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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Alex Hahn has been a regular presence on the UK small press circuit over the last few years with a diverse back catalogue of work and a versatile…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! A follow-up to his previous comic Nice and Clean (2015) but for the casual reader a standalone tale in its own right, Tor Brandt’s A Real Man is a…
It’s time for another Bullpen Boot-Camp column by UK small presser Nick Prolix! Nick is the creator behind The Sheep and the Wolves webcomic, published in print in his Slang Pictorial comics. Every couple of…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Centrala are a publishing house which originated in Poland, before making the move to South London, focussed primarily on translating and distributing the work of European artists. One…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Ten years ago Nobrow Press sprung onto the comics scene taking sequential art into new and exciting arts-based directions with work that embraced a strong sense of graphic design, challenging…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! One of our 2018 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘, Jayde Perkin’s comics explorations of loss and grief are among some of the most powerful and…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Italian-based collective and anthology LÖK ZINE describes itself as “a magazine that celebrates the best in current illustration, comics and creative culture.” With comic strips and illustration presented…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! ‘Psychogeography’ is one of those words that burned and sparkled like a roman candle for a while but has now gone on to signify a certain kind of literary…
PositiveNegatives is an award-winning non-profit who “produce literary comics, animations and podcasts about contemporary social and human rights issues” and “combine ethnographic research with illustration and photography, adapting personal testimonies…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Baguette Trousers comprises three up-and-coming artists – Chloe Elise Dennis, Luke Finch and Sinae Carrotate Park – whose varied visual styles and practice can be seen as a collective for…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! There are echoes of Blank Slate’s acclaimed graphic novel Nelson in the latest edition of Russian micropress Sputnikat’s PersonaЖ, the second of a series of self-contained anthologies that…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Lengthy gaps between issues is one of the problems with serial storytelling in comics. However, in his mysterious drama Generous Bosom, Conor Stechschulte has created a sense of…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Rebecca K. Jones is a London-based illustrator and comic artist, recently shortlisted for the Laydeez do Comics prize for her graphic novel project Boomerang. Her work addresses contemporary social…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! It’s been an entire year since I last looked at Mhairi Braden’s work – unsurprisingly, perhaps, for 2017’s ELCAF – when I wrote about the tactile reading experience of…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Adapting novels into comics form is a tricky path to navigate. Often such cross-media exercises fall into the trap of attempting to wrap images around the existing prose,…
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ELCAF FORTNIGHT! We took a trip to Andy Barron’s entrancing yet brutal world of OM earlier this year at Broken Frontier when we looked at Mantra, a collection of his…
Is This Guy for Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman by Box Brown is a graphic novel that should work, but on many levels does not. Which is perplexing as, given…
ELCAF FORTNIGHT! There’s a welcome synchronicity to reviewing a Jayde Perkin comic for this year’s East London Comics and Arts Festival given that my first coverage of her work at…
