One thing that always make the output of Latvian publisher kuš a welcome read is that, whether it’s in their digest-sized anthology š! or the mini kuš series of minicomics,…
It’s important to mention from the outset that today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ choice – The Man Called Uncle Tim #1 – is not so much a comic book as a zine that employs…
Over a Safari Festival weekend in which desirable comics treasures were in abundant supply, and attendees could be forgiven for lapsing into sequential art sensory overload, there were nonetheless a…
Admirers of the comics output of Myriad Editions will be pleased to know that the Brighton based publisher has announced a major new graphic novel in their schedule for 2015….
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For those outside of the world of comics Jessica Martin will be best known as a versatile performer on both stage and screen – whether as star of musical theatre,…
The first two issues of Tim Bird’s Grey Area – psychogeographical comic narratives that are a perfect complement to the work of creators like Oliver East and Simon Moreton –…
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When you cross over to “the sunny side of sinister” with small press artist EdieOP you enter the wicked imagination of a creator whose twisted and gleefully nefarious narratives are…
It was billed as “a celebration of the new wave of alternative and art comics from the UK and beyond” and last weekend’s Safari Festival in London’s Shoreditch most assuredly…
A creator unafraid to cross both genres and demographic appeal through his Illustrator: Lam imprint, Mickey Lam is a regular face at London’s small press comics fairs. His work ranges…
Deconstructing an ‘80s Patrick Swayze movie in graphic novel form is an exercise in comics making that sounds so obscure that it couldn’t even aspire to reaching a niche audience….
How would you react if you discovered that everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie? That you owed your entire existence to history’s greatest monster? And that…
David Robertson’s Dump anthology is one of those refreshingly old school small press publications that embody the DIY culture of self-publishing with an unashamedly eclectic collection of shorts. Published under…
“The story of one man’s journey from a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy teenager in Cape Town to a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy adult in Oxford” is how Ian Norris’s autobiographical comic Fixed…
Reading the entire run of Joe Sparrow’s Omnipathy – a series of minicomics offering self-contained stories in genres that have so far included science fiction, horror and fantasy – in…
For Michelle, Siobhan and Neil – three aimless recently graduated housemates – life has not lived up to expectations since they left university. Would-be writer Michelle is trapped in a…
This past weekend saw a whole host of events at the British Library as the hugely popular Comics Unmasked exhibition reached its final days. On Friday night Panel Borders’ Alex…
For fans of classic British comic weeklies the big news from yesterday’s day of Comica Festival Conversations at the British Library came from the ‘Draw Misty for Me’ panel. The event,…
If there’s one thing that constantly attracts me to Sarah Gordon’s artwork it’s its vibrancy and animated energy. That was very much on show in Last Tape in Hell – the minicomic which…
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