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The Rime Of The Modern Mariner By Nick Hayes

Posted in Books, tagged 2015, Art, Arts, books, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Nick Hayes, Poetry, Review, Reviews, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, The Rime Of The Modern Mariner on January 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Updated 21/01/2015

Recommended reading 🙂

The Rime Of The Modern Mariner By Nick Hayes.

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Dante’s Divine Comedy ~ A Graphic Novel By Seymour Chwast

Posted in Books, tagged 2014, Arts, books, Comics, Dante, Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante's Inferno, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Poetry, Review, Reviews, Seymour Chast, Spirituality, The Divine Comedy, The Inferno on December 11, 2014| 3 Comments »

Lily Wight

Updated 11/12/2014

Students of English Literature should be eternally grateful for this Graphic Novel adaptation of a core curriculum classic.

The simple black and white noir-style graphics contemporise the satirical content whilst aiding differentiation between the many realms and circles in Dante’s compelling trawl through a unique afterlife.

Chwast’s vision is a brief and entertaining read that may just inspire you to seek out – and perhaps better appreciate – Dante’s original.

More Graphic Novel interpretations of Literary Classics please!

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Dan Brown Turns From DaVinci to Dante (abcnews.go.com)
Divine Comedy (judylesko.com)
Chwast hits a Homer: new in bookstores (nickowchar.wordpress.com)

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Fish + Chocolate By Kate Brown

Posted in Books, tagged Art, Arts, books, Comics, Fables, fairy tales, Fiction, Fish + Chocolate, Graphic Novels, Kate Brown, Review, Reviews, Writers, Writing on November 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Updated 27/11/2014

Recommended reading because Graphic Novels are about more than Superheroes…

Fish + Chocolate ©Kate Brown.

©Kate Brown.

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John Constantine, Hellblazer: India

Posted in Books, TV, tagged 2014, Arts, books, DC Comics, Entertainment, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Hellblazer, John Constantine, Matt Ryan, NBC, Review, Reviews, trailers, TV, Vertigo, video, Videos on August 6, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

NBC’s Constantine TV show is set to air on 24th October with Matt Ryan in the lead role so there’s plenty of time to familiarise yourself with Vertigo’s paranormal PI.

Grubby, British, sociopolitical and astute, Constantine’s adventures will appeal to those who want smarts with their supernatural.

There are bigger, more epic story arcs than the standalones in this graphic novel collection but time in Constantine’s company is always well spent.

Early John Constantine, Hellblazer – it’s like reading about today, projected 25 years from the past (mynotsofictionallife.wordpress.com)
Review: Justice League Dark #9 (comicbooked.com)

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Please Don’t Put Humpty Together Again

Posted in Books, tagged 2014, Arts, Billy Majestic, books, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Horror, Humpty Dumpty, Nursery Rhymes, Review, Reviews, Writers, Writing on July 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lily Wight

Updated 22/07/2014

Billy Majestic’s arresting Graphic Novel, Humpty Dumpty is a Science Fiction/Horror yarn and definitely not recommended for children.

Vivid colours and smooth digital blending achieve a film-like look; entirely appropriate for a snappy origin tale which plays like a movie storyboard and makes no qualms about its B-Movie intentions.

Redneck grotesques, small-town cops and ethereal aliens provide familiarity whilst the titular Humpty is an atrocity to remind you of the heyday of direct-to-video prosthetic horrors. Humpty’s conception and birth stray into uncomfortable exploitation territory but once the monster madness is underway sequels seem both likely and gory good fun.

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Requiem Vampire Knight Vol. 1

Posted in Books, Reviews, tagged Art, Arts, books, Comics, Dracula, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Olivier Ledroit, Pat Mills, Requiem Chevalier Vampire, Requiem Vampire Knight, Review, Reviews on October 24, 2013| 2 Comments »

Welcome to the wonderfully audacious and wickedly macabre world of Resurrection; the realm of Requiem, Vampire Knight.

Nickel Editions Franco-British collaboration features the dark imaginings of Pat Mills (Sláine) and the art of Olivier Ledroit (Black Moon Chronicles) in a wildly addictive graphic novel series best avoided by the faint of heart!

Volume 1 begins as Nazi war criminal, Heinrich Augsburg is reincarnated as a vampire in an ingeniously inverse Hell dimension; landmasses have switched places with seas of flame and cursed residents grow ever younger and forgetful. Heinrich’s quest to be reunited with his lost love refuses to pander to any conventional ideas of supernatural romance as war, violence, treachery, occult science and good old-fashioned sexual deviancy tussle for page space.

The Vampire Knight series (also known as Requiem Chevalier Vampire) is magnificently rendered in such exquisite detail that it demands repeated browsing and there are numerous historical and movie references to discover among the lush design and proliferation of ideas.

Mills’ and Ledroit’s work belongs to an adult audience with a taste for extreme Horror-Fantasy. The humour is cynical and the banter often falls flat so there is little light relief but it seems churlish to complain when graphic novels simply don’t come any better than this.