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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Lady S Vol 2: Latitude 59 Degrees North
By Aymond & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-024-5 In the second volume Suzan's father is off to Stockholm to do his ambassadorial duties during the Nobel prize giving ceremony, so, as his aide, Suzan is there too. Here she learns more about the mysterious organisation that has 'recruited' her as she is once again […]
Lady S Vol 1: Here’s To Suzie
By Aymond & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1905460724 This book comes from the same writer as the Thorgal series, Belgium's Jean Van Hamme, and within its opening pages promises to be as interesting and involving even though the setting couldn't be more different. It follows the life of Susan, now the adopted daughter of […]
The Complete Milt Gross
By Craig Yoe Publisher: IDW ISBN: 987-1600105463 So who the Dickens is Milt Gross? I had absolutely no idea when I read a brief bit of blurb about this book, but what sold it to me was a tiny animated drawing used along side it and some positive praise from Robert Crumb and Matt Groening. […]
Lucky Luke 21: The 20th Cavalry
By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-016-0 What really tickles me about the Lucky Luke books (and this extends into all of Goscinny’s work) is that not only are they genuinely amusing but they’re all bound tightly to real events of the American West. Of course they’re cartoons, and of course serious events can […]
Green Manor II: The Inconvenience Of Being Dead
By Bodart & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-64-9 This is a lovely idea, well executed and beautifully presented, that deserves wider attention. Green Manor Club is a Gentlemen's club set in the late 1800s in London, populated by wealthy lords, rich industrialists, braggarts, pompous oafs and sinister scallywags. Each tale lasts but a few pages […]
