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Want To Be In Comics? Self Publish Or Go Live In Another Country!
And the man with the “saviour complex” wrote…. “British comics” have been a mess for a long time now, as I have been saying and writing about for more than a decade. My final analysis of UK comics...
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Online Business Is NOT The Way To Go!!
Having just heard more bad news about the UK comic scene and what were once considered publishers, I’m having to sit down and do a lot of thinking. It is not as though there is no interest in UK...
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Expo, Expo…What Happened To You?
I was just on the bus passing the Bedminster/Southville Upfest crowds and realised that the Bristol Comic Expo was two weeks ago. Normally I would be posting, reviewing books and saying “Hellos” for...
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Black Tower Comics & Books
The online store consists of 8 pages and 73 books. by August there should be The Black Tower Book of Horror (anthology), Runestone (trade) and The Somewhat Not Quite Metaphysical Thoughts Of The...
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How About An Earth M(arvel) Avengers Cross-Over With Earth T(imely) All...
Odd. I’ve read the Essential Avengers from vol.1 – 8 and the DC Showcase Presents Justice League of America 1-5. I had allways thought JLA was supposed to be nearly as good as The Avengers when...
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STRANGERS Are A Sign Of The Times
Everyone who reads CBO or is on my Face Book page knows that I have been a big supporter of Hexagon and Wanga Comics, the French companies publishing Strangers and Strangers Universe. I should get...
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Germany’s First Ever Super Heroes….
Yes, as I believe I may have chronicled at some point on CBO, back in the 1960s, as a kid, I was living in Germany. Mykros, Fotonik and Wastl were the only super types in comics and they were Franco...
View ArticleA Few Final Thoughts
I think I’ve pointed out more than once that online stores just don’t do that well these days –I had assumed that it was because no one really wanted to buy comics. However, I’ve spoken to two people...
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The Improbability Of The British Super Hero…Revisited
AND I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT ANY MASKED CRIME-FIGHTERS I PERSONALLY KNOW. JUST SAYING. “Hmm. Don’t you understand? Think about it –we have no skyscrapers! How can you have American style super heroes...
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For Those Who Are Geeky And Like This Stuff…
Spiders Visits Google 3288154 MSN 769098 Yahoo! 643341 Majestic-12 205074 Yandex 154890 Baiduspider 97109 Java 87336 WordPress 82420 Google AdSense 49969 picsearch 46016 Countries/Languages Visits...
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Of Course, There Was Allways Devilina…
There were a couple of more humorous comics I put together for Fantagraphic Books line of “adult” comics under the Eros Comix logo. Both were rejected because they were humour. Devilina will soon be...
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After crisis On Infinite Earths Came…Crisis Of Infinite Jerks!
Over on Tales From The Kryptonian, Santiago takes a look at “hommage” covers. Covers basically endlessly ripping off the famous DC Crisis on Infinite Earths one where Superman holds up the dead body of...
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Time For Comic Folk To Reclaim Comic Events
Whaaat?! I keep getting turned down when applying for tables at events -apparently you have to be judged suitable by committees! Committees judging who is the right person or the right company to...
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