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Author: Andy Oliver

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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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Science Tales, New Edition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2013

Darryl Cunningham’s use of the comic strip form in Science Tales as an investigative journalistic tool to bust some of the popular myths about contemporary scientific issues was one of the…

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Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2013

Collecting the first forty strips of creator Richy K. Chandler’s popular webcomic series, Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses takes us to an undersea realm both vibrantly fantastical,…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Mike Medaglia and Wu Wei

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2013

Mike Medaglia’s Wu Wei – a spiritual comics anthology with an emphasis on eastern philosophy – looks set to be one of the highlights of the U.K. small press publishing…

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Formidable! – Looking Back on BD & Comics Passion 2013

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2013

Since its debut in the autumn of 2011, the BD & Comics Passion festival at London’s Institut français has rapidly become an essential – even obligatory – date for the diary in our…

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The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel 2013

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2013

Science fiction anthology book The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel is a collection of one-shot tales overseen by the same editorial eye that brought us last year’s rather witty Doctor…

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Wrong Songs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2013

Dan Cox’s Wrong Songs is a collection of inventively bizarre takes on children’s nursery rhymes from the same gent who co-created the madcap music industry book Hitsville UK (shortly to…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Katriona Chapman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2013

Katriona Chapman can count comics as just one part of a varied career in the world of illustration. Co-editor of the recently launched anthology artszine Tiny Pencil, Katriona’s self-published work…

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