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    Author: Edward Picot

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    This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story – Hayley Gullen’s Funny, Frank and Insightful Graphic Memoir

    • by Edward Picot
    • September 4, 2025

    “One night in April 2022”, begins Hayley Gullen’s memoir, “PAIN PAIN PAIN. [thought bubble:] That’s weird… Wrong time of the month and only one boob. Oh. It’s stopped. [Yawn] I’ll…

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    The Stoneshore Register – A Subtle Story about Unresolved Mysteries from G. Willow Wilson, M.K. Perker and Dark Horse

    • by Edward Picot
    • August 15, 2025

    The plot of The Stoneshore Register is both simple and elusive. A refugee called Fadumo turns up looking for a job in a fishing town called Stoneshore, on the north…

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    The Ardent – Carl Antonowicz Takes Us on a Journey through a World of Grungy Cynicism

    • by Edward Picot
    • July 22, 2025

    The Ardent by Carl Antonowicz, from Fieldmouse Press, is set in an imaginary medieval land. It opens in a monastery which is closing down because its lands and buildings are…

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    The Colour Out of Space – Colour Reproduction; Gou Tanabe’s Adaptation Does Full Justice to Lovecraft’s Original Story

    • by Edward Picot
    • June 26, 2025

    “It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain…

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    It Rhymes with Takei – Set to Stun? George Takei’s New Graphic Memoir from Top Shelf Tells a Story of Coming Out Later in Life

    • by Edward Picot
    • June 3, 2025

    PRIDE MONTH 2025! George Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek. In 2019 he published They Called us Enemy, a graphic memoir which tells how he and his family,…

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    Souvenir – Sara L Jewell’s Memoir in Fragments from Fieldmouse Press

    • by Edward Picot
    • May 30, 2025

    Souvenir is described in the back-page blurb as Sara Jewell’s first graphic novel, but also as a “collection” – “In this deeply intimate collection, Sara Jewell searches for meaning in…

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    Motherlover – An Ultra-Slick Lesbian Romance from Lindsay Ishihiro and Iron Circus Comics

    • by Edward Picot
    • May 2, 2025

    The two lead characters in Motherlover have both already got kids. Queer romance, says the blurb, “tends to favor young love and coming out stories”, but Motherlover “begins where most…

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    Ever & Always – Gender Fluidity and Fantasy in Paddy Wolfe’s Webcomic Series

    • by Edward Picot
    • April 25, 2025

    Paddy Wolfe is a gender-fluid comics maker who, as they put it themself, creates stories “about nature, queerness, hope, the things I care about”. They might have added that their…

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    WetNurse #1 – Offbeat Tales from Nicholas J Woodhead, Via the Lethargic Margin

    • by Edward Picot
    • April 14, 2025

    Nicholas J Woodhead is a cartoonist from Birmingham, UK, who lives in London. His website is called Lethargic Margin Comics, and he is the creator of the “one-person anthology comic”…

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