Shoot rabbit shoot

R.I.P. Comès

Belgian cartoonist Comès is dead. His graphic novel Silence made a big impression on me when I first read it, ah, thirty years ago. A great story and beautiful black and white drawings. Time to pick it up for a new reading.

Lost Cat cover

... for the Fantagraphics edition. The book should be out in May.

Sketch rabbit sketch

Rotring artpen and drybrush

Giardino

There was a great exhibition of Vittorio Giardino at the Bologna comic book convention. It's time to re-read my Danish version of Hungarian Rhapsody, published almost 30 years ago.

Denis Mcloughlin 2

Never So Few

Frank Sinatra fights the Japanese and fondles Gina Lollobrigida in Burma during World War II. Also starring Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, directed by John Sturges.

Sinatra could be a good actor when he made the effort. This is not one of those films. There's not much chemistry between him and Lollobrigida, and the silly dialogues they're given doesn't help. The jungle battle scenes don't look too convincing either. The film gets more interesting during the last half hour, but then it's hard to care.