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Lucky Luke 22: Emperor Smith

By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-184918-026-9 Lucky Luke's back and this time he stumbles upon the bizarre sight of a regal procession in the middle of the Wild West. It transpires that a local rancher has come into a lot of money and it's all gone to his head, resulting in him declaring […]

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Groo: The Hogs Of Horder

By Sergio Aragones & Mark Evanier Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 978-1595824233 If you've ever picked up a copy of Mad Magazine then you can't have failed to have noticed the Mad marginals, the tiny cartoon gags filling up the empty spaces between stories, down the margins and across the fold. These are the work of […]

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Papyrus Vol 4: The Evil Mummies

By De Gieter Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-027-6 The Papyrus stories are the result of a coming together of a talented cartoonist and his love of Egyptology. It’s the sort of adventurous comic that appeals to a wide age group, with a good mix of danger, wonder and with a good scattering of facts and points […]

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Ducoboo 4: The Class Struggle

By Godi & Zidrou Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-031-3 Here's a great one for kids and the young at heart. It reminded me a great deal of the Whizzer and Chips comics I used to read as a child. It's a very simple idea (as many of the good comic creations are) and essentially boils down […]

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Betelgeuse Vol 2: The Caves

By Leo Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-028-3 This is the second book of the second part of the Worlds of Aldebaran series by Brazilian writer and artist Leo. It explores mankind's first tentative steps of other-wordly colonisation where we've achieved a foothold on distant worlds but there is still much that is dangerous and unknown beyond […]

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Other Lives

By Peter Bagge Publisher: Vertigo ISBN: 978-1-4012-1902-4 During the 1990s there were a number of cartoonists working outside of the mainstream that were must reads, but for my money the most entertaining of them all was Pete Bagge and his comic Hate. It followed the life of lazy ne'erdowell Buddy Bradley as he stumbled away […]

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