The Festival
Jazz Greenhill’s The Festival follows the misadventures of Ari, Lynda and Rob, three kids attending their first music festival with their parents. This troublesome but endearing trio sneak out of…
Jazz Greenhill’s The Festival follows the misadventures of Ari, Lynda and Rob, three kids attending their first music festival with their parents. This troublesome but endearing trio sneak out of…
Metrodome is the latest offering from the warped imaginations of writer Craig Collins and artist Iain Laurie, combining playful storytelling experimentation with deviously demented all-out carnage. These two gents are,…
Tim Bird’s Grey Area is a comic that pushes environment to the forefront, making geographical locations its central characters and replacing traditional plotting with a flowing journey of contemplative reflection….
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The stated aim of Wu Wei is to provide “an anthology that gives writers and artists a space to creatively explore spirituality through the medium of comics.” If you’re wondering…
Last week saw the re-release of five books from the children’s comics specialists The DFC Library in new softcover editions. For those unaware of The DFC it was a brave…
Writer Neil Gibson is back, with one of his most chilling and unpredictable thrillers to date… Earlier this year in ‘Small Pressganged’ I reviewed the two volumes of Twisted Dark…
Noel Lang and Rodrigo Garcia’s gently humorous Downtown is an inspiring look into the everyday life of Blo, a boy with Down’s Syndrome, and his likeable group of pals. “The…
Surreal music industry send-up Hitsville UK was one of the earliest books to be covered in ‘Small Pressganged’ so I was particularly pleased when I heard that Adam Cadwell and…
We’ve always been big fans of the all-ages work of those fraternal fictioneers the Etherington Brothers here at Broken Frontier. If there’s such a thing as a national treasure in…
Soaring Penguin Press’s exquisite repackaging of this extraordinary reinterpretation of the timeless children’s favourite is undoubtedly one of the most essential graphic novel collections of the year. London, 1887, and…
“The sunny side of sinister” is the tagline EdieOP uses to describe her work on her website and I can think of no more appropriate soundbite to describe this wickedly…
A future dystopia, a likeable loner who can talk to God, and the re-animated corpses of the Nazi undead all feature in the first offering from Dapper Chimp Press. There…
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The North of England in the Nineties and teenage student Iris’s life is fast becoming defined by her experimentation with drugs in Mardou’s slice-of-lifer from Yam Books… Last year I…
Rutu Modan in Comica Conversation with Hannah Berry! Rutu Modan will be speaking with Hannah Berry at Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London on August 21st, 6.30-8pm, tickets £6 –…
Two young women, two quests, and two entrancingly menacing takes on the folk tale tradition make up Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman’s double header Deep in the Woods from…
A household chat over the breakfast table may not seem the most dynamic of starting points but all is not as it seems in Kat Leyh’s Pancakes from Yeti Press,…
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…
In her own words British comics artist Donya Todd created the anthology Bimba as a showcase for “kick-ass female artists”. The first issue features not just Todd’s work but also…
“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