MEDIA SCANS

Some comics related articles from the December press...


















Starting off with a bumper review of the year section from The Times 05/12/09. This covers Joe Daly's The Monkey Double Happiness Book, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadmitirion's Logicomix, Paul Hornschemeier's All and Sundry, Jason's Low Moon, Bruce Paley and Carol Swain's Giraffes in my Hair: A Rock 'n' Roll Life, Harvey Pekar's Working, Nate Powell's Swallow Me Whole and Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia.


















From The Telegraph 12/12/09, an interview with Alan Moore regarding his Dodgem Logic magazine.
















The Guardian 12/12/09 also reviews Logicomix, along with Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza and Gilbert Shelton's Fat Freddy's Cat.


















A more lengthy Footnotes in Gaza review from the Scotsman 19/12/09.

BORDERS IN TROUBLE

Wow. Something really was going on at Borders. I observed they were pretty switched on regarding comics, i.e. a decent graphic novels section, stocking Crikey! magazine, and US Marvels. I then saw that they had Nickelodeon Magazine on sale too.

Over the years, I’ve read online on various bulletin boards people discussing this kid’s comic based on the TV cartoons of Nickelodeon, and how it features a lot of top notch cartoonists including Nick Bertozzi, Sam Henderson, Kaz, James Kochalka, Roger Langridge, Jason Lutes, Brian Ralph, Scott Roberts, Art Spiegelman, Jay Stephens etc. Really a ludicrously good roster of people, and many more too. But this was the first time I’d seen it in the flesh, as it were, and so I was all set to write it up, when news of Borders going into administration appeared. It’s a great shame.

Then I saw yesterday they are even stocking Dodgem Logic, Alan Moore’s new magazine!

I hope something can be sorted out, because someone at Borders really knows their stuff and is making a good effort to get in quality stuff.