Crime and Punishment: a graphic novel by Alain Kourkos and David Zane Mairowitz
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
I’ve paid fulsome tribute in this blog before to the graphic novel purchasing policy of my local library – and here it is justified once again.
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The challenge: to read 52 books in one calendar year.
Posts Tagged ‘graphic novels’
Modesty Blaise: The Puppet-Master – Peter O’Donnell and Romero
Monday, April 21st, 2008
This is the most recent volume in the Titan reprint series to fall into my hot little hands and, in common with its predecessors, it contains three full stories – The Puppet-Master of the title, With Love from Rufus and The Bluebeard Affair. It’s fair to say that this is one of the lighter-hearted collections.
Modesty Blaise: Death of a Jester – Peter O’Donnell and Romero
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Often the introductions to these Titan reprints of complete stories from the long-running Modesty Blaise cartoon strip are among the most interesting bits of the book. That is because the author, Peter O’Donnell generally writes a bit about how he came to dream up the story, about his relationship with artists or publishers or a little about the craft of creating a comic strip.
Modesty Blaise: The Warlords of Phoenix – Peter O’Donnell, Jim Holdaway and Romero
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
This is an important volume in Titan’s Modesty Blaise series, and for a sad reason. Almost exactly half-way through artist Jim Holdaway, who had been responsible for originally creating the visuals for Modesty and Willie as we know them, died suddenly. The introduction to this volume contains a tribute to him from Peter O’Donnell and an explanation of how his replacement, the Catalan artist Enrique Badia Romero, came to take over.