By Tome & Janry Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184045 Part of what makes the Spirou and Fantasio books such a pleasurable read is the breadth of their adventures, from dangerous dictatorships to ribald robots. With this new book we get a brilliantly scripted and exquisitely drawn time travel tale complete with a future descendent of the […]
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Relative Disasters
By Wilkie Martin, illustrated by Ade Gorst Publisher: Witcherley Books ISBN: 9781910302088 CCGB member Ade Gorst has illustrated a short tome of silly verse by author Wilkie Martin. It’s a selection of daft poems based around fictitious relations and the perils they encounter, punctuated by Ade’s humerous scribblings. The witty word play and gallows humour […]
A New Jerusalem
By Benjamin Dickson Publisher: New Internationalist ISBN: 9781780264424 A New Jerusalem is a story of new beginnings at the end of WW2 where an eleven-year-old boy awaits the return of his father. They live in Bristol, heavily bombed during the war, where rationing still bites and children play amongst the bombed-out detritus of other people’s […]
Clifton Vol 8: Sir Jason
By Turk & de Groot Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849184076 What-ho! Absolutely splendid news old chap. There’s a new Clifton out. Don’t know where the blighter’s been these past few months but it’s a welcome return to the old boy and make no mistake. Retired from active service, Clifton’s taking life easy in Dormhouse, a sleepy […]
The Phoenix Colossal Comics Collection: Volume One
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 […]
Wayne Shelton Vol 5: The Vengeance
By Denayer & Cailleteau Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183680 Shelton thought he’d found a son in the form of Tran, a baby he once saved from a Vietnamese massacre. Tran had grown to adulthood thinking of Shelton as his adoptive father but their path had only briefly crossed once again when Tran was murdered by modern-day […]
