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BD & Comics Passion…. October
Institut Francais in London has just announced a three day comic festival. They’ve plans to assemble some of the best and most high profile comic creators from Briatin and France for the weekend. A selection of names: Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), China Miéville (Kraken), Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Travelerʼs Wife), Bryan Talbot (Grandville), Yves Sente and [...]
Continue reading...ink + PAPER…..
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Sometimes it seems there’s a new comic anthology packed full of super talented comic people announced every other month. Right now we have Solipsistic Pop, Comix Reader, Paper Science, Sorry Entertainer, Birdsong Songbird, New British Comics, Nelson, Whores Of Mensa, Gin Palace – that’s just going back eighteen months through the blog archives, forgive me [...]
Continue reading...Nine Months Of Beige by Sean Azzopardi…
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Nine Months Of Beige By Sean Azzopardi At first I thought Nine Months Of Beige was one of Sean Azzopardi’s sketchbook comics, but I was wrong, sort of. It’s part sketch book, part diary comic, part fictional stories – all concerned with Azzopardi’s move to Weston Park, a sleepy North London suburb. And the locale [...]
Continue reading...Dreams And Everyday Life
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Dreams And Everyday Life By Aviv Ratzin Tabella Press Dreams and Everyday Life is the first graphic novel by Israeli animator and artist Aviv Ratzin. It’s part surreal view on the everyday, part poetic flight of fancy and part philosophical (internal) debate. All of these things I am pre-disposed to like. The art is strangely reminiscent [...]
Continue reading...Dino-Spleenal
Monday, July 25, 2011
Following the weekend post on cool dino-comics, Spleenal (Nigel Auchterlounie) left a comment saying: “Aw, dude! Dinosaur comics rule! But what’s better than Dinosaurs? Cop dinosaurs, cowboy dinosaurs, pirate dinosaurs, dinosaur Knights! So I did a few strips a couple of years ago… I sent them out, and heard nothing back. Left them lying in my computer then tried [...]
Continue reading...The second annual Birmingham Zine Festival – special report by Lizz Lunney and Sean Azzopardi
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The second Birmingham Zine Festival took place a couple of Saturdays ago, and although I missed it, organiser Lizz Lunney and attendee Sean Azzopardi were kind enough to send through a report and photos of what looks like another great event. All photos provided by Lizz, taken by Hellocatfood apart from screen print photo by [...]
Continue reading...We’re all animals underneath…… Urban Beasts
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Urban Beasts issues 1 & 2 Written by Daniel Hartwell, Anna Rubins, art by Karen Rubins Itch On the surface, this really couldn’t be further from the book of Karen Rubins I last looked at. That was Blood Magic, all about female magics in medieval society, wheras Urban Beasts is far more up to date, [...]
Continue reading...Necessary Monsters finally gets booked?
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi’s Necessary Monsters series looks like it may finally be getting it’s long promised book release. And from a newly ressurected First Comics of all places. Yes, First Comics. As in American Flagg, Grimjack, Badger, Nexus et al. Seems they’re back. Daniel Merlin Goodbrey has a few details on the [...]
Continue reading...The Abnormals – superhero action underground
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The Abnormals Special #1 by Grant Springford A mystery team of unusual superpowered beings, working for some shadowy government organistaion or other…. that’s The Abnormals. This is the first outing for the team and alongside the usual bit of gathering up the team and introductions we get an underground adventure as a weird super team [...]
Continue reading...New Tripwire digital edition – out now, still free….
Sunday, July 10, 2011
New Tripwire digital edition is now out – available as a huge 57Mb of pdf download here. the new digital edition, ahead of the return to print with Tripwire 55 later this month, features all the usual strong content and uncluttered, eye-catching design. Features this time around include Pat Mills and Simon Bisley talking Slaine: [...]
Continue reading...New Harker and Gravestown from Gibson and Danks…
Saturday, July 9, 2011
It’s been quite a while since we had any news regarding Harker, a series I very quickly came to love in 2009 and 2010, written by Roger Gibson and drawn by Vince Danks. This was just a little of my praise for issue 1 & 2: “This is one of those books that I knew [...]
Continue reading...Simon Moreton’s Better, Drawn …. a graphic medicine project
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Simon Moreton (Smoo, strip above, and The Sorry Entertainer) gives us a heads up about a new blog/project: Better, Drawn: “Better, drawn is a place for people to share stories about long-term mental and physical illnesses, told in the form of short comics. The site is a way for people to write and draw about their experiences [...]
Continue reading...The Black Project
Thursday, July 7, 2011
The Black Project 1 By Gareth Brookes This latest short comic from Gareth Brookes is a different little thing – produced using images made with lino-cut block printing and embroidery and text added directly onto the material by pen. And the whole thing is printed using a Risograph, giving the whole thing an unusual, hand-made, [...]
Continue reading...Luke Pearson’s Everything We Miss – a preview.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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Review for this very soon, but Nobrow passed over these images from the new Luke Pearson book; Everything We Miss and I couldn’t resist sharing. Pearson’s star has risen very quickly in comics, we first noticed him here on the blog with a strip submitted for the Cape Graphic Short Fiction Prize 2009, and have [...]
Continue reading...Comic Football – a brand new comic with a new spin on subscription….
Monday, June 20, 2011
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Comic Football is a new, subscription only comic from Pete Wildrianne and Clive Ward. Thanks very much to Lew Stringer to pointing this one out. The subscription model for comics, especially children’s comics is a difficult one, as we saw with the cancellation of The DFC. But Comic Football’s plan to distribute via local football clubs [...]
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