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I had word from a schoolfriend a while back, telling me that he was going to be moving to work in San Francisco, and wondering if I wanted his comic books. Obviously I said yes. We were both into Marvel Comics for a couple of years in the mid eighties, and I figured he would [...]

If you want to know how to secure the fame that comes with a plug on Yurt16, the solution is simple. Mention me. Obviously, I’d mention that my (former) Idiot Radio collaborator Paul has compiled lots of his lists into a lovely full colour glossy book anyway, but I’ve got a namecheck so it’s a [...]

We dragged the lad out to a car boot sale at the weekend, not cos we wanted to buy anything but cos I wanted to see if there would be a market from the acres of tat I’m storing across my estate.
There was an awful lot of people selling tat, and an awful lot of [...]

There was an announcement in March that Egmont and WH Smith were going to revive the concept of the Summer Special – the bumper comics that our parents would grudgingly let us buy in an attempt to keep us quiet on the journey to Cornwall in those distant 80s summers.
Further more, they’re going to revive [...]

(I nicked the title from Rol – sue me)
I’m not sure of the train of thought that led me there, but I woke up this morning with an urge to check the Interweb for Marvel Superhero Stickers, having not thought of them for, oh, the last 30 years.
Back when I was a kid, I had [...]

The collection of Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg finally limped onto the shelves of respectable comic shops, only about four years late. According to news stories, the restoration took so long because of the deteriorating quality of the original artwork. It’s a little disconcerting then that they seem to have gone to all that effort to [...]

I flicked through a copy of Laika, Nick Abadzis’ book about the Russian Space Dog a few months back in Gosh, but knowing that Nick was going to be at Caption, I held off, thinking I would be able to get a copy there. In the gap between Gosh and Caption, the book won an [...]

Years back, in the middle of the Borderline experiment, I interviewed Steve Purcell, on the basis that he was responsible for my favourite comic ever and I wondered what he was up to.
And now, a couple of years later, comes the promise of new Sam & Max comics, published on the web. (yes, to [...]