Steve Winders reviews Alastair Crompton’s new book about Frank Hampson
Month: January 2011
John Higgins World War 2 artwork in charity auction
A painting of a famous World War 2 aircraft has been painted by top comics artist John Higgins to raise money for charity. John’s picture of a de Havilland Mosquito NF MkXIII, registration MM550, one of the RAF’s night fighters,… Read More ›
Preview: Vampire Vixens of the Wehrmacht
VixenVert from Nicola Blackmore on Vimeo. Here’s Wasted magazine’s advert for the incredibly impressive Vampire Vixens of the Wehrmacht which will feature in Issue 7 of the magazine. The art is by Alex Ronald and written by the mysterious “Emperor“…. Read More ›
Panel Borders: Charlie Adlard and the Walking Dead
Concluding UK comic radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at depictions of masculinity in America comics, Alex Fitch talks to British artist Charlie Adlard about his ongoing zombie comic The Walking Dead, recently turned into a TV series… Read More ›
In Review: It Was The War Of The Trenches by Jacques Tardi
Jacques Tardi’s graphic novel of the Great War, It Was The War Of The Trenches, is one of those books that is critically lauded appearing in ‘Best Of’ lists as well as reviews of the year and with its complete… Read More ›
Lew Stringer previews this week’s Dandy
(Info via Blimey! It’s another Blog about Comics, re-published here with the kind permission of Lew Stringer): Here’s a sneak peek at the cover of this week’s issue of The Dandy, on sale from Wednesday 26th January. Under a new… Read More ›
Save our Forests: Follow Rupert to Retail
Nothing to do with the comic we’re working on, but here’s a smashing protest montage from Smuzz in support of England’s Save Our Forests campaign (http://saveourforests.co.uk) And now, back to that promo image for the strip…
In Review: Crusade – Simoun Dja
Crusade, written by Jean Dufaux and illustrated by Philippe Xavier, is a new series of Franco-Belgian bandes dessinee albums that Cinebook is translating into English for the first time. The first book, Simoun Dja, was originally published in French in… Read More ›
In Review: XIII – All The Tears Of Hell
Who is XIII? Presidential assassin? Special forces soldier? Psychotic killer? The questions continue in the third part of the XIII saga, All The Tears Of Hell, written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by William Vance. Amnesiac XIII spent the… Read More ›
In Review: The Amulet of Samarkand
By Jonathan Stroud and Andrew Donkin (script), Lee Sullivan (art) and Nicolas Chapuis (colour)Publisher: Corgi Children’s (UK, paperback) Disney Hyperion (US, hardcover)Out: Now (hardcover) 3rd February 2011 (paperback) The Book: The first volume in the brilliant, bestselling Bartimaeus sequence, now… Read More ›