By Anthony Smith Publisher: Souvenir Press ISBN: 9780285642317 CCGB member Anthony Smith has had two books out recently (see the review on this site for Bad Dog No Biscuit) and this one concerns the pet of the feline variety. Learn To Speak Cat collects many of his regular gag cartoons from the Metro newspaper. The […]
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Wayne Shelton Vol 2: The Betrayal
By Denayer & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181846 A new parcel arrived from Cinebook yesterday and the first book I grabbed was this one. Van Hamme’s no stranger to writing a decent thriller so I’ll gladly reach for anything written by him, but this new (to us reading in English) creation is still something […]
Corto Maltese: The Ballad Of The Salt Sea
By Hugo Pratt Publisher: Universe ISBN: 9780789324986 I visited the Tintin Museum near Brussels a couple of years ago and nearby was a comic shop chock-full of European graphic albums. What was visually striking about the place was that the back wall was completely covered with comic-related prints, and the vast majority of these was […]
Abe Sapien Vol 3: Dark And Terrible
By Mignola, Arcudi, Allie, Fiumara & Fiumara Publisher: Dark Horse ISBN: 9781616552848 Lots of comic arcs are short, brief, self-contained stories set within the wider world of that particular character, so this means you get a world-changing/life-changing threat each time and then everything pretty much gets returned to normal by the end of the arc […]
Private Eye: A Cartoon History
Edited by Nick Newman Publisher: Private Eye Productions ISBN: 978901784619 A stupendously meaty tome and no mistake, featuring 50 years of cartoons from the pages of one of the UK’s most important publications. Broken down into decades, the intention has been to avoid many of the topical cartoons that date so quickly and instead concentrate […]
The Adventures Of Blake & Mortimer Vol 11: The Gondwana Shrine
By Sente & Juillard Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849180948 It’s hard to put your finger on quite why Blake and Mortimer are as successful as they are. To modern eyes the characters are anachronisms, particularly with their attitudes and facial hair, but for some reason the sum is greater than the parts. There is no doubt […]
