L’Association Strike announcement
One of the main stories from this year's Angouleme festival was L'Association's current strike action. I couldn't find a translation of the strike announcement, so I've run it through Google Translate and cleaned up the tenses a bit, so this isn't a perfect translation, ... Read More
Comical Animal Launched!
I should have posted this long ago, but being a very slack blogger means I didn't. What makes it worse is that not only am I a contributor, but also helped Jim out in a technical capacity, utilising my wordpress-wrangling skills. My apologies. Anyway; ... Read More
Solipsistic Pop 2 reviews
There has been plenty written about the latest Solipsistic Pop recently. I particularly liked this writeup at Avoid The Future; Something that becomes more and more apparent when reading through this volume is how much more fluid it feels in terms of content than ... Read More
Marvel App on the iPad
I'll be posting up a more detailed roundup of some of the talk surrounding the imminent arrival in the UK of Apple's iPad soon, but for the time being, head over to BoingBoing to read their hands-on review of Marvel's iPad app; First impression: ... Read More
Miyazaki on Gekiga
If you like Miyazaki, check out his book 'Starting Point: 1979-1996'. Dash Shaw over at Comics Comics has a short review. I had already decided to spend my future drawing pictures, so I was trying to draw ones filled with grudges and ... 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
Kevin Huizenga
Optical Sloth has a big post on Kevin Huizenga's work. I love his work, and think that he is doing some of the most interesting work in comics at the moment. Head over to his website, follow his ... Read More
WordPress and Comics
Gone are the days of struggling with a big dusty old tomes of PHP & MySQL to make a content-managed site to show off your comics. CMS systems such as Wordpress have put easily updatable sites into the hands of anyone with an inclination to ... Read More
Meanwhile — 3,856 stories
If like me you have ever wished that you could have 3,856 stories in a single book, you are likely to be waiting for Jason Shiga's 'Meanwhile' with baited breath. "Meanwhile" begins as our young hero in dire need of a bathroom, ... Read More
