Author Archives
Joe has been a bookseller since the early 1990s, with a special love for comics, graphic novels and science fiction. He has written for The Alien Online, created & edited the Forbidden Planet Blog and chaired numerous events for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He's more or less house-trained.
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In Review: Mongrel by Sayra Begum
Joe Gordon reviews this beautifully-told autobiographical tale of inter-generational strife…
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In Review: Judges Volume Two
A compelling must-read for Dredd fans…
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In Review: Bluebeard, a Feminist Fairy Tale
Joe Gordon reviews the latest fairy tale retold from Metaphrog, an entrancing retelling of Bluebeard…
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In The Spotlight: “Dani’s Toys” from David Bishop & Ruairí Coleman
Joe Gordon checks out a comics project that’s far from what it seems on the surface…
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Avery Hill release trailer for Owen D Pomery’s upcoming graphic novel “Victory Point”
Very fine UK comics Indy publisher Avery Hill has released a trailer for Victory Point, the upcoming graphic novel by Owen D. Pomery. From the book’s description: “In the 1930s, the village of Victory Point was selected as the site… Read More ›
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In Review: The Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs
Joe Gordon reviews “The Wolf of Baghdad” by Carol Isaacs, “a beautifully-crafted, warmly emotional work”….
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In Review: Billionaires by Darryl Cunningham
Written and drawn by: Darryl Cunningham Published by Myriad Editions Out: Now Ever since Blank Slate first published his achingly honest Psychiatric Tales I have eagerly anticipated each new work by Darryl Cunningham, who has, with a mixture of detailed… Read More ›
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In Review: Americana by Luke Healy
by Luke Healy Published by Nobrow Two thousand, six hundred and sixty miles: that’s the length of the Pacific Crest Trail. Running right across America’s great west coast, it runs through some truly remarkable landscapes as it takes hikers from… Read More ›
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In Review – I Go Quiet
By: David Ouimet Publisher: Canongate “I am different. I am the note that’s not in tune. I go mousy. I go grey.” Oh, where to begin with this stunningly beautiful, deeply emotional little book? When a book arrives with glowing… Read More ›
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In Review: Rob Davis triumphantly returns with The Book of Forks
Joe Gordon reviews “Book of Forks”, the final book in Rob Davis’ incredible surreal fantasy adventure series, which began with ”The Motherless Oven”…
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In Review: Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock’s powerful “Vanni”
By Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock Published by Myriad Editions & New Internationalist New Internationalist and Myriad Editions have collaborated on another graphic reportage work, following the fascinating and moving Escaping War and Waves by Olivier Kugler last year (reviewed… Read More ›
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In Review: Sensible Footwear – A Girl’s Guide
By Kate Charlesworth Myriad Editions Out: 25 July 2019 Now this, my friends, has been one of the Brit comics works on my Must Read Radar for 2019; I know Kate Charlesworth has been working on it for a long… Read More ›
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The 30th Anniversary McLaren Animation Awards
The annual McLaren Animation award screenings at the world’s oldest continually-running film festival have always been a personal favourite part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival for me. Named for famed Scottish pioneer Norman McLaren, who would later found the… Read More ›
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From the Archives: Last Words from Leo – An Interview with Leo Baxendale
First published in October 2017 on the inexplicably and ruthlessly pruned Forbidden Planet International blog, an act of cultural barbarism about which Forbidden Planet (Scotland) Ltd has yet to reverse, we are delighted to republish, as first published and with… Read More ›
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We Read Comics Podcast discusses Archer Coe
The fourth episode of the We Read Comics podcast was recorded this week and is now live on the Radio Summerhall website. As we mentioned in a previous post, this new podcast is a monthly series, roughly following a book… Read More ›
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In Review: 2000AD – Regened!
Joe Gordon reviews the latest 2000 AD, a special issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic offering an all-ages take on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. Does it deliver?
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We Read Comics Podcast spotlights Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s “Black Hammer”
Radio Summerhall is a group of arts podcasts coming out of the Summerhall arts hub in Edinburgh, and it has recently added the We Read Comics podcast to its roster. There are two shows up already, the second of which… Read More ›
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Hugo Awards Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the annual Hugo Awards, pretty much the biggest deal in the world of science fiction and fantasy, has been announced. When a graphic category was first added to the Hugos it wasn’t always the best selection of… Read More ›
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In Review: Blossoms in Autumn
Blossoms in Autumn By Zidrou, Aimée de Jongh Translated by Matt Madden Published by SelfMadeHero Blossoms in Autumn, a collaboration between Belgian writer Zidrou and Dutch creator Aimée de Jongh, touches on a subject we don’t see all too often… Read More ›
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In Review: Guantánamo Kid
Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani Jérôme Tubiana and Alexandre Franc SelfMadeHero Life in the insanely oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia may be great, if you are rich and male and Saudi. If you are a teenage Muslim… Read More ›