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By Parker and Hart Publisher: Titan ISBN: 9781848566835 These year-long collections seem to be picking up in popularity following the Peanuts and, more recent, Hagar books, so I expect we're going to see many more as we go into 2012. This particular collection takes us right back to the early appearances of the Kingdom of […]

By Peyo Publisher: Papercutz ISBN: 9781597072793 Papa Smurf is a bit of a wiz' with the ol' magic, much to the frustration of another Smurf who looks on envy. His own attempts end in failure and disappointment, so his foolhardy solution is to steal spells from Gargamel, the sorcerer who detests the Smurfs, which doesn't […]

By Dik Browne Publisher: Titan Books ISBN: 9781848562356 This third collection takes us into 1977 with more Norse nonsense from the mind and pen of Dik Browne. Highlights include Hagar visiting Dr Zook due to the appearance of large black circles on his body. Dr Zook explains: You got big pox. Then there's Hagar sadly […]

By Daniel Clowes Publisher: Jonathon Cape ISBN: 978-0-224-09411-5 Well, this is a little different. And nothing wrong with that. Clowes has created a superhero, but this superhero wasn't bitten by a radioactive termite or has had powers bestowed upon him by an ancient deity. No, this superhero is powered by nicotine. Whenever he takes a […]

By Tim Harries Publisher: Tim Harries Never Say Dai appears regularly in the South Wales Argus and has done so now for well over a decade. The crying shame about Tim’s strip is that its very reason for being makes global syndication rather tricky – convincing the Boston Herald to take on strips about Newport […]

By Donald Rooum Publisher: Freedom Press ISBN: 978-1-904491-14-9 Donald has been creating the Wildcat strips since 1975, originally in a title by the same name and then in Freedom, the anarchist newspaper, and this is the seventh such collection. I was a little apprehensive when I picked this up to read as I’ve never held […]