January 2011
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There's No Time Like The Present
Paul Rainey writes:
“Orbital Comics in London have included There’s No Time Like The Present in their highly selective and otherwise tasteful Best of 2010 list. My comic is in there with the likes of The Walking Dead and Bulletproof Coffin.”
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Kenny Penman Interview
The Comics Bureau interviews Blank Slate publisher Kenny Penman here:
“7 / What are the aims of Blank Slate? Basically to publish work I like, in the best formats we can. Our focus is split between new UK cartoonists and some of the quality work from around the world not making it to English translations. I’d like to see our books get some ‘traction’ in the US and I want to have us selling...
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Propaganda List
Richard Bruton has compiled his Propaganda List: Best of 2010 over on Forbidden Planet International’s blog, picking his favourites from all of the many, many comics and graphic novels reviewed last year. Richard writes:
“Well, personally I thought 2010 was one of the best years for comics I’d seen for a long time. However, that did mean that, when it came to making a long-list of...
Bog Off.
Smoo creator Simon M. writes:
Nope, it’s not ‘Be Offensive Friday’: it is, in fact, Buy One Get One Free Friday here at Things in Panels!
Here’s the deal: buy any comic from my shop and get a second comic absolutely free!
To take advantage of this offer, simply head to the shop, choose a comic you’d like to purchase and click on the ‘Add to Cart’ button. When you come to complete your payment...
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The Art of Lettering →
Matt Badham interviews Jim Campbell.
“To an extent, I think this is the curse of the letterer: the better you get at it, the less people should notice it. Not because you can’t do showy things, but if you do showy things, they should be in the service of the story. If you stick in a great big sound effect, for example, the reader shouldn’t think “What a great piece of lettering!”, they...
Comics: On The Ration’s Rob Wells has placed West: Justice at number seven on his Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2010, writing:
“I like comics and I like westerns, so I liked this self-published collection of well-written western comics by Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable a lot.”
As the only British and small press publication on the list (the closest competitor in this regard is...