European

2 Aug 2011

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
29 Jun 2011

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
20 Jan 2011

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
16 Mar 2010

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
12 Feb 2010

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
22 Jan 2010

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
26 Dec 2009

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
26 Dec 2009

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
28 Nov 2009

Logicomix Review

Jim Holt at the New York Times writes up a fine review of Logicomix, written by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou and illustrated by Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna. The story proper opens on ... Read More