It's three weeks since I drove down to Oxford for my first ever Caption and I've only just got around to reviewing some of the excellent small press comics I picked up there. Where does the time go?
Andrew Cheverton's Pictures Made Of Light is a gorgeous little comic featuring some of Chev's best art to date (typically of comic book artists, Chev tells me he "can't bear to look at it it") on an enigmatic adaptation of a prose story he originally wrote for Elephant Words.
I've read this comic three times now and each time it reveals new layers of interpretation. Chev tells me he expects it'll infuriate many readers who will "throw it away and never buy anything I make again". Now how's that for a challenge?
Pictures Made Of Light is available to buy now (£2 including p&p) from The Angry Candy Store.
Crisp Biscuit Comics #1 collects a bunch of hilarious full colour 1-page strips from Rob Wells's Crisp Biscuit Blog. These include the time-wasting adventures of Jack Bowser, star of TV's 'Twenty Bore'; political satire featuring the alien takeover plans of D'Avid C'Ameron; movie spoofs like The Green C**k Ring and X-Men: Standard Parcels... and more. You could read them at Rob's blog... or you could pay him £2.50 and get a lovely paper copy sent to your home for you to love and cherish forever. I'd recommend the latter - because who wants to read comics on a computer?
Sean Azzopardi's Nine Months Of Beige is another collection of sharp, funny, honest and touching musings from one of my favourite autobiographical comic creators. As always with Sean's comics, I found myself nodding my head in sympathy and agreement throughout. You can't put a price on that kind of creativity... but if you did, it'd be a well-spent £2.50 (plus postage) from Sean's shop.
More reviews of Comics From Caption to follow... as soon as I've read them.
