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Roger Sabin

Recent articles by Roger Sabin

Aldridge takes a tripIssue 70, Winter 2008
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                                                How many Sixties were there? There was the decade experienced by the bulk of the…                        
Impeccable stupidityIssue 70, Winter 2008
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                                                Occasionally, a comedy show enters the public consciousness so far as to become a ‘cultural…                        
Comic Detours And DigressionsIssue 63, Spring 2007
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                                                It is a mark of how far comics have come that Yale University Press should…                        
Boho rap [extract]Feature

                                    
On the noseIssue 68, Summer 2008
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                                            Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday was a wonder of populist design.            
For your eyes onlyIssue 68, Summer 2008
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                                                Does a picture paint a thousand words, as Telly Savalas once postulated? This fascinating collection…                        
Casting light on oddball traditionsFeature

                                    
A ring-bound compendium of hate [EXTRACT]Feature

                                    
Shock tactics: BazookaIssue 61, Autumn 2006
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                                            Though inspired by UK punk, the Bazooka collective’s violent, sexy graphics spoke in a French accent            
Understanding silly booksIssue 54, Winter 2004
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                                            Turning Python’s TV humour into cold print required some very serious graphic design            
California gleamingIssue 71, Spring 2009
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                                                Vivid red fruit that shines as though made of Bakelite; naked women’s bodies undulating like…                        
India meets US for a graphic KingIssue 79, Spring 2011
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                                                Here is an oddity. A graphic novel about the American civil rights activist Martin Luther…                        
Is it a comic? No, it’s historyIssue 37, Autumn 2000
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                                                Sequels are rarely a good idea – unless they happen to be The Godfather. Reinventing…                        
Political punchIssue 41, Autumn 2001
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                                                The refreshing thing about David Huxley’s heavily illustrated history of British underground comics is the…                        
Comic books come back with a cautious bangIssue 36, Summer 2000
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                                            After a 1990s bubble that went splatt, the comics industry has begun to renew itself through new formats, from glossy hardbacks to cheap pulp            