It’s always nice when people say nice things about you, so I was pleased to see a new review of Dark Matters, the book collecting my collaborations with Sean Azzopardi, went up last week on the Full Page Bleed blog. What do they say? Well, things like this: “Dark Matters delivers on its title, and is likely to provide a …
There’s a lovely review of Dark Matters over at Broken Frontier by Andy Oliver, who really seems to get a lot of what Sean and I were trying to achieve. What’s he saying? This sort of thing: If you’ve ever met creator Douglas Noble in the flesh then you’ll know how disarming it is to realise this colourful, dapper and …
Over at the indispensable 365 Zines A Year blog Matthew Murray casts his eye over Sightings of Wallace Sendek: “Instead this comic is all about creating an atmosphere and mood of mystery, and it succeeds admirably. (I’m a little jumpy and creeped out right now due to it being 2:30 am, reading this comic multiple times, and reading about Lord …
There’s a new review of the final issue of Complex up at the Forbidden Planet International blog. Richard is undecided about the ending, which is an understandable reaction to it: Here’s what he says: “I just don’t know. Like so much of Noble’s work, the finale is so open to interpretation, so deliberately unclear, full of possibilities, ideas, potential explanations, …
Here’s another review of What It Is & What It Was. This time up at bat is Richard Bruton over at the Forbidden Planet International Blog. What he got to say? “Sometimes it’s lovely, sometimes just frustrating….“ Well, that about sums it up! Do go over and read the review – Richard always has interesting things to say, and while …
If you take a trip on over to Matthew Murray’s 365 Zines a Year blog, you’ll find a nicely considered review of What It Is & What It Was, which delves into some of the storytelling choices that I took when making that particular comic: “Narrative captions are not as popular in comics as they once were, but they are …
King City by Brandon Graham What does the future of comics look like? Well if we’re lucky, it’ll look something like this amazing amalgam of comic influences from around the world. Friend of the site Brandon Graham has a restless energy and technical dazzle that drags the reader in and refuses to let them go until they have explored the …
There’s a new review of Sightings of Wallace Sendek up at Dan Fish’s Fish1000 blog. What did he say? “Douglas Noble’s writing style is known for its ability to evoke mood, and that quality is put to good use in this haunting comic…“ Nip on over to read the rest. It’s lovely to see that Sendek has really seemed to …
If you nip on over to The Forbidden Planet International blog you will find that Richard Bruton has been kind enough to select Sightings of Wallace Sendek by Sean and myself as one his his picks for best of the year, as well as adding a little shout out to Live Static. It’s wonderful for Sendek to get that kind …