Collecting the long-running webcomic (previously presented in a number of self-published print issues over the years), Jessica Kingsley Publishing’s Lucy the Octopus brings together all of the adventures of Richy…
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 or digital storefront, the…
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Richy K. Chandler has been self-publishing comics online and in print through his Tempo Lush imprint for a number of years now. Outside of his Lucy the Octopus webcomic, he’s…
Richy K. Chandler’s Lucy the Octopus has always been a comic with a penchant for interacting with its audience. From the sense of community that exists in its back pages…
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Here’s our monthly spotlight on accessible online work covering creators who have appeared in ‘Small Pressganged’ in the past at Broken…
Beginning on Monday 24th February the second edition of WASP – the Webcomic Artist Swap Project overseen by Lucy the Octopus creator Richy K. Chandler – will see another batch…
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If ever a comic added entirely new layers to the term “guilty pleasure” then it’s Richy K. Chandler’s Lucy the Octopus. The tale of a young schoolgirl cephalopod ostracised by…
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Richy K. Chandler is a comics creator whose work embraces both the tactile and the digital through his Tempo Lush publishing brand. The cartoonist behind the popular Lucy the Octopus…
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Collecting the first forty strips of creator Richy K. Chandler’s popular webcomic series, Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses takes us to an undersea realm both vibrantly fantastical,…
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