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Time-hopping, Adrian Kinnaird
Helen and the Go-go Ninjas Ant Sang and Michael Bennett Penguin Random House, $30.00, ISBN 9780143771241 A creative collaboration between a writer and artist is common in the world of comics and graphic novels. Celebrated collaborators like Stan Lee and…
Tagged with: Adrian Kinnaird, Ant Sang, Issue 123, Michael Bennett, Spring 2018
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Graphic correspondence, Adrian Kinnaird
Island to Island: A Graphic Exchange Between Taiwan and New Zealand Ant Sang, Tim Gibson, Rachel Fenton, Sean Chuang, 61Chi and Ahn Zhe Dala Publishing, $45.00, ISBN 9789866634567 Island to Island is the unique product of a joint publishing initiative…
Tagged with: 61Chi, Adrian Kinnaird, Ahn Zhe, Ant Sang, Dala Publishing, Issue 114, Rachel Fenton, Sean Chuang, Tim Gibson, Winter 2016
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Get the picture? David Hill
The Heading Dog Who Split in Half: Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand Michael Brown and Mat Tait Potton and Burton, $40.00, ISBN 9781927213575 One of my reservations about graphic novels has been that they limit readers’ imaginative options.…
Tagged with: Autumn 2016, David Hill, Issue 113, Mat Tait, Michael Brown, Potton and Burton
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
The magic between the panels, Adrian Kinnaird
Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen Dylan Horrocks Victoria University Press, $35.00, ISBN 9780864739759 The Bitter Sweet Philosophies K K Jart (text) and Nick Fedaeff (paintings) Eunoia Publishing, $40.00, ISBN 9780692215630 As the superheroes wage their endless battle in the…
Tagged with: Adrian Kinnaird, Dylan Horrocks, Eunoia Publishing, Issue 111, K K Jart, Nick Fedaeff, Spring 2015, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Weird animals, Callum Robertson
Incomplete Works Dylan Horrocks Victoria University Press ISBN 9780864739223 Incomplete Works is a collection of short comics created by Dylan Horrocks between 1986 and 2012. Much like the B-sides of records, the comics sit beside one another like rough or…
Tagged with: Callum Robertson, Dylan Horrocks, Issue 107, Spring 2014, Victoria University Press
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review
The best kept secret, Stuart Baker
From Earth’s End: The Best of New Zealand Comics Adrian Kinnaird Random House, $60.00, ISBN 9781869799953 I’ve read comics since I was very young. I travelled into history with Asterix and to the moon with Tintin. But it wasn’t until…
Tagged with: Adrian Kinnaird, Autumn 2014, Issue 105, Random House, Stuart Baker
Posted in Art, Graphic novel, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Graphic novel, Non-fiction, Review
Superheroic coping, Tatjana Schaefer
Reach Hugh Brown HarperCollins, $23.00, ISBN 9781869509569 Broken Elizabeth Pulford Walker Books, $22.00, ISBN 9781921529887 Both Reach and Broken feature episodes of the superhero genre, and in each case this element of the story functions as an exploration into the…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Pulford, HarperCollins, Hugh Brown, Issue 100, Summer 2012, Tatjana Schaefer, Walker Books
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review, Young adults
Posted in Graphic novel, Literature, Review, Young adults
Suspended between cultures, Hamish Clayton
Kimble Bent: Malcontent Chris Grosz Random House, $24.99, ISBN 9781869795160 Recent claims of a resurgence in New Zealand historical fiction might seem forcefully underlined by the appearance of local cartoonist and designer Chris Grosz’s Kimble Bent: Malcontent. This graphic…
Tagged with: Chris Grosz, Hamish Clayton, Issue 98, Random House, Winter 2012
Posted in Children, Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Remapping New Zealand, Hamish Clayton
Hicksville: A Comic Book Dylan Horrocks Victoria University Press, $38.00, ISBN 9780864736246 The current republication of Dylan Horrocks’ brilliant graphic novel, Hicksville, is long overdue; however, the relative obscurity to which it has been consigned over the last 10 years…
Tagged with: Dylan Horrocks, Hamish Clayton, Issue 91, Spring 2010, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Graphic novel, Literature, Review