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Author: Andy Oliver

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The Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2013

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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Metrodome

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 12, 2013

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,…

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Grey Area #2: The Old Straight Track

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2013

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….

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Wu Wei: A Spiritual Comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 8, 2013

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…

Features

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The DFC Library in Softcover

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 7, 2013

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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Tabatha #1-2

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2013

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…

Reviews

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Downtown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 29, 2013

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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Hitsville UK #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2013

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…

Blog

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Etherington Brothers Announce Once-in-a-Lifetime Monkey Nuts Auction

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 24, 2013

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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Régis Loisel’s Peter Pan

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 24, 2013

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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Jonah and Seven Blows to the Head

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2013

“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…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Chris Smith and the Nazi Zombies from Hell #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 16, 2013

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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Sky in Stereo #2

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2013

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…

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Tickets Available for Rutu Modan in Comica Conversation with Hannah Berry

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2013

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  –…

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Deep in the Woods

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2013

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…

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Pancakes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2013

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,…

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Lou #1-15

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 10, 2013

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…

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Bimba #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2013

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…

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