Comica Festival Comiket April 2013 – A Punter’s Perspective
There’s never been a better time to renounce the bile-flinging antics of the super-hero-obsessed message board culture, and get out there and experience the true face of the British comics…
Author: Andy Oliver
Trading Up: Kick-Ass 2 Prelude: Hit-Girl
At its core, this Hit-Girl run is about one very damaged little girl trying to connect with a reality she cannot even begin to understand. The original Kick-Ass series was…
Comica Festival Comiket Hits London this Saturday
A quick reminder that this Saturday 20th April sees the return of the Comica Festival Comiket – the essential twice-yearly marketplace showcasing self-published comics, the small press and Indiecentric British…
Grey Area #1: While the City Sleeps – Tim Bird Uses Architecture and Environment to Reflect Nocturnal Mood and Emotion
Published by Avery Hill, whose anthology Reads! I reviewed here on ‘Small Pressganged’ last year, Tim Bird’s Grey Area #1 is a sequential art tour of London’s streets, thoroughfares and hidden corners at night. Three…
Celebrating 2012: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
Small Pressganged is Broken Frontier’s weekly column designed to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked world of small press, self-published and altcomics. Every week we provide a mix of…
Reads #1-2 – Avery Hill Publishing’s Anthology is an Unpredictable Melting Pot of Creative Techniques and Subject Matter
Reads, the anthology title published by Avery Hill, has something of an old school small press feel to it – in the two issues currently available there’s a real sense…
Brooklyn Dreams – DeMatteis and Barr’s Darkly-Humoured Meditation on Truth and the Efficacy of Memory is an Exultant Masterpiece of Sequential Art
Brooklyn Dreams is one of those delightful occasions in your comics-reading experience when writer and artist seem so synchronised – so completely, overwhelmingly in tune with each other – that…
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