Category Archives: EDITORIALThe more observant of you will note that the Bristol Comic Expo link on the blog roll is gone. I have pushed and promoted the event like mad since 2004 and many visited CBO to find out what was going on at the Expo, guests, panels and so on. But I still don’t get a [...]
First one: Q: “Why do you say “comickers”?” A: It’s an old term, I think back to the 1920s (?) referring to those reading/working in comics. Q: “You’ve written a few times about ‘comic sets’ -what do you mean?” A: In the old days the artwork for comics was cut into wooden blocks. These were [...]
Fantastic Four #1 (no, the NEW #1) -so-so art. I’m not even going to mention Avon Oeming’s art in Avengers…Captain America and the new Avengers book off my standing order list…and a couple others. I am fed up with buying these books and seeing as in A#1 basically an “Ultimates” version of the Avengers (as [...]
You know, I was email chatting with someone in France yesterday and they mentioned having seen me, in my full beard days, at the first Bristol Comic Expo. I vaguely recalled going the second day (?). Luc then pointed out that was in November 2004. November 2004???!!! What? The last printed Comic Bits was [...]
I had dredged through the last three volume series of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen only to find that it was basically the same plot as all the others but at least it ‘ended’ the series’ run. The art was getting various laborious to look at. “Spot the TV/film characters” throughout (it was easy -look [...]
Surprises still jump up at me. I was pointing out to Ben Dilworth via letter how there was only one roughly colour-guide page left from the 1987 “Ultimate Game” that was to have re-introduced a host of old Fleetway characters. It was a Fleetway project and as IO’ve posted about it before I won’t go [...]
Last year I helped some twelve people working on dissertations pertaining to comics for university degree work. I helped no fewer than 15 researching old British comics/writing books on the medium. All of this involved a lot of work on my part and what have the thanks been? Nothing. Not a mention. All ‘original research’ [...]
If you are submitting a book to CBO to review then that is nice. However, a quick covering note with sparse details does not. I find that I am spending more than a couple hours a time scanning pages, resizing and so on to use with reviews. I’m not getting paid for this. PLEASE if [...]
I am absolutely hacked off! “What’s new?” you may ask. Well, I have noted before how dealers/traders at the Bristol Comics Expo have moaned on and on to me about the event and how they , herm, ‘never’ make much money. I have SEEN those same people making a lot of money at their tables [...]
I was going to write something else but got distracted. The distraction? Well, I offered someone advice and got a reply that I was being rude. I will not mention the man’s name nor that of his company –never heard of them before and I doubt I will again but if I name him [...]
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