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Author: Bart Croonenborghs

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Brass Sun #1 – Edginton and Culbard’s Clockpunk World Delights and Intrigues in 2000 AD’s New Serial US Comic

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 6, 2014

Ever since Rebellion Developments bought 2000 AD in 2000 (when else?), it has stuck to its successful forumla of publishing trade paperback collections of the most successive serials. However, Brass Sun repackages…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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It’s a 2000 AD Droid Double Bill, with John Wagner’s Parody Banzai Battalion and Pat Mills’s Down & Dirty Ro-Busters

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • April 29, 2014

Two classic 2000 AD robotic features get repackaged for the US market, so it’s droid madness at Crossing Borders! But do Wagner’s Banzai Battalion and Mills’s Ro-Busters really deserve this special…

Emma Bailey (Nobrow Magazine 9)

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Nobrow Once Again Set the Standard for Comic Art with Their Latest ‘Silent’ Magazine

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • April 22, 2014

Amid the cacophony of modern life, Nobrow Magazine launches an issue with stellar creators tackling the issue of silence in 60 pages of silent comics storytelling and 60 pages of…

The Complete Accident Man by Pat Mills; cover by Howard Chaykin (Titan Comics)

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The Complete Accident Man – The World’s a Very Dangerous Place in Pat Mills’ Killer Satire

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • April 15, 2014

The Complete Accident Man collects four tales of sex, revenge and violence starring hitman Mike Fallon – a genius at the art of making assassination look like an unfortunate accident,…

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Line of Fire – Barroux Illustrates the Diary of an Unknown WWI Soldier

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • April 8, 2014

Found in a rubbish heap one winter’s morning, French artist Barroux rescued the diary of a soldier in the First World War and turned it into a compelling graphic novel….

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Enter The Dark Galleries, for a Look at the Power of Portraits in Film Noir

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • April 1, 2014

The Dark Galleries deals with American (and some British) films of the 1940s and 1950s in which a painted portrait plays an important part in the plot or the mise-en-scène….

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The Stranger – Jacques Ferrandez Misses the Point in His Adaptation of Albert Camus’s Existential Classic

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • March 25, 2014

What do you get when you forget to put the heart of a classic novel into its graphic adaptation? The Stranger by Jacques Ferrandez, based on the book by Albert…

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Franquin Hits the Railway Tracks and Loses His Cool

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • March 18, 2014

Two new publications by Dupuis prove to be finger-licking good for fans of Franquin. The Robinsons of the Railway Tracks restores a classic radio play with text pages and illustrations,…

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Luke Pearson’s Heroine Hilda is Back as She Battles the Black Hound

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • March 11, 2014

Quality UK publisher Nobrow publishes the third album of creative powerhouse Luke Pearson’s Hildafolk series which mixes humour, mystery and fantasy into another superb piece of escapism for young and…

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My Life as a Cat Named Sugar by Serge Baecken Smashes Storytelling Conventions

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • March 4, 2014

Belgian graphic talent Serge Baecken puts down a a stunning graphic novel that is as much experiment as a melancholic ode to his cat Sugar, published simultaneously in French and…

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Google Celebrates Franquin’s Gaston Lagaffe’s 57th Birthday

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • February 28, 2014

One of the most recognizable and alluring goofs of time immemorial, Gaston Lagaffe turns 57 today and Google joins the celebrations! In the English language market he is mostly known…

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Pieter Rosseel is Just Stumbling through Life

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • February 25, 2014

Freshly graduated architect Pieter Rosseel turns comic book artist and produces a graphic explosive debut graphic novel published by Syndikaat called Stumbling. How’s that for irony? Deriving your identity from…

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Lost in the Snow with Dieter VDO

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • February 18, 2014

Bries publishing brings us the stunning debut graphic novel slash picture book by Dieter VDO entitled Snow where a warped lens shines on your favorite childhood remembrances transmogrifying cuteness into…

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Let’s Do Battle

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • February 11, 2014

Curated by superstar writer Garth Ennis, Battle Classics presents two previously uncollected tales of intense warfare during WWII by Alan Hebden and John Wagner, from the heydays of the Battle comic. If…

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Drunken Lips Sink Ships

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • February 4, 2014

Comedy from the lowlands, courtesy of Dutch publisher Syndikaat with the slice of life OGN Drunken Lips Sink Ships and the Treasure Island parody The Bologna Treasure. Born out of…

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What Challenge Awaits a Ghostly Heart?

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 28, 2014

We travel from the classical child drama of Michel from Zidrou & Roger to the crime ridden sewers of turn of the century Paris in The Fury of Fantomas by…

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Stories from Potato Country

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 21, 2014

Tragic and comical painted stories from the southwest of the capital of Europe where time stood still and Man still sloughs in the mud he has risen from. Southwest of…

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Strength in Numbers

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 14, 2014

It’s all about those magical numbers as Crossing Borders tackles time travel sci-fi in Numbercruncher and Japanese folk heroes in The 47 Ronin. Numbercruncher by Simon Spurrier and PJ Holden…

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