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Author: Bart Croonenborghs

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Roll Down on the Floor

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 7, 2014

As the cold and snow creep in, it’s time to snuggle up with the kids on a sheepskin with these all ages releases starring Gaston Lagaffe and the kids from…

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BF Awards 2013 – Best Artist (Mainstream): David Aja

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • December 31, 2013

David Aja is the industry’s modern Jim Steranko: an innovative artist who masterfully dissects storytelling like no other. His art is largely responsible for making Hawkeye the best Marvel comic…

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Bored in Beirut

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • December 17, 2013

Beirut 1990: Snapshots of a Civil War is a touching biographical travel diary of two brothers to a land of war where we meet the people behind the abstract facade…

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Lost in Life

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • December 10, 2013

A new emerging talent in the Belgian alt scene, Shamisa Debroey immediately goes for the throat with a stunningly rendered tale of parental loss. Brecht Evens and Randall C are…

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You Smell of Crime and I’m the Deodorant

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • December 3, 2013

Al Ewing & Henry Flint’s hilarious and rather outrageous undead crime-fighter is back. THIS IS COMICS: weaponized zombies, mega-brained pop music moguls, male stripper minds in butt transplants, gung-ho military…

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John Tiffany on the Run

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 26, 2013

A lackluster bounty-hunter-on-the-run plot is turned into a spectacular action movie by the stunning visuals of the brand new & re-invented nineties artist Dan Panosian. Starting out as a Rob…

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Vikings: The New Bwahaha

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 19, 2013

Crossing Borders is just one big barrel of laughs with vikings on the run from a vulcano (?) confusing Scotland with Walhalla and 5 easy steps on how to turn…

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Get Harry Ex

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 12, 2013

If you’re going to be referencing one of the all-time great revenge movies, you better make sure that your comic lives up to the reference and I can safely say…

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Requiem for a Screaming Planet

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 5, 2013

Famed director and comics scribe Alexandro Jodorowsky steps up to the short story challenge with Screaming Planet featuring an all-star roster of artists like JH Williams III, Ladrönn, Adi Granov…

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Elric Stormbringer Returns

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 29, 2013

Fantasy legend Elric of Melniboné is back in a European comic series endorsed by Michael Moorcock with the words ‘If I could go back, I would do it like this.’…

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From the Light into the Dark

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 22, 2013

From moody western horror in Promise by Lamy & Mikaël to the uproarious photo comics of Ype Driessen, Crossing Borders has it all. Promise vol. 1: The Book of Last…

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Penguins, Cowboys & Aliens

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 15, 2013

Trondheim tackles the wild west in Texas Cowboys and The Godfrrrsaken Island is Luc Cromheecke’s new all-ages gag comic where anything goes. Texas Cowboys by Trondheim & Bonhomme The always…

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The Kid’s Alright

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 8, 2013

This one’s for the youngsters with all-ages European books aimed squarely at young readers: Kill Your Mothers 2 & The Adventures of Timo. Kill Your Mothers 2 (of 2) The…

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Rork Returns

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 24, 2013

One of Europe’s greatest artists and virtually unknown across the ocean, the German writer and artist Andreas, is back with a reprint of his most famous creation Rork. Rork Volume…

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Cross Continental Heroes

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 17, 2013

On one side we have Judge Dredd: an American anti hero written by the finest UK creators. On the other side we have Blueberry: the stereotypical western hero created by…

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Scenes and Authors

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 3, 2013

Inspired by comics and movies, Robert Devriendt’s scenes of sequential paintings read like mini stories on canvas and Sam Dillemans goes all out in his Authors series with over 300…

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Planes, Aircraft Carriers and Bearteeth

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 27, 2013

Done in the tradition of aviation comics and mixed with political intrigue, Yann and Henriet produce an intriguing adventure comic about friendship, betrayals and the choices we make when we…

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Kill Your Mothers

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 20, 2013

Zidrou, Borecki and Ers deliver a truly chilling series in Kill Your Mothers when they turn every teenybopper’s dream into a nightmare: what happens when the things you wish upon…

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