ReviewBooks
John Severin: Two-Fisted Comic Book Artist by Greg Biga and Jon B. Cooke (book review).
John Severin is regarded as the artist’s artist, although much of his work is outside of the superhero genre in America although he…
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September 2020
ReviewComics
Comic Book Creator #23 Summer 2020 (magazine review).
The latest edition of ‘Comic Book Creator’ is stacked with interviews. The first is an interview with Peruvian artist Pablo Marcos, who moved…
May 2020
ReviewBooks
The Art Of Brian Bolland (book review).
I came across this book, ‘The Art Of Brian Bolland’ and ‘Bolland Strips’, via The Book Palace’s ‘Illustrators Special’ late last year and…
March 2020
ReviewBooks
The Art Of Walter Simonson (graphic novel book review).
Oddly, the reason for my buying a copy of ‘The Art Of Walter Simonson’ was primarily to see the original pin-up he drew…
July 2018
ReviewComics
Don Lawrence: Illustrators And Comic Strip Art: An Illustrators Special #3 (book review).
I’m beginning to feel old when I say you have to be a certain age to remember British comicbook Don Lawrence (1928-2003). If…
October 2017
ReviewBooks
How Comics Work by Dave Gibbons & Tim Pilcher (book review)
The dividing line between the way the writing was done in this book, ‘How Comics Work’, is defined in the introduction as Tim…
September 2017
ReviewComics
Jack Kirby Collection Seventy-Two (magazine review).
Easily the best thing in this issue of ‘Jack Kirby Collector’ is ‘The Four-Colour War’ by Christopher Irving, an in-depth article that wouldn’t…
August 2017
ReviewBooks
Kirby: King Of Comics Paperback – Special Edition by Mark Evanier (book review)
Jack Kirby was born in 1917 and grew up in the slums of New York. He was short and had to fight. He…
ReviewBooks
Reed Crandall: Illustrator Of The Comics by Roger Hill (book review).
I have to confess to not really knowing much about comicbook artist Reed Crandall. He came to prominence in the 1940s-50s and a…
April 2017
ReviewBooks
Beyond Watchmen & Judge Dredd: The Art Of John Higgins (book review).
If you thought John Higgins was only a colourist, famed only for the ‘Watchmen’, then this book, ‘Beyond Watchmen & Judge Dredd: The…
ReviewComics
Illustrators Special Issue # 1: Warren Magazines – The Spanish Artists (magazine review)
People like to be in on the first of anything so having a special edition specialising in a particular subject has to have…
October 2016
ReviewFantasy
The Shame Trilogy by Lovern Kindzierski and John Bolton (book review).
‘The Shame Trilogy’ is a fantasy graphic novel written by Lovern Kindzierski and art by John Bolton. Mother Virtue is an ugly old…