Andrew Moreton - Review

Fuff 1-9

Andrew Moreton waxes lyrical (appropriately enough) over the work of Jeffrey Lewis, lyricist, cartoonist and enviably workaholic multitasker.

The Festival

An epic journey across The Festival, as three children head out to explore…

It’s a Man’s Life in the Ice Cream Business

Why aren’t there more foody comics? – Rob Jackson and the life of the outdoor food vendor.

Andrew Moreton reviews a new comic which innovates, not merely in content, but in format… The shtick, the gimmick, the unqualified USP of The Black Project is that Garth Brookes has lino cut and embroidered every panel of its two hundred or so pages.

A Matter of Life

Andrew Moreton looks at the newest entry from an autobio cartoonist who’s changed his perspective… Jeffrey Brown has been detailing his life in scratchy small panels since sometime in 2002. He keeps on plugging away at the autobio stuff and, like a lot of that genre’s more successful practitioners, manages to keep his fans coming back for more despite not very much happening.

Thunder Brother: Soap Division 1-4

Paul Rainey’s excellent on-going drama series on a world of real life soap! Andrew Moreton looks at the latest small press project from the charismatically deranged imagination of Paul Rainey, still fondly remembered for Memory Man.

Days of the Bagnold Summer

Stuck with each other the whole summer, Joff Winterhart’s moving and subtle portrait of a single mother and her teenage son is a very human, subtle debut from someone who should develop into an even stronger cartoonist in the future.

Leeroy and Popo

Like the lives of its eponymous heroes, The Adventures of Leeroy and Popo is an engaging yet directionless story of twenty-something boys not getting much done.

Forming Volume 1

Genisis Reloaded! Jesse Moynihan has taken the creation myths of the great religions, stuffed them into a blender with a bunch of trash sci-fi, video game imagery and chatroom bullshit, then blitzed ‘em up into a technicolour mélange of wild, cosmic originality!

The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists

In this strange unsatisfying ramble Seth, who corners us like an under-utilised room attendant in a minor stately home, spins us the interminable, winding non-story of the The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.