By Various Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781788450560 Rather than another stand-alone collection David Fickling Books have opted to compile a humungous treasury of Phoenix goodies into one tremendous tome. There’s even more of the brilliantly daft Bunny vs Monkey by Jamie Smart, plus his random, surreal cat Looshkin. You can get the next instalment […]
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No Country
By Patrice Aggs & Joe Brady Published By: David Fickling Books ISBN: 978-1-78845-183-3 In recent years The Phoenix Comic has carved out a solid reputation as a great comic for kids. A good mix of stories, from adventure to humour, across many genres. Many of them have been collated into collections (my favourite still being […]
Bunny vs Monkey
By Jamie Smart Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781788451772 Not new material, but certainly a new book. Jamie Smart’s most excellent Bunny vs Monkey gets a reprint of the first two volumes in this slightly chunkier, scaled-down edition. If you’re not familiar with the comic, it’s madcap, silly, and joyously funny. Besides Bunny there’s a […]
Baggage
By The Etherington Brothers Publisher: The DFC Library ISBN: 9780385618571 Review by Simon Chadwick This review appeared in Issue 532 of the Jester Magazine, July 2019 The Etherington Brothers were born two decades too late. Although benefiting from the inspirational material they grew up on, the market they so completely excel in is but a […]
Baggage
By The Etherington Brothers Publisher: The DFC Library ISBN: 9780385618571 The Etherington Brothers were born two decades too late. Although benefiting from the inspirational material they grew up on, the market they so completely excel in is but a shadow of its former self, with many a nipper, squinny and pipsqueak distracted by YouTube Fail […]
The Adventures Of John Blake: Mystery Of The Ghost Ship
By Philip Pullman and Fred Fordham Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781788450591 Originally serialised in the excellent weekly comic The Phoenix, Philip Pullman has created a time-travelling high seas adventure that even manages to tip a nod in Ian Fleming’s direction. There’s a ship, the Mary Alice, crewed by disparate men from various periods across […]
