Headline: A photgrapher has complained to the Daily Star that Hugh Grant attacked him and threw food over him.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:52:35 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's page four of O. Henry's The Marionettes, adapted by Antonella and drawn by Rick Geary...

Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:18:18 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is page three of our adaptation of O. Henry's The Marionettes, written by Antonella and drawn by Rick Geary...

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:05:51 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: the state funeral of former Russian premier Boris Yeltsin takes place today.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:24:29 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: Thames Water has warned people to stay away from the water in the Firth of Forth after millions of gallons of raw sewage were accidentally released from the Seafield Waste Water Treatment plant.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:15:40 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's page two of O. Henry's The Marionettes, written by Antonella and drawn by Rick Geary...

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:12:17 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is page 1 of the latest strip we're running, The Marionettes, drawn by comics legend RICK GEARY!

This was an adaptation of a short story by O. Henry, written by Antonella for Graphic Classics, and appeared in Graphic Classics Vol. XI: O Henry.

Monday, April 23, 2007 9:47:06 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell (Romford) has called for St. George's Day to be made an English national holiday (replacing May 1), to "assert our Englishness".

Monday, April 23, 2007 9:01:07 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

...and here's the latest, teriffically exciting episode of NICK MILLER, HERO OF SPACE...

Sunday, April 22, 2007 8:43:09 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's the final page of our Brigadier Gerard story, How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom...

Sunday, April 22, 2007 8:41:01 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: round 1 of the French presidential elections take place tomorrow, with 33% of voters still undecided between Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Bayrou, Jean-Marie Le Pen and woman candidate Segolene Royal.

Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:13:22 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's the penultimate page of our Brigadier Gerard story, How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom...

Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:09:15 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: Pollution on Britain's beaches has increased by 90%, according to the Marine Conservation Society. Main causes cited are "individual action" and "fishing debris".

Friday, April 20, 2007 11:33:26 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Here's page 20 of How the Brigardier Came to the Castle of Gloom...

Conan Doyle caused me a bit of a problem here, bless him, in describing a long, exciting sword fight. Unfortunately, your actual cavalry sabre is something of a slash-and-run terror weapon, being no good for an acrobatic Zorro-style swordfight since the first blow would be fatal, or at least disabling. The nearest equivalent would be a fight with samurai swords, which start (in Yojimbo at least) with a long period of stillness followed by a sudden, shocking, fatal blow (Samurai Jack's swordfights have nothing to do with reality). OK for a manga comic, but not what's described here. In the end I got most of the dramatic poses in the lower half of this page from various websites about Kung Fu sword fighting. This seems to use a similar style of sword (but shorter) but is all about using your body to outmanouvre your opponent ~ lots of dramatic leaping about, and it looks good in a cartoon strip!

Friday, April 20, 2007 11:20:13 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

Headline: Despite criticisms over poor hygeine and lax bio-security, turkey meals manufacturer Bernard Matthews is to get £589.326 compensation for birds destroyed during a recent outbreak of bird 'flu on his farm.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:52:36 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0] 

This is page 19 of our current Brigadier Gerard story, How the Brigadier Came to the Casdtle of Gloom...

Since the hero of this story is French, I decided to use French comic sound effects throughout the strip. I didn't need Ronan Jouan de Kervenoel, our translator, for this, I just lifted most of them from my copies of Asterix.

Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:47:44 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]