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SPX‘s importance as a small press comics convention in North America cannot be overstated. The reasons have less to do with business and more to do with its consistent geographic…
It’s 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 event or digital storefront,…
Tired but so, so inspired. Five words that sum up our post-Thought Bubble feelings here at Broken Frontier Towers. B-Fronts hit T-Bubs (did I really just type that?) in Leeds…
If you were in Leeds for Thought Bubble this weekend then you may well have caught the first leg of the Avery Hill Follow Me In and Retrograde Orbit Launch…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Sarararara: All-American Girl, the webcomic creation of Olivia Hicks, makes its print debut at Thought Bubble this weekend. The strip is an intriguing oddity in terms…
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Back in early 2017 I reviewed a short autobiographical zine by UK small presser Eleanor Crewes and was struck by the immediate connection its creator made with her readership in…
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 event or digital…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Thought Bubble just wouldn’t be Thought Bubble without the annual entry in John Riordan and Dan Cox’s music industry send-up Hitsville UK. And yet that’s the…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! At its heart the very best science fiction isn’t about alien civilisations, space exploration or future tech, it’s work that on a very personal level speaks…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Making its convention debut at Thought Bubble, Hari Conner’s fantasy graphic novel Finding Home Volume 1: The Traveller combines rich landscapes with delightful storytelling. Based on the journey…
AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Faith Says You #1: It’s Dark Outside, self-published by Kate Brown, premieres at Thought Bubble and is a beautiful 128-page pebble of angst, love and all the…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! The most effective science fiction frames itself in terms of reference that we can, on some level, relate to. That may be through parallels to our…
It’s 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 event or digital storefront,…
Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…
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AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! No doubt Katriona Chapman’s Follow Me In from Avery Hill Publishing will be broadly classified as a graphic travelogue, part of that burgeoning strand of graphic…
From The End of Summer to I Love this Part through to A City Inside, a rich seam of autobiography runs through Tillie Walden’s comics, manifesting itself in everything from…
The end result of the Full Colour Project, an initiative to promote diversity in Scottish comics and provide mentorship to young Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic artists, BHP Comics’ Full Colour anthology features the work of…
Tony McMillen’s elevator pitch for his one-man, small-press miniseries Lumen name checks Michel Fiffe’s Copra. Not only does the first issue follow Fiffe’s lead in being written, drawn, lettered, inked…
