By Roger Langridge Publisher: Hotel Fred Press I’ve long had a soft spot for Fred the Clown, an impossibly romantic but utterly befuddling character of stark stupidity. In this latest book Roger Langridge takes inspiration from Buster Keaton and creates a wordless tale in monochrome that combines love, a desperate rescue on a steam train, […]
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Iznogoud Vol 13: I Want To Be Caliph Instead Of The Caliph!
By Goscinny & Tabary Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183109 Feeling down? Need a smile on your face? Then you really can’t do much better than Iznogoud, and, fortunately for you, there’s a new volume available of puntastic outlandish tales of magic, greed and consequences. Iznogoud is the Grand Vizier to the gentle Haroun Al Plassid, the […]
Good Dog, Bad Dog: Double Identity
By Dave Shelton Publisher: David Fickling Books ISBN: 9781910989005 Dogs. The city is full of them. And we get to follow two of their finest, a pair of cops called Bergman and McBoo as they aim to keep the streets of Muttropolis clean. It’s a city with a thriving movie business, based in Collie-wood, and […]
Bad Machinery: The Case Of The Simple Soul
By John Allison Publisher: Oni Press ISBN: 9781620101933 Despite being published by the American publisher Oni Press, Bad Machinery is a very British cartoon strip. Set in a fictional Yorkshire town it follows the day-to-day lives of a group of school kids who are out to solve mysteries. Those mysteries just may well involve monsters […]
Hellbound Lifestyle
By Pizzo & Forsyth Publisher: Retrofit Comics ISBN: 9781940398563 Hellbound Lifestyle is a comic spawned from living in the 21st century, with particular emphasis on the direct relationship the writer shares with her phone. What was once recorded in a diary is now noted down in an app, written up in a Word document or […]
Lucky Luke Vol 58: The Daltons’ Stash
By Morris Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849182980 The Daltons’ Stash throws us another tale centred on the criminal brethren as they learn of a forger’s hidden stash of loot from their jail cell. The fact that the stash is simply a ruse by the forger to encourage the Daltons to escape and give him some peace […]
