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“I Realised that I Had Basically Started a Micropublisher by Accident” – Josh Hicks Chats About the New Graphic Universe ‘Glorious Wrestling Alliance’ Collection and the Carp Publishing Endeavours Catalogue

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2021

THOUGHT BUBBLE FORTNIGHT! Kicking off our two weeks of dedicated Thought Bubble 2021 coverage today we begin with a chat with Josh Hicks, the creator behind the much loved Glorious…

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Exclusive Preview: Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Ultimate Championship Edition – Graphic Universe to Publish Josh Hicks’s Grappling Comics Classic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 21, 2021

Sometimes here at BF we’re aware of exciting developments well in advance of their official announcements. When it’s to do with our Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artists it makes…

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Death Machine & Gravy Train Stay Indoors – Josh Hicks Revisits His ‘Glorious Wrestling Alliance’ Cast in Lockdown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 24, 2021

While diary comics and graphic medicine anthologies surrounding the events of the last year have been in plentiful supply fiction – particularly fiction focusing on established characters with a long-running…

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Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Premium Special – The Eagerly Awaited Collection of Josh Hicks’s Outlandish and Slapstick Yet Touching and Poignant Comics Sitcom

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! There’s been an ongoing theme in our Thought Bubble coverage this year with a deliberate focus on books and creators we feel should have been picked up…

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Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Glorious Wrestling Alliance Premium Special – Josh Hicks Compiles Classic and All-New GWA Comics in One Essential Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 12, 2019

Every few weeks we sift through all the dozens of crowdfunding communications we receive here at BF each week to bring you a handful of the more intriguing, exciting, experimental…

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Glorious Wrestling Apocalypse – Tough Times Ahead for the GWA as Josh Hicks’s Colourful Comedy-Drama Cast Return for a Third Outing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2018

AVAILABLE AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! With effectively the third issue of his Glorious Wrestling Alliance series, 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six to Watch‘ artist Josh Hicks returns to the ring at Thought…

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Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Grappling Road – The Offbeat Cast of the GWA Return in Josh Hicks’s Much-Loved Small Press Sitcom

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 2, 2018

Back in 2016, the first edition of Glorious Wrestling Alliance– a gloriously silly send-up of the wrestling ring with a sprawling cast of endearingly ludicrous characters – convinced me to include…

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Thought Bubble 2017 Preview: Glorious Wrestling Alliance: Grappling Road – The World’s Weirdest Wrestlers Are Back Courtesy of ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Josh Hicks

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 7, 2017

Thought Bubble is coming and, in the fortnight leading up to the festival weekend, we’re running a series of previews at BF  of some of the debut books that have…

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Small Press Inside Look: Glorious Wrestling Alliance – Meet the Colourful Combatants of the GWA as Josh Hicks Examines His Creative Practice

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 9, 2017

Josh Hicks’s Glorious Wrestling Alliance came as something of a revelation to me when I reviewed it here last summer. I wasn’t expecting that on finishing this comedic take on those…

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Glorious Wrestling Alliance – Josh Hicks Pokes Fond Fun at the Grappling World in this Ensemble Character Piece

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2016

Triumphantly flamboyant exhibitionism to some… ludicrous, pointless pantomime to others… the world of wrestling is certainly a divisive one. Josh Hicks embraces these contradictions in his self-published short comic Glorious…

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