By Jamie Smart Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781910200070 If ever a modern strip struck a chord with kids, it’s Bunny vs Monkey. While there are plenty of worthy contenders, particularly from the pages of the Phoenix, this is the one I hear most enthused about when I talk to kids. It’s not an overtly […]
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Corpse Talk Season 1
By Adam Murphy Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781910200018 I stand by the notion that, growing up, I learned more about history, science and geography through comics than through any other medium. My eyes were opened to new possibilities, old discoveries, distant places, unusual concepts, and, not least, fascinating people that have gone before. One […]
Star Cat Book 1
By James Turner Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781910200063 Courageous, intrepid and mature are not three words you’d use to describe the crew of the Star Cat. Cowardly, ineffective and juvenile are much more like it. There’s the odd shaped-head of Captain Spacington, the utterly useless Science Officer Plixx, the egotistically superior Robot One and […]
Gary’s Garden – Book 1
By Gary Northfield Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781910200094 The British comics industry has needed a shot in the arm for some time now and that came a few years ago with the introduction of The Phoenix, a weekly comic that caters for something other than the lowest common denominator and somehow manages to survive […]
