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Author: Andy Oliver

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And then Emily Was Gone #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2013

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,…

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The Megatherium Club Volume 1: The Great Ape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2013

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…

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Tiny Pencil #2.0: Mammals, Monsters & Mars!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 16, 2013

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!,…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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kuš komiksi: mini kuš! #14-17

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2013

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…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Yeti Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2013

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…

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Blood Blokes #3

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2013

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,…

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Team Girl Comic #8

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 9, 2013

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…

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Dates for Your Diaries: Sophie’s World, the Cartoon Museum’s Age of Glamour and Comica Comiket

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 9, 2013

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…

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Tales from Scene City #3

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 6, 2013

Rob Cureton’s Tales from Scene City is set in the eponymous locale of the title wherein each district is inhabited by devotees of a different musical movement. In the issues…

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iHero #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 4, 2013

What if apps for super-powers were as prevalent as all our other social media and downloading tools? What if we could access fantastic abilities at the touch of a tablet…

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Biografiktion

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 3, 2013

The fantastic secret lives of ABBA and Eddie Murphy are revealed to the public at last in the Nobrow compilation of this cult European series. Berlin small press collective Edition…

Reviews

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Death & the Girls

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2013

Death & the Girls takes us to an eerie, hallucinatory world of violence, vomit and voyeurism, all infused with the distinctive imagery of Mexican folklore. Betsy, Bunny and Batstone –…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Playing Out

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2013

Playing Out combines Medway’s lively cartooning comedy with an incisive eye for slice-of-life observational analysis. It’s most appropriate to be reviewing Jim Medway’s Playing Out at this time of year…

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Small Press Spotlight on… A J Poyiadgi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 30, 2013

A J Poyiadgi is a creator with a deservedly growing profile on the U.K. small press scene. Coming to prominence when his comic Teapot Therapy was shortlisted for the Observer/Jonathan…

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TEOTFW

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 28, 2013

Originally published via his minicomics imprint Oily Comics, Charles Forsman’s The End of the Fucking World was recently collected by Fantagraphics Books. Now, for a committed champion of SP books…

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Long Lost Lempi

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2013

Adam Vian’s Long Lost Lempi is a whimsical piece of stylised fantasy that has most obviously been constructed as a true labour of love by its creator. When we join…

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‘The Gigantic Beard that was Evil’ Wins 9th Art Award at Edinburgh International Book Festival

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 25, 2013

At the Edinburgh International Book Festival this afternoon the winner of Graphic Scotland’s inaugural 9th Art Award for the best full-length English language graphic novel of the last year was…

Reviews

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Fish Head Steve!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 23, 2013

Ferocious slapstick, scatological silliness and surreal visual gags with a mischievous appeal for its young target audience. Welcome to Spumville, a small town where something rather curious has just occurred….

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