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This Website’s 9th Birthday!
Posted: September 28, 2014
Did you bake a cake? My website celebrated its 9th birthday last week, on September 25th 2014. So I’m now embarking on the 9th year of my regular Articles and other features and listings here - join me as we prepare to blow out the candles and make a wish on this site’s 10th anniversary next September!
So what’s new in comics for the last month of the year 2014? Well, over in the Writers’ Musical Chairs Department of American comic books, in Shadow Show #2 the late Ray Bradbury is paid tribute to by (among others) Neil Gaiman, while Grant Morrison gives a new spin on Shazam, aka Captain Marvel, and gives his (lost, now found) spin on Britain’s version Miracleman, né Marvelman, originally reinvigorated by Alan Moore in Warrior, while Moore himself extrapolates Garth Ennis’s horror-SF world of Crossed a century into the future - and Garth, well he’s probably down the pub…
Actually, December brings us a great deal more besides, from classic geniuses like Milt Gross and Higo Pratt to spunky newcomers Philippa Rice and Michel Fiffe, as well as some great Asian comics in two manga series from Viz, an exceptional collaboration between Mamoru Oshii and Satoshi Kon, Chinese artist Shang Xiao’s robot series from France, and informative tomes on gay manga and the whole wide world of Asian comics. But forced to choose, my pick of the crop has to be Scott McCloud’s bravura return to graphic novels in The Sculptor from First Second in the US and SelfMadeHero in the UK. All the previews promise that this will be proof, if it were possible, of his even greater mastery and maturity with the medium (it doesn’t hit the shelves officially till February 3rd). Don’t miss McCloud’s upcoming European appearances at the ÑAM International Comics and Graphic Novel Festival in Palencia, Spain next week, and at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, England, October 17th-19th - see you there!
2014 has given us another effervescent panoply of comics of all styles, subjects and shapes. Come back for next month’s PG Tips to find out what’s in store, and in stores, as we kick off the New Year! Till then, read my latest December recommendations here…
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