Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Monday, May 29, 2017

The Maltese Falcon, comic book version

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Evan Lewis has been posting chapters of the comic book version of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon on his blog. Check them out here .
Friday, June 03, 2016

Friday's Forgotten Book: It Rhymes with Lust

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Possibly a first edition, based on the defects on the cover. One of the stablemates in any genre is to discuss what was the first artifa...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Possibly British comic needs ID

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Friend was asking whether anyone knows the artist behind this possibly British series of comics. It was published in Finnish in the 1950s as...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

And now for something completely different: a Swiss kids' comic book

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I found this comic book aimed for children of say 5-10 years in a book shop in the small town of Savonlinna last summer. I'd never heard...
Monday, May 02, 2011

Where's Lucky Luke?

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The Official Blog of the Western Fictioneers, Professional Authors of Traditional Western Novels and Short Stories lists Top Ten Western co...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Logicomix

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The Logicomix graphic novel (which I believe is available in English) has been getting high praise from just about everyone here in Finland....
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

An obscure René Goscinny cartoon

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This is more of interest to the Finnish readers, but I'm sure some othesr will find it interesting as well. I bought some old children...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Frank Miller's and Zack Snyder's 300

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Last Friday night we were out having fun with my friends from our victorious movie pub quiz team. Between hopping from one bar to another, w...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Comic anthology NOIR

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Quickly before Ellroy: Dark Horse's new crime story anthology, called simply Noir , which looks very interesting. Here's a story fro...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Comixology on The Hunter

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Interim here's a link to Comixology's post about the new graphic novel adaptation of Richard Stark's The Hunter.
Thursday, June 04, 2009

Manchette in comics

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Jacques Tardi's rendering of a Jean-Patrick Manchette novel coming out in English . Hat tip to Duane Swierczynski!
Monday, May 04, 2009

Flemish 3D western

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The most popular Flemish cartoon series ever, Suske en Wiske (Anu ja Antti in Finnish), has been made into a 3D animated film and it's a...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Parker graphic novel

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The guy's no Lee Marvin, but still these previews of forth-coming Parker graphic novel look very neat.
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Late additions to the best of 2008

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Some books I've left unintentionally out from my best of 2008 list or books that appeared in 2008, but which I managed to read only in ...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Mustang Gray

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The Finnish pulp mag, Seikkailujen Maailma , also published some comics. They had one or two Finnish-origin comics, but all the others were ...

Another Western comic

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Here's another one from the Seikkailujen Maailma mag. I don't know the original source, but it's called "In the Trails of I...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Garfield without Garfield

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I hate the Garfield comic strip with vehemence. However, if you take out Garfield, the strip becomes great. Check it out for yourself.
Saturday, January 05, 2008

The talking snowflakes again

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You may remember my graphic short story (sic) about Kauto and Ottilia and the case of the talking snowflakes . Well, here's more. These ...

Another one

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And here's one more in the series about Kauto's and Ottilia's adventures. I'm not sure where I made this anymore, but from t...
Thursday, November 22, 2007

Ossian Saarman's sex cartoon

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Here's a two-page cartoon made by Finnish artist Ossian Saarman for the Uusi Aatami magazine. The story goes like this: A woman sees her...