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    Warren Ellis and the Dead Pig Collector

    • by Bart Croonenborghs

    One of comic-dom’s most revered authors, Warren Ellis, is also making a name for himself as a writer of novels. After the noir-tinted Crooked Little Vein and his exploration of…

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Reads #3

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 23, 2013

Avery Hill Publishing’s Reads is an anthology that is steadfastly unashamed of its old school, grassroots small press approach. As diverse a collection – in terms of both genres and…

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BD & Comics Passion Hits London! Your Chance to Win Free Tickets…

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 22, 2013

Between May 30th and June 2nd the BD & Comics Passion festival reaches its third year at the Institut francais in Kensington, London with a host of comics-related events. Presenting…

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Bryan J.L. Glass: The End of Mice Templar

  • by Kris Bather
  • May 21, 2013

Little creatures on a big adventure is normally something you’d associate with Disney, but Image Comics’ The Mice Templar is closer to fantasy epics by J.R.R. Tolkien, or George R.R….

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Fall of the House of Usher #1

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 21, 2013

Something is rotting in the House of Usher, and it might just be the story. A lone traveler makes a journey through thick woods and into a thicker fog that…

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Odalisques & Cylinders

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 21, 2013

We explore the titanic combination of Bastien Vivés and Ruppert and Mulot and look at Joris Van de Moortel’s use of comics to present his art books.   Cylinder 1-2…

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Columns · Small Pressganged

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Small Press Spotlight on… Jade Sarson

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 20, 2013

Jade Sarson’s online Cafe Suada series is the epitome of feelgood comics. To great comic effect it depicts the ongoing feud between Geraldine, manager of the Piyo Piyo teahouse and…

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Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale

  • by Kris Bather
  • May 20, 2013

More like Dickens than Disney, Porcelain is a wonderfully structured, hard to resist fantasy tale. The opener of Porcelain shows a group of children facing a large gate, as the…

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Cyborg 009, Chapter 000

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 20, 2013

The classic Shotaro Ishinomori manga returns revamped for a fast-paced Western audience. A young boy awakens after a hazy dream and finds he’s cuffed to a table with maniacal robots…

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Image Duplicator: Take Back the Art!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 19, 2013

Thursday saw the opening of the Rian Hughes and Jason Atomic co-curated ‘Image Duplicator’ exhibition at London’s Orbital Comics. An intriguing counterpoint to the Lichtenstein retrospective, currently coming to the…

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Days of Noir and Comics: You Have Killed Me

  • by John Trigonis
  • May 17, 2013

A solid chunk of the graphic novels that are currently populating my bookshelf are noir titles. I’ve been doing some in-depth research on this popular film genre of the 1940s…

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Carmine Infantino and the Silver Age

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • May 17, 2013

A confession about superhero comics and sacrilegious comments on classic creators from the silver age. Broken Frontier is known for its focus on the fringe side of comic books published…

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Tiny Pencil #1: Into the Woods We Go

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 16, 2013

Founded and co-edited by Amber Hsu and Katriona Chapman, Tiny Pencil is the latest anthology publication to burst onto the British small press scene. As its name suggests, the raison…

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The Dream Merchant #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • May 15, 2013

Edmondson and Novosadov create a strange, new modern mythology plumbing the depths of our dreams. There once was a boy named Winslow, who dreamed big dreams every night. In fact,…

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