Roger Sabin
Recent articles by Roger Sabin
California gleaming
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Vivid red fruit that shines as though made of Bakelite; naked women’s bodies…
Aldridge takes a trip
Issue 70, Winter 2008
How many Sixties were there? There was the decade experienced by the bulk of…
Impeccable stupidity
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Occasionally, a comedy show enters the public consciousness so far as to…
Comic Detours And Digressions
Issue 63, Spring 2007
It is a mark of how far comics have come that Yale University Press should be…
India meets US for a graphic King
Issue 79, Spring 2011
Here is an oddity. A graphic novel about the American civil rights activist…
Boho rap [extract]
Issue 67, Spring 2008
French-Canadian Julie Doucet produced some of the most original indie comics of the…
For your eyes only
Issue 68, Summer 2008
Does a picture paint a thousand words, as Telly Savalas once postulated? This…
Casting light on oddball traditions
Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Eye contributor Dan Nadel’s collection of strips by 29 under-the-radar US-based…
A ring-bound compendium of hate [EXTRACT]
Issue 54, Winter 2004
This handbook – actually a plastic ring-binder – is a compendium of hundreds of…
Shock tactics: Bazooka
Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Though inspired by UK punk, the Bazooka collective’s violent, sexy graphics spoke in a French…
Understanding silly books
Issue 54, Winter 2004
Turning Python’s TV humour into cold print required some very serious graphic design
Is it a comic? No, it’s history
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
Sequels are rarely a good idea – unless they happen to be The Godfather.…
Political punch
Issue 41, Autumn 2001
The refreshing thing about David Huxley’s heavily illustrated history of British…
Comic books come back with a cautious bang
Issue 36, Summer 2000
After a 1990s bubble that went splatt, the comics industry has begun to renew itself through new…