Tag Archive | "Walker Books"

Gum Girl… the children at school get hold of it….

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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Gum Girl Volume 1 – Catastrophe Calling By Andi Watson Walker Books I did my review of Andi Watson’s great new Gum Girl series a few days ago, but I’m not who the book is aimed at, not by many years! So Walker Books and Andi were kind enough to donate some copies to the [...]

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Director’s Commentary – Andi Watson on Gum Girl….

Monday, March 26, 2012

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Director’s Commentary posts are all about turning the FPI blog over to an artist to allow them to talk about their latest thing. And I’m delighted to be able to introduce Andi Watson for a commentary. Making comics since the early 90s, his bibliography has an eclectic feel; there’s a little Buffy, a couple of [...]

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Andi Watson’s Gum Girl – perfect, polished, pop (in pink)

Monday, March 19, 2012

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Gum Girl Volume 1 – Catastrophe Calling By Andi Watson Walker Books It’s been nearly two years since Andi Watson’s last four volume series for Walker Books finished. That was Glister, and it was as sweet, sentimental, full of a melancholy wistfulness as you could wish for, a perfect little comic for adults AND children, [...]

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Gum Girl from Andi Watson

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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First volume coming in early 2012, this is the teaser image from Watson’s next series from Walker Books. See, it’s not just Marvel and DC who do press releases with extensively blacked out characters!

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The Little Prince – a worthy comic adaptation of a children’s classic.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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The Little Prince Graphic Novel adaptation by Joann Sfar from the book by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry Walker Books I remember reading The Little Prince as a child and being somewhat unimpressed by it, not really grasping the complex parables of friendship and love that De Saint-Exupéry littered his prose with. And I’ve never returned to [...]

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Slog’s Dad – another darkly uplifting children’s book from Almond and McKean

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Slog’s Dad By David Almond and Dave McKean Walker Books Slog’s a boy who believes in life after death, and he believes with all his heart. His dad died, cruelly and horribly, after a vibrant life as a binman was cut short when first one leg, then the other was taken, until there’s nothing but disease left, [...]

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Glister – The Family Tree, the final volume in a great series

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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Glister – The Family Tree by Andi Watson Walker Books The fourth and final (at least for now) tale in Andi Watson’s saga of Glister Butterworth; who is, as I said back in my review of Glister: The Haunted Teapot: “……a strange magnet. …. wherever she goes, strange things happen around her. She lives with [...]

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Salem Brownstone – Just your usual art-deco gothic fantasy children’s book…

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Salem Brownstone – All Along The Watchtowers by John Hattis Dunning and Nikhil Singh Walker Books “A wonderfully imaginative and stylish piece of work and a perfect example of the adventurous new directions that comic books should be taking in the future.” Alan Moore. That Alan Moore quote on the back of this children’s book [...]

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All that glisters here really is golden: The triumphant return of Andi Watson’s Glister

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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Glister: The Haunted Teapot by Andi Watson Walker Books Glister was a comic series that came out in 2007 from Image Comics; 3 issues of the series made it out before the plug was pulled. But in many ways the book was doomed from the start; after all, Image are hardly the ideal company to [...]

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