Batman the annotated adventures the second (tho’ as Botswana Beast has pointed out in our email exchanges, this is more commentary than anything else). In case you’re interested, part the first (for ...

If you don’t know who Marc Singer is then you’ve been doing something wrong. An academic by trade and one of the most rigorous and interesting critical voices to come out of the comics blogosphere, ...

Well now. Some honest to goodness porn. Or is it? In the 1970’s, comedian Peter Cook found himself in a rut. Something of a wunderkind upon leaving university, his career had skyrocketed during the 60 ...

Yesterday was, as many of you will be aware, the forty-eighth anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who. This means that next year, 2012, is the fiftieth year of Who’s existence. Over the next ...

I don’t know if it’s a memory or if it’s a wholly original invention (something I seriously doubt), but whenever I think of Kraven this scene plays out in my mind: STILL POV. CAMERA RESTS ON EMPTY ...

The sprightly and anarchic illustrative work of Quentin Blake is only one reason to seek out Uncle. Uncle accounts for a series of six children’s books by Methodist Minister J.P. Martin about a ...

Fresh from Thought Bubble 2014, it’s the one chapter preview of THE FUNCTION OF THE FILTH, my forever delayed book on Grant Morrison and Chris Weston’s best comic, The Filth, to be serialised in five ...

Written by Warren Ellis, drawn by Butch Guice, inked by Mike Stribling, coloured by Dave Baron, covers by the unforgotten nightmares of the 1980s I struggled to get past the first few pages of this, ...

Night. A boy lies slumped on the pavement. A car pulls up, the door opens and a red woman calls him over. He gets in. Uno Moralez’s pixel art has an infernal heat. Shorn of deeper narrative context ...

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Yes, it’s another THOUGHT BUBBLE SPECIAL POST! This is the first of two essays commissioned by James “patron of the arts” Baker, who has asked for five hundred words each from me and Bobsy. James ...

Because we are nothing if not enthusiasts for ritual, the Mindless Ones will be at Thought Bubble 2024 in Harrogate this weekend. We’ll be at tables B3-4 in DSTLRY Hall on Saturday 16th and Sunday ...