By Craig Yoe Publisher: IDW ISBN: 987-1600105463 So who the Dickens is Milt Gross? I had absolutely no idea when I read a brief bit of blurb about this book, but what sold it to me was a tiny animated drawing used along side it and some positive praise from Robert Crumb and Matt Groening. […]
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Lucky Luke 21: The 20th Cavalry
By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-016-0 What really tickles me about the Lucky Luke books (and this extends into all of Goscinny’s work) is that not only are they genuinely amusing but they’re all bound tightly to real events of the American West. Of course they’re cartoons, and of course serious events can […]
Green Manor II: The Inconvenience Of Being Dead
By Bodart & Vehlmann Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-905460-64-9 This is a lovely idea, well executed and beautifully presented, that deserves wider attention. Green Manor Club is a Gentlemen's club set in the late 1800s in London, populated by wealthy lords, rich industrialists, braggarts, pompous oafs and sinister scallywags. Each tale lasts but a few pages […]
Queen Margot: 2.The Bloody Wedding
By Cadic, Gheysens, Derenne and Barroux Publisher: Cinebooks ISBN: 978-1-905460-19-9 In this second volume of the life of Marguerite de Valois (Queen Margot), tensions between Catholics and Protestants continue, so Margot is pushed by her family into a marriage of convenience that is aimed at stabilising the situation and strengthening their own position. However, Margot […]
The Seldom Seen Blog 2009
By Tim Harries Publisher: Tim Harries See: www.agagaday.blogspot.com to buy There's this bloke – you may have seen him – who can't seem to let five minutes pass by without scribbling a cartoon down on the nearest flat surface. With so much quality and, indeed, quirksome, material hanging around, the obvious answer as to what […]
Lucky Luke 20: The Oklahoma Land Rush
By Morris & Goscinny Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 978-1-84918-008-5 Lucky Luke's back again with another tale of the old West. This time he's called in to supervise the Oklahoma land rush, an event where a whole new swathe of land was opened up to settlers at a fixed time on a fixed date. To ensure fairness […]
