The Comics Reader

Early broadsheet comics

This cartoon is a woodblock print; a broadsheet, commissioned in Saxony in 1617 as a souvenir poster to mark a hundred years of the Protestant reformation. It commemorates Luther's 1513 religious manifesto, and in it's attack on the Catholic church, is a preparation for war.
It was covered a couple of days ago as part of BBC Radio 4's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" series.
Listen now : www.bbc.co.uk (it's interesting!)

'MIND YOUR MANNERS!'

I highly recommend everyone checks out the new Donald Hamilton comic by Peter Lally and Paul Ashley Brown. It's one of the funniest things I've ever read. I'm not sure where it's available from yet, but I'll let you know when I find out. Or you could ask these guys ...

Peter Lally
Paul Ashley Brown

DownTown 2

The full strip.

Hurk's Influence Map

"Influence maps" are popular amongst comics types right now. Some are interesting, some are downright scary, but Lord Hurk's is best I've seen :






















Hurkulaneum

Der Furher's Face 1944, Disney

Leeds Alternative Comics Fair....

.... seems to have gone well.
Co-organizer, Steve Tillotson, reports.

Random Cartoons

Hate Annual 9!

Or the cover at least. Ahhh, new Pete Bagge comics... everything's going to be all right now.






















Link via FLOG!

Noah Van Sciver interviewed by Dan Stafford

From Avoid The Future.

New Stool Pigeon! New DownTown!

The latest issue of the Stool Pigeon is now available from all these places.


It features lot's of comics, including a new DownTown strip by me (or at least I think it does - I haven't seen it yet). Here's the first 3 panels from it :

Underground Comix Cartoonists

Can you name them all?

WAR The Human Cost - 260 Page Comic Book & CD

Sean (Paper Tiger) Duffield is raising funds to publish his latest comics anthology. The details are here :
www.indiegogo.com/WAR-The-Human-Cost-Book-CD-Project

This Saturday : Leeds Alternative Comics Fair

Saturday 18th Sept 2010, from 12-6pm, at A Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds.



Info.

Richard Sala previews "The Hidden"

Click.

I'm On The Black List

New Trains Are...Mint!

Oliver East's Trains Are...Mint issue 7 is now online and free to read. Issue 6 was great, so I'm genuinely excited by this!

Down Town!

Here's the rest of this strip. Sorry for the lack of posts here... I've just had no spare time over the last few weeks (work, holidays, moving to London). I'll try and get back into it... if my pitifully weak internet connection let's me.