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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
