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An ageing Englishman rambles on about comics and other unpopular aspects of popular culture

Friday, 2 November 2007

Miss What?!?

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How on Earth did this get published in a comic for small children? Panel Blinky’s Mad Movies “King Kong”, art by Nick Brennan, The Dandy An...
Thursday, 1 November 2007

An Excuse for an Otherwise Gratuitous Picture

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News from Variety , by way of Blog@Newsarama : Joss Whedon is working on the scripts for Dollhouse , a seven-part TV series starring Eliza D...
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Hallowe’en

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From ghosties and ghoulies and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night good Lord protect us. (First published by Walter d...
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Review: Eduardo Risso’s Tales of Terror

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Eduardo Risso’s Tales of Terror Features eleven stories written by Carlos Trillo, art by Eduardo Risso, translation by Maria Barrucci, lette...
Tuesday, 30 October 2007

Reading the Reads

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There seems to be an opinion at large – evident in the comments section of Heidi MacDonald’s infamous “whither storytelling?” post at The Be...
Monday, 29 October 2007

Recent Reads

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Once again, I’m going to use a subject suggested by Tom Spurgeon’s Five on Friday feature as an excuse to throw together a random mix of ob...

Sometimes Wishes Come True

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Reviewing The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics , I wrote, “Perhaps we can hope for a Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics or Horror Comics or ...
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Sunday, 28 October 2007

Review: Marvel Masterworks – Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD

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Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, Volume 1 Features: Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD “The Man for the Job!” by Stan Lee (writer), ...

Unexpected Comics: The Observer

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Just a quick note, while it’s still on sale, to point out that the magazine section of today’s edition of The Observer contains a four-page...
Saturday, 27 October 2007

Happy Birthday, Leo Baxendale

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I’d have missed this, if it wasn’t for the Comics Reporter : today is the 77th birthday of Leo Baxendale, the brilliant and influential comi...
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The Guardian’s The Comic

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Now this looks promising: a new comics section in The Guardian , the UK national newspaper that regularly employs such luminaries as Posy Si...
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Something in their Form that Dooms them

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Douglas Wolk’s book Reading Comics: How graphic novels work and what they mean was reviewed in brief in the Times Literary Supplement last...
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Steve Flanagan
Steve Flanagan is a decaying hulk moored somewhere on Tyneside in North East England. The manifest for his cargo of comics nostalgia is here.
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