Art by the community
The cover of Retrovirus is great, I admit. The promise of violence, a Strong Female Lead, an enigmatic plain white background – it’s full of promise. Then you turn to the back cover, and are promised de-frosted neanderthals. You can’t lose, right? Yes. Yes, you can. This review is full of spoilers, because I read […]
“We always write in order to remember the truth. When we invent, it is only in order to remember the truth more exactly.” (Luis Fernando Verissimo) I’ve often mistakenly attributed the above quote to Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, possibly because it’s written in a book (Borges and the Eternal Orangutans) which pays tribute to […]
Christopher Nolan wasn’t the only artist to successfully re-imagine Gotham’s Dark Knight over the course of the last decade…. The publication of the final issue of Batman Incorporated in July 2013 brought an end to Grant Morrison’s seven-year run on Batman, an epic and multifaceted arc during which the writer reinvigorated classic characters and made […]
As guest selector at the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival, celebrated fantasy author Neil Gaiman was the subject of no less than four events, each celebrating a different aspect of his literary work. Geekzine’s final event of this venerable festival was the one at which he discussed his comic book masterpiece The Sandman, which originally […]
Grant Morrison began his talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last Friday by praising another giant of the comics industry, namely writer/artist Bryan Talbot. In particular, he insisted that Talbot deserves greater recognition for the early work he did on Near Myths, a “weird and trippy” sci-fi magazine published in Edinburgh in the late […]
Veteran comics editor Paul Gravett enthralled the audience at Edinburgh’s International Book Festival on Friday with his passionate presentation on the history of comic books. Gravett, who recently edited the mammoth 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die compilation, appeared as part of the festival’s ‘Stripped‘ theme, and spoke of the amazing leaps and bounds […]