Tuesday 27 June 2023

Alrightreads: Quickies

Philip Pullman, The Imagination Chamber: Cosmic Rays from Lyra's Universe

2022 / Audiobook / 87 pages / UK

**

Deleted snippets and unwritten sketches jazzed up for desperate completists.


Brendan McCarthy and Al Ewing, The Zaucer of Zilk

2012 (collected 2013) / Ebook / 76 pages / UK

****

I'n't Zilk zany?


David Lynch, The Angriest Dog in the World

1983-92 (collected 2020) / Ebook / 34 pages / USA

*

Makes Garfield look like side-splitting high art.


Rhys Hughes, Yee-Haw: Weirdly Western Poems

2022 / Ebook / 121 pages / UK

**

I'm fond of his pun-fixated fiction,
but converted to verse, I am averse.


Various, A1, Book One

1989 / Ecomic / 96 pages / UK

****

Precisely as pretentious as you'd hope a 1989 British art-comic anthology would be.

Faves: John Bolton's 'Bad Bread,' Dave Gibbons & Ted McKeever's 'Survivor,' Alan Moore & Steve Parkhouse's 'Festus: Dawn of the Dead'