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Author: Tom Baker

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A New Jerusalem – The Second World War Comes Home in Benjamin Dickson’s New Internationalist Graphic Novel

  • by Tom Baker
  • February 28, 2019

The further you get from an event, the more the specifics of what happened dissipate into hazy generalities. It’s on turning and looking back at the Second World War from…

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Jazz Creepers #1 – Douglas Noble’s Anthology Unearths Horrors of the Past by Comics Talent of Tomorrow

  • by Tom Baker
  • October 18, 2018

Any good M.R. James story — or more appropriately, what with this being a comics site and all, any good Hellboy short — will see an old, seemingly forgotten myth…

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The Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels’ Seminal Text Brought to the Comics Page by Martin Rowson and SelfMadeHero

  • by Tom Baker
  • September 11, 2018

Communism is back baby. It’s good again. Awoouu (wolf howl). It may still be a dirty word to those on the right and centre, but a century after the October…

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Lumen #1 – Tony McMillen Takes Us on a Trip to a World of “Shadows, Monsters, Magic and Mechazoids”

  • by Tom Baker
  • September 5, 2018

Tony McMillen’s elevator pitch for his one-man, small-press miniseries Lumen name checks Michel Fiffe’s Copra. Not only does the first issue follow Fiffe’s lead in being written, drawn, lettered, inked…

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Dark Angels of Darkness – Go Nagai, Tom Sicoli and Kid’s Playtime Collide in Al Gofa’s Peow Debut

  • by Tom Baker
  • August 23, 2018

Like Tom Sicoli redrawing a chapter of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure from memory, Al Gofa’s Dark Angels of Darkness is a self-referential, handmade, aggressively masculine and incredibly goofy action comic. Its…

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Dalston Monsterzz – Dilraj Mann’s Stylish Graphic Novel Delivers His Most Ambitious Comics Narrative to Date

  • by Tom Baker
  • June 29, 2018

Dalston Monsterzz is Dilraj Mann’s largest work to date. Literally, since, at 80 pages, it dwarfs the lengths of any of his minicomic of anthology work. Physically, in that it…

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Decadence Comics – Decaying Forms and Abstract Comics

  • by Tom Baker
  • June 22, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! A drawing of a person is not a person. It might be recognisable as a representation of a person, but the complex systems of tissue and bone and…

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“That’s the Thing I Love about Comics: the Multitude of Possibilities of Approaches and Processes and Results” – Talking with João Sobral about Scottish Micropublisher O Panda Gordo

  • by Tom Baker
  • June 21, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! João Sobral established O Panda Gordo in 2011 in his native Portugal, before upping sticks and moving over to Glasgow in 2014. It’s here that the nascent publisher/distributor…

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“Books that We Want to Read, but also Books that We Feel Other People Wouldn’t Publish” – Olle Forsslöf and Patrick Crotty on the Peow Studio Philosophy

  • by Tom Baker
  • June 19, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! The last time we spoke with Swedish micropublishing dynamos Peow Studio, they were coming off a hot streak of Ignatz nominations and a blockbuster Kickstarter campaign that funded…

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‘The Empty Space’ and ‘Dog Days’ – Two Beautiful, Bittersweet Books from Centrala

  • by Tom Baker
  • June 15, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT!  Centrala are a publishing house which originated in Poland, before making the move to South London, focussed primarily on translating and distributing the work of European artists. One…

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The Ideal Copy – A Rip-Roaring, Rib-Tickling Romp from Ben Sears and Koyama Press

  • by Tom Baker
  • May 3, 2018

The first Double + story, starring the begoggled Plus Man and his robot buddy Hank, appeared on the Study Group Comics blog in 2014. In the four short years since…

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Tottenham’s Trojan Horse? – Mark Panton and Amanda Lillywhite Provide Dire Warnings About Gentrification in the Name of Football

  • by Tom Baker
  • April 5, 2018

In his book Parklife, journalist Nick Varley traced the relationship between football and the British working classes, from the inception of the professional game to the then-present day of 1999….

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Sex Fantasy – Intimacy Isn’t Easy in Sophia Foster-Dimino’s Koyama Press Collection

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 28, 2018

BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BREAKOUT TALENT NOMINEE! A warning to the prurient: there is precious little sex in Sex Fantasy. Instead this collection of Sophia Foster-Dimino’s self-published comics investigates the…

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Dry County #1 – Autobio Meets Hardboiled in Rich Tommaso’s New Image Comics Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 21, 2018

The classic pulp detective story and the self-loathing alternative comic are two genres that, on paper, couldn’t be more different. Nonetheless, they make for strange yet surprisingly simpatico bedfellows in…

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The Wicked + The Divine: 1923 – Gillen and Koch’s Genre-Influenced Murder-Mystery One-Shot Contains a Deeper Meta Commentary

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 12, 2018

As if it’s taken this long for a Gillen and McKelvie joint to take the form of a bona fide murder-mystery story? It’s like when J.K. Rowling did her straight…

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Page to Stage – Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s Astro Boy-Influenced Manga ‘Pluto’ at the Barbican

  • by Tom Baker
  • February 19, 2018

Everyone appears to have accepted cinematic adaptations of comic books as totally natural, but the theatre is another matter. There are the odd examples of blockbuster stage translations of comics…

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I’m Not Here – GG’s Study of Isolation from Koyama Press is Quiet and Sad but Not Devoid of Hope

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 14, 2017

For a hot minute at the turn of the millennium, the hot trend in superhero comics was for “widescreen” page layouts. That is, panels that took up the breadth of…

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4 Kids Walk into a Bank – Pulp Fiction Meets Middle-School Reality in the Heist Thriller’s Trade Paperback Collection

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 7, 2017

King of quirk Wes Anderson’s first film, Bottle Rocket, is distinct from the rest of his oeuvre in genre if not style. It’s a crime thriller. More than that, it’s…

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