Luck be a Lady – A brief history of Shamrock
Reading comics and collecting comics aren’t always synonymous. Some will spend years, decades, a lifetime hunting down runs of comics that they will never read. Why? They are completists, they like the thrill of the chase, the whiff of ancient newsprint and four color nostalgia. The long-sought comic in the back-issue bins, the box of bronze-age heaven that appears one day in a charity shop. … Continue reading Luck be a Lady – A brief history of Shamrock
Down and Out in Surrey and Chelsea
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds And there I was, late in life, nursing plans for death and had barely lived, it seemed. Cassandra This week the Comedy Women in Print award for 2020 announced its longlist of nominees with a graphic novel category appearing for the first time. The list could easily double as a shopping list and I may be skipping over to Page … Continue reading Down and Out in Surrey and Chelsea
Social Duncing
Dunce by Jens K Styve At times like these we need to be transported. Somewhere far away maybe, somewhere exotic. I have to say that the Norwegian city of Tromsø in the Arctic Circle might not be the first place to spring to mind. But with the Northern Lights dancing in the sky around the snow engulfed mountains it seems like a perfect place to … Continue reading Social Duncing
Days of the Black Dog
Barking by Lucy Sullivan Everyone forgets, once you’re dead…you’re an innocent, no matter how crap a human you might have been. Lucy Sullivan’s graphic novel Barking had a fittingly difficult birth. Originally published through the Unbound crowd-funding website it faced problems when the initial print run was not up to scratch. Lucy did the difficult but right thing, she had the book reprinted so that … Continue reading Days of the Black Dog
Nuclear Olympian
Atomic Hercules by Tony Esmond and Adam Falp This book has a slightly silly premise which pokes light fun at millenials and political correctness and all that stuff. Of course we now know that what really causes the apocalypse is not safe spaces but eating bats, underfunding healthcare and thinking that spin doctors and media management could stop a virus. The authors were not to … Continue reading Nuclear Olympian
Home to Roost
Turkey Grove Farms Markosia Comics Writer – William Bienz Art – J.C Grande Colors – Jose David Ocampo / Cover Colors – V. Shane Letters – Adam O. Pruett When Comixology decided to up prices by 66%, just as we were all locked in our houses for an undetermined time I and many others vowed to go elsewhere for our digital comics fix. One great … Continue reading Home to Roost
Legends of the Forgotten God-Ape
The Seven Sagas of Silverbeard from Pete Taylor with Mark Hughes published by Catfood Comics If you are a lover of the truly great ages of comics then you will know the name Silverbeard. From the four color epics of the sixties, zipatone mythology crackling with energy to the bronze age with its explosive action. The great god-ape was an omnipresent part of the scene … Continue reading Legends of the Forgotten God-Ape
Reefers and Riffs
Chip McFitz – Joint Fever by Matt Greaves Reefer Madness hits the comic stands. We have had some hard hitting drugs stories in comics. Denny O’Neill and Neil Adams made Green Arrows ward Speedy a junkie in the famous ‘Snowbirds Don’t Fly’ issue. Poor Karen Page also started chasing the dragon in Daredevil (it didn’t get much better for Karen unfortunately.) A more pleasant time … Continue reading Reefers and Riffs
Once Upon A Time in the East
Gamayun Tales 1 – An Anthology of Modern Russian Folk Tales by Alexander Utkin. Published by NoBrow Press. “In the Murom district Kostroma was represented by a straw figure dressed in woman’s clothes and flowers. This was laid in a trough and carried with songs to the bank of a lake or river. Here the crowd divided into two sides, of which the one attacked … Continue reading Once Upon A Time in the East
Something inside your Brain is Drooling
Spookids Part One – Brain Hat by Marc Jackson published by Weirdo Comics Would you let your friend attach your brain to an experimental machine which reads your thoughts and turns them into real life stuff? Not sure that would be a great idea in my case, although I can see the positive side. In Spookids that is exactly what Bud does for his eccentric … Continue reading Something inside your Brain is Drooling
Daredevils and Warriors 