Every once in awhile, I come across a comic like Zoe Taylor‘s Joyride. An experiment so different and unique that you can’t help but appreciate the medium of comics even more once you’re done. Joyride brought me joy, though it isn’t a happy or light comic. I read it after the longest road trip of my life that took […]
2000AD launches the Treasury of British Comics line with classic Brit comics
Late last year 2000AD acquired the Fleetway and IPC Youth archives from Egmont UK – comics little known worldwide but beloved to generation of English children. Now they’re putting it back into print with a new Treasury of British Comics line. While the titles aren’t household comics names, they’re beloved English classics from the 70s-80s and should […]
Rip Brett Ewins
Brett Ewins an influential artist for many features in 2000 AD artist has passed away. He was known for his collaborations with Peter Milligan, Brendan McCarthy and Steve Dillon, including work on Future Shocks ABC Warriors, Bad Company, Judge Anderson and Rogue Trooper. He co-created the important alternative comics anthology Deadline, home of Tank Girl, with Dillon, and drew Johnny Nemo for the title. In later days he was beset by mental troubles, and had serious run ins with the police, after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. 2000 Ad confirmed his death on their FB page.
Review: The Suitcase: what not to do with dead pets
The Suitcase by Dan Berry Blank Slate Books It begins with an ordinary, yet unfortunate, circumstance. After agreeing to feed her neighbour’s cat and dog while they’re on a weekend break, Helen, on a visit to feed the pets, finds the dog dead. Nothing untoward; Cruncher had had, by all accounts, a long and good […]
Review: Nobrow 8 Hysteria: all shook up
Nobrow 8: Hysteria Nobrow Press Editors: Sam Arthur, Alex Spiro Hysteria def: ‘unmanageable emotional excess’ ’emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions’ Here we go then: the lovely smelling eighth volume of Nobrow’s titular anthology, packed this time with comics and illustration spreads of a hysterical nature, hotly anticipated by myself […]
Introducing… Our New Superhero, Englishman!
Well then. Yesterday – St George’s Day in the UK – saw the announcement of a brand new superhero, soon to grace our digital comic shelves: Englishman. Apparently, not a spoof! Laura Sneddonhttp://www.comicbookgrrrl.com
Thought Bubble announce first wave of guests for 2013 festival, unveil new logo
The UK’s largest comics festival, Thought Bubble, has announced it’s first wave of guests for this year. Declared rather unanimously to be the best festival on the British comics circuit by professionals and fans alike, Thought Bubble is situated in the North of England in it’s greatest city, which also just happens to be my […]
Review: Nobrow’s 17×23 Showcase: moon men and hopeful dystopias
17×23 Showcase Contributors: Isaac Lenkiewicz, Kyle Platts, Henry McCausland, Nick Sheehy, Joe Kessler Nobrow Press Following on from the success of the excellent Nobrow anthology- a bi-annual publication of two halves: one comics and one illustration, and their Showcase series, a smaller format paperback comic which launched Luke Pearson’s much-lauded Hilda adventures, Nobrow produced this last July : […]