10) The Audacity of Hype by Armando Iannucci ( Read more... )

And both [Ultimates comics] are incredibly quick reads. Okay, perhaps that’s what I should have expected, but these comics are $4 / £3 each. And that works out to about £1 a minute or £60 an hour. When the comics are costing about the same as my plumber there’s something horribly wrong. - Richard Bruton

Even jamesb has been talked a little about the ( Read more... )

5) Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood ( Read more... )

Okay, I may have failed to keep updating what I read in 2009, but I still have most of the books on one shelf, so will try and do a catch up post soon ( Read more... )

I read the Drop Dead Monstrous anthology last Autumn after picking it up at the MCM expo, from by Sweatdrop Studio's stall (A UK small press Manga publisher). Richard Bruton's reviewed it if you're interested.

I his review he writes that it, like many anthologies is: patchy, all the strips are punchy, truncated things and it has the feel of the ( Read more... )

*) The DFC
I'm still so sad that this is almost certainly ending. There a list of where most of the artists and writers can be found online, compiled by a fan ( Read more... )

It looks like the DFC may have to shut down.

( Sarah's daily doodle of this )

( 8) Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland )

*) The DFC It didn't arrive in Friday or Saturday's post! Eep ( Read more... )

*) The DFC.
At first I thought Frontier was going to be another MacGuffin generating monsters strip. I didn't see how it could stand up against Monkey Nuts or The strange strange world of the weird. But it came onto it's own this week, where we find out what the kidnapped Indians have really been forced to mine ( Read more... )