WARNING: While I have tried to be circumspect in this review, mild spoilers do feature! Written by Benjamin Read, illustrated by Chris Wildgoose, coloured by André May, and lettered by Jim Campbell Publisher: Improper Books Out: Limited, indie release on… Read More ›
Just when we thought that we were on top of who exactly XIII is, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance are out to turn more than just the two cover characters on their heads in the latest book… Read More ›
By Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun Publisher: Titan Books Out: Now The Book: In this explosive new ninth volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of original artwork from artist Joe Colquhoun’s archive, things are looking… Read More ›
Last weekend the two day Thought Bubble comic convention took place in Leeds as part of the week long film festival. It is a true celebration of the diversity of the modern British comics scene, from veteran professionals, via all… Read More ›
(Re-posted here with the kind permission of Matthew Charlton from the Fictionstrker blog) The Story: Halo Jones lives on the Hoop, a futuristic floating slum tethered to a future Manhattan. Citizens of the Hoop live on State Benefit and a… Read More ›
Last weekend the two day Thought Bubble comic convention took place in Leeds as part of the week long comic art festival. The event has grown in leaps and bounds since its inception in 2007 and this year demand from… Read More ›
Out: Now Publisher: Knockabout The Book: Hunt Emerson, the dazzlingly talented cartoonist, tackles the biggest literary name of them all: Dante. Emerson’s Inferno delights on many levels: as an ingenious translation of classic verse; an effortlessly readable introduction to a… Read More ›
The Cinebook Expresso collection brings together interesting bandes dessinees that do not fit into the various series that the company normally publishes. Berlin – The Seven Dwarves, written and illustrated by Marvano (Mark Van Oppen) is one such book. In… Read More ›
After a gap of over two years Cinebook return to US military pilot Colonel Buck Danny in Francis Bergese’s Ghost Squadron, originally published in France in 1996 as L’Escadrille Fantôme, the 46th Buck Danny album. Colonel Buck Danny and his… Read More ›
Roll up! Roll up! That master of bandes dessinee humour Maurice De Bevere, also known as Morris, will astound and amaze you with his work illustrating the man who shoots faster than his own shadow, known to one and all… Read More ›
Morris and Goscinny’s honest cowboy and his horse, Jolly Jumper returns in Lucky Luke – The Daltons Always On The Run. The new President of the United States announces a general amnesty for all prisoners freeing amongst many others Joe,… Read More ›
The start of a new adventure series by Cinebook is always something to be looked forward to as they have proved to have made excellent choices of what Franco-Belgian bandes dessinees to translate into English. Their new series set in… Read More ›
Who is XIII? Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist William Vance’s renegade agent/spy has reached a section of his story arc when we as readers know a lot more about him and the machinations that were going on in the… Read More ›
Belgian artist Philippe Francq, best known in the UK for his Largo Winch series with writer Jean Van Hamme published by Cinebook, will be doing a signing in London later in the month. The French Bookshop in South Kensington, who… Read More ›
If you’re looking for a book as a Christmas present for the SF fan in your life that will potentially keep them quiet for hours – not just reading it, but the novels they buy as a result of reading… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
This book by Morris Heggie is an absolute treat for Dandy fans
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 ›