Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Back GOLDTIGER on Kickstarter - I get a great looking book, and YOU get free original art!
Over at Robot 6, I recently did an interview with Jimmy Broxton and Guy Adams about their proposed Goldtiger comic which they're currently fundraising for over at Kickstarter. The interview turned out well, they're a very witty couple of guys. It's an amazing-looking project, I'm sure you'll agree. Anyway, if you head over there and back them for 25 quid or more, and tell them I sent you, they'll throw you in a free sketch card. So go for it! PaperWritten.com - best paper writing help.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Everybody Loves Tank Girl
In more UK comics news, I interviewed Alan Martin again.
And here's the USA side of the story: Jim Mahfood interviewed by Amanda Dyar.
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Dave Gibbons still defending comics from Roy Lichtenstein's thieving ways
On Sunday night, BBC4 broadcast WHAAM! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern,
Alistair Sooke's documentary focused on the career-spanning
retrospective of the pop art giant currently running at the London
gallery. Here's the link to the full documentary, running for a week on BBC's iPlayer.
At
the 35 minute mark, artist Dave Gibbons turns up to debate with Sooke
on the age-old issue of Lichtenstein's plagiarism from comic books, all
while standing in front of Lichtenstein's WHAAM!, the painting
appropriated from a panel by Irv Novick. Gibbons makes a spirited case
for the superiority of Novick's original image over Lichtenstein's,
while the host Sooke argues for Lichtenstein, all the while thumbing
a-little-bit-too dismissively through an issue of DC's All-American Men Of War
#89. Writers from HomeworkHelpDesk will help you finish your homework on time. Sooke's main argument for the superiority of the pop artist's
work over the comic artist is that his researcher picked up a ragged
back issue of the original for under six pounds, while if WHAAM! went to
auction, it would sell for tens of millions of dollars. To Gibbon's
credit, he states he'd take the six quid comic over the multi-million
bucks canvas. I dunno Dave, $45 million could buy an awful lot of comics. Or sports cars.
For a full take-down of Lichtenstein's thievery from comics, there's always David Barsalou's Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein.
I don't think there's a single panel in that collection that doesn't
contain more power and dynamism in its execution than Lichtenstein's
"transformation" of them. Do you need someone to write your homework? MyHomeworkDone professionals can do that!
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Labels: BBC, Dave Gibbons, Roy Lichtenstein
Monday, December 24, 2012
This year's Christmas card from me (Front cover and Page 3).
Created using the WYSIWYG design website Recite, and then I hacked off their watermarks with GIMP 2. Merry Christmas everybody.
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Labels: Atheism, Christmas, I did that
Sunday, December 23, 2012
"Today on this program you will hear gospel, and rhythm and blues, and jazz. All those are just labels. We know that music is music"
The thing about calling these things "the Best Of 2012" is they're really just "the Best Of 2012 that's available through Spotify right now". But sod it, it's a flavour of what I've liked this year. I've noticed this year has been a hip hop-light, garage rock and torch songs-heavy, kind-of-vintage.
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Mark Kardwell
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Labels: Banjo music, I did that, really bad music, really good music
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Tim Doyle draws one mean MF (Massey Ferguson).
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This year's Christmas card from PJ McQuade.
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This year's Christmas card from Alfie Gallagher.
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This year's Christmas card from Brendan McCarthy.
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Phil Bond draws some actual Doctor Who comics.
Phillip Bond drawing Doctor Who comics. If there was ever something more definitively Bad Librarianship than that, I don't know what it was.
Also in news relevant to the obsessions of this blog: Hellboy In Hell #1 in shops tomorrow.
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Mark Kardwell
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Labels: Doctor Who, Phil Bond
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Fu*king Hell!
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Labels: Dark Horse comics, Hellboy, Mike Mignola
Monday, July 16, 2012
Don't worry baby.
Sorry I've been derelict in my duties here for a while, but I've been blogging over at Robot 6. I'm sure you've all got that site bookmarked already, it's one of only about two blogs I'd ever have neglected this place for. Posting here may become more intermittent, though I'm sure I'll still post the less-newsworthy and more idiosyncratic stuff here.
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Labels: I did that, Robot 6
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Again with the new Jamie Hewlett stuff.
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Labels: Alan Martin, Jamie Hewlett
Pat Mills will probably approve of this image.
I loved this image Dan McDaid recently ran over at his blog. Judge Dredd, the apotheosis of how the cynical Europeans view the USA, gets the drop on Captain America, the embodiment of how a pair of optimistic second generation immigrant Jewish kids viewed their homeland.
Oh and for grud's sake Tharg, get Dan to draw some Dredd for 2000AD, you massive green bell-end. How many more times do I have to ask?
