Tag: indie comics
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Sweet Tooth vol. 1: Out of the Deep Woods Review
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Vertigo. 2010 Story, Art: Jeff Lemire Colours: Jose Villarrubia There’s a certain sense of intimacy that comes through whenever an independent comic creator handles both the art and writing duties on a comic. When Eisner-nominated Jeff Lemire (Essex County Trilogy) moved to Vertigo, these indie sensibilities thankfully remained intact in The Nobody, an eerie homage…
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Tank Girl: The Royal Escape #1 Comic Review
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Dark Horse, $3.99 Story: Alan C. Martin Art: Rufus Dayglo Colours: Christian Krank Tank Girl is virtually synonymous with the British comic movement of the 90s, even if the disastrous movie (which introduced Naomi Watts to the world) failed to make the character more than a cult icon and frequenter of T-shirts. Crude, irreverent and…
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Hope Larson’s Mercury Graphic Novel Review
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Mercury is an ambitious narrative of two coming-of-age tales, tied by blood but separated by time.
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Comic Book Creators Announced For London MCM Expo May 2010
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in Comic NewsThe London MCM Expo has just announced a number of comic book creators that will be attending the Comic Village region of its 29-30th May 2010 show. From the press release: Stars returning to Excel this May include Ben Templesmith, Svetlana Chmakova, Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen, while we’ll also be seeing a host of…
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Indie Comic Spotlight: Lost in the Woods
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Paper Street Comics Story: Gentry Smith, Stan Wedeking Art: Daniel Wichinson (finishes, covers by Gentry Smith) Horror titles may constitute a large percentage of all indie and small press comics currently being published, but the medium is rarely used to nearly as good effect as its cinematic counterpart. Sure, horror comics can be gruesome, graphic,…
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Trial and Error: The Aviated Efforts of Jean Baptiste de Bomberaque Review
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Tabella Publishing Written and illustrated by Øivind Hovland Oh to have lived in the era of madcap pioneers, an age when the boffins contributing to the advancement of mankind weren’t just academics in white overcoats but brave dreamers willing to risk life and limb in order to change the world. Trial and Error: The Aviated…
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A Day in the Life of Alfred Book Review
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Tabella Publishing Written and illustrated by Øivind Hovland There’s something wrong within A Day in the Life of Alfred. An insidious, gradual feeling of unease that will work its way into your subconscious without you even realising it. Perhaps it’s due to the book’s format, a sort of picture book for adults in which Norwegian-born…
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Justin Green’s Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary Reissued
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in Comic NewsMcSweeney’s Press have reissued Justin Green’s 1972 comic book Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary. Often cited as the first long autobiographical work to appear in underground comics, Binky Brown chronicles Green’s Catholic upbringing and adolescent battles with his burgeoning obsessions and neuroses. For many years the influential work has been out of print,…