Mike AllwoodProducer
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Mike AllwoodProducer
Cardiff – Plymouth – Exeter
Comic Expo Events
www.fantasyevents.org
I set up the UK Golden Age comics page because that subject has no coverage. Lots of covers from other countries comics were posted so to stop confusion I set up an International GA FB page.
Been unwell so apart from approving a few members yesterday, which is when the page was set up, nothing until this morning.
Here:
Kim’s group, still stranded halfway across Antares, must get back to the base camp through a journey filled with deadly encounters. Meanwhile, at the base camp, a trip to the neighbouring planet—source of the strange ray that vaporised Kim’s daughter—is being organised.… Read more
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After their umpteenth defeat at Lucky Luke’s hands, the Dalton brothers get into a big argument that ends with the four of them splitting up. They make a deal: Whoever is first to get a million dollars will be the leader of the gang.…Read more
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The Marsupilami, a mysterious animal that Spirou and Fantasio discovered in the jungle of Palombia, now resides in their local zoo. When he seems to drop dead suddenly, the reporters storm into the park demanding explanations. Much to everyone’s surprise, though, the body has disappeared—stolen!…Read more
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Cinebook will exhibit at MCM Scotland Comic Con, SECC, Glasgow
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Cartoonist Club of Great-Britain – Simon Chadwick
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Down The Tubes – Jeremy Briggs
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Geek Syndicate – Dion Winton-Pollack
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Grovel – Andy
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The School Librarian – Chris Brown
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Publication: July 2013
Travelling down the Rhine, Yoko and her friends save a young stranger from drowning. Sensing foul play, the young Japanese girl decides to stay with her new friend Ingrid and investigate the unusual circumstances.
There, amidst the beautiful castles of the Rhine Valley, she will face a danger straight out of the Renaissance and battle the devil himself to the sound of his own monstrous pipe organ.
“The Devil’s Organ” (no, now come on -we’re better than school boy humour!)
Anyway, look at that cover. One thing that always amazes me is that you see Leloup’s figures and you think “oh, cartoony” and in a way, I guess, they are. But you then look at the detail in buildings, scenerey, vehicles and equipment and you suddenly realise this is far from “cartoony”!
This was, in truth, one series I thought I would not like but The Edge of Life, The Time Spiral and other books in this series won me over. It is another one of those books that a youngster or even an oldster can enjoy.
Roger Leloup is just fab.
Okay, I think everyone knows that I’m a war-gamer -figures/armies on tabletops to battle it out. I played “Pong” in the 1980s but that just blew my mind. So, with my young nephew and niece I decided to “give it a go”….and I swore never to be humiliated by 6 and 7 year olds again.
So I have no background on the game involved. I’m coming at this as a comicker with a love on Manhua, even though I’m told that the characters in this book have been “Westernised” -there is the Manhua look and feel though both creators are French.
There is enough “weird” and crazy in this to keep me happy. The art is superb -as you can see from the pages below. I have actually looked through this book so many times since it arrived and I still love it. The story is good and, like all good BD series, there is that “to be continued” on the final panel!
Annoying because this was a good read and the quality of print is excellent.
Another book I would happily recommend!
Auteurs : Benjamin Legrand, Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette |
Un jour, la bombe a fini par éclater. Et toute la Terre s’est brutalement retrouvée plongée dans un éternel hiver gelé, hostile à toute forme de vie. Toute ? Pas tout à fait. Miraculeusement, une toute petite portion d’humanité a trouvé refuge in extremis dans un train révolutionnaire, le Transperceneige, mu par une fantastique machine à mouvement perpétuel que les miraculés de la catastrophe ont vite surnommé Sainte Loco. Mais à bord du convoi, désormais dépositaire de l’ultime échantillon de l’espèce humaine sur cette planète morte, il a vite fallu apprendre à survivre. Et les hommes, comme de bien entendu, n’ont rien eu de plus pressé que d’y reproduire les bons vieux mécanismes de la stratification sociale, de l’oppression politique et du mensonge religieux…
Bande dessinée majeure des années 80 créée par Jean-Marc Rochette et Jacques Lob, reprise à la fin des années 90 pour deux volumes supplémentaires par Benjamin Legrand après le décès de son scénariste, la trilogie du Transperceneige reparait en un volume unique à l’occasion de son adaptation au cinéma (Snowpiercer, sur les écrans dès la fin de l’été) par le plus célèbre des cinéastes coréens, Bong Joon-ho. La redécouverte de l’une des meilleures sagas de science-fiction qu’ait produite la bande dessinée française : trente ans après sa création, Le Transperceneige n’a rien perdu de sa puissance et de sa singulière modernité.
One day the nuclear holocaust finally happened and the whole earth is brutally plunged into eternal winter frozen, hostile to all forms of life. Not quite….miraculously, a small portion of humanity has found refuge in extremis in a revolutionary train –Transperceneige– driven by a fantastic perpetual motion machine that the survivors of the disaster quickly nicknamed “Saint Loco“. But on board the train, now the custodian of the final sample of the human species, men have learned nothing as the good old mechanisms of social stratification, political oppression and religious begin to take over …
Created by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Lob, in the 1980s the late 1990s saw two additional volumes written by Benjamin Legrand after the death of the original writer. Now the trilogy Transperceneige is collected together in a single volume as its film adaptation , “Snowpiercer”, directed by famous Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-hoat is set to appear at the end of summer, 2013.
This is a chance for French readers to rediscover of one of the best science-fiction sagas has ever produced French comics: thirty years after its creation, and the Transperceneige has lost none of its power and its singular modernity.
GREAT art but let me tell you -this is grim!!
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Nice cover. Well, anyone who knows me will know I am a sucker for a pirate movie, history book or comic. In Germany it was Der Roter Korsair and in the UK, well, we had enough comic strips that pirates popped up in.
Like Westerns, I think the UK is lacking a good pirate comic. This series is going to fill that gap.
Oh man…a great story. A really good story. And the art is detailed, incredibly coloured. The panels and pages….oh, I’m drooling. I thought Long John Silver was a great series, and it is, but Barracuda threatens to out-pirate it!
Fair makes you want to start saying “Yahrrr. Shiver me timbers fer a piece o’ eight!”
Jeremy and Dufaux deliver the goods and, thankfully, have not buried them and hidden their location on a map with an “X” marks the spot!
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