29.8.16

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"The Bedouin had traditionally lived off raiding neighbouring tribes and extracting payment in various forms from settled peoples. It w...
21.8.16

The Gap Between Panels / Buffy As Comfort Food

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Latest post on the London Graphic Novel Network stays true to my obsessions – in this case Buffy the Vampire Slayer , which I never tire of ...
14.8.16

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"To conform to a type, to be the captive of a form, means the decadence of art, it is sometimes said. But what of folk arts like this p...
18.7.16

The Passion of Anna

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"My philosophy (even today) is that there exists an evil that cannot be explained – a virulent, terrifying evil – and humans are the on...
10.7.16

Ninja Scroll

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This 1993 anime gets grouped alongside Ghost in the Shell and Akira as being classics reasonably well-known in the West. It's an exper...
19.6.16

The Gap Between Panels / Comics as PowerPoint

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Latest post on the London Graphic Novel Network gets a bit self-indulgent and tries to connect comics to my day job as a digital comms guy a...
18.6.16

Holy Motors

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Anything described as 'impossible to pin down' is going to fire up those lepidopterology urges. Holy Motors is rather weird, sure. ...
11.6.16

Turkish Delight

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The film that made Paul Verhoeven's name in his native Holland is a putrid affair – full of garbage, vomit, blood and spunk. The pretern...
4.6.16

The gap between panels / Rehabilitating Red Sonja

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The London Graphic Novel Network has a new website , which is much flashier that the old blogspot version. Begs the question of why I still ...