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Comics to wear (if you have the dough)
If high end fashion label Prada has any say in it, next year we’ll all be wearing clothes with comic-themed prints. As the French newspaper L’Express reported, Prada’s Spring-Summer 2018 show in Milan...
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Marini presents dark fanboy candy
A couple of months ago the internet in France was all a-flutter when it was announced that Italian cartoonist Enrico Marini was working on a bona fide Batman story. It was the first time that DC...
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Comics: slew of new releases coming from Avery Hill
Extremely fine Indy press Avery Hill has a whole slate of forthcoming delights for comics readers coming over the next few months, including A Projection by Seekan Hui (launching June 2018): “A young...
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Reviews: myth or truth – Batman, Creature of the Night
Batman: Creature of the Night Book One, Kurt Busiek, John Paul Leon, DC Comics “What child wouldn’t want to be Batman, after all?” This is a bit of an unusual beast, a touch postmodern, a Batman comic...
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Stuff (& Possibly Nonsense) #140
And once more it’s that time of week where Richard and Joe offer up a few bits and pieces of news and links spotted during the course of the last few days: Rachael Ball has added some unusual Christmas...
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Bob van den Born, Professor Pi creator, passes away at 90
On Monday, November 27th, the death was announced of Dutch cartoonist and designer Bob van den Born. He was ninety years old, and will probably be best remembered for his creation, Professor Pi, a...
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Edinburgh Comic Art Festival
This weekend saw the second ECAF (Edinburgh Comic Art Festival), following its debut last winter in Summerhall (reviewed here), this year it had relocated to the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, just off...
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Berthold Leibinger Comic Book Prize awarded to Pletzinger And Dinter
(Tim Dinter and Thomas Pletzinger) Even though it’s not yet completed, Thomas Pletzinger and Tim Dinter’s comic, Blåvand, has been awarded the Berthold Leibinger Comic Book Prize 2017, with a value of...
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Stripburger hits 25, and thus still sucks
Slovenian comics magazine Stripburger, one of the longest running venues for underground and alternative comics, has been running for twenty five years and, by their own accord, has miserably failed to...
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Stuff (& Possibly Nonsense) #141
Yes, it’s Friday again and that means time for our weekly Stuff (& Possibly Nonsense) column, where Richard and Joe round up some of the news and links spotted over the last few days and bung them...
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Reviews: The Curios of the Paper Moon
The Curios of the Paper Moon, Kat Hall, One Little Apple Kat Hall’s charming fantasy The Curios of Paper Moon is available as a regularly updated webcomic, but I must confess I hadn’t come across it...
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – here’s the 2000AD Christmas Prog….
Oh yes, another sign that Christmas is right around the corner… the annual 2000AD Christmas Special, 100 pages of thrill power available right now at your local comic shop. Under that rather tasty...
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Hopper reduces to the max
Spanish cartoonist and illustrator Felipe H. Navarro has started a new webcomic in English. Hopper is the story of a painter called Edward Hopper (not that one) who likes travelling by trains and tells...
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Reviews: who betrayed who? Judas #1
Judas #1, Jeff Loveness, Jakub Rebelka, Colin Bell, Boom Studios Performing my normal early-morning perusal of the new titles at the start of New Comic Book Day, this one jumped out at me, something a...
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Stuff (& Possibly Nonsense) #142
Yes, it’s the end of the week and that means time for our regular round up of news and links we’ve spotted over the last few days with another Stuff & Possibly Nonsense: Ernest Cline’s Ready Player...
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Director’s Commentary: Paula Knight on the Facts of Life
Normally we aim to run our occasional Director’s Commentary features (where we give over the space to the writers and artists to talk about their latest work in their own words, in whatever way they...
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Awards: the 2018 Excelsior Awrds shortlist is out!
Paul Registar, a man who received a radioactive papercut as a child enabling him to become a superpowered librarian, drops us a line to let us know the 2018 Excelsior Awards shortlist is out. As...
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Bubble Manages Your BD Collection
If there’s one thing to say about comics collectors, true comics collectors, it’s that they are completists. They’ll hunt across the lands for that one issue they are still missing. For that reason,...
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Best of the Year 2017 – Matt’s picks
Yes, it is that time for our Best of the Year posts to start off (you can see previous years Best Ofs here), with some of the blog crew picking out a number of their favourites from 2017. First out the...
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Best of the Year 2017 – Richmond’s picks
Continuing our annual Best of the Year picks from some of the blog crew (yes, it is that time of year again), and today’s it’s Richmond’s turn to pick out some of the comics, books and film that...
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