Your Honour, the accused stands in the dock, charged with that most heinous of crimes. Making a normally quiet and sane 11-year-old laugh until snot bubbles exploded out of her nose.

Further to the above charge is the additional minor charge of making the aforementioned 11-year-old run around the house, shouting bizarre surreal phrases such as "RUN, RUN UNTIL DE FARTS COMES OUT!" as well as "Me Bebbeh! It's Coming!"

"Looshkin: The Big Number 2" has once again had exactly the same effect on ReadItDaddy Towers as the crazed, chaotic lunatic moggy has on his own peaceful household in Jamie Smart's hilariously funny strip, once again ripped from the pages of the mighty Phoenix Comic, stuck together with a couple of old pritt sticks (you know the ones, those ones that never quite stick things properly, the ones your teacher always gives you ever since that unfortunate incident where you ate all the copydex) and presented in a satisfying single volume.

So what does Looshkin get up to this time? Shoving his bum between a courting couple so that they kiss his bum instead of each other? Check! Using a nefarious sock puppet to perform evil deeds, claiming they are the puppet's idea? Check! Generally trashing entire neighbourhoods, personal property, comestible items and of course pants - lots of pants and bloomers? Check Check and treble check!

The accused cannot deny the charges. Once again he has produced this piece of subversive comic fiction, destined to turn the nation's youth into giggling maniacs, unable to communicate with their adult wranglers other than via guffaws, sniggers, chortles, giggles, and downright loud and braying belly laughs.

Guilty. Guilty as charged.

"Looshkin: The Big Number 2" by Jamie Smart is out now, published by David Fickling Books. Hold your children close, pray for them!

I know what you're thinking. This is the chapter book of the week slot, so what's that saucy young scamp Jamie Smart doing languishing in it?

Well, Jamie has made the move into middle grade with his first awesome adventure for a dynamic duo par excellence.

In "Flember: The Secret Book" you'll meet brilliant hero Dev: inventor of the insanely smelly cheese-powered rocket boots, the washtopus, bee energy and many more things that drive his mum and brother crazy!

Dev's crazy contraptions and connivances get even more out of control when he finds a secret book, filled with even more insane instructions. Drawn into a crazy world of bizarre characters including Fervus the Goat and Boja the giant bright scarlet robotic bear, Dev must try and rectify the complete chaos he's wrought before the mysterious force of Flember disappears from his home forever.

Crafted with the same sort of insane genius chaotic lunacy as Jamie's regular strips in "The Phoenix", this is the sort of middle grade book that can win over reluctant readers, and performs the rather neat trick of not being quite like anything else out there at the moment (something that must've driven PR and marketing folk absolutely stark staring mad, with their penchant for describing nearly every funny middle grade book as "The Next Dahl" or "The Next Walliams").

C has long been a fan of Jamie's comics, and couldn't wait to dig into this one. We described her reaction as "Snirts" - sort of a cross between sniggers and snorts as she read through this, before bestowing "Book of the Week" honours on it, and demanding that Jamie writes more middle grade, as this is an absolute winner.

Sum this book up in a sentence: Crazy, chaotic, inventive and completely nutso, filled with the sort of characters Jamie excels at creating, a masterful move into middle grade from a comic genius - definitely time to get Flembered!

"Flember: The Secret Book" by Jamie Smart is out now, published by David Fickling Books (kindly supplied for review). 

HEY YOU! Yes, you at the back surreptitiously picking your nose and wiping it on the underside of your chair. Pay attention! Its "Comic of the Week" time...

Our Comic of the Week this week is like a nitrous boost for those of you who have yet to experience the stupendous Phoenix Comic...

Our second Picture Book of the Week poses the most important question you may ever face in your entire existence as a human being on this planet. "Do you like Dog Cheese?"

When the dust settles after our earth is burnt to a crisp, many aeons into the future (or - at the rate climate change is going, sometime after a week on Tuesday) I wonder if this crazy pair will still be battling on...

This week's first book of the week stuck its tongue out at us, parped, made several rude hand gestures and then sat atop the "Book of the Week" slot like a smug night-club bouncer...

