By Goscinny & Tabary Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-044-3 Another collection of four punchy, clever strips featuring the wicked Iznogoud, who wants to be Caliph instead of the Caliph. The main tale of this book concerns Iznogoud discovering that a magic carpet maker called Khaledonyahn (supposedly from the far north of India) has arrived in the […]
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Thorgal Vol 9: The Guardian Of The Keys
By Rosinski & Van Hamme Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-050-4 Poor, ol' Thorgal. He never seems to catch a break. This volume of the rather wonderful sword and sorcery epic opens with two old foes plotting for power at Thorgal's expense, albeit one of them reluctantly. Volsung of Nichor, last seen way back in volume 2, […]
Blake & Mortimer Vol 5: The Strange Encounter
By Van Hamme & Benoit Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-75-5 This fifth Blake & Mortimer offering from Cinebook is a much more recent creation than Edgar P Jacobs' original tales, but still manages to maintain all the charm and character of the original series, for which the creators deserve huge praise for pulling off. Not only […]
Quick & Flupke: Under Full Sail
By Hergé Publisher: Egmont ISBN: 978-1-4052-4743-6 From January 1930 through to May 1940 Hergé was working on a very different kind of strip. It was published in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième, a Belgian magazine, originally in black and white but later coloured when collected. Like the strips you'd find within the pages of […]
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By Charles Burns Publisher: Jonathan Cape ISBN: 978-0-224-09041-4 If you know Charles Burns work, in particularly the magnificent Black Hole, then this is a bit of a treat. Full colour, beautifully presented, and with all the quirks and darkly mysterious goings on you'd hope for, this is a wonderful piece of work. There's a strong […]
Larry On Larry: My Life In Cartoons
By Terence Parkes with Mark Bryant Publisher: Park Art Books ISBN: 978-0-948817861 At 128 pages, this is a decent-sized cartoon book in itself, but it's also partly autobiography and packed full of anecdotes so you end up with a rather tidy package – and certainly your money's worth. Larry was a member of the CCGB, […]
