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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Mr Brown -It’s On Its Way!

Mr Brown can finally stop moaning “Where’s the new Tank Girl book?” and “I’ll die if I don’t see the new Tank Girl book”.  Mr Brown -look below [no,not your trousers the picture under this writing!].

Cover for Tank Girl #1 out in November from Titan Books!

In Case

I’m moving lots of articles to my back up blog at
http://profiles.yahoo.com/blog/LY36KBB2X2DZY5ZIC4UKV4FDBE

Oh Those Chinese!

I’ve been looking over the links Sebchoq sent and the one given in the China Girls item leads to a virtual Who’s Who of Chinese Manhua creators.  There is some fantastic art on show as well as creator info.
I liked GUO Chaoxu [”Guo Guo”] and Pavillion de l’Aile Quest looks superb. How much longer do […]

CHINA GIRLS

Thanks to Sebchoq for the links to Benjamin’s work [and I thought someone had ripped off his style for those Marvel covers!] I came across this.  The link is:
http://www.xiaopan.com/anglais/index.php?rubrique=catalogue-auteurs

It all looks very interesting but why is it that the UK is souch an incredibly dumb country that it can’t get these books to publish?  We […]

I Have Looked Into The Face Of Evil -George Wants To Kill Me!!!


Classical Comics THE TEMPEST Preview!

Proving that this is still the age of the Classical Comic,Clive Bryant has forwarded pre-print preview pages for all you lovely people!
Clive writes:
“Attached are the first 3 pages of The Tempest, as they are looking pre-print (hence the page numbers!)
Credits are:
Character Designs, Layouts and Pencils: Jon Haward
Inking: Gary Erskine
Colouring and Lettering: Nigel Dobbyn
Hot on the […]

BENJAMIN ZHANG BIN -”Benjamin”

Above:at a convention -Benjamin Zhang Bin [aka Benjamin] and a friend.  This guy is one of the Chinese Manhua creators I’ve been trying to find out more about but after a year I give up! 
I know he is an extremely talented artist and that,like a number of other Manhua artists,is really big in France [but […]

European Comics

Not sure how many folk check out the blog roll but there are a number of Yahoo groups you can join if interested in Chinese-Korean or European comics.
Sadly,though I’ve appealed time and again,I’ve heard from no organisers or people attending European or Chinese comic conventions.  CBO would love to see photos of these events,cosplay,hear who […]

Manhwa Graphic Novels For The UK?

 
Seoul Graphics is a company aiming to get Korean Manhwa graphic novels onto the English speaking market,starting with the UK.  Hopefully this will be achieve through a UK publisher -any out there please get in touch.
The company is fronted by Dr.  Jeeyeon Kim (BA, MA, PhD),Managing Director of Seoul Graphics and Korean / English Translator.
The official site […]

Apologies -Farce Book

Loooong story that I’m not going to go into.  However,I kept the number of people on my Farce Book Face Book small but they all vanished.  If you were on my FB list please let me know as I’ve lost a lot of email addresses.
And that’s it.
Ta.