Drugs!

Stumbled on this.

I like that Wikipedia has shit like this clogging up its orifices.

Go to these events and read this comic!

Few quick plugs!

Friend of London Loves Comics, Lord Hurk is one of several artists who currently has work on show at Orbital Comics as part of their Kaleidoscope exhibition. Details HERE.

Tom Pearce has requested a plug for the upcoming Pencil It! event at Westminster Library. It's on March 25th. Details HERE you'll have to do a bit of scrolling to get to them. Is 'graphic novel supremo' an official title, by the way?

Mr Wheatley sent me a text. It said: "Axe Cop...Wow!"

Wow is right. Check out The Axe Cop HERE

Some fine 2000AD Reader Art

Straight from the Greg Land/Salvador Larroca school of extreme photo reference, comes this superb 1988 reader pic of Linda Lawsardi!

Couldn't find the exact pic it was copied from, but here are a couple of classic Lusardi Page 3s from back in the day...

Dog

Cosmonaut

Actually, if the reader hadn't made it clear who he was drawing with the whole Lawsardi thing, I'd have guessed the woman in his picture was Anita Dobson.

No confusing the identity of the chap in this pic though, or the film it's ripped from...

Judge Stallone?

It'll never happen.

Scans taken from The 1988 Judge Dredd Annual

Kapow!

Just bought a weekend pass tothe Kapow! comic con which takes place in London in April.

Could be terrible. I fear it'll be more about films and video games than comics, but I've never been to a proper comic con, so I'm quite excited.

Anyone fancy it?

Link HERE

Welcome to my parlour

In this case the kiddies were the flies...

some toy for $1.98.

Maddness (sic) indeed!

Scan from The Superhero Book of Goodies #2, 1977

The Green Horror!

In case you didn't know, the excellent Four Color Fear has just been reprinted by Fantagraphics. This survey of obscure pre-code horror classics is a must have for horror comics fans. Every single one of the tales inside is a stunner, they all come with footnotes and, in the middle of the book, there's a glossy gallery of classic pre-code horror covers.

I had just started to scan in one of my favourite stories from the collection when my crappy scanner exploded. Bah! Got the first page. It's a particularly bonkers effort...

for a series of black-and-white scans of the rest of the story, (in which the cactus' face can be seen!), go here.

To read more about Four Color Fear, download four of the stories from the book as PDFs and check out one of Fantagraphics' nifty little flick-through preview vids, go here.

March!

Greetings, dwindling band of interpals!

How goes it?

I come to you LIVE from LLC Towers where the search for employment continues at fevered and increasingly desperate pace.

The good news is I've secured some Saturday work to keep the wolves from the door, the bad news is full-time employment remains a distant dream. Ach well. I continue to rely on my lovely missus to keep me in food while I fritter away what remains of my savings on the odd graphic novel - to whit...ORC STAIN!

Oh man, I know I called Skullkickers my perfect fantasy comic, but honestly, Orc Stain tops it. I've still got a third of the first trade to read, but as soon as I finish it, I guarantee I'll be boring you with a hearty LLC Recommends. It's the best comic I've read in ages, and easily the most fun to look at. That James Stokoe fellow is a talent and a half, I tell ya.

So yeah, Orc Stain's brill. Other than that, I've been rereading old Hellboy trades and playing a lot of Bulletstorm on the Xbox. Top game. As I've said before, I'm not a big gamer, but I do like a decent FPS and this is really high octane, blood spattered FPS fun. Story is written by Rick Remender and the lead character is basically Heath Huston. Profanities abound + you get bonus marks for killing stuff innovatively. Fine, fine game.