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  • Jonathan Walker’s ‘Five Wounds’ is a Magnificent Bastard

    Jonathan Walker’s ‘Five Wounds’ is a Magnificent Bastard

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    A few months ago when I reviewed Jonathan Walker’s Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel, I called the illustrated novel “a bit of a bastardised mongrel.” Turns out Jonathan couldn’t agree more; over at John Scalzi’s Whatever he argues the strengths of such a format in an insightful piece on the thought process behind his and…

  • Sean Dietrich Takes New Kid’s Book on 10,000 Mile US Tour

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    In the age of the internet when most artists rely on online sales to promote, or a rare decent paying, steady gig at a big company to pay the bills, Sean Dietrich is going against the grain with a six month, 10,000 mile U.S. Live Art Tour starting Aug 1st to promote several new books,…

  • Memorial Day Sale at Ink Pen Mutations’ Revamped Site

    Memorial Day Sale at Ink Pen Mutations’ Revamped Site

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    Press release: Ink Pen Mutations announced today that in celebration for huge website redo they are launching a huge Memorials day sale. From May 28th to May 31st everything on their website www.inkpenmutations.com will be 30% off.  All of their illustrated fiction hits including Zombie Cadence to Mother’s Urn are included in the sale. Click on…

  • Egg Story Review

    Egg Story Review

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    Carl Doherty
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    2011, Slave Labor Graphics Written and Illustrated by J. Marc Schmidt Comic artists, animators and cartoonists have anthropomorphised everything from dinosaurs to wabbits, but outside of Humpty Dumpty I’d be hard pressed to name another tale committed to sentient eggs. A dark comedy on the fragility of life, Marc Schmidt’s Egg Story chronicles the beginnings,…

  • Byron Returns to SLG as Digital-only Comic

    Byron Returns to SLG as Digital-only Comic

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    Once you have survived drugged toads, vampire attacks, and the attempted realignment of reality. What else in life can possibly phase you. Karl Christian Krumpholz tackles that question as his erstwhile hero Byron returns for another set of adventures in an all new comic book series Byron: Die Byron Die, from SLG Publishing.

  • Dreams and Everyday Life Review

    Dreams and Everyday Life Review

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    Carl Doherty
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    2011, Tabella Publishing Written & illustrated by Aviv Ratzin Stream of consciousness storytelling is a rarity in comics, perhaps due to the script-to-art creative process which has standardised the medium, or the somewhat depressing fact that most aspiring comic creators attempt to enter the mainstream by emulating it. Aviv Ratzin’s Dreams and Everyday Life is…

  • Scratch9 snags Eisner Nomination

    Scratch9 snags Eisner Nomination

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    Press Release: Ape Entertainment is thrilled to congratulate Rob M. Worley, Jason T. Kruse and the entire creative team of Scratch9 on the just announced nomination in the category of “Best Publication for Kids”, in the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. “When we created our all-ages imprint, KiZoic, we knew that Scratch9 was going…

  • Amity Blamity: Book One Review

    Amity Blamity: Book One Review

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    Carl Doherty
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    2011, SLG Publishing Written & illustrated by Mike White Amity Blamity follows mute four year-old Gretchen and Chester, a potbellied pig whose ability to talk seems to have earned him a place in Gretchen’s grandmother’s home, rather than hanging from and abattoir hook. Their serene, Pooh-esque playtime is frequently disrupted by Winston, a paranoid gerbil…