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    Revenger by Charles Forsman (Oily Comics)

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    Revenger #1 – Charles Forsman Steps Back to the 1980s for a Burst of Stripped-Down Retro Action

    • by Tom Murphy
    • January 27, 2015

    In a sharp change of direction from his usual insights into troubled youth, acclaimed cartoonist and publisher Charles Forsman joins the nostalgic trend for low-brow exploitation comics. I’m sure someone much…

    Nu by Sacha Goerg (Oily Comics)

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    Bastard #1 and Nu #1 – Oily Comics Broadens Its Horizons with a Pair of Fine European Mini-comics

    • by Tom Murphy
    • October 8, 2014

    Bastard and Nu, two accessible and enjoyable European mini-comic series by Max de Radigués and Sacha Goerg, make their English-language debut courtesy of Oily Comics. This Summer’s bundle of goodies from…

    The Lizard Laughed by Noah Van Sciver (Oily Comics)

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    The Lizard Laughed – Noah Van Sciver’s Book for Oily Comics is a Polished Little Gem

    • by Tom Murphy
    • May 1, 2014

    Noah Van Sciver delivers an intense and claustrophobic portrait of a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Oily Comics (the mini-comics vehicle of cartoonist Charles Forsman) may have changed its publishing model of…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    TEOTFW

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 28, 2013

    Originally published via his minicomics imprint Oily Comics, Charles Forsman’s The End of the Fucking World was recently collected by Fantagraphics Books. Now, for a committed champion of SP books…

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    Lou #1-15

    • by Andy Oliver
    • July 10, 2013

    Melissa Mendes’s Lou follows the adventures of the titular 9-year-old tomboy, her two brothers – the younger John and older Eddie, and an extended cast of friends and family. Published by…

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