In January the comic book club met to discuss a reissue of Misty, a British girl’s horror anthology which ran from the late 70s through to the early 80s. It was launched specifically as a girl’s equivalent to 2000 AD, employing some of the sci-fi comic’s best creatives including Pat Mills who provides one of … Continue reading
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth comes with the disclaimer, ‘READERS! THIS BOOK IS NOT A REAL ENCYLOPEDIA.’ I point out to the assembled comic book club (Dan, Kelv and Tom) that neither is it a book about early earth. And it’s all the better for it. It is about an early earth however, one assembled … Continue reading
I had the honour of hosting the first Comic Book Club Christmas meal last week and chose the books to talk about over dinner. My first pick, illustrated by my new favourite artist Seth Fisher was Vertigo Pop: Tokyo. Described by Tom, Dan and Kelv as cliched, mildly racist and borderline paedophilic. I quite … Continue reading
In the first report from my comic book club we talk about Edgar P. Jacobs’ Blake and Mortimer adventure, The Yellow ‘M’. I discovered Jacobs recently, as Hergé’s creative partner on some of his classic Tintin adventures. Always in search of a series that might match up to Tintin, I came to the Adventures of Blake and Mortimer with high hopes… Continue reading
