By Thomas Kriebaum Publisher: Soaring Penguin Press ISBN: 9781908030047 Spotted this one on sale at the Lakes International Comics Art Festival, and it’s a good one. A simple premise, where Death is represented in the form of a small but dapper businessman complete with briefcase. The set up is almost always the same with Little […]
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Long Gone Don
By The Etherington Brothers Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781910200049 Death. It comes to us all. But a sad outcome indeed when you’re still a child and all you’re trying to do is enjoy your soup. When Don Skelton falls victim to an elaborate chain of events that ends with his demise he finds himself […]
The Unspeakable Vault Of Doom
By François Launet Publisher: Diàbolo ediciones ISBN: 9788415153627 It would be fair to say that as a topic for a cartoon strip, this is a little niche, but if you’re fed up with the trite, middle-of-the-road subject matter that besmirches many a set of cartoon panels then this just might be exactly what you’re looking […]
The Terrible Tales Of The Teenytinysaurs!
By Gary Northfield Publisher: Walker Books ISBN: 9781406333268 It’s got dinosaurs! It’s got bodily functions! It’s got daftness by the bucketload! Dave, Ronnie, Thomas, Reggie and Natasha are a bunch of little dinosaurs looking for fun and adventure somewhere in the deep mesozoic. Like all kids, everything’s exciting, everything’s brilliant and terrible, crippling danger and […]
XIII Mystery 1: The Mongoose
XIII is one of Cinebook’s strongest and most intriguing titles; an intelligent and involving series steered through its many complex twists and turns by the masterly Jean Van Hamme and wonderfully illustrated by William Vance.
Monsters & Other Stories
By Gustavo Duarte Publisher: Dark Horse I bought this one based on some sample illustrations accompanying the promotion, and was rather pleased to see it had a thoughtful introduction from Sergio Aragones. The reason Aragones was asked is that both artists produce wordless comic strips, and while Aragones is the veteran master, Gustavo Duarte is […]
