How to sum up Stripped, the comics and graphic novels strand of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival? As one of the Stripped bloggers I had more access than most and attended almost half of the forty-odd Stripped events as… Read More ›
Reviews
In Review: Grandville – Bête Noire
Writer/artist Bryan Talbot’s anthropomorphic steampunk saga, inspired by the humanoid animal illustrations of French artist JJ Grandville, reaches its third book with Grandville: Bête Noire published by Jonathan Cape. Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock is called from Scotland Yard to Grandville… Read More ›
Stripped Event Review: Joe Sacco – The Graphic Truth
Joe Sacco, writer and illustrator, born in Malta, raised in Australia and based in America, is a comics journalist who tends to document war from the other side – not the side of the soldiers who do the fighting but… Read More ›
In Review: The Scorpion – The Angel’s Shadow
Writer Stephen Desberg and artist Enrico Marini’s The Scorpion returns in The Angel’s Shadow, the second part of the latest on-going story of the swashbuckling 18th century rogue and his battles with the less-than-holy Pope Trebaldi. Trebaldi’s army of warrior… Read More ›
In Review: Blake & Mortimer – Secret Of The Swordfish 2
2013 sees Cinebook working their way through the three parts of Edgar P Jacob’s first Blake and Mortimer story The Secret Of The Swordfish and they have reached Book 2 with the spoiler-ish sub-title of Mortimer’s Escape. The cold war… Read More ›
In Review: Thorgal – Giants
Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Gzegorz Rosinski’s tales of the Viking adventurer Thorgal continue in Giants. Picking up from where Ogotai’s Crown, the previous book, left off Giants moves away from the science fiction time traveling of that book… Read More ›
In Review: Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!
A highly illustrated children’s storybook, Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!, written and illustrated by John Fardell and published by Andersen Press is aimed at pre- and early primary school children. Jeremiah Jellyfish drifts in the oceans with his extended family getting… Read More ›
In Review: Blake & Mortimer – Secret Of The Swordfish 1
Edgar P Jacobs’ adventurers Professor Phillip Mortimer and British agent Captain Francis Blake first appeared in the first issue of the Belgian bilingual weekly Le Journal De Tintin (French printing)/Kuifje (Flemish printing) which was dated 26 September 1946. That first… Read More ›
In Review: The Last Ever Dandy Summer Special
I finally received a copy of The Last Ever Dandy Summer Special, and thoroughly enjoyed it. As I’ve said before over on Wacky Comics, I’m not sure about the “Last Ever” part of the title: I can’t help but think… Read More ›
In Review: The Silver Darlings
The Silver Darlings is the debut graphic novel by writer/artist Will Morris and is published by Blank Slate Books. It is 1967 and in the port of Dunure on Scotland’s Firth Of Clyde the small family-owned fishing boat The Silver… Read More ›