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Illustrators # 8 (magazine review).
Illustrators # 8 is a treat from the start with a look at the cover art of Les Edwards aka Edward Miller, an alias needed so he could do work other than in the horror genre. I found myself looking at...
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2016, Volume 130 # 723...
The first issue of ‘The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction’ for 2016 is a relative rarity in that it contains no novella-length story. Instead, there are three novelettes, an impressive nine...
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Back Issue # 86 (magazine review)
Although I missed out on Back Issue # 81 which explored DC Comics reprints so can’t compare them, with Back Issue # 86, there is an exploration of the reprints from Marvel Comics. Over the years, I’ve...
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Uncanny Magazine Issue number 9 March/April 2016 (emag review).
The modern view of fiction is that a short story is best told from a single point of view. ‘Love Is Never Still’ by Rachel Swirsky not only has multiple viewpoints but they include a man, a statue,...
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Illustrators # 10 (magazine review).
All contents copyright The Book Palace Ltd(c) The Book Palace Illustrators # 10 gets off to a great start with a look at the work of William Stout. He mixes his love of dinosaurs and zombies across...
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Back Issue # 87 (magazine review)
It’s hardly likely to be surprising that with a certain Batman/Superman film on the horizon that ‘Back Issue’ wouldn’t have a look at their historic confrontations with their eighty-seventh issue....
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Back Issue # 88 May 2016 (magazine review).
Back Issue # 88 gets right down to business as publisher John Morrow starts off with a examination of the advertising promotion that DC failed to deliver when Jack Kirby went to work for them after...
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Illustrators #14 (magazine review).
With the fourteenth issue of ‘Illustrators’ out, we have a selection of six artists work to look at and take your breath away. This time, there’s even one I know and interviewed a couple years back....
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Illustrators # 1 (magazine review).
Having just reviewed the latest issue of ‘Illustrators’, I was curious about the first issue which came out in 2012. It’s always interesting to see how magazines evolve and with an art magazine, the...
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Uncanny Magazine #10 May/June 2016 (emag review).
‘Ye Highlands And Ye Lowlands’ by Seanan McGuire is an honest Science Fiction story about hubris. American scientists were proud when they built a gateway to another world. They were keen to make first...
View ArticleApex Magazine #84, May 2016 (emag review).
It’s Apex # 84 under scrutiny in this review and there’s no better place to start than the intriguing cover art by Robert Carter. A man’s head is apparently being unwound (literally) and seems to be...
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Illustrators # 2 (magazine review)
With Illustrators # 2, we look at the late artist David Wright whose claim to fame during his career was to paint beautiful women and fast cars for various top end magazines from the 1930s-60s for...
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Jack Kirby Collection Sixty-Seven (magazine review).
‘The Jack Kirby Collector’ keeps rolling along with its usual mix of tribute panels, articles, essays, old interviews with Jack, new interviews with experts and so on. It’s a glossy, nicely produced...
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Illustrators # 12 (magazine review).
All contents copyright The Book Palace Ltd(c) The Book Palace Jumping back to last year, we have Illustrator # 12, again with a spectrum of art talent, so there should be something here to interest...
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Alter Ego # 140 June 2016 (magazine review).
I have to confess that there are still some gaps in my knowledge regarding the Golden Age of comics. With National Periodicals/DC Comics, this was hardly helped with the lack of credits. However, if...
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Illustrators # 3 (magazine review)
The major section of Illustrators # 3 is devoted to the incredible photo-realistic artwork of Italian Fortunino Matania (1881-1963), who did much of his work in the UK. Although I can’t be sure, I...
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Illustrators # 5 (magazine review).
All contents copyright The Book Palace Ltd(c) The Book Palace All contents copyright The Book Palace Ltd(c) The Book Palace Seeing a stylised Alfred E. Numan on the cover of Illustrators # 5 seems an...
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Comic Book Creator # 12 Spring 2016 (magazine review).
Comic Book Creator # 12 can really be broken into two sections. One is an overview of Jack Kirby’s career at Marvel, then DC Comics, then back to Marvel before supplying storyboards in animation in...
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Apex Magazine Issue 85, June 2016 (emag review).
Another month rolls by and brings with it another ‘Apex Magazine’. This is issue 85 and, let’s make this very clear right from the start, it’s an excellent issue. For me, ‘Apex’ has always been about...
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Uncanny Magazine # 11 (e-magazine review)
‘A Hundred And Seventy Storms’ by Aliette de Bodard has The Snow Like a Dancer facing another storm. The Mindships that get the ore on this harsh planet are built to be tough but are not indestructible...
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