by Chris Claremont and John Bolton Publisher: Titan Comics Out: Now The Book: From Chris Claremont, writer of The Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, and Fantastic Four, and John Bolton, artist of Man-Bat, Shame: Conception and Books of Magic, comes a fantasy… Read More ›
Reviews
Cinebook’s November Titles: The Scorpion, Valerian and more
Mystery and adventure have been the bywords for Cinebook releases this month, with four titles on sale now, including the long-awaited conclusion to the epic tale of Long John Silver. Here’s a run down of the releases. The Scorpion Volume… Read More ›
In Review: Wallace & Gromit – Complete Newspaper Comic Strips Collection 1
In May 2010 The Sun newspaper began a series of Wallace & Gromit comic strips, a series that ran six days a week for over three years. The strip, credited to “Aardman and Titan Comics” told the humorous antics of… Read More ›
In Review: Lady S Volume 4 – A Mole In DC
Born as Shania in Estonia, now a naturalised American under a stolen passport as Suzan, while blackmailed into espionage activities as Lady S, the leading lady of writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Aymond’s Lady S series has such… Read More ›
In Review: Lament Of The Lost Moors – Siobhán
Cinebook start yet another new series with Siobhán, the first book in the Lament of The Lost Moors series, a tale of dark ages swords and sorcery written by Jean Dufaux and illustrated by Grzegorz Rosinski. In the land of… Read More ›
In Review: Wayne Shelton – The Mission
Writer Jean Van Hamme is a major name in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinees world, indeed one could equate the success of his many graphic novel series and the films and TV series based on them with Alan Moore, so when… Read More ›
In Review: WesterNoir Book Three
Writer Dave West and artist Gary Crutchley return to their Old West demon hunter Josiah Black in the third book of their WesterNoir series subtitled The Siren’s Song Of The Mississippi Mermaids. After protecting Cassie Eliades in a bar on… Read More ›
In Review: Barracuda – Slaves
As Cinebook’s other, and rather excellent, pirate offering Long John Silver appears draws to a close with its fourth book, the publisher begins another pirate series this time set amongst the islands of the Caribbean rather than South America. Barracuda… Read More ›
Photo Report: Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2013
The weather was stuck on the rinse cycle, or at least that was how the BBC weatherman described the weekend of the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival over 18-21 October 2013, but while the rain and unseasonably mild temperatures… Read More ›
In Review: Thunderbirds – The Comic Collection
Creators: Various, including artists Frank Bellamy, Frank Hampson, Eric Eden, John Cooper and Graham Bleathman Publisher: Egmont Classic Comics Out: Now The Book: Blast off on a thrilling adventure through Thunderbirds comic history! Discover the iconic comic strips that captured… Read More ›
In Review – Missing: Have You Seen The Invisible Man?
Missing: Have You Seen The Invisible Man? is the second in publisher Accent UK’s Blessed/Cursed series of one-off short graphic novels packaged externally as “The Accent” newspaper. The previous title in the series was the excellent Whatever Happened to the… Read More ›
In Review: Antares Episode 4
Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga with Antares Episode 4, the continuation of the third series of his incredibly alien tales of 22nd century interplanetary settlers and the beasts and plants… Read More ›
In Review: The Hartlepool Monkey
by Wilfrid Lupano and Jérémie Moreau Publisher: Knockabout Out: Now The Book: An English language edition of Wilfrid Lupano and Jérémie Moreau‘s Le Singe de Hartlepool, telling the story of the legendary Hartlepool monkey, allegedly hung by townsfolk fearing it was… Read More ›
In Review: Boys’ World: Ticket to Adventure by Steve Holland
Published by Bear Alley Books at £19.99 Paperback 208 black and white pages The Book: A detailed history of Boys’ World, a memorable high quality weekly which ran from January 1963 until October 1964, before being merged with Eagle, the… Read More ›
In Review: Resident Alien – The Suicide Blonde #1
Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse’s Resident Alien is back at Dark Horse Comics today (11th September), with Resident Alien: The Suicide Blond #1 on sale now in all good comic shops. A straightforward suicide . . . or a murder?… Read More ›
Photo Review: Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Stripped
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 ›
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 ›