Saturday 30 October 2010
Vanessa Davis - Make Me a Woman
This was a very nice collection of autobiographical comics by Vanessa Davis. I'd read most of the fancy colour ones on-line as there were lots of links to them as they came out, from the Comics Reporter. They are well worth reading again. The book also has lots of lovely pencil drawing pages from her sketchbooks. I am always a big fan of good pencil drawings and these are great. It's nice to read some autobiography that's more finished for a change and pretty to look at, after all the diary style, done in a hurry, autobiography I've been reading lately. Not that there's anything wrong with that stuff, it's just nice to have a change. It's a very good looking oversized book, very well printed.
Monday 25 October 2010
Saturday 23 October 2010
Signs for Thought Bubble
Friday 22 October 2010
'The Gods Must be Bastards' Back Cover
This is going to be the back cover for 'The Gods Must Be Bastards'. I'm going for something much more subtle for the front cover, but I've finally decided what it'll be now. Once 'Gin Palace 2' is back from the printers and on sale I'll get this one sent off, hopefully it'll come out in January.
Actual colours are much better than this, it's a poor quality scan....
Actual colours are much better than this, it's a poor quality scan....
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Johnny Ryan - Prison Pit 2
Yay! I'd been looking forward to this and I wasn't disapointed. It's got fancy silver shiny covers too. More brutal violence and scatological goings on in the prison world. It's more of the same from book one but I'm not bored of it yet, at all, if anything it's got funnier. It has a great opening sequence too which I won't spoil by telling what it is in case people haven't seen it yet. If you liked the first one I highly recommend it.
Friday 15 October 2010
'Goblin Hall'
Garen Ewing liked 'Goblin Hall', he mentions it here on his blog. That's good news as I really like his 'Rainbow Orchid' series. I must get part two at Leeds if he is there. I've still got lots of copies of 'Goblin Hall' for sale if anyone wants one, £3 at my website.
I spent this afternoon cutting up cheese. It's a nice way to spend the day. Also I could eat all the bits that I cut wonkily.
I spent this afternoon cutting up cheese. It's a nice way to spend the day. Also I could eat all the bits that I cut wonkily.
Thursday 14 October 2010
Look at my Cheese
Correction Robot
Wednesday 13 October 2010
'Bastards 2 - Bastards Score Again' Review
Here's a nice review of 'Bastards 2' from the Forbidden Planet blog.
Monday 11 October 2010
AX Alternative Manga Vol. 1
I hope that Volume 1 in the title means there are going to be more of these as this is very very good. There's some really great stories in this anthology. 'Love's Bride' by Yoshihiro Tatsumi cracks me up, it's very funny and dark and was my favourite. I also really liked Katsuo Kawai and Kazuichi Hanawa. It's great to finally read full stories in English of all these manga artists I have only ever read about before. I had never heard of Toranusuke Shimada before but I really enjoyed his 'Enrique Kobayashi's Eldorado' about the strange history of a rare motorbike. Some of the other stories didn't do much for me, but they all have interesting and very varied art at least so there is always something to look at. It made me want to go and draw after I'd finished reading it so that's cool.
Highly recommended to everyone.
Highly recommended to everyone.
Saturday 9 October 2010
A 3 Hour Comic
Thursday 7 October 2010
Gin Palace 2 Contributors
Here's the full list of all the 'Gin Palace 2' contributors.
Andrew Cheverton
John Robbins
Dave Hughes
Francesca Cassavetti
Jarod Rosello
Pete Batchelor
Barry Cook
Rob Jackson
Paul Rainey
Sin-Cat
Brad Foster
thanks everyone!
Andrew Cheverton
John Robbins
Dave Hughes
Francesca Cassavetti
Jarod Rosello
Pete Batchelor
Barry Cook
Rob Jackson
Paul Rainey
Sin-Cat
Brad Foster
thanks everyone!
Wednesday 6 October 2010
Gin Palace 2
I've just got the last contribution in for 'Gin Palace 2'. It's a brilliant story from Francesca Cassavetti.
It's all done now so tomorrow I'll put them all in order and then send it off to the printers. Thanks everyone! It will be 56 pages long with colour covers.
It's all done now so tomorrow I'll put them all in order and then send it off to the printers. Thanks everyone! It will be 56 pages long with colour covers.
Monday 4 October 2010
Gin Palace 2
Today I got a three page story from Andrew Cheverton for 'Gin Palace 2'. It's very cool. Nearly finished now!
Saturday 2 October 2010
Gin Palace 2
Today I got a new 5 page story for 'Gin Palace 2' from John Robbins. Here's the first page, it's very good.
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