Dave's Comics: Swoon Now! Nobrow

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Swoon Now! Nobrow

We're big fans of the publisher Nobrow so there was considerable excitement in the shop for the latest delivery. Nobrow #3 (£11) has arrived with all its glorious summer colour and arresting abstract visuals. Also in is another piece from Blexbolex (read of our affection for Abecederia here) entitled Dogcrime (£8), cyclical storytelling in Ouroboros (£8.50) by Ben Newman - whose style put me in mind of Samurai Jack for some reason - and a beautiful little hardcover book entitled Birchield Close (£9) by Jon McNaught which at first glance could have been designed by Seth. Finally there's Rise and Fall (£9) by Micah Lidberg, a wonderful concertina landscape picture charting the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. Listed below are other examples of the artists work.

Ben Newman

Jon McNaught

Micah Lidberg

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Elvi107sS_Scholten021 May 2010 at 08:06
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The New York Times, in a Sunday op-ed piece written more than a decade after his death, said Kirby

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created a new grammar of storytelling and a cinematic style of motion. Once-wooden characters cascaded from one frame to another — or even from page to page — threatening to fall right out of the book into the reader’s lap. The force of punches thrown was visibly and explosively evident. Even at rest, a Kirby character pulsed with tension and energy in a way that makes movie versions of the same characters seem static by comparison.

Alan was born in Northampton, England to brewery worker Ernest Moore and printer Sylvia Doreen. He lived in a poor working class area, and, after passing the Eleven plus exam, attended Northampton Grammar School, but in 1970, at the age of 17, he was expelled for dealing LSD, later describing himself as "one of the world's most inept LSD dealers".With his first wife, Phyllis, he had two daughters, Amber and Leah. The couple also had a mutual lover, Deborah. In time, Phyllis, Deborah and the two children left Moore. On 12 May 2007, he married Melinda Gebbie, with whom he has worked on several comics.He currently lives in Northampton. He is a vegetarian, an anarchist,a practicing magician and occultist, and he worships a Roman snake-deity named Glycon, which he acknowledges to be a "complete hoax"