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Review: Tales Of Fayt
Tales Of Fayt by Conrad Mason and David Wyatt David Fickling Books / Phoenix Conrad Mason’s the author of the ‘Tales Of Fayt‘ novels for children (the third and final book, The Hero’s Tomb is published...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 171
Ok, another week, another quick look through the Phoenix Comic, and yep, more Easter postal delays mean it’s last weeks issue… Weird cover this week, a mashup thing that doesn’t quite work, ho hum. As...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 172
No postal delay to blame this time, just me at the Birmingham Comic Show, so didn’t get around to this until midweek… Cover featured is the first of two bits of Gary Northfield, there’s a Julius Zebra...
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Art is about to happen…
This is magnificent…. Art Is About To Happen by Viviane Schwarz, part treatise on empowering children as artists, part passionate plea to parents and adults in general to let children just go for it…...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 175
On the cover… Laura Ellen Anderson’s ace Evil Emperor Penguin, where reader Lukas Butler’s design for the Evil Printer gets centre stage. Fab reader interaction going on there. And as usual, fab...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 176 – shhh, Pig needs the toilet!
On the cover… Sally Jane Thompson’s art for the Jack Dickinson written Red Jack, which returns for another season of three-page strips, with Thompson’s big, bold lines filling the pages with great...
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Review: Troy Trailblazer…
Troy Trailblazer and the Horde Queen By Robert Deas Phoenix / David Fickling One frequent complaint I had when writing about Deas’ Troy Trailblazer as a weekly 3-page strip in The Phoenix Comic was a...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 177
On the cover… well that’s rather a surprise to be honest, as it’s not Matt Baxter doing the art here, it’s Lee Robinson, who we last saw illustrating Halcyon & Tenderfoot (as written by Daniel...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 178
On the cover… Ben Sharpe and Fred Fordham’s The Rocket Of Rawangadalli finishes this issue. And yes, it’s predictable (I pretty much got it right last week) but as I said, that’s not the point of...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 179
On the cover… Tales From HQ by Lee Robinson and Matt Baxter has been a really great series, clever to integrate the editorial side of things with a fun adventure, a dash of time-travel, alternate...
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Upcoming: Dungeon Fun final volume & launch in FP Glasgow
Can it really be two years since Colin Bell and Neil Slorance introduced us to Fun Mudlifter and the utter all-ages delight that is (the now multi-award winning!) Dungeon Fun? We absolutely loved it,...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 180 – The Star Cat Special
On the cover… Well, it’s all about Star Cat really. Inside there’s something very special cooked up by not only James Turner but Neill Cameron, Matt Baxter and the Phoenix editorial team as well. Just...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 181 – it’s all Broohahahahaha! and Bums under...
On the cover… Zak Simmonds-Hurn with Tod and Cloud doing their very best Western confrontation stuff. I enjoyed switching things around last week, taking the focus of the regular anthology review away...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 182 – the hunt for the keys begins!
On the cover… Jess Bradley’s Red Panda throws a strop. And isn’t it always great to have a speech bubble on the cover? In fact, I saw that cover and immediately thought I’d highlight Squid Bits this...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Issue 183
Another week, another Phoenix, another one where I’m only going to focus on one strip and skate over the rest. Because it’s nice to spend that little bit longer on one of the great strips that litter...
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The Phoenix Weekender – Chatting with Nanny…
Here we go, first of the keys discovered in the pages of The Phoenix… The whole editorial line here is really going great guns, the idea of marshalling the readership in search for these keys of...
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The Phoenix Weekender – 185
No more keys found yet, but there is a shocking revelation that the ‘strange purple substance‘ that’s been appearing on the pages of the comic is ‘stodgier than Chop’s turnip jam”… and that’s simply...
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Review: Spineless
Spineless By Jess Bradley, Terry Wiley, with guest curator Irene Brown, Emily Rose Lambert, with guest curator Dan Skerritt, Samuel C Williams, with guest curators Vivek Nityananda and Erica...
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The Phoenix Weekender – 186
Another key found, the Key Of Laughter this time. But there’s more to go before issue 200. As I keep saying, it’s indicative of how cleverly the editorial side of The Phoenix is now, how it involves...
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Reviews: More all-ages fun from Ireland with Thimble
Thimble #1, Jason Browne and Sarah Roe Buttonpress Publications This is a fun comic! I love Buttonpress and their all ages stories- they’re fun stories aimed at a younger audience and steeped in nice...
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