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Pope riffs on Barbarella, Bond riffs on Giffen.
Here's a recurring theme of this blog I haven't revisited in a while - trawling Paul Pope and Phil Bond's Flickrs for new work.Anyone reading my Twitter feed will have an idea of the calamities that...
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Rennie & Trevallion's ABSALOM: GHOSTS OF LONDON.
I love Gordon Rennie and Tiernen Trevallion's Absalom in 2000AD. It's a strip that does that Mignola thing, examining the hinterlands between folklore, history, and horror, but it does it resolutely...
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Thinking about Ditko.
Brendan McCarthy sent along a link to this Ditko blog the other morning, singling out this entry in an email with the subject heading "The Door To Eternity".Woah. Which in turn got me thinking of this...
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Mo' new Hewl.
As a public service for those of you who (in all fairness, probably correctly) hate and fear Facebook, I thought I'd re-blog a couple of new pieces by Jamie Hewlett that Alan Martin has recently...
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Fighting the marginal propensity to consume.
Seen a lot of stuff I've considered buying these last couple of weeks, instead of clearing my credit card balance.1. "Still Sane" by Incwel. Appeals to my inner iconoclast and some recessive,...
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Pat Mills will probably approve of this image.
I loved this image Dan McDaid recently ran over at his blog. Judge Dredd, the apotheosis of how the cynical Europeans view the USA, gets the drop on Captain America, the embodiment of how a pair of...
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Again with the new Jamie Hewlett stuff.
Something about these new Jamie Hewlett pieces leaking out via Alan Martin's Facebook account reminds me of those watercolour sketches Hugo Pratt used to do as preparatory work for the Corto strips.
View ArticleDon't worry baby.
Sorry I've been derelict in my duties here for a while, but I've been blogging over at Robot 6. I'm sure you've all got that site bookmarked already, it's one of only about two blogs I'd ever have...
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Phil Bond draws some actual Doctor Who comics.
Phillip Bond drawing Doctor Who comics. If there was ever something more definitively Bad Librarianship than that, I don't know what it was.Also in news relevant to the obsessions of this blog: Hellboy...
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This year's Christmas card from Brendan McCarthy.
"Hope you have a great holiday and a successful and healthy New Year. May your bells jingle and your angels sing. Yo Ho Ho, Brendan"
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This year's Christmas card from Alfie Gallagher.
Cheers, Alfie - it's on the mantelpiece right now!
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This year's Christmas card from PJ McQuade.
As is becoming usual with Patrick, I got an entire Jiffy bag full of Christmas cards from the guy. What an absolute sweetheart. Buy 'em (and all his others) over at his webstore.
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Tim Doyle draws one mean MF (Massey Ferguson).
Eric Church means nothing to me, but hell, Tim Doyle can draw a helluva rusty old TED-20.
View Article"Today on this program you will hear gospel, and rhythm and blues, and jazz....
The thing about calling these things "the Best Of 2012" is they're really just "the Best Of 2012 that's available through Spotify right now". But sod it, it's a flavour of what I've liked this year....
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This year's Christmas card from me (Front cover and Page 3).
Created using the WYSIWYG design website Recite, and then I hacked off their watermarks with GIMP 2. Merry Christmas everybody.
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Dave Gibbons still defending comics from Roy Lichtenstein's thieving ways
On Sunday night, BBC4 broadcast WHAAM! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern, Alistair Sooke's documentary focused on the career-spanning retrospective of the pop art giant currently running at the London...
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Everybody Loves Tank Girl
In more UK comics news, I interviewed Alan Martin again.And here's the USA side of the story: Jim Mahfood interviewed by Amanda Dyar.
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Back GOLDTIGER on Kickstarter - I get a great looking book, and YOU get free...
Over at Robot 6, I recently did an interview with Jimmy Broxton and Guy Adams about their proposed Goldtiger comic which they're currently fundraising for over at Kickstarter. The interview turned out...
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