Mari Ahokoivu Interview
I am happy to present what should hopefully be the first in a series of interviews with Finnish comics artists; Here is Mari Ahokoivu. 1 / Can you introduce yourself? What is your background? I'm Mari Ahokoivu, Finnish comics artist/teacher/producer. I grew up in Oulu (a town up ... Read More
Helsinki Comics Festival 2011
From www.sarjakuvafestivaalit.fi comes news of the Helsinki Comics Festival 2011. This promises to be a very exciting couple of days! Book your plane tickets now! The 26th Helsinki Comics Festival will take place on the 16th - 18th of September 2011 at Lasipalatsi Square and nearby ... Read More
5 May 2011
UK in Europe Pt.1">The UK in Europe Pt.1
I started writing this post back in January just after returning from the Angouleme Festival. In the months following, I've been somewhat busier than usual (producing a new book, full-time teaching schedule, etc) I'll talk about my experiences in Angouleme first, but I'll follow it up with a report on an event in March in ... UK in Europe Pt.1">Read More
Richard Cowdry Interview
Next up to submit to the scrutiny of the Snapshot Interviews is Richard Cowdry; 1 / Can you introduce yourself? What is your background? My name is Richard Cowdry. I do a weekly strip for The Forbidden Planet blog, and strips for The Stool Pigeon, which is ... Read More
Years of the Elephant
I've posted about this before, but thought that Greg McElhatton's review of Willy Linthout's 'Years of the Elephant' deserved a link. Linthout creates Charles Germonprez as his alter ego in Years of the Elephant, a businessman in his 50s living with his wife ... Read More
Øivind Hovland
From the splendid folk over at Tabella Publishing come a couple of books by Øivind Hovland, a Scandinavian artist whose approach to illustrative storytelling is simple and precise; Even if you only have one small image at your disposal, a story can still be told. And that, in a nutshell is my ... Read More
The Photographer examined
Matt Brady, over at Warren Peace writes up a couple of knock-down articles on Didier Lefevre & Emmanuel Guibert's The Photographer. The first is a particularly insightful review; While this is Lefevre's story, told directly from his perspective and making heavy use ... Read More
Where we have been and where we are going.
Paul Gravett writes up a brief history of the graphic novel, To know where we are going to, we need to know where we’ve come from. This is true of our lives as well as our culture. In the case of the comics medium, its date of birth used to be hotly contested. Twenty ... Read More
Angoulême 2010
Paul Gravett writes an article on Angouleme 2010. I really want to get to this. Really badly. It’s that time of year again when people start making their ‘Best of the Year’ lists. When it comes to comics, I’ll be doing mine quite soon, as well ... Read More
