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Tuesday 30 July 2024

Cinebook Ltd Newsletter 199 - July 2024

 


Dear Reader,

After Emilie’s Inheritance last month, we’re doubling down and offering you another helping of Florence Magnin’s gorgeous art. Double that doubling down, even, since both volumes of this two-part story are coming out together – no waiting! In Black Mary, written by Rodolphe (KenyaTrent), we meet an idle, libertine nobleman, the dreaded pirate captain who gives the story its name … and a whole lot of ghosts! It’s a story of love, longing, adventure and death … bittersweet, exciting and moving … and stupendously illustrated by an outstanding artist. The perfect combination!

Rounding up this month’s new titles is the fourth volume of Lonesome, our Western-with-a-twist. Slight supernatural overtones aside, a good Western has to have a showdown, and this one does not disappoint. After the wilds of Kansas and the urban jungle of New York City, it’s the deep forests of Maine that become the object of Yves Swolfs’ pencils and brushes, and the result is just as impressive as before. Detailed, expressive and clear even in the midst of frantic action scenes – that’s the kind of art you want in your comics! As for the story, it concludes this four-episode arc nicely, leaving the door open to more chapters of Elijah’s adventures. We can’t wait!

July with Cinebook: cowboys and pirates and ghosts, oh my!

Our latest catalogue is now available from our website. Eleven new titles, one new two-part series, and a new print run of four volumes of the Complete Valerian hardback collection. Dive in and start planning your shopping!



Black Mary 1
Florence Magnin & Rodolphe

The Departed

The peace of Mordwick, a small coastal village, is shattered by the news that mysterious individuals have come ashore to dig up the recently departed. They looked like pirates, and rumours swell that the infamous captain Black Mary, a legendary, freedom-loving marauder desperately wanted by the Royal Navy, is involved … Read more


Black Mary 2
Florence Magnin & Rodolphe

Passage to the Hereafter

Rescued at sea by Black Mary, Lord James, the libertine aristocrat who longed for adventure, is utterly enthralled by the fierce pirate captain – enough so that when she boards a royal warship, he chooses to fight at her side. With her ship badly damaged, though, Mary must return to her hidden base, an island not on any map … Read more


Lonesome 4
Yves Swolfs

The Sorcerer’s Domain

Elijah, the titular Lonesome Rider, had come to New York to settle accounts. Instead, he found a family lost to time and memory. But neither he nor his newfound sister Miss Lyle, the Pinkerton agent, were able to confront the one responsible for all their woes: their father, Senator Dawson … Read more


Buck Danny Classics 7
Sea Dart

Emilie’s Inheritance 2
Maeve


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Tuesday 16 July 2024

We Didn't Start the Fire (Bardcore | Medieval/Renaissance Style Cover)

Browner Knowle Volume 2 Number 2 -This Time It Is Personal

 

24 pages   
A5 
Black and White zine  w/colour covers. 
N.B. MATURE READERS ONLY 
£5.00 

According to Mr Brown:

"A  shopping list of the lost and desperate. A last-but-one will and testament to artistic futility. A spit in the face of  The New Graphic Novel Orthodoxy. The difficult twelfth album nobody understands until twenty years later. And none of these things. "

Honestly. At times I could slap his bottom!  And just when everyone though Browner Knowle had vanished .  Vol. 2 number 1  was published in October 2023 and you can still order via the store. A 9 month wait between issues is not bad since each is self contained and some of the bigger publishers have been a year or more to bring out part of a series. Hey, I think he deserves this...

The Brian Bolland Delayed Comics Award 2024
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it is not delayed but this is my blog so there!

One thing you can expect is good, solid black and white work; look at the pages above and also the brickwork -all hand drawn mind you and Ole Slow Hand does good brick work (shaky on the art but superb at garden walls). And someone was noting the other day that they hate trying to draw tartan patterns so use an app that offers copy and paste for that. Seriously? Look how good it  looks (yeah, too many "looks") hand drawn -buy a ruler!

Take a look at his web page and you can see more art -and some in colour, too!

As for the pages below; total manic insanity -just look at the insane faces. Last time I saw something like this was when Asda had a sale on alcohol.  This is from Staring At The Rude Boys while below is from Endless. And if you are expecting any humour here....have you ever read an issue of Browner Knowle??!


All of Us Orphans will have you in stitches if you are on the right meds. Somewhere In Another Room would be a black and white short directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring a young Tom Bell. Enigmatic ending. Fires On The Horizon... again something that works nicely. But having written that Mr Brown was doing this before Morrissey was invented.

If you like independent comics, art and creators then there is no reason not to buy a copy and check it out. I mean..£5.00!!!

And if you cannot be bothered supporting creative talent well....
Wait!! You WANT to support independent creative talent? Well, latch your wallet onto this!

from 

Browner-Knowle Vol. 2 #1 – Paul Ashley Brown Reflects on Identity, the Pandemic, Thatcherism and the Realities of the Comics Industry on Broken frontier