By Mark Bryant Publisher: Grub Street ISBN: 978-1-904943-06-8 Newly reprinted, this is an amazingly detailed and fantastically researched book that deserves a space on any cartoonist's or history buff's shelf. Divided into yearly sections that map the progress of the war, it offers a wonderfully rich selection of cartoons that reflect the events of the […]
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The Bluecoats: The Navy Blues
By Willy Lambil & Raoul Cauvin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-82-3 It's baffling at how this sort of book can be created in mainland Europe but spectacularly fail to exist in the UK and US, and there's the added irony here that the subject matter is the American Civil War. Certainly in the UK, we have […]
Usagi Yojimbo Book 1: The Ronin
By Stan Sakai Publisher: Fantagraphics ISBN: 978-0-93019-335-5 You've no doubt seen Mad magazine at some stage in your life, and the brilliant Mad Marginal cartoons by Sergio Aragones. Well Sergio produces an on-and-off comic called Groo The Wanderer, and it's coloured by the author and illustrator of this particular collection (and have fun spotting the […]
Cedric Vol 2: Dad’s Got Class
By Laudec & Cauvin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-003-0 Cedric is eight-years-old and the trials of his life will be familiar to everyone. I did question what this book could offer me, presuming it was aimed just at children, and perhaps because there's a slight resemblance to Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, this didn't look like […]
Loads Of Cartoons
By Nigel Sutherland Publisher: Nigel Sutherland ISBN: 978-1-4092-5694-6 CCGB member Nigel Sutherland stealthily released his gag collection a few months ago, so it was only by chance I spotted it online. Clearly, like the Arctic Monkeys, adverts for John West tuna and the movie Snakes On A Plane, Nige was aiming for his slice of […]
Apache Canyon: A Lucky Luke Adventure Vol. 17
By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-92-2 It could be very easy for the Lucky Luke books to descend into crass stereotypes, but somehow Goscinny's writing avoids this pitfall by playing up the positive aspects of cultural differences and instead lampooning those less gracious similarities we all share. Apache Canyon could so easily have […]
