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ness which is when his agent comes round to collect a couple of signatures events seem to be conspiring against the agent and a storm traps him overnight in a house that seems intent on driving him away it seems there s something very very wrong with carnegie s house see there s definitely something wrong with the house from rob jackson s great deeds against the dead from here it all gets creepier and darker the agent meets a couple of psychic adventurers in the village pub who are looking into the house describing it as mentioned many times in the dark literature of the supernatural meanwhile carnegie s paintings are talking to him again confusing him telling him that his agent s been ripping him off explaining how there s an angelic lawyer waiting to take up his case against the agent and all they need s a bowler hat to get started yes a bowler hat avoiding the heaven question and requesting the bowler hat could it be that carnegie s eleanor isn t all she seems so what s the voice that carnegie s hearing it might be eleanor or not but it s very doubtful that the voice is a heavenly one in fact all the clues are pointing down instead of up and what s the secret of the house where do our psychic adventurers end up questions questions no more answers from me go and read it yourself there s nasty goings on and a mysterious appearance at the very end that will need answering in part two rob s pulled off a very nice psychological supernatural tale here the dark doings are dark indeed and there s some clever subtle moments in the story and the art all the way through you know it s going to be good when the first page sets it all up so well below when rob perfectly runs through the events of carnegie s life up to moving in portraying the grief loss and confusion of carnegie as life just begins to rush past with him standing as the confused observer first page of great deeds against the dead by rob jackson very nicely summarises events and sets up what is to come all in all it s a very impressive first issue and i ll be looking forward to the second issue to find out exactly what s going on and maybe i ll find out what the bubble gum machine thing on the cover is as well also included is a 8 pager colonial amusements which starts out as a travelog strip like jackson s done in the past but if i m reading it right goes somewhere far sadder and darker and there s a nice light why i draw comics single pager in colour on the back great deeds against the dead issue 1 is probably the nicest and most enjoyable of jackson s works i ve seen so far get it from rob jackson s website shop richard bruton on the banks of the mighty croal 8 stories and bog wizards 3 mini comics by rob jackson self published rob jackson s been making his comics for a number of years never staying too long in any one genre and continually improving both his writing and art these latest three mini comics stay true to that generalisation including travelogue fiction comedy and adventure there s also a wide range of writing and art styles in here with rob managing to look like at least 4 separate artists at times some styles work better for me than others but that s the point obviously this is all about experimenting with various styles telling different stories first up is on the banks of the mighty croa l rob s timing for this one is terrible if he d shown me this last year i d have absolutely loved it but as it is it comes out after i ve seen oliver east s trains are mint and having seen trains the mighty croal loses some of it s originality and lustre the ideas of both are very similar a guided walk through an area with the artist painting a visual and literary scene as the walk unfolds jackson takes us on a gentle meander down the path of the river croal from the centre of modern bolton to the leafy green suburbs of lostock cutting from detailed intricate drawings straight to dense text passages of descriptive text and hand written annotations alongside the artwork but as i was reading it i couldn t help but compare it with trains are mint on the banks of the mighty croal lacks the first person narration the running commentary alongside the descriptive text croal has none of the romance and emotional journey that trains has and is all the poorer for it double page spread from rob jackson s on the banks of the mighty croal in fact given that the two artists come from the same general area i have an image in mind of the two crossing each other s path as jackson walks the river and east walks the railway path on it s own merits it s very good but it could have been should have been more it s text is descriptive and informative yet it s interesting without having the lyricism and heart it needs to make it great and i believe jackson could genuinely do something wonderful with it his love for the subject does come through but only really in the pictures they re detailed snapshots of moments in his walk and they re illustrated in such a way to make me believe that if he could but find the words to match the splendour of his locations and his artwork he d have a really great comic on his hands completely different in tone style artistic and literary is bog wizards here rob adopts a much less detailed art style and tells a good little adventure story mixing sword and sorcery action with a self depreciating section in the middle pages where the author over analyses his own work to comedic effect finally 8 stories a comic that s all over the place stylistically albeit in a very pleasing way as you might expect it s a collection of 8 stories all but one written and illustrated by jackson as a collection it s a showcase to the range jackson commands with short strips covering his travels in south korea a gruesome maths lesson with the math ro mancer the reason jackson is never going anywhere near a kayak again and more the art styles are equally diverse from the near sketch book entry of show me your insect hooves about jackson s trip to see the cardiacs to the really tight and rather wonderful highlight of the book the city that fell in love with itself the city that fell in love with itself is an impressive and poetic tale of a city that falls in love with it s own reflection along it s own lake shore difficult to make me care about a city but guest writer shonagh ingram manages it and rob puts some of his best artwork to a good story the gorgeous colour cover above shows off just how good jackson s art can be when he really works hard at it 8 stories is well worth the cost of admission just for the city tale alone page from the city that fell in love with itself from 8 stories written by shonagh ingram and drawn by rob jackson all told rob jackson is doing some very nice things here i make no bones about it that i prefer his art when he pulls it in a little some of his cartooning is just too rough for me but when he does as in the cities story and with the croal it s a pleasure to look at and he has a good naturalistic voice for his writing whether it s reportage humour or anything else he turns his hand to i ll definitely be interested in where he goes next rob s comics are available from the forbidden planet british small press shop and from his website www robjacksoncomics com and he has a blog segway by rob jackson over the few years i ve been looking at rob jackson s work i ve read adventures of flying leaf creatures malevolent gods gone wild surreal psychological horrors a