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A review of Gandhi : A Manga Biography by Kazuki Ebine
The best part of the artwork in Gandhi: A Manga Biography is that Kazuki Ebine creates characters that are true to life rather than being the large eyed cutesy figures of many of the Manga tales....
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The Adventures of Tintin: Young Readers Edition by Hergé, with extra material...
For new audiences, especially the younger set, the convoluted plots can often be a little tricky, and Stuart Tett has created a new series that is faithful to the original Hergé version but that adds...
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Flash Gordon: On the Planet Mongo: The Complete Flash Gordon Library, Volume...
The full-colour comic strips (this was way before comic books, never mind graphic novels) have been beautifully restored by Peter Maresca, and for those who were introduced to Flash Gordon by watching...
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A review of The Flash Gordon Serials, 1936-1940 A Heavily Illustrated Guide...
Flash Gordon rocketed onto the movie screen in 1936, in a serial of the same name which ran for 13 episodes. He appeared in two further movie serials – a now defunct format, killed off by television –...
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A review of It Came! by Dan Boultwood
Dan Boultwood’s endearing homage to British science fiction films of the 1950s and ‘60s (perhaps above all to The Day of the Triffids) is a wonderfully entertaining read. Jokes aplenty lie on every...
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A review of The Silver Age of DC Comics by Paul Levitz
This Brobdingnagian book measures about 24cm by 33cm across and has 400 or so pages, pretty much all in colour. At the very start there is an interview with the great Neal Adams, a comic book artist...
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A review of Only the Dead by Wolfgang Carstens and Janne Karlsson
I would say that this book isn’t for the squeamish, or those who prefer to think about death as something that doesn’t really happen. I personally think it would make a superb birthday card – a day...
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A review of An Android Awakes by Mike French and Karl Brown
An Android Awakes is an entertaining, sexy, terrifying, and beautiful novel, full of bleakness and fun. While the book is probably not going to suit the prudish or faint-hearted reader looking for an...
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A review of Marxism: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin and Oscar Zarate
Now this was a big surprise, a highly detailed historic guide that is very easy to digest and also presented in a captivating and powerful graphic form, making it an excellent ready reference for...
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A review of All The Answers by Michael Kupperman
As dementia begins to rob an already private and absentminded man of his memories, Michael becomes set on reconstructing his father’s childhood from recordings, news articles, and his father’s own...
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