Thought Bubble Approaches Rapidly
With the Lottery-funded Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds fast approaching, here is a 'super-link' post, starting off with a series of mini interviews (minterviews) posted up on the Thought Bubble blog; Hugh 'Shug' Raine, Marc Ellerby, Steve Tillotson, Jack Fallows, Lizz Lunney, Adam Cadwell, Emma Vieceli,... Read More
Willy Linthout — Years of the Elephant
Head over to Paul Gravett's site to read a review of Flemish cartoonist Willy Linthout's 'Years of the Elephant'. And then in a masterstroke, he solves the question of how to represent and personify his own dead son by using the chalk outline of his ... Read More
Electrocomics
As a matter of urgency, get yourselves over to Electrocomics, an online publisher that relies on donations to maintain themselves. There is so much great work to see on this site - get over there and show them some support. The computer screen, considered a bad partner, when it comes to reading lenghty texts, ... Read More
British Artists Standing Tall And Reaching Distant Shores
The Bastards include; Dan Lester, David Baillie, Douglas Noble, ... Read More
The Photographer
Richard Bruton over at Forbidden Planet sings up some praise for Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefevre and Frederic Lemercier's 'The Photographer'. The Photographer, thankfully, lives up to the promise and then some. It’s no short read either, the amount of visual and written information that the ... Read More
Translation: Poison River and the vertiginous ellipsis
Derik Badman takes apart translates an article originally written in French in which David Turgeon takes apart Gilbert Hernandez's Poison River and sees what makes it tick for French site du9.org. The density of narration, the abundance of situations in a limited space, and ... Read More
Grandpapier
Derik Badman writes a brief post on Grandpapier, a project started by Belgian publisher L’Employé de Moi. The site features work in French and English as well as a number of wordless strips. Recent Comics Bureau postee ... Read More
