By Daniel Clowes Publisher: Jonathon Cape ISBN: 978-0-224-09411-5 Well, this is a little different. And nothing wrong with that. Clowes has created a superhero, but this superhero wasn't bitten by a radioactive termite or has had powers bestowed upon him by an ancient deity. No, this superhero is powered by nicotine. Whenever he takes a […]
Archive | Reviews
Please Form An Orderly Queue – The Second Never Say Dai Collection
By Tim Harries Publisher: Tim Harries Never Say Dai appears regularly in the South Wales Argus and has done so now for well over a decade. The crying shame about Tim’s strip is that its very reason for being makes global syndication rather tricky – convincing the Boston Herald to take on strips about Newport […]
Wildcat Keeps Going
By Donald Rooum Publisher: Freedom Press ISBN: 978-1-904491-14-9 Donald has been creating the Wildcat strips since 1975, originally in a title by the same name and then in Freedom, the anarchist newspaper, and this is the seventh such collection. I was a little apprehensive when I picked this up to read as I’ve never held […]
Orbital: 4. Ravages
By Pelle and Runberg Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-088-7 Following on directly from volume 3, the plan is to press ahead with the ceremony in Kuala Lumpur even though it's still not clear what is responsible for the deaths out in the mangrove forest. What's more, there's a brooding tension between Caleb – keen to more […]
Iznogoud Rockets To Stardom (Vol 8)
By Goscinny & Tabary Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-092-4 It's a real shame that Iznogoud has taken so long to find its English audience as it is a genuine triumph of cartooning and solid comic writing. Unlike Asterix, Goscinny's much more famous creation, these tales are just a few pages long, so each Iznogoud volume features […]
Where’s Asterix?
By Goscinny & Uderzo Publisher: Orion ISBN: 978-1-4440-0444-1 Yesterday Albert Uderzo announced his retirement at the age of 84. As I may have mentioned before in these reviews, I think Uderzo is an outstanding cartoonist and is one of the key reasons I got interested in cartoons and cartooning. So it is with some regret […]
