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Thought Bubble Staff Picks – Six Small Press Debuts Including SID, Cafe Suada. Street Dawgz and More!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 22, 2017

It’s Thought Bubble, and you know what that means: a fresh load of debut small press comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting the festival tables, BF’s resident…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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SID – A Sprawling, Psychological Journey through a Fractured Mindscape from the Remarkable Olivia Sullivan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2017

DEBUTING AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Artist Olivia Sullivan is one of two of our 2017 Broken Frontier ‘Six Small Press Creators to Watch‘ whose exposure on the site so far this…

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Small Press Spotlight on… ‘Something City’ with Ellice Weaver

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2017

SMALL PRESS DAY IS COMING! In January of last year we told you all that Ellice Weaver was an artist to keep the closest of eyes on and we weren’t wrong!…

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Something City – Ellice Weaver’s Stunning Debut Graphic Novel Takes Us on an Entrancing Transitory Tour of a Patchwork World

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! One of the most eagerly awaited debuts of 2017, Something City – Ellice Weaver’s first graphic novel – is innovative, distinctive and the product of an artist with a singular…

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A Thousand Coloured Castles – Graphic Medicine Meets Twee Middle Class Suburbia in Gareth Brookes’s Darkly Comedic Triumph

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 28, 2017

MYRIAD WEEK! This re-imagining of twee middle class suburbia, as seen through the fractured lens of a distinctively Brookesian eyeglass, is a visual triumph. There are things we have come…

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“It’s True that I Despise All Humanity but People as Individuals Are Always Beautiful to a Degree” – Gareth Brookes on Experimentation, the Zine Scene and ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 26, 2017

MYRIAD WEEK! The winner of the very first Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition for his debut book The Black Project, Gareth Brookes is an artist whose reach straddles both the…

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