The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
A heady mix of the spellbinding, the poignant, the wacky and, at times, the heartbreaking, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is a book worth both the wait and the hype…
Author: Andy Oliver
Afterlife with Archie #1
One careless moment, one dreadful accident, and one terrible, misguided decision. Dominoes begin to topple in a chain of cause and effect that will change the lives of the residents…
The Black Project
Clandestine first love with a papier mache twist is the order of the day in this remarkable debut graphic novel from creator Gareth Brookes. No doubt all of us can…
Story(cycle)
Kathryn Briggs’s Story(cycle) was completed as part of her Master of Fine Art degree this year. Ostensibly it’s an examination of the hero archetype as embodied in mythology in Joseph…
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs!
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! is an absolute gem of all-ages storytelling – vibrant, animated and utterly endearing. Dave, Ronnie, Natasha, Thomas and Reggie aren’t your usual gang of…
Crawl Hole
It’s time to take another trip into the tortured psyches of Messrs Collins and Laurie and become witness to twisted familial obligations, breakfast time in Hell, and the social faux…
British Comic Awards Nominees 2013 Announced!
This year’s shortlist for the British Comic Awards has just been released providing a telling reflection of the robust creative health and rich diversity of the art form on these…
A Handful of Groats
It may have a middle ages setting but all that’s missing from Rob Jackson’s A Handful of Groats to fully underline its Western genre influences is an Ennio Morricone soundtrack….
Special Language #1
Emma Mould and Andrew Godfrey’s Special Language #1 is an uncompromising account of the two and a half months Mould spent in a psychiatric facility in Bath in the summer…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Small Press Spotlight on… Richy K. Chandler
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…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
And then Emily Was Gone #1
Greg Hellinger, a former policeman who is now haunted by visions of monsters wherever he goes, is a troubled man. His world is about to get a lot more complicated,…
The Megatherium Club Volume 1: The Great Ape
Named after an extinct giant sloth, the Megatherium Club were a group of largely amateur scientists who operated in Washington in the late 1850s to the early 1860s, enticed there…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Tiny Pencil #2.0: Mammals, Monsters & Mars!
Tiny Pencil, the artzine that celebrates all things graphite, returned this summer with a second issue focusing on all-ages fun, games and activities. This edition, subtitled Mammals, Monsters & Mars!,…
kuš komiksi: mini kuš! #14-17
Imagined anecdotes, an ode to equine-headed amour, hallucinatory parties, and adoptive elves all feature in the latest round of minicomics from the kuš comics range… The joy of Latvian publisher…
Small Press Spotlight on… Yeti Press
Established in 2011 by RJ Casey and Eric Roesner, Chicago-based Yeti Press are a micropublisher I’ve given continued review coverage to in ‘Small Pressganged’ since the Broken Frontier relaunch this…
Blood Blokes #3
One of the early offerings from the exciting, up-and-coming U.K. micropublisher Great Beast, Adam Cadwell’s Blood Blokes is vampire fiction for readers who hate vampire fiction. It centres on Vince,…
Team Girl Comic #8
The all-women collective behind small press anthology Team Girl Comic unveiled their eighth issue this summer with a carnival-themed launch party at Glasgow’s Plan B Books. I mention this not…
Dates for Your Diaries: Sophie’s World, the Cartoon Museum’s Age of Glamour and Comica Comiket
Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary is celebrated in Sophie’s World at Orbital, London’s Cartoon Museum invites us to the Age of Glamour and the autumn Comica Comiket date is announced. Details…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
“How Damaging and Dangerous this Techno-Fascist Hellscape We Are Already Living in Is” – KitsuneArt on the Threat of Generative AI, LGBTQ+ Comics Anthologies and Building a Profile on the SceneJune 18, 2026
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026