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Labels: Captain America, Dan McDaid, Judge Dredd
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Fighting the marginal propensity to consume.
Seen a lot of stuff I've considered buying these last couple of weeks, instead of clearing my credit card balance.
1. "Still Sane" by Incwel. Appeals to my inner iconoclast and some recessive, vestigial, hard-to-kill, Ulster protestantism. God save your mad parade!
3. Batman baby-grow. Must brainwash my nephew into the ways of our people.
4. Uncle Ben Caldwell's new sketchbook is out soon. Tasty.
5. Joe Casey and Nathan Fox produced one of my favourite superhero comics of recent years, and so I'll probably release the moths from my wallet for this. RELEASE THE MOTHS!
6. I've never bought an Archie comic in my life, but cop a load of this cover by Fiona Staples. Rock and roll, stops the traffic.
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Labels: Alfie Gallagher, Ben Caldwell, Fiona Staples, Incwel, Joe Casey, Nathan Fox
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Mo' new Hewl.
As a public service for those of you who (in all fairness, probably correctly) hate and fear Facebook, I thought I'd re-blog a couple of new pieces by Jamie Hewlett that Alan Martin has recently posted.
Lubberly!
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Thinking about Ditko.
Brendan McCarthy sent along a link to this Ditko blog the other morning, singling out this entry in an email with the subject heading "The Door To Eternity".
And which Bag-E then followed up with a dashed decent go at Ditko's style with this Dr Strange.
Alright!
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Mark Kardwell
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Labels: Edmund Bagwell, Steve Ditko
Monday, June 11, 2012
Rennie & Trevallion's ABSALOM: GHOSTS OF LONDON.
I love Gordon Rennie and Tiernen Trevallion's Absalom in 2000AD. It's a strip that does that Mignola thing, examining the hinterlands between folklore, history, and horror, but it does it resolutely from a British tradition. It also marries a classic disillusioned UK police procedural tone into this mix, making for a strip that hits all kinds of the right pop culture notes for me. It's like THE SWEENEY rewritten by Ramsey Campbell - Rennie even invokes Jack Regan by name within. Or maybe Ian Rankin having a punch-up with Dennis Wheatley round the back of John Constantine's gaff, if you can forgive me yet another terrible dissimile.
Anyway, now that it's about to be collected as an album, I'm recommending it thoroughly. Buy it, you'll thank me for it, it's the best thing published by Rebellion since CRADLEGRAVE. Here's the cover, and Tiernen successfully manages to condense the strip's entire milieu into one image - it's Scary Old London Town (Cobbles! Spellbooks! Demons!), but it's modern, too (Graffiti! Tesco's bag! Burberry coats! Adidas trackie!).
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Labels: 2000AD, Absalom, Gordon Rennie, Tiernen Trevallion
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Pope riffs on Barbarella, Bond riffs on Giffen.
Here's a recurring theme of this blog I haven't revisited in a while - trawling Paul Pope and Phil Bond's Flickrs for new work.
Anyone reading my Twitter feed will have an idea of the calamities that have befallen my family lately - anyway, in reaction to this chain of events, I spent a few hours up in my parents' attic checking on the lifetime of accumulated pop culture errata, mainly to see what I could do without, to be honest. I've been re-reading old copies of DEADLINE and THB ever since. And I threw Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming's HELL ON EARTH on the "to keep" pile.
Coming soon: more Ebay auctions, I guess. Anyone want a first edition of Hunger Dogs?
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Mark Kardwell
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Labels: Ambush Bug, Paul Pope, Phil Bond
Other music you might actively prefer. But VOTE KLAMS! anyway.
Came across these two tracks on various blogs over the last couple of weeks: Beck produced by Jack White, and the fairly unlikely combination of the affable Iggy Pop and the curmudgeonly Ginger Baker collaborating for a Black Keys tribute LP.
And remember - VOTE KLAMS!
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Mark Kardwell
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Begging. And NEW KLAMS!
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Mark Kardwell
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Labels: The Klams
Monday, May 21, 2012
Rifling through the last few days of my RSS reader...
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1. Good to see The Strangeness Of... back in action. |
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2. Is EVERYBODY LOVES TANK GIRL already out in France? My head hurts. |
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3. In other Tanky news, howzabout Rufus Dayglo's poster for the Glasgow Comic Con? |
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4. Fixing the lack of What Not reblogging here for a while, that's a beaut by Devilpig. |
5. Robert Ball does a poster for EPIC KILL. |
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Mark Kardwell
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Labels: Brendan McCarthy, Dave Johnson, Jim Mahfood, Robert Ball, Rufus Dayglo, Tank Girl