Graphic novel

(courtesy Larrikin Press) It’s a recurring theme in all kinds of creative expression – just who are the monsters really and might they be lurking where you least suspect? The answer, to the second question at least, is an emphatic “YES!!”, owing to the fact that humanity, despite millennia of Continue Reading

(courtesy Abrams Books) Think you know the legend of King Arthur? Think again, my friends in the yelling, scremaing, frenetically colourful and boisterous chaos of Fierce the Fcked-up Fairytale of a Fed-up Princess by Geoffroy Monde (story) and Mathieu Burniat (artwork/layout/colours), the much-told story of the fictional (?) hero of Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Appearances, as we all know and have been instructed about repeatedly, can be deceiving. For one reason or another, people project one thing while living quite another, a white lie in most cases that avoids emotional entanglement, vulnerability or the need to share in something that Continue Reading

(courtesy Andrews McMeel Publishing) We’ve all been there – innocently browsing through an online store when suddenly, or not so suddenly since they are stalking us every step of our impulsive shopping ways, the resident algorithm decides you MUST have a certain title. These sorts of insistent suggestions can be Continue Reading

(courtesy BOOM! STUDIOS) SNAPSHOT18-year-old Trini will do anything to compete in her favorite sport, Screaming Pain Ball, aspiring to the heights of her longtime hero Skull-Crusher! But she can’t do it alone, and a gaggle of misfits is just what she needs to cross the American wastes and battle in Continue Reading

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) I can still remember how incredibly isolating and alone it felt to be bullied continuously and mercilessly during 13 long years of school. Like anyone under constant attack by bullies, I alternated between crushing despair, near-palpable loneliness and a sense that no one would Continue Reading

(courtesy Macmillan Publishers) It’s a sad fact of life that far too many people only seem comfortable in themselves when they’re adhering to a rigid set of social values in which there are two possibilities – you satisfy the often cruel requirements laid down by god-knows-who and are accepted, or Continue Reading

(courtesy Image Comics) We are more than a little focused on the end of the world at the moment. Not that anyone actually wants it – far from it; a world of chocolate, great friends and wonderful animated films is something I love and would very much like to continue Continue Reading