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This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day - Celebrate Image's 25th Anniversary!

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Much like with Record Store Day, I consider myself a little too old to be queueing with the masses - for the chance of 5 flimsy collectibles - which will most likely end up being compiled into a compendium volume at a later date anyhow. I am almost entirely TP-based (Trade Paperback) these days - preferring a more solid volume with a full narrative arc, versus collecting episodically. I also tend to find those collected volumes keep better than the paper covered slivers.

 

I would say I ...


2016 Best of Year Entertainment

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I’m not sure it’s been quite the vintage year all-round, although Television and Graphic Novels continue to go from strength to strength. 2016 will be remembered for the painful and wholly unexpected passing of David Bowie and Prince - two of my best loved and most significant all-time influences, we’ve also had the onset of Brexit and Trump - which are set to influence all manner of other things in various ways yet to be seen.

 

There is as ever a plethora of fabulous ...


Celebrate Comic Book Store Day this Saturday

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A long lapsed hobby of mine properly kicked back in around 3 years ago. In the past, and mostly in my youth, I collected an enormous variety of comic books. Being half-English I benefitted from all those English childhood influences - Beano, Dandy, Whizzer, Commando and Starblazer and latterly 2000 AD and Viz even. Iceland being the confluence of Europe and the Americas - we got all the Marvel and DC comics, mixed in with all the Belgian and French stuff too - Asterix, Alix, Lucky Luke, Spirou ...


2015 Best Graphic Novels and Sequential Art

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I usually have a main hobby each year, one which occupies most of my time over and above the others. And following my somewhat unplanned attendance at this year’s London Super Comic Convention - I was inspired to revisit the world of Comics and Graphic Novels. Something which has always been in my life, but mostly on the periphery. This year all that changed, and I got back into Graphic Novels in a big way.

 

Much like with my reading, I like tackling larger works, and get ...


Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day - Support your local store!

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You may recall my delight at visiting this year’s Super London Comic Convention, and my declaring this the year of the comic! Every year something different takes my focus of attention. Two years ago it was blu-rays, last year it was grownup Lego, and this year I have become obsessed again with comics - strictly speaking Graphic Novels or Serialised Art. I have found a new level of admiration for the level of detail and process that goes into creating a typical comic book. In particular ...


London Super Comic Convention underlines ongoing boom in Comic Books

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We are currently living through the second golden age of comics, their influence is everywhere, and never has more money been generated by this industry - whether through actual comics and books, film or TV tie-ins or the widest possible range of toys, merch and memorabilia. There are 3 big annual conventions in London, and this one (LSCC) seeks to distinguish itself by being overwhelmingly about the actual comic books and the artists and authors that make them.

 

I’ve read comics...


This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day - Support your local store!

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Following on swiftly form Record Store Day - that is to say the 1st Saturday in May, we have Free Comic Book Day - where you can pick up a bag of free swag at your local comics emporium. I will be making the usual trip to one of my favourite London stores - Forbidden Planet on Shaftersbury Avenue.

 

My two current favourite comics / graphic novel series are both from Image Comics, which has kind of overtaken Vertigo as my current favourite Imprint. The latest collected volumes for each ...

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