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“With a mischievous hint of the meta this opening instalment underlines Folklords’ claim on the title of the Next Big Thing in serial comics.” That’s what we said about the first…
To present an account of British working class history from the 14th century to the present day in around 125 pages and keep it both succinct and accessible, without drifting…
Benjamin Fraser, professor of Spanish and head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, recently published a monograph on how comics represent cities. His book,…
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…
A few years back Paco Roca’s graphic novel Wrinkles was understandably acclaimed for its bittersweet portrayal of later life. It would go on to become an animated film, with voice…
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Olivia Sualdea has always shown an acute understanding of how to utilise potent visual metaphor to convey emotional state through the delicate control of panel-to-panel flow in her pages. That…
ZeppelinMoon is part of a growing movement of irreverent Instagram cartoonists racking up serious numbers with content that is by turns relatable and ridiculous or often both. Our Jenny Robins…
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In a Stathis Tsemberlidis comic, narrative is almost secondary to the pure immersive visual experience the reader finds themselves engulfed by. Hisashi, his latest offering under the Decadence banner, is…
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…
Tillie Walden’s ability to root the profoundly human in the dreamily fantastical and make it seem all the more recognisable and universal for those extravagant visual trappings has become one…
For a site that rarely puts up press releases we’ve put up an inordinate amount of Rebellion ones over the last few weeks. But with the 2000 AD publisher announcing…
One summer and two young lives, separated but inextricably linked. That’s the essential premise of Belgian artist Max de Radiguès’ Simon & Louise, the translated version of which comes to…
Olympia’s extra-sized opener marks the first chapter of a series that was conceived by comics writer Curt Pires and his father Tony during the latter’s cancer treatment. It’s a book…
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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Collecting the first chapters of Mei Lian Hoe’s webcomic series in print, My Husband is a Cultist is an offbeat romantic comedy that combines the amiable antics of its often…
While Christmas may still seem a long way off, the pre-holidays solicits are full of festive themed comics. BOOM! Studios have announced the latest entry in their own annual Yuletide…
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James Romberger’s For Real is a narrative of layers. Not just in the overlapping timeframes of its main comics story ‘The Oven’ but also in the supplementary essay that follows…
The immediate thing the reader takes away from the first issue of Matt Kindt, Matt Smith and company’s Folklords is what a sublimely perfect issue it is in terms of…
