Dublin Comic Con – Review by Fran Winston Convention Centre Dublin 1. August 6th and 7th 2022 After an absence of two years, Dublin Comic Con made a triumphant return in April […]
Dublin Comic Con – Review
Netflix’s Sandman – What We Know
Netflix’s Sandman – What We Know For comic fans of a certain age, this is one we’ve been looking forward to for a long time. While there have been a large number […]
Free Comics Online
Free Comics Online One of the few good things of our present situation is that many sites are giving things away for free! The Comixology website has embraced this by allowing us […]
Watchmen – TV Review
Watchmen – TV Review The main purpose of the first episode of Watchmen is to confuse the hell out of you! You are plunged into a new world, and there is no […]
Sex Criminals – Volume 1 & 2 – Review
Sex Criminals – Volume 1 – Review Written by Matt Fraction and Illustrated by Chip Zdarsky Sex Criminals is not about sex criminals. Yes, surprisingly enough the world of main stream comics […]
Killing and Dying – Adrian Tomine – Graphic Novel Review
Killing and Dying – Adrian Tomine – Graphic Novel Review Adrian Tomine is a graphic novel writer and artist. The 42 year old American is well known for his ongoing series Optic […]
Patience – Daniel Clowes – Graphic Novel Review
Patience by Daniel Clowes – Graphic Novel Review Patience is the tale of a man who has a simple view of the world. He is deeply in love with his wife Patience, […]
Dublin Comic Con 2016 – Review
Dublin Comic Con 2016 – Review by Fran Winston Convention Centre Dublin 6&7 August You could be forgiven for thinking that some great evil had been unleashed on Dublin, given the amount […]
Interview with Fergal McCarthy – 1916: A Country is Born – A Cartoon History of the Easter Rising
1916: A Country is Born – A Cartoon History of the Easter Rising Irish Artist Fergal McCarthy is known for large scale public art projects. Recently he made a comic series called […]
Fables Vol 19 – Snow White – Comic Review
Fables Vol 19. Snow White – Comprises Fables 114-129 This series of Fables starts with the adventures of Bufkin, who is trapped in Oz and determined to set the people free! This […]
Sugar Skull – Charles Burns – Book Review
Sugar Skull – Charles Burns – Review When I read Black Hole, it was a shock to the system. It clawed at a teenagers fear of sex and also the unknown world […]
Buiding Stories – Chris Ware – Review
Welcome to the wonderful world of Chris Ware, a world quite unlike any other you have visited previously. Chris Ware is clearly a unique voice, he is someone working on an unusual […]
Black Science – Issues 1 – 8 – Review
Black Science is a new ongoing series from Image Comics by writer Rick Remender and artist Matteo Scalera. As the name would suggest it is a science fiction series, that delves into […]
The Great War – Joe Sacco – Book Review
Joe Sacco – The Great War – Book Review This book is something of a departure for Joe Sacco, known for his graphic novels based on his time as a journalist in […]
Stray Bullets Killers – Issues 5-8 – Review
First of all, may I extol the virtues of being regular! For far too long, Stray Bullets has been an irregular treat, something that you would happen upon in the comic shop, […]
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette – Mary Talbot – Book Review
Sally Heathcote – Suffragette – Mary Talbot , Kate Charlesworth , Bryan Talbot This is the second collaboration between Mary and Bryan Talbot, the first was Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the […]
Polina – Bastien Vivès – Book Review
Polina by Bastien Vivès is publised by Random House. Polina was written and illustrated by Bastien Vivès in 2011 and published in France by Casterman. It was recently published by Jonathan Cape […]
Jupiter’s Legacy – Millar & Quietly – Review
Jupiter’s Legacy #1-3 Review A new title from Image, and one with a lot of promise. It is quite a familiar premise, a world of super heroes where one man stands above […]
Fables – Cubs in Toyland – Review
Fables – Volume 18 – Review If you’re reading this review, it’s safe to say you know what Fables is about. If not, it’s the characters from fairytales living in New York […]
Sandman – Overture – #1-3 – Review
We were greeted some months ago with the news that Neil Gaiman would return to the place where he made his name. The original Sandman series finished in 1996 with number 75, […]
Stray Bullets Killers – David Lapham – Review
Stray Bullets Killers – Issues 1-4 – Written and Drawn by David Lapham I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for Stray Bullets ever since I found issue one in a […]
Saga – Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples – Review
Saga – Brian K Vaughan & Fiona Staples – #1-18 Review Two worlds at war, the planet of Landfall and its moon Wreath. Two different cultures, one based around science and the […]
A Taste of Chlorine – Bastien Vivès- Book Review
A young man has problems with his back. His physiotherapist tells him that there is only so much he can do in his weekly sessions, and that he’ll have to start getting […]
Walking Dead – All Out War – Volumes 20 – 21 – Review
Contains vague Spoilers, go read it first! – All Out War # Issues 115-126 This is a series of issues in which Rick unites a number of small communities who all suffer […]
Grandville: Bete Noire – Bryan Talbot – Book Review
The Badger is back! This is the third instalment of the series concerning the badger detective. This tale begins with LeBrock and Ratzi being called to Paris to investigate a murder that […]
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China – Guy Delisle – Book Review
This is one of Guy Delisle’s earliest Travelogues, with a trip to Shenzhen, China to oversee the completion of a children’s cartoon in 1997. Delisle spent a three month period in China, […]
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes – Mary & Bryan Talbot – Book Review
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes – Written by Mary M Talbot, Drawn by Bryan Talbot. Published by Jonathan Cape. This is a graphic novel written by Mary Talbot and illustrated by her […]
Podcasts: (5 of the) Best of 2013
It’s officially award season and the one great advantage to this is to find a few gems that you might have missed along the way. Stitcher is an app that I’ve written […]
Pyongyang – A journey in North Korea – Guy Delisle – Review
This is the second graphic novel I have read by Guy Delisle, after recently falling in love with Jerusaslen. This book follows his two month stay in North Korea, where he was […]
No More Workhorse 