One of my favourite things in this postmodern pop culture world of ours is when someone of great imagination takes a well-known and well-loved story and inverts and subverts it to an entirely new end. Apart from the fact that it’s a cleverly creative thing to do, it offers Continue Reading
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Would a world without people be Angelic? We’re about to find out
SNAPSHOT “Debuting next month from Image Comics, Angelic is set in a future that humans have long since been erased from, leaving nothing but ruins and the highly intelligent animals they experimented on in their wake. One such tribe of animals is a group of religious-winged monkeys, one of Continue Reading
Can a chirpy imaginary blue horse save a life? We find out in Happy! (graphic novel review)
Balancing light and dark in any story is always a tricky proposition. Veer too much to the bright and cheery and you risk leaching the narratively-necessary darkness from the more intense elements of your storyline; but go too dark and the comic quotient looks oddly out of place and Continue Reading
Living Level 3, South Sudan: Graphic novel shines an important light on a desperate situation
It’s been well-documented that art and pop culture can have a powerful effect in spreading information and awareness, creating a groundswell of understanding and motivating action that leads to real change. One quite striking way this is being demonstrated at the moment is a 48 page graphic novel, Living Continue Reading