The Uncle Bob Adventures allow Darryl Cunningham to mischievously genre jump, opening up a world of story opportunities for his most affable central character. Darryl Cunningham has become renowned over the…
If you are new to Lizz Lunney’s idiosyncratic comic strips and their resplendently ridiculous narratives then this is the collection that your bookshelf is just begging to house. If there…
Rachael Smith is one of the rapidly rising stars of the British comics scene. Her self-published comic I Am Fire gained critical acclaim last year, including here at Broken Frontier…
Career-conscious overachievers need not apply! With its themed subtitle ‘Jobs’, and its gleefully cynical approach to the world of work, the latest Steak Night anthology from the team at Records…
Alex Brady’s meticulously rendered work featured in ‘Small Pressganged’ last year when I wrote about her memorable visual interpretation of Bob Dylan’s Ordinary Street here. Ex Libris: A Collection of Unusual…
Welcome to Arcadia Falls, a civilisation with a difference and one that is about to be overrun by a contagion with a chilling origin… Sometimes the best ideas are the…
This second issue of Robert Brown’s comic strip reminiscences has been a while in coming but those who found his wistful recollections of his younger days in #1 so evocative…
The third edition of Tiny Pencil – the artzine promoting graphite-based goodness through a mix of illustration and comic strips – is subtitled The Beast Issue, and comes with a…
Chronos Commandos is never afraid to embrace cliché and proudly proclaim it as a narrative strength! Earth, the Cretaceous period, and a battle for the timelines is being fought by an…
Captivating, endearing and brilliantly absurd. Published collaboratively between Germany’s altcomics outfit Rotopolpress and Blank Slate Books in the UK, Pimo & Rex is the creation of German artist Thomas Wellmann….
Taking its name from a complex form of optical illusion, Jon Vermilyea’s Fata Morgana is a wordless journey through a young boy’s dreamscape, published by the never less than impressive…
EdieOP is a creator who delights in fashioning work that is mischievously unsettling. Hers is a world of painful childhood mishaps and acts of gleeful spite, where recklessness is the…
Those pictures that are worth a thousand words? That’s small change for a Sergio Aragonés illo. Sadly, Sergio Aragonés Funnies #12 marks the last issue of this humour masterclass to…
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If I were to say that Score and Script is an anthology title quite unlike any other I have reviewed in ‘Small Pressganged’ I would be making a claim that,…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
I’ve noticed a subtle shift in the tone of British small press creator Sean Azzopardi’s slice-of-life comics work over the last year or two. Gone are the thinly disguised avatars…
The juxtaposition of the commonplace and the everyday with the fantastic and the bizarre makes Mengelmoes an unpredictably intriguing read throughout. For those wondering, Mengelmoes means something akin to “mish-mash”…
Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other Stories… sees John Cei Douglas’s lingering and poignant comics collected into one mandatory package from British publisher Great Beast. It includes…
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Today, in the spirit of pushing some of those artists whose work really should have a greater fanbase, I am going to…
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