Regular readers may remember us blogging some time back about a documentary of sorts (the term doesn’t quite do it justice) from Vice mag, a film one of our favourite naughty comickers, Krent Able, deliciously...
Shall we take a spin around the comics freeway once more? Here we go…...
As we’ve already blogged, the excellent notion of Small Press Day is returning for a second year, on July 8th, a great chance to celebrate the incredibly vibrant small press comickers and zine makers we...
Even though Martin Lodewijk’s comic series Agent 327 has the status of a classic in his native Holland, the series is largely unknown in other parts of the world. Translations of the books were published...
Flight of the Raven, Jean-Pierre Gibrat, EuroComics/IDW I first saw Gibrat’s Flight of the Raven as Le Vol du Corbeau several years ago in a bookstore in the Saint Michel area of Paris that was...
Regular readers may remember us blogging some time back about a documentary of sorts (the term doesn’t quite do it justice) from Vice mag, a film one of our favourite naughty comickers, Krent Able, deliciously entitled Ink, Cocks and Rock’n’Roll, and directed by Matt Harlock (who brought us the brilliant American: the Bill Hicks Story...
Read More →Shall we take a spin around the comics freeway once more? Here we go…...
Read More →As we’ve already blogged, the excellent notion of Small Press Day is returning for a second year, on July 8th, a great chance to celebrate the incredibly vibrant small press comickers and zine makers we have in the UK and Ireland (we’ve reviewed a ton of them across more than a decade, so we’re well...
Read More →Even though Martin Lodewijk’s comic series Agent 327 has the status of a classic in his native Holland, the series is largely unknown in other parts of the world. Translations of the books were published in Germany and across Scandinavia, but an all-important English translation seems to have been left out (so far). And that’s...
Read More →Flight of the Raven, Jean-Pierre Gibrat, EuroComics/IDW I first saw Gibrat’s Flight of the Raven as Le Vol du Corbeau several years ago in a bookstore in the Saint Michel area of Paris that was stocked with an enormous range of bande dessinee. I had never read Gibrat before, but I knew a little of...
Read More →According to French comics blog 9eme Art, Spanish games studio Pendulo is currently developing a video game based on detective comic Blacksad by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido. This series tells the stories of a classic hard-boiled detective who also happens to be a cat, and has become a fan favourite across the world thanks to its...
Read More →Yep, it’s that time of the week again where we round up some of the stories and links we noticed over the last few days: We had sad news over last weekend with the passing at 88 years of age of Adam West, who will always, for many of us, be Batman. West’s 1960s television...
Read More →The Amityville Horror, Directed by Stuart Rosenberg Starring Margot Kidder, James Brolin, Rod Steiger The classic 1979 haunted house movie comes to glorious Blu-Ray and has never looked or sounded better. The Lutz family have moved into their dream home, the house is huge, just what they want for a growing family but should be...
Read More →Yesterday I was at the launch for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival programme, and have been happily thumbing through the programme to pick out some of the SF&F and comics-related events of special interest to us. And equally happily checking out the legions of other events – there are a thousand events this year....
Read More →Nails, Directed by Dennis Bartok, Starring Shauna Macdonald, Ross Noble, Steve Wall, Charlotte Bradley, Leah McNamara, Richard Foster-King A new horror based in Ireland. When a woman obsessed with her health is out running she gets struck by a car. Waking up in hospital she finds she has lost the use of her legs, an...
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