The Ideal Copy – A Rip-Roaring, Rib-Tickling Romp from Ben Sears and Koyama Press
The first Double + story, starring the begoggled Plus Man and his robot buddy Hank, appeared on the Study Group Comics blog in 2014. In the four short years since…
The first Double + story, starring the begoggled Plus Man and his robot buddy Hank, appeared on the Study Group Comics blog in 2014. In the four short years since…
In his book Parklife, journalist Nick Varley traced the relationship between football and the British working classes, from the inception of the professional game to the then-present day of 1999….
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! A warning to the prurient: there is precious little sex in Sex Fantasy. Instead this collection of Sophia Foster-Dimino’s self-published comics investigates the…
The classic pulp detective story and the self-loathing alternative comic are two genres that, on paper, couldn’t be more different. Nonetheless, they make for strange yet surprisingly simpatico bedfellows in…
As if it’s taken this long for a Gillen and McKelvie joint to take the form of a bona fide murder-mystery story? It’s like when J.K. Rowling did her straight…
Everyone appears to have accepted cinematic adaptations of comic books as totally natural, but the theatre is another matter. There are the odd examples of blockbuster stage translations of comics…
For a hot minute at the turn of the millennium, the hot trend in superhero comics was for “widescreen” page layouts. That is, panels that took up the breadth of…
King of quirk Wes Anderson’s first film, Bottle Rocket, is distinct from the rest of his oeuvre in genre if not style. It’s a crime thriller. More than that, it’s…
Horror, as we’re often told, is a safe space to explore the things that scare us. You sit in a cinema, read a book, play a videogame that gently guides…
A city is constantly evolving. Walk through any in the UK and you’re basically walking through its history, the new is built on top of the old, with Sixties brutalist…
Have you ever actually sat down and tried to read Das Kapital? Boy, that thing is a slog. Just real dry, full of numbers, just not fun like those socialist…
The market for translated bande dessinée is no longer the sole preserve of Tintin and Asterix. We’re now lucky enough to have English-language editions of Corto Maltese, the works of…
For people who have trouble fitting in, the issue is sometimes very literal. Social anxiety arises from, or exacerbates, a feeling of being physically incapable of comfortably occupying a space,…
For all their differences in subject matter, illustrative style and setting, Los Bros Hernandez have one thing in common with their ongoing Love and Rockets epics: the history weighing down…
Political rhetoric as of late has been stuffed full of nationalistic sentiment hearkening back to a Britain which no longer exists: one of strength and stability, of Empire, of industrial…
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