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Author: Andy Oliver

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The Complete Rainbow Orchid

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 8, 2013

Well over a decade in the making, to call Garen Ewing’s The Rainbow Orchid a labour of love would be an understatement of the most epic proportions. It’s 1920s Britain…

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Eustace

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 5, 2013

With a deliciously morbid wit, debut graphic novelist S.J. Harris delivers a biting satire on the skewed mores of 1930s Britain in Eustace, his dark comedy of manners, published by…

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The Grinning Man

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2013

Andrew Warwick’s The Grinning Man is a true embodiment of the traditions of the Victorian ghost story, but set firmly in a near contemporary Britain. In this grimly foreboding tale…

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Swear Down

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2013

Part walking diary, part social observation, part slice-of-life, and part love letter to landscape and architecture, Oliver East’s books have that rarest and most inspiring of all things in the…

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Cocoon Motel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2013

German small press creator Sharmila Banerjee’s Cocoon Motel is a darkly comic 14-pager detailing the life cycle of the Atlas moth. It’s published under the Salmiak imprint, part of the…

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Nobrow 8: Hysteria

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2013

A perfect entry point to the Nobrow outlook and a reminder that it’s not hyperbolic to state that the publisher continues to produce some of the most beautiful examples of…

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Beginner’s Luck

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2013

RJ Casey and David Alvarado’s Beginner’s Luck takes that old story of a small-time loser coming good only to squander his lucky break, and adds an ostentatiously surreal, aquatic twist to…

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Robotnik

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 26, 2013

Douglas Noble’s Robotnik is a troubled little automaton. He has mechanical body issues. He’s waiting with some concern for the imminent robot revolution. Oh, and his infatuated pursuit of Gabriel…

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Trading Up: Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 25, 2013

When a standard survey mission to the world of Phaedus IV goes awry, the crew of the Enterprise find themselves embroiled in an ongoing conflict between the planet’s insectoid inhabitants….

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East London Comics and Arts Festival 2013: Looking back at Nobrow’s ELCAF

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 24, 2013

The second East London Comics and Arts Festival (ELCAF) hit the U.K.’s capital on Saturday boasting an amazing array of altcomics, indie publishers, micro and small pressers from across Europe,…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Zarina Liew

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2013

Fashion illustrator and webcomics artist Zarina Liew is the creator behind manga-influenced webcomic Le Mime, the dreamy The Art of Sleep collection and her new fashion-based webcomic The Higgs. She…

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Listen Again to Woodrow Phoenix Interviewing Jaime Hernandez at BD & Comics Passion

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2013

One of the absolute highlights of this year’s BD & Comics Passion festival at the Institut français in London was Woodrow Phoenix’s interview with the legendary Jaime Hernandez, brought to…

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kuš komiksi: š! #13

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2013

Founded in 2007, the aims of Latvian publisher kuš komiksi are twofold: to provide a showcase for the art form in a country with little tradition in comics, and also…

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Dementia Dad

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2013

While Hannah Lee Miller’s Dementia Dad may concern itself with heartrending subject matter it’s a 15-page comic that is utterly uplifting in tone and presentation. An entry in the autobio…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Gill Hatcher and Team Girl Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2013

With seven issues published since the group was founded in 2009, the Scottish all-woman collective behind anthology Team Girl Comic have become an established presence on the U.K. small press…

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Naming Monsters

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 12, 2013

Hannah Eaton’s idiosyncratic psychodrama is an absorbing mix of the quirky, the sinister, and the very human, and yet another perceptive publishing choice for the Myriad back catalogue. It’s the…

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Everything Takes Forever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2013

Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever, published by Koyama Press, is a collection of the Manhattan-situated artist’s splendidly peculiar and dreamlike comic strips. Characters with tacos for heads compete with the…

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Ordinary Street

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2013

Taking the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s 1965 song ‘Desolation Row’ as inspiration, Ordinary Street is a haunting and sometimes surreal journey through a world of urban decay and moral ambiguity….

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