Wednesday, March 20, 2024

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Part 3

You think your high school experience was hell?

Sephy and Callum are experiencing that...times ten!

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Things go from bad...to worse!
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Part 2

...and, as their feelings towards each other intensify, they discover that their family and friends are not (to say the least) happy about it...

Adapted from the prose novel by Malorie Blackman by Ian Edgerton and illustrated by John Aggs.

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You thought your high school days were hell?
Callum and Sephy are experiencing that...times ten!
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Part 1

The story of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet and their warring families has been told...and retold...for centuries...
...often updated to reflect the current audience!
This new version, currently available in prose, live theatrical performances, audiobooks, a 2-season TV mini-series, and a graphic novel adapting the first prose novel, is set in contemporary times, though not in the usual location, as you shall now see...
As you might have guessed, this is an alternate reality where, instead of European nations colonizing the rest of the world centuries earlier, African nations did the exploring and colonizing!
(The BBC, which has a TV mini-series based on the book, did an intro into the political/social situations of the world HERE.)
Adapted from the prose novel by Malorie Blackman by Ian Edgerton and illustrated by John Aggs, the graphic novel has been selling well on both sides of the Atlantic.

Next Week:
Callum and Sephy are now going to the same school!
There's going to be fireworks...though maybe not the type you're hoping for!
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Laugh at Love FLIP! "For the Love of Mike"

Our final "Laugh at Love" entry was created for one of the many MAD comic book clones of the 1950s!
But, it was illustrated by an artist who was noted for his serious romance comic stories!
Writer Nat Barnett never wrote a romance comic tale.
His two-dozen or so comic book scripts ranged from humor (including this story from Harvey's Flip! #1 [1954]) to horror to war, but absolutely no love comics!
Artist Bob Powell was another matter, as anybody who has perused this blog can tell you!
Starting with "I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!" he's one of the biggest comic creatives featured here!
As a bonus for our finale of fun, here's the original art for this story, thanks to the ever-amazing Kraktactaka!

Next Week:
We're devoting all of March to one graphic novel of True Love based on a very popular (and controversial) prose series!
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