positively shakespearean comedy of errors with goblins read two volumes of his anthology gin palace and one all about pasties and even followed jackson s adventures in the ice cream making business there s genuinely no telling what jackson will deliver next but they all share a few things the first is obvious a raw artistic style yet there s moments of grand beauty here if you care to persevere but once over the art all of jackson s tales whether rooted in daily reality or high fantasy share a sense of the absurd and the best of them are shot through with jackson s sardonic sense of comedy there s a joy of taking one thing and twisting it revelling in the silly the ridiculous and doing something interesting in another direction so why segway no idea none at all unless i m missing something obvious just because which is actually a reasonable review of a rob jackson comic just because so what we have here is a typical sort of rob jackson comic with jackson delivering a main feature and several backups the backups are alright but it s in the lead tale that jackson gets it right with the cracking 13 pages of professor mcgregor s fantabulous time travel device full of the ridiculous scenarios and witticisms i was talking of before it s all a little bonkers this little time travel tale with the obviously nutty professor deciding to take a little time travelling trip but all the way through jackson has great fun playing with the tropes of the time travel story and adds his own twist along the way so why does jackson decide to bring in the passing meter reader to the story of a professor and his assistant travelling through time why do his characters decide to play fast and loose with all that usual prescribed advice to time travellers about not messing with the time stream and end up doing everything they can to change things just because or maybe because jackson has a weird turn of plot and strange turn of phrase a style all his own that can traverse that precipice between clever brilliance and ridiculous nonsense it s enjoyable inventive stuff and there s even a few moments of that great albeit difficult to come to terms with sometimes art style i was on about it s a man s life in the ice cream business the hardest game in the world by rob jackson rob jackson s last comic was flying leaf creatures a fantasy adventure before that was the gods are bastards a ridiculously funny adventure so of course as a follow up here s a 24 page b w comic about starting an ice cream business nope i didn t see it coming either here s the first page yes it s loose it s rough and in these first few pages it s really really loose and rough and yes you do get the idea that jackson may be slightly unhinged deciding on all this down to the sage like advice of cat wizard hmmm but after that it tightens up and we settle down for a blow by blow account of the ups and downs of the ice cream biz in a series of provincial markets it s fascinating it really is just like any well written well observed autobiog comic can be regardless of the subject if it s well done you ll be drawn into it and so it is with it s a man s life in the ice cream business you ll read all about the pros and cons of ice cream manufacture the variety of markets around bolton the sheer hard work involved in the business for jackson and his family there s none of the comedy or farce that jackson s utilised so well in the past but it doesn t matter just having the details presented straight in front of us is enough plus there are some very nicely put together pages and little moments in jackson s art that really stand out look at those billboards in the page above there s a simple delight in looking at the way jackson gets over so much the day explained in just a few simple panels little explaination needed everything laid out really nicely at the back of this jackson talks about an issue 2 yes please meanwhile issue 1 is available from jackson s website california part 1 by rob jackson right here s the other of rob jackson s latest releases i reviewed segway a while back and enthused about the uniqueness of jackson s work over there suffice it to say i usually enjoy what he does enjoy the grand variety of topics he plays around with along with the great sense of ridiculous humour he brings to the page like much of what he does california starts as one thing and some way through jackson switches it all around soap opera transforms into weird religious cult thriller it may start as a simple family thing with mom dad and their three children billy jake and emma may moving out west to california after their crops fail and the bank repossesses their farm but this sedate little family drama doesn t last long within seven pages they ve been driven off the road billy gets to wander past the foreboding whistler s hollow meets a kindly gas station owner who takes them all in but not before jake goes missing turning up in the middle of something very strange bizarre creature strange tree formations jackson being mysterious or a failing of his art but whatever it is it s the thing that sets up the next part of the comic as jake gets religion in spectacular form the child healer rising up the religious ranks with a knowing almost evil look in his eye bizarre absolutely but there s enjoyment in the bizarre world of rob jackson and like i ve said before for every slightly off panel or page there s usually something in his work somewhere along the way that makes me pleased he s drawing how he s drawing this time it was the sweep of the road and the trees lining the way rhizome anthology volume 3 edited by kyle baddeley read and rob jackson contributors rob jackson david jackson kyle baddeley read william cardini and nick soucek i reviewed the first two issues back here and wasn t exactly enamoured with them the whole alt sci fi short story thing coming off very much as future shocks and you probably know how i don t really like future shocks and although there s still that annoying bittiness here that same sense of the small story not saying much there s for the most part something sufficiently different in three of the four strips to make this by far the best issue thus far but i ll start with the one that sadly didn t connect nick soucek s terminal tellingly it s the most fs y of the lot the story telegraphed too early soucek s simplistic art doing little for me oh well maybe next time far better is kyle badderley read s couple of short strips the first just a single pager automatic happiness playing on the intriguing ridiculous homicidal idea of just what would happen if happiness was always on but better than that is the longer fresh horizons which is manic and all over the place in the very best way zombie infestations rioters madness deranged masses a dystopian nightmare in stark angled artwork only ever alleviated with mind altering drugs so this becomes this but never for long and it s that that makes it work the madness of reality is punctuated by chemical peace the contrast with what we expect the key the realisation that life is a constant switching between two impossible to maintain states lending a tragic air to the madness completely at odds with the sci fi aspect of the anthology is the david jackson written rob jackson drawn strip here an autobiographical illustrated journey to a familiar and well loved destination there s a lovely lyricism and gentle drift to the words as we pass burial cists stone circles the landscape so familiar that the felli...