Cartoon County interview #5: Mark Buford
May 17th, 2011
Here’s the latest Cartoon County chat, preserved for you in pod form. Here we talk to Mark Buford. Mark is the creator of the daily strip, Scary Gary. We had an entertaining talk about the strip and this tough and overlooked branch of sequential illustration. Hope you enjoy it!
[audio:https://mindlessones.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mark-buford.mp3]Mindless Batchat (and Batman Inc #6 annocommentations)
May 16th, 2011
First batchat. Then annotations
The Beast Must Die: by the way, this issue…?
Best comic of 2011?
Fuck off. I don’t even want to debate the motherfucker.
A Year Without Cider week 16
May 14th, 2011
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
Year of the Bastards: The Laurie Penny Interview
May 12th, 2011
Contrary to what you might have read in some Paul Cornell comic, it’s not all about cosy moderation in modern Britain. In fact, anyone with a functioning TV internet connection set of eyeballs could tell you that the citizenry have spent much of the last year very loudly rejecting the actions of their current government.
See:
New Statesman columnist and freelance journalist Laurie Penny has provided the most incisive ground level commentary on these events. She also pisses all the right people off, so you can imagine how thrilled I was when I got the chance to interview her about geek culture and politics for this very site!
Cindy & Biscuit update
May 10th, 2011
Cindy & Biscuit has just received an extremely glowing review from Forbidden Planet International’s Richard Bruton, which you can check out RIGHT HERE.
The FPI blog is a great source of info, reviews and all round comic goodness, so have a nose around while you’re there.
So if you haven’t already done so, you can pick up your very own copy of Cindy & Biscuit at Milk the Cat. Hurry you fools!
Batman sixty-seven
May 9th, 2011
A bit battered, spine ripped right off, but still – 44 years of existence, mine for a mere seventy-five pee.
Batman Annual 1967.
It’s all reprint, but the cover looks like original art commissioned in the UK – check the oddly Blyton-esque Robin, a schoolkid larking about like he’s in an infinitely cosy boys comic of the day, or an underage soldier, meat for the melodrama of a WWII book. Check Batman, smiley of face and cheeky of chin, with a prop-forward’s physique.
The Amusing Brothers, Andrew and Steven.
May 8th, 2011
A mostly weekly strip by Fraser Geesin
A Year Without Cider week 15
May 7th, 2011
Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
There’s a blog post in there somewhere
May 6th, 2011
Bryan Talbot creates Alan Moore, from Brainstorm Comix #1, 1975
Cheers to the Keeshman for the gimme.
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