Archive for September 11th, 2007

A History Of British Comics

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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Bryan Talbot presents his history of British Comics in The Guardian. From A knife, a fork, a bottle & a cork (which is one nice pop blog I didn’t know before - lots of stuff in the fringe), but not before Culpable Y Perdedor pointed me towards it. Thanks, all !

Synchronicity

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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Seen within 10 minutes of each other : Oscar Wilson (top, via Advertising/Design Goodness) and Matt Kemsley (bottom, via Ads of the World). Come together, right now !

Dostoyevsky Comics

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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R. Sikoryak is a reknowned illustrator who has worked for Harvard Business Review, LA Weekly, The Stranger and The New Yorker. He’s also a very keen parodist of several cartoonist’s signature style, such as his Tintin On the Moon parody (or hommage),”Prisoners On The Red Planet”, which was publsihed in Wired in 2001. In his Masterpiece Comics, Sikoryak does adaptations of classic literary works in a cartoon style which, however different, always seems to fit.

Again With the Comics reprints Sikoryak’s Sprang-like remake of Dostoyevsky’s Crime And Punishment, as published in Drawn and Quarterly 3 (2000), and currently out-of-print, as far as he knows.

In Case of Revolution

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

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A nice one from pootling.