By Charles Burns Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: 978-0-224-09041-4 If you know Charles Burns work, in particularly the magnificent Black Hole, then this is a bit of a treat. Full colour, beautifully presented, and with all the quirks and darkly mysterious goings on you'd hope for, this is a wonderful piece of work. There's a strong […]
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Larry On Larry: My Life In Cartoons
By Terence Parkes with Mark Bryant Publisher: Park Art Books ISBN: 978-0-948817861 At 128 pages, this is a decent-sized cartoon book in itself, but it's also partly autobiography and packed full of anecdotes so you end up with a rather tidy package – and certainly your money's worth. Larry was a member of the CCGB, […]
Lucky Luke 24: The Judge
By Morris Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-045-0 Lucky Luke wasn't always a collaboration between Goscinny and Morris, in fact it's had a number of different writers, the first of whom was the strip's creator Morris, writing from 1949 to into the late '50s.This particular book is one of the last he created before the partnership with […]
Billy & Buddy: Bored Silly With Billy
By Roba Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-049-8 At first glance this looks like a book for kids, but if Billy & Buddy were appearing in your daily paper they'd sit quite comfortably besides the existing cartoon strips. Like so many strips featuring children and animals it draws its humour from how they see and interact with […]
The Definitive Thelwell
By Thelwell (written by David Wootton) Publisher: Chris Beetles ISBN: 978-1905-738144 I feel a bit of swine for including The Effluent Society recently, but then came across this and thought I could rectify matters. It's a new collection, published in late 2009, and brings together a broad swathe of Thelwell's work from his early days […]
I Thought You Would Be Funnier
by Shannon Wheeler Publisher: Boom! Town ISBN: 978-1-60886-034-0 Shannon Wheeler is a regular gag contributor to the New Yorker and The Onion. You may also know him as the creator of Too Much Coffee Man. This collection brings together some of his New Yorker cartoons and is represented in a mono-chrome square format with a […]
