Largo Winch, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Francq’s James Bond-like billionaire, returns in his latest two part adventure in Cinebook’s The Price of Money and The Law of the Dollar. Appearing on a live TV business programme, The… Read More ›
Reviews
In Review: Alien – The Illustrated Story
by Archie Goodwin & Walter Simonson Publisher: Titan Books Out: Now The Book: Two of comics greatest talents joined forces in 1979 to bring Ridley Scott’s epic Alien motion picture to comics. Out of print for over thirty years,… Read More ›
Creator Talk: Six Questions For Artist/Writer Garen Ewing
When The Rainbow Orchid creator Garen Ewing began writing and drawing his ligne clair style Adventures Of Julius Chancer in Jason Cobley’s small press BAM! black and white anthology in 2002, he would have hardly have expected that a decade… Read More ›
In Review: The Art and History of The Dandy
This book by Morris Heggie is an absolute treat for Dandy fans
In Review: XIII – The Trial
Who is XIII? For the last two years of these reviews I have listed the current pseudonyms that XIII the man was using over the course of the many books in this series – a list that has grown rather… Read More ›
In Review: The Scorpion – In The Name Of The Father
Mourning the passing of 2000AD’s Nikolai Dante? Then it is time to start reading The Scorpion books written by Stephen Desberg, illustrated by Enrico Marini and published in English for the first time by Cinebook. With the conclusion to the… Read More ›
In Review: Papyrus – The Anger Of The Great Sphinx
Papyrus, written and illustrated by Lucien de Gieter, is a young Egyptian fisherman who, having been given a magical sword by the crocodile goddess Sobek, must protect the Pharaoh’s young daughter Theti-Cheri from danger. In The Anger of The Great… Read More ›
In Review: Antares – Episode 2
Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga with Antares Episode 2, the second part of the third series of his incredibly alien tales of 22nd century interplanetary settlers and the beasts and… Read More ›
Jean Dujardin talks Lucky Luke
I’ve just been catching up on news about Cinebook‘s upcoming releases, but alongside info on their new titles the bande dessines publisher has offered a quick reminder that the live action Lucky Luke film is now available on DVD. The… Read More ›
In Review: Commando 4500 – Lightning Strike
2011 was an important year for Commando with the 50th anniversary of the title, two separate exhibitions of artwork at the University of Dundee and London’s National Army Museum, winning the Eagle Award for Best British Black and White Comic,… Read More ›