reading this first issue I can see why. Visually at least it’s really lovely. Killjoy Issue 1 tells the story of Brown’s very first cub camp, the longest he’d been away from [...]
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...Upcoming: Rainbow Orchid Volume 3 (at last!)
Monday, March 26, 2012
It’s taken many years to get to the conclusion but this April 2nd, just next week, we finally get to see the finale of Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid series. A false start in 1997, followed by initial serialisation in 2002, but it took another 4 years before publishers began to get interested, thanks mostly to [...]
Continue reading...Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague….
Monday, March 26, 2012
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Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague By Steve Tanner and Graeme Howard Time Bomb Comics “Stand and deliver, because Dick Turpin is back! From the hanging tree at Tyburn to the pleasure houses of Pall Mall, there’s only one thing standing between notorious highwayman Dick Turpin leaving 18th Century London to return to the open [...]
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