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Article: PG Previews March 2014
Posted: January 11, 2014
Another New Year is underway and I’m looking ahead here to this coming March, when these brand new titles will start hitting the shelves of quality comics stores and bookshops near you. It’s always hard to pick one standout title, but I am genuinely buzzed that David Lapham is returning at long last to his first, and to my mind, still his very best solo creator-owned series, Stray Bullets, completing the story he left hanging, starting a fresh story arc and compiling all 41 issues into a bumper, back-straining Bible of criminal depravity. Back in the day, I was struck by his first issue as a massive jolt of creative energy, proof of a talented mainstream comic book illustrator suddenly proving himself fully capable as a complete author, writing and drawing some of most stomach-knotting modern noir graphic novels I’d seen. Bowled over, I wrote a fan letter about Stray Bullets #1 which appeared in his first letter column. Lapham is an exemplar of an American industry professional taking control of his career and copyrights and making the comics he wants, the way he wants.
I hope some of these tips will appeal to you as much as they appeal to me. Where possible, I’ve added links to images, interviews and info to tell you more. Join me through 2014 for another year of this ever-changing, ever-surprising medium in glorious full flow. And I can’t leave without a cheeky self-promotion for my own new book Comics Art which is coming out in the USA from Yale University Press. You can order it via your comics store using Diamond Order # STK633734.
Read all my tips for March 2014 here…
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