Racial puppetry in right-wing comics – fascinating and well-researched stuff, right-wing strips (as opposed to editorial cartoons) have never really caught on in the UK so it’s hard to think of an equivalent for this kind of thing. Also j[…]

I’m a big believer in reading the classics – not to educate or better myself or anything like that, but because there is often a good reason for their status, and I’ve enjoyed many of them, found them hugely rewarding.
But there are[…]

One of the persistent awkward issues for writers of superhero comics is getting their top villains out of jail and back into the storylines. Many treat it as if there is no problem, and the villains have just escaped and that’s all there is to […]

In what might be his most daring adventure yet, join boy journalist and his grizzled hairy friend, and Captain Haddock the first stage production of his exciting adventure. At the Young Vic at Christmas.
Rumours that Tom Ewing has been seen muttering[…]

So it’s that time of year again, Open House Weekend is upon us, time to dust off the A-Z and look inside buildings you never knew were there in the first place.
Here are my top five tips for Open House:
1. Think of it as an excuse to see a bi[…]

The shortlist is a bit disheartening. Simple as that. It makes you wonder if the judges really tried with the longlist or actually just went for the names they knew. The presence of the Ishiguro suggests so (it is a terrible book). Of course if we kn[…]

I saw it from the corner of my eyes, in a story for the premiere issue of vogue:homme America, or what ever they are calling it. Surrounded by the usual, silly badly constructed grotesques the New York art world mistakes for finely crafted historical[…]

German comic which teaches kids how to fight Neo-Nazis, the non-violent way. Such as the following:
In the first edition, Andi and his friends challenge arch-villain Eisenheinrich and his gang, who dress in neo-Nazi clothing, hate foreigners and dist[…]

The Best Painting In Britain.
Looks like a bunch of scribbles that someone spilled a pot of dirty paintwater over to me.[…]

Woman slashes Lichtenstein picture “Nudes In Mirror” in a German Art Gallery. Not due its racy comment mind, and as you can see, it is not exactly the most erotic picture in the world. Rather she knifed it because she thought it was a cop[…]