By Vehlmann & Bonhomme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182775 The Providence sees Jean-Baptiste heading for Andalusia at the invitation of the young Countess of Almedía, keen to share in France’s Enlightenment. This requires passage on a ship which swiftly sails into a storm where Jean-Baptiste, curious as ever, drags himself on deck to witness the weather […]
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Walt & Skeezix
By Frank O King Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly ISBN: 9781896597645 You may well know nothing of Walt & Skeezix, but you may have heard of the cartoon strip Gasoline Alley. This was a strip told in real time, so whereas Peanuts would see Linus in the pumpkin patch every year for several decades, the characters […]
The Marquis Of Anaon Vol 2: The Black Virgin
By Vehlmann & Bonhomme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182652 Jean-Baptiste has now spent several months investigating strange goings on, bringing him to a community in the depths of winter towards the close of the year. In two subsequent years a young girl has been killed and the murders have been barbaric and bloody, leaving many of […]
Highbone Theater
By Joe Daly Publisher: Fantagraphics ISBN: 9781606999226 Surreal yet grounded, unsettling yet normal, Joe Daly’s work is some of the strangest in comics. He sets his tales in suburbia amongst an assortment of drop-outs, slackers and oddities, all leading humdrum lives, and then odd stuff happens, often on a heroic scale. Highbone Theater is all […]
The Marquis Of Anaon Vol 1: The Isle Of Brac
By Vehlmann & Bonhomme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182553 Surely the most elusive element of any storytelling is to have the reader completely unsure of where the tale is heading and what might happen next, but keep them caring enough about the protagonist that you’re willing enough to stick with them to find out. When I […]
My Dancing Bear: The Story Of Reg Smythe
By Hélène de Klerk Publisher: Elysee Associates ISBN: 9780993453007 It’s hard to imagine now, but in the early 1960s Andy Capp was a very big deal indeed. There had never been anything quite like Andy in a comic strip before, with his work-shy ways, boozing and, certainly in the earlier strips, wife-beating, although Andy’s wife […]
