All-round good guy and fucking polymath talent, artist and poet Mike Padilla has a book out and though I have been a bit slow to hip you all to it — here you go: and go and get yourself a Read more…
Category: artists
https://e-merl.com/rule I found this strip through Daniel Merlin Goodbrey who is also the writer on Necessary Monsters. Noble’s artwork is perhaps an acquired taste but one which I found myself getting hooked on pretty quickly — it has an edgy Read more…
I have to admit to knowing very little about the real Helen Keller, but she is one of those people whose names floats around the ether and is known even if you don’t know exactly what she is famous for. Read more…
Last week the gun was fired — this week the projectiles hit their target. You know what the first thought was that popped into my head? Too damned easy. And a full on frontal assault against a group like the Read more…
It remains for me and a lot of people, including Mike Mignola the creator of Hellboy, the preserve of the comic books which spawned him to explore the true nature and depths of the character. I think my first exposure Read more…
When the true crescendo comes in this first arc it is going to be interesting to see how the characters bring what we have seen of each of their personalities to bear on the situation. We saw how handy Jack Read more…
So, we have seen the freakangels policing each other and now we get to see one go into action against someone who has attacked him. Duffield once again displays a real ability for capturing the kineticism of violence and not Read more…
I think as much as anything that Jamie McKelvie writes it is his design work which I find so fascinating and compelling — it is not something that everyone who puts comics together pays much attention to. I think it Read more…
Meet Emma Verne. Emma is a spunky, street-smart girl who lives aboard the spacefaring airship city Ursae. Raised by her foster parents Lord and Lady Beauvolt, Emma has developed a knack for creating mischief about the city – both helpful Read more…
Talking of the wondrous hyperlink bounce — the internet led me here from, of all place, facebook. Metatextual reading, the idea that you read books in an associative web of links set up by references and influences, obviously takes on Read more…