These have been a long time coming. As I said before I spent 80 quid on comics at Thought Bubble, and because I've been busy moving house and doing coursework it took me a while to start reading them. Now I've read all apart from the 3 Cinebook books, for which I want a full afternoon spare in which to revel in them, and Howard Hardiman's Badger books, for which I want an evening to sit and relax with them.
But I now feel ready to start getting down my thoughts on the other books I got. The best books will also be reviewed on New readers.
I'll start with the weakest of the lot - Team Girl Comic. This wasn't something I went looking to buy, but when I saw it I thought it might be the sorta thing I'd like. You may remember I had a Wonder Woman costume on. So there I was, stopped at the table, selling TEAM GIRL comics, and I noticed they had about 5 eager looking enthusiastic women all sort of crowded round ready to sell comics to the punters. In fact, there's a picture of them here. But what with the enthusiasm, and me in the WW costume, and it being a girl comic, it all felt a bit cliched, which was mildly embarrassing, but also quite nice, I think. Anyway it meant I didn't chat much to them, even though they were all perfectly nice people, and advised me to get issues 5 and 6 as they were the best. So I did.
It's an anthology, with strips by women artists/writers in the Glasgow area. The problem is the comics aren't that great. The quality of work is variable and the only pieces that really stand out are Penny Sharp's Fox comics. The rest I can easily leave. However, I guess that's the beauty of anthology comics. You take a punt and everything is a surprise. Occasionally you discover a gem. I have the first two issues of The Girly Comic, which was doing a similar thing, but I feel that The Girly Comic was much better. Mind you, I haven't re-read them for years, so maybe they are bad too...
Next up I read Julia Scheele's I don't like my hair neat. I first came across Julia in The Peckham House for Invalids. I hadn't set out to find her at Thought Bubble, but I saw her name on the table and it rang a few bells and I asked her if she was involved with the Peckham House and she said yes, and so I bought the comic. I think my boyfriend was buying something else from the same table at the time. It helped that I saw this image of hers being given away as a postcard:
Julia's blog is here and she is on twitter at @juliascheele. I don't like my hair neat is a collection of stories, the first (and main) one being about a woman fearing she might be pregnant. Then there's a page showing 'a short history of touches' which is actually quite moving, and a page showing what is in her handbag ( a wonder woman badge and a lot of tobacco and filters, amongst other things). Julia's strength is in her colours. They are incredibly vibrant and full of life. Positive (written by Katie West) and Diem (words and concept by Chrissy Williams) are mesmerising.
On a more physical and less visual note, the paper this has been printed on is gorgeous!
That's enough for ThoughtBubble stuff for tonight. I'll do more reviews of these indie comics in a few days, and now move onto a few DC issues which are languishing.
But I now feel ready to start getting down my thoughts on the other books I got. The best books will also be reviewed on New readers.
I'll start with the weakest of the lot - Team Girl Comic. This wasn't something I went looking to buy, but when I saw it I thought it might be the sorta thing I'd like. You may remember I had a Wonder Woman costume on. So there I was, stopped at the table, selling TEAM GIRL comics, and I noticed they had about 5 eager looking enthusiastic women all sort of crowded round ready to sell comics to the punters. In fact, there's a picture of them here. But what with the enthusiasm, and me in the WW costume, and it being a girl comic, it all felt a bit cliched, which was mildly embarrassing, but also quite nice, I think. Anyway it meant I didn't chat much to them, even though they were all perfectly nice people, and advised me to get issues 5 and 6 as they were the best. So I did.
It's an anthology, with strips by women artists/writers in the Glasgow area. The problem is the comics aren't that great. The quality of work is variable and the only pieces that really stand out are Penny Sharp's Fox comics. The rest I can easily leave. However, I guess that's the beauty of anthology comics. You take a punt and everything is a surprise. Occasionally you discover a gem. I have the first two issues of The Girly Comic, which was doing a similar thing, but I feel that The Girly Comic was much better. Mind you, I haven't re-read them for years, so maybe they are bad too...
Next up I read Julia Scheele's I don't like my hair neat. I first came across Julia in The Peckham House for Invalids. I hadn't set out to find her at Thought Bubble, but I saw her name on the table and it rang a few bells and I asked her if she was involved with the Peckham House and she said yes, and so I bought the comic. I think my boyfriend was buying something else from the same table at the time. It helped that I saw this image of hers being given away as a postcard:
Julia's blog is here and she is on twitter at @juliascheele. I don't like my hair neat is a collection of stories, the first (and main) one being about a woman fearing she might be pregnant. Then there's a page showing 'a short history of touches' which is actually quite moving, and a page showing what is in her handbag ( a wonder woman badge and a lot of tobacco and filters, amongst other things). Julia's strength is in her colours. They are incredibly vibrant and full of life. Positive (written by Katie West) and Diem (words and concept by Chrissy Williams) are mesmerising.
On a more physical and less visual note, the paper this has been printed on is gorgeous!
That's enough for ThoughtBubble stuff for tonight. I'll do more reviews of these indie comics in a few days, and now move onto a few DC issues which are languishing.
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