As the long hot sumemr continues, what better way to enjoy the great outdoors than by tucking a load of FAB lollies into your pants, grabbing your iPad (or hauling your desktop PC outside) then sitting in the sunshine with Moose Kid Comics Issue 2!

For quite some time we've been clamouring for The Phoenix to do an annual but we'll settle for their latest plan for world domination instead. "The Phoenix Presents" series is a collection of some of the best strips from the mighty Phoenix Comic, lovingly bound and collected together to consume in one huge splurge-fest.

Charlotte is a huge Phoenix fan (even recently using the comic as the basis for her friday morning "Show and Tell" at school, which apparently went very well and met with lots of "oohs" and "ahhs" from her class - which is what we LOVE to hear!)

From the deep dark woods to the outer reaches of space. Bunny vs Monkey knows no bounds!

One of Charlotte's favourite strips is "Bunny vs Monkey" which is actually quite difficult to describe really. The frenetic talents of Jamie Smart, kid's comic genius and contributor to some of the best-loved comics on the planet (including, of course, The Phoenix) poured into a strip that's one part "Animal Farm" to ten parts "Rambo", whizzed up in a liquidiser until chaos ensues.

Collecting together "Year One" in the lives of the strange woodland animals, such as Bunny, Monkey, Metal Steve, Pig and Action Beaver (!), the strip has always been hilarious and quite, quite mad.

In the grand tradition of the greatest British comic strips, Jamie's characters are always ending up in the stickiest of situations (mostly through their own bizarre agendas). Kids absolutely soak up anything that successfully spins together abject naughtiness and grossness, Bunny vs Monkey does that in spades.

"Choooom" is a word I'm going to try and work into every meeting today...!

If you're playing catchup and have yet to experience the sheer delight of Phoenix Friday, when your very own copy of the comic drops through your door clad in the best mailing envelope ever - here's a chance to get in on the ground floor, grab a collection of the very best Bunny vs Monkey, and get set for its glorious return to the weekly mag soon. How on earth Jamie Smart finds the time to do all this stuff beats the heck out of me, but we're so glad he does!

"Bunny vs Monkey - Year 1" by Jamie Smart is available from the fabulous Phoenix Online Store. Go geddit!

Charlotte is secretly in love with Metal Steve but thinks he might spurn her affection for not being 'metal' enough.

Daddy's Favourite bit: Frantic, crazed, chaotic, fabulous and funny as heck. We LOVE it!

(Kindly sent to us for review by David Fickling Books)

Moose Kid Comics Issue 1 - Digital craziness from a seriously impressive comic line-up!

Cool kids will already know Jamie Smart as the twisted and warped genius behind one of the Phoenix Comic's most fantastic recurring strips, "Bunny vs Monkey" - As well as working on a metric TON of other strips, Jamie has now brought together some of the most impressive comic talent working in the UK today to produce something new. 

"Porc" - Just one of the strips you'll find tucked away inside "Moose Kid Comics"

“I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved and who is involved,” Jamie enthuses. ”We have exclusive comics from artists like Tom Paterson, Mike Pearce and David Leach, heroes to anyone who grew up reading comics in the UK. And there’s Gary Northfield, Laura Howell, Mark Stafford, Roger Langridge, to name but a few, mixed in amongst newer artists like Rachael Smith, Tom Plant and Will Kirkby.

“And, of course, we’re very excited to be showcasing a real exclusive – Young Tank Girl, by Alan Martin and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell themselves!

While Moose Kid Comics is an enormous project in itself, the creative team behind it are hoping that its success will lead to greater things.

“Moose Kids Comics is a statement,” says Jamie. “It’s a declaration of what we can do. It’s concrete proof of the high quality entertainment we can create, and the heart and passion of all the talented artists who want to help change children’s comics for the better.

“We’re hoping to open up the discussion about how we can keep doing this. We’re looking for publishers who can see the potential, and help us reignite children’s comics. We’d even love to find funding so we can print up a whole bundle of copies, and release it for free on a massive scale, through charities and schools, into hospitals and across the world, everywhere children (and adults) could do with a smile.“

Nan Tastic - Another superb strip coming to Moose Kid Comics