Jamie McKelvie (PHONOGRAM, YOUNG AVENGERS) cover for MORNING GLORIES 027.
If you want this cover, let your retailer know! Diamond Order Code MAR138125
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Morning glories #27 by Steiner from mars on Flickr.
Emma Rios.
Solicited to come out in September, from Dark Horse. These comics are great.
I encountered Peter Milligan’s authorial voice in high school, through his X-Force comics with Mike Allred, and backtracked to his Vertigo work- Enigma, The Extremist, The Eaters, Face- and I pretty much devoured it, when he’d work in this sort of existentialist black comedy mode. His narrative styling is maybe best described as insouciant, and there is this cavalier approach to scripting and jokes that- while it’s fully capable of delivering “graphic novels,” works as thought-through and fully-realized as Enigma is, still seems really open to collaboration with cartoonists whose approach is a bit more free. This quality is I think what led to him never really gaining the sort of cult of personality that other writers associated with Vertigo have.
I came to Brendan McCarthy in college- had to be a legal adult with a debit card in order to track down the stuff, although I’d seen his Shade covers and an ad for Rogan Gosh before then- and his approach fit in real well with all the Kramers Ergot/Picturebox stuff that was at that time being revealed as the place where all the action was. The first issue of Comics Comics had a Frank Santoro review of McCarthy’s art book, Swimini Purpose, where he wished for a collection of this stuff. That was nine years ago, I think, and now maybe McCarthy’s stuff has been absorbed into the world- I saw a Freakwave page on the Tumblr of a girl I jokingly call a seapunk not too long ago- but I think that are enough different approaches here, to the idea of comics as visual art, as well as the literary comics model (I am assuming this book will include the story from A1 that is black and white, all collage) that it still has some lessons left to teach.
-Brian Nicholson
McCarthy and Milligan. I missed out on all of their classic work of the ‘80’s - can’t wait to catch up to this.
This is a must have volume. I’ll be buying copies of this for all my friends.
A necessary book.
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Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. #2 by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen
Sometimes I genuinely wonder what the fuck was wrong with me, that year.
Process pr0n for my latest 2000AD cover - D’Blog of ‘Israeli
Warren Ellis and Matt Brooker(D’Israeli)’s genius early creation,that most dangerous of beings:a 400 year-old nihilist,unkillable junkie with a death-wish and a propensity for ultra-violence,Lazarus Churchyard!
First appearance:the short-lived British comic,Blast! #1(Jun’91),which ran for just seven issues from Jun-Dec’91.
The strip was later released in a three-issue mini-series by Tundra Press,as Lazarus Churchyard and this was again collected for a trade paperback entitled,Lazarus Churchyard:The Final Cut(Atomeka Press).
LAZARUS CHURCHYARD: THE FINAL CUT was reissued by Image Comics. It recently fell out of print, but Image plan to release a new edition this year, probably with a design refresh. No new material, though. The Image edition is the definitive, and, for the foreseeable future, final version.
Addition to previous: apparently people can’t operate my website, so here’s a thing from the top post in the FAQ:
When will FELL return?
Ben has a script in hand, but he’s had a really tough couple of years. He’ll get to it when he gets to it, and then I’ll write another one if he wants me to. Sorry. Real life here.
Wonder Woman’s brain energy - I would like to have some, plz.
Hmm, where can I get me some of that brain energy?
—Wonder Woman #10 (1944) by William Moulton Marston & H.G. Peter
One panel a day, Monday to Friday at warrenellis.com.
WIRED
Animated illustration for the book review of Gun Machine by Warren Ellis
January 2013
AD Bradley Hughes
