Monthly Archives: December 2010

What is GONZO?

Posted on December 23, 2010 by admin

GONZO – a graphic novel biography of Hunter S Thompson from SelfMadeHero on Vimeo. “If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up” “The great American iconoclast, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Cats win comics!

Posted on December 21, 2010 by admin

We are big feline fans here at SelfMadeHero. We adore the adventures of Blacksad (Dargaud); we love the Devil’s mischievous cat, Behemoth, in Bulgakov’s The Master & Margarita (graphic novel by SelfMadeHero) and we can’t see the funny side of Alice M. Brock’s tongue-in-cheek classic How … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Guest blogger: Anthony Hope-Smith – the artists who inspire me

Posted on December 10, 2010 by admin

A while back the SelfMadeHero gang asked their artists to put together Influence Maps of exactly that – our influences! Well a million years after the fact, here I am with my own verbose version…. Now this is no easy … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Martin Rowson wins Political Cartoonist of the Year 2010!

Posted on December 9, 2010 by admin

We’re delighted to announce that Martin Rowson, author of the graphic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman has won the Political Cartoon Society’s “Political Cartoonist of the Year” award. The Jury’s citation reads as follows: In a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition

Posted on December 8, 2010 by admin

[shamelessly adapted from the Gosh! blog] “Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mold-breaking … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Inking GONZO

Posted on December 7, 2010 by admin

When SelfMadeHero commissioned Will Bingley and Anthony Hope-Smith to produce a graphic novel biography of Hunter S. Thompson, we didn’t realise that so many people had drawn Hunter S. Thompson before. We were, of course, huge fans of Ralph Steadman’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

In case you missed it…

Posted on December 6, 2010 by admin

Languishing behind The Times paywall is a nice selection of graphic novel recommendations for Christmas 2010. Well, we have to admit that what we’re about to do is probably immoral and illegal but we hope The Times won’t mind too … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

The Prison Sheet

Posted on December 1, 2010 by admin

Did you think that being a comic book artist was all fun and games? Think again! What you can see above (and bottom) are pictures of I.N.J. Culbard’s so called “Prison Sheet” for his forthcoming Sherlock Holmes graphic novel. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments