What if you’d spent your whole life in a cage, never glimpsing the world outside? What if everything you knew was darkness, fear and cold, clinical steel? What if one day, an angel came to you with a message of Read more…
Category: writers
You always expect Morrison to bring a new spin to a character — to explore realms that others have left untouched, and as usual he delivers just that with a great deal of panache. Here the art by Dave McKean Read more…
This was something permanently lodged in my brain as something that presented the whole idea of a post-apocalypse world in a more realistic way than a lot of comics and other media. It was bleak, and McMahon\’s stylised art seemed Read more…
Today was a very kinetic episode — as usual packed with more than most would be able to get into six pages. Ellis has the use of comics and their panels down to a fine art as far as conveying Read more…
If you are into music, and I mean good music (fuck that relativistic bullshit about personal taste and all that) then you will find your way to Tom Waits. Actually if you watch a fair amount of films you may Read more…
The best ideas tend to be the simple ones — high concept is fine but has to be cooked with as much delicacy and precision as a souffle. This story takes a simple premise — a person who has a Read more…
Vonnegut uses the perfect framing device for this novel wherein a timequake bumps everyone back in time ten years to run through that whole decade of their lives again. He starts off by leading us in by the nose with Read more…
It\’s interesting, but from the title of the book and from the foreword by James Grauerholz I was led to expect something that was perhaps going to be more of an intimate, traditional style diary. As Burroughs states at one Read more…
I wasn\’t sure what to expect from this book which may be a stupid thing to say given how much I have read Mr Ellis, both in the form of his graphic novels and the regular missives from his website. Read more…
mooncalf by nicole isabella please check out this great poem (by clicking the above link) by my friend nicole which has been accepted by gloom cupboard — this cool zine that comes in both print and online editions. i always Read more…