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 […]
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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 […]
Palestine
By Joe Sacco Publisher: Jonathon Cape ISBN: 9780224069823 Palestine’s always been one of those books that I missed at the time and meant to catch up on, but I’d not realised quite how much time had passed since its publication. The author, Joe Sacco, is a cartooning journalist and during late 1991 and early 1992 […]
Valerian & Laureline Vol 6: Ambassador Of The Shadows
By Mézières & Christin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849181785 I’d have been quite at home reading Valerian and Laureline within the pages of something like 2000AD twenty-five years ago, but sadly that was never to be. It seems a shame that it’s only now getting a fair showing in the English-language market, especially when you spy […]
