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This Month's New Comics and books
The latest offerings from the exciting world of indy comics publishing. (last update: 12/06/08)
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Publisher: Reaper Comics Creators: Hal Laren
Format: US, B/W Interiors Pages: 32
B. EX is a woman who has had her life and her body transformed in a unimaginable way. She was once an easy going girl living a regular life, but now all that has been taken away from her by a mysterious act of violence. Follow her as she struggles with her new abilities, and attempts to uncover the mystery behind her incredible transformation.
You can buy cool B.Ex merchandise at: www.reaper-wear.co.uk
SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
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Price: £2.50
Publisher: Top Shelf, Creator: Jeffrey Brown, Pages: 384
Format: US Mini, Squarebound, Landscape
"Jeffrey
Brown is one of the best humorists in modern American comic book."
-- Comic Book Bin
Everyone needs something funny to stick in their pocket to read on the
train, or on a lunch break, or in line at the DMV. This is that
something. Jeffrey Brown sets aside the sappy sentimentality of his
autobiographical comics to bring you this subtle and subversive,
laugh-out-loud, giant-size, SMALL collection of gag cartoons.
Price: £7.99
Creator: Posy Simmonds Pages: 136
Format: 260 x 225 mm Hardback
Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different
wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and
thrilling power to attract, which she uses recklessly. Often just for
the fun of it.
People are drawn to Tamara Drewe, male and female. In the remote village
where her late mother lived Tamara arrives to clear up the house. Here
she becomes an object of lust, of envy, the focus of unrequited love, a
seductress. To the village teenagers she is ‘plastic-fantastic’, a role
model. Ultimately, when her hot and indiscriminate glances lead to
tragedy, she is seen as a man-eater, a heartless marriage wrecker, a
slut.
First appearing as a serial in the Guardian, in book form
Tamara Drewe has been enlarged, embellished and lovingly improved by
the author.
suitable for Mature readers only
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Top Shelf, Creator: Jeff Lemire, Pages: 224
Format: US Softcover
NOMINATED FOR TWO 2008 EISNER AWARDS FOR BEST GRAPHIC ALBUM - NEW & BEST WRITER/ARTIST!
"Ghost Stories is truly inspired work ... the second volume of a trilogy that firmly establishes Lemire as one of the premier storytellers in the graphic arts." -- Steve Duin, The Oregonian
"A great graphic novel ... I had tears in my eyes when I was done." -- Whitney Matheson, USA Today
"Lemire handles the stuff of a Willa Cather novel with equal poetry, though in images made of lines and spaces rather than words. He renders emotion and temperament in a cartoon face with breathtaking, masterful economy. He manages transitions between present and past and sequences of magic realism as deftly and hauntingly as Ingmar Bergman in Wild Strawberries and Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. Is it too soon to say that Lemire is a major graphic novelist?" -- Ray Olson, Booklist
Presenting: the critically-acclaimed second volume in a trilogy of graphic novels set in a fictionalized version of Jeff Lemire’s hometown of Essex County, Ontario. Ghost Stories follows the lives and relationship of brothers Lou and Vince Lebeuf over the course of nearly seven decades. In this volume, eldest brother Lou, now a deaf and lonely man, lives out his final days on his farm full of guilt and regret for the decisions he made that tore his family apart. From their childhood on the farm, to Toronto in the 1950’s (where they both played professional hockey), Lou revisits his life, a silent observer haunted by his own memories.
suitable for MATURE READERS
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Moonstone, Creators: Various, Pages: 32
Format: US Full Colour
"The Ghost who Walks" comes alive in this acclaimed on going series, as the classic comic strip character is put through his paces in all new adventures. Thrilling adventure fraught with dire peril!
suitable for all ages
The Phantom Annual is also now available:
ANNUAL #1
64pgs, Full Colour,
Story: Ron Marz, Chuck Dixon, Tony Bedard, Rafael Nieves and Mike
Bullock.
Art: Ruben Procopio, Graham Nolan, Joe Prado, Tony Akins and Juan
Ferreyra
Price: £4.00
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Price: £2.00
Publisher: Blanck Slate Books, Creator: Oliver East, Pages: 100
Format: Larger than A5, Hardcover, Full Colour
This wonderful book does an incredible job of capturing all of those special images and thoughts that one often has during a long train journey. Now many of us are inspired by something we see through the window, only to forget about it once we arrive at our destination?
suitable for mature readers
Available:
Price: £12.99
Publisher: Blanck Slate Books, Creator: Mawil, Pages: 64
Format: Larger than A5, Softcover, B/W
Some quotes about this that say so much:
"Beautiful cartooning that captures the energy, awkwardness and freedom of youth and romantic infatuation" - Joe Matt - Renowned Indy creator
"If only Mawil was as good with the girls as he is a cartoonist, then we wouldn't have these fun stories about how he isn't good with girls" - Jeffrey Brown - Award winning cartoonist
suitable for teens and above
Price: £7.99
Publisher: Moonstone, Creators: Various, Pages: 80
Format: US, B/W and Two Colour
Join us in exploring the noir/goth White Wolf universe of "Werewolf the Apocalypse." The werewolf world is dying off. Their own numbers are decreasing, while their enemy (mainly the non-eco-friendly "Wyrm") grows stronger. The final time is near.
suitable
for mature readers
Book #1,
Book #2,
Price: £9.99
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