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Category Archives: Graphica and Art
Needing a CBLDF for the UK?
The Independent has an article on the new Coroners and Justice Bill which is being introduced to parliament this week and a possible effect on graphic novels. The Bill contains a clause that is targeted towards hardcore paedophiliac pornography but … Continue reading
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Alan Moore talks to the Guardian about Watchman, Lost Girls and Northampton
I’ve just caught this interview with Alan Moore on the Guardian website where he talks about the Watchmen film, Lost Girls (which Top Shelf are bringing out in one volume in May) and a sequel to Voice of the Fire … Continue reading
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Opening the closet – was Tintin gay?
From the department of overreaching readings comes an article by Hugh Rifkind in the Times titled “Of Course Tintin’s gay. Ask Snowy” which trots out some ‘evidence’ that he was gay. It is sloppy writing and research by somebody either … Continue reading
Fairy tales and cultural meanings
The Boston Globe has a quick article on the sanitisation of fairy tales in Disney films. Its not a new idea but as I begin thinking about Tintin and Asterix, I realise how like fairy tales they both are, in … Continue reading
Reimagining occupation – Tintin and Asterix
I’ve been reading Matthew Screech’s Master of the Ninth Art and he makes a valid point about Tintin and Asterix. Hergé engaged with the rise of Fascism in The Black Isle and mainly in King Ottakar’s Sceptre. Screech argues that … Continue reading
One small village: Asterix’s village
One thing that has puzzled me for ages is the opening of the Asterix books. In each on there is a paragraph about the only Gaulish village being surrounded by four Roman camps. Is this an exaggeration of the Resistance … Continue reading
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David Fickling launches new weekly comic
David Fickling, the excellent publisher of children’s books, is launching a new comic according to the Independent. Philip Pullman will be writing a strip called “The Adventures of John Blake”. Not sure who else is joining in yet. You can … Continue reading
Steve Augarde talks comics
Steve Augarde’s latest piece in his running series of “Things once common, now extinct” covers comics and his reading of every comic that came into the house including his sister’s. Its a good reminder of all those times spent reading … Continue reading
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Talking Castor and Crossing Midnight: Mike Carey interviewed
Mike Carey is a comics and book writer who has also dabbled in screenplays. I caught up with him at Fantasycon and we talked about his Felix Castor novels (Felix Castor volumes) and his comics, Lucifer(Lucifer volumes) and Crossing Midnight … Continue reading
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Chris Riddell gets political at the Guardian Newsroom
Chris Riddell, the illustrator half of Paul Stewart/Chris Riddell, has an exhibition of his political cartoons for the Observer newspaper. The cartoons are always pointed and humorous whilst getting the themes of the year across to the reader. The exhibition … Continue reading
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