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Author: Jenny Robins

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Oh No My Meta Irony Has Become So Popular No-one Knows what Reality is Anymore – Webcomic Name’s Alex Norris on His Overlapping Comic Practice, the Links Between Joy and Sadness and what the “Oh No” Voice Sounds Like

  • by Jenny Robins
  • June 18, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Alex Norris, aka Dorris McComics of Webcomic Name fame, approached the trend of relatable comics with a format that works through any number of layers of irony (including none) and…

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Relatable Stories Told with Wit, Whimsy and a Touch of Animal Magic – Rebecca K. Jones on Her Laydeez do Comics Prize-Nominated ‘Boomerang’ and the Struggles of Being Catless and Creative

  • by Jenny Robins
  • June 12, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Rebecca K. Jones is a London-based illustrator and comic artist, recently shortlisted for the Laydeez do Comics prize for her graphic novel project Boomerang. Her work addresses contemporary social…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Why Art? – Eleanor Davis Tackles the Big Question of Aesthetics with Acres of Wit and Pathos

  • by Jenny Robins
  • April 18, 2018

Why Art? Not What Art or When Art or How Art Thou? Eleanor Davis tackles one of those kind of stupid while at the same time super important questions with…

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Sugar: Life as a Cat – A Mesmerizingly Beautiful Rendition of the World According to the Cats of Serge Baeken; Eponymous Tomcat Sugar Will Steal Your Heart with His Deadpan Wisdom

  • by Jenny Robins
  • April 5, 2018

What is a cat but poetry in motion? Pure, silky, sinuous, graceful, deadly, and then in one moment suddenly utterly ungraceful as they fall off something, or into something. A…

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International Aces Centenary Edition – Chris Geary’s Handsomely Rendered Document of Heroism and Humanity, with Really, Really Good Sound Effects

  • by Jenny Robins
  • March 9, 2018

The special Centenary Edition of International Aces is a beautiful white boxed set of 4 volumes, each chronicling the lives of different flying aces from World War I; 14 in…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Only the End of the World Again – A Hardcover Reprint of a Story Old and Dark and Twisty Turny; a Joy to Read from Gaiman, Russell and Nixey

  • by Jenny Robins
  • January 25, 2018

Only the End of the World Again began life as a short story commissioned for Steven Jones’ compilation of fiction inspired by H.P. Lovecraft: Shadows Over Innsmouth in 1994. It…

Blog · Eyecatcher

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3 Reasons Why You Need to Read ‘Shade the Changing Girl’ by Cecil Castellucci and Marley Zarcone

  • by Jenny Robins
  • January 18, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST WRITER, BEST ARTIST AND BEST ONGOING SERIES NOMINEES! ‘3 Reasons Why You Need to Read…‘ is Broken Frontier’s semi-regular spotlight on a given serial comic that…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Portugal – An Alternately Candlelit and Sun-Soaked Musing on a Lusophilic Awakening of the Senses and the Importance of Family

  • by Jenny Robins
  • December 20, 2017

I have to say that I love Portugal more than any comic I’ve read since Moon and Ba’s Daytripper. I don’t know why, I must actually have a thing for…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Magritte: This is Not a Biography – Oh Yes it Is, Oh No it Isn’t, etc… Art History with a Healthy Helping of Hallucinatory Hat Hijinks

  • by Jenny Robins
  • December 11, 2017

What if you were writing a biography, and the (deceased) subject of your work was trying to stop you? No wait, that’s too simple. What if you didn’t want to…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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A Small Revolution – A Tongue-in-Cheek Yet Heartrending Political Fable by Boum from Soaring Penguin Press

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 3, 2017

Visually somewhere in the territory between Tekkonkinkreet and Henry Selick’s Coraline, the small in A Small Revolution can refer to the pre-teen anti-heroes at its heart. From the beginning, the mini-protagonist…

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Covers Album: Jenny Robins – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers by David Mack, Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá and Mike Kaluta

  • by Jenny Robins
  • October 4, 2017

In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Angelic #1 – A Candy Coloured Anthro-Cyber-Post-Apocalyptic Fun Fest with Obligatory Sinister Undertones

  • by Jenny Robins
  • September 22, 2017

Angelic – a candy coloured anthro-cyber-post-apocalyptic fun fest with obligatory sinister undertones. Pretty impossible to dislike, unless you don’t like the idea of verbose flying dolphins and winged monkeys dressed…

Eyecatcher · Features

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“I Wanted the Book to Read Like the Sound of a Piano Falling Down Stairs” – Gareth A Hopkins on His Abstract Comics Practice and ‘Found Forest Floor’

  • by Jenny Robins
  • September 11, 2017

“What is a comic?” is not that different a question from “what is art?”, although it may be debated less often and by different people. Don’t shoot me if I…

Reviews

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Samurai Chef – Mayamada’s Action-Packed TV Chef Manga (Warnings though, You May Never Look at a Plate of Food Quite the Same)

  • by Jenny Robins
  • August 8, 2017

I was very much up for reviewing Samurai Chef because it seemed to combine two things I enjoy – battle manga and competitive cooking shows. Turns out there’s more of…

Reviews

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Mania – Nominally a Comic Book Exploration of the Negative Stigma of Mental Illness from A.L.Ex Studios

  • by Jenny Robins
  • July 24, 2017

The premise of Mania, the series of comics put out by A.L.Ex Studios and soon to number three issues, had promise. Nothing new in the dystopian metropolis, the super-powered renegades, the…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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The Adventures of Team Pom Volume 1: Squid Happens – A Piece of Pure, Self-Published Risographed Joy from Isabel Roxas

  • by Jenny Robins
  • July 13, 2017

Attending the various comics and small press fairs in the calendar, we live in hope of those moments when you pick up something you’ve never seen before and fall utterly…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Scotland Yardie – That Mix of Very Smart and Very Silly that Makes the Best Satire from Bobby Joseph, Joseph Samuels and Knockabout

  • by Jenny Robins
  • June 8, 2017

From London comics publisher Knockabout, this full length crime thriller/farce is the latest incarnation of a character first born to his creators Bobby Joseph and Joe Samuels in their ’90s…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Eartha – A Surreal and Bittersweet Pastel-Hued Adventure from Cathy Malkasian for Fantagraphics

  • by Jenny Robins
  • May 3, 2017

Eartha is not so much a tale of two cities, as of two halves of the same paradox. The soft edges and subtle tones of Cathy Malkasian’s artwork and hand-drawn…

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