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Author: Tom Baker

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The Collected John G. Miller 1980-89, 1990-1999, 2000-2011 – A Genre Unto Himself: The Dizzyingly Brilliant Collected John G. Miller

  • by Tom Baker
  • March 1, 2023

J.G. Ballard was a great writer, but his books could always be shorter. That’s not a critique — the man himself was always reaching for greater brevity, the better for…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos – B-Movies and Existential Terror Abound in S. Craig Zahler’s Dark Horse Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • January 18, 2023

Reports of UFO sightings and alien abduction begin roughly around the same time manned space flights began. As ghosts represent the landed gentry’s guilt over their legacies, Dracula’s a xenophobic…

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Coming Home #1 – A Moving Exploration of Military Veterans’ Struggles

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 21, 2022

Like all popular forms, comic books have long been used for propaganda purposes. From Commando War Stories in Pictures to Marvel’s moronic Northrop Grumman collab, they inevitably reflect militaristic orthodoxy. The West…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Russia 2018: A World Cup Journal – Sputnikat Press Offers a Gimlet-Eyed, Picaresque Journey through Compromised Footballand

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 15, 2022

You have to put up with a lot as a football fan. In that sense, they actually have a surprising amount in common with their natural nemesis: the comic book…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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John’s Worth – Cosmic Horror, Action Men and Psychedelic Nastiness Abound in Jon Chandler’s Breakdown Press Offering

  • by Tom Baker
  • December 6, 2022

Obviously there’s a lot of gross stuff flying about in (most) David Cronenberg films, but when I first encountered his work as a gore-hungry teen, I’d already had access to…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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Hell Phone Book One – Busting Ghosts While Looking Good in Benji Nate’s Hauntingly Stylish Comic

  • by Tom Baker
  • November 17, 2022

Hunting ghosts is a messy business, you’d think. Cobwebs getting in your hair, ectoplasm spraying this way and that, decrepit old houses absolutely covered in dust. That’s no excuse for…

Reviews

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Damn Them All #1 – A Superior Hellblazer Tribute Act from Adlard and Spurrier

  • by Tom Baker
  • October 28, 2022

What’s to be done with John Constantine? In the almost forty years since his debut, we’ve weathered seemingly every possible permutation of the Hellblazer. He’s been a Sting-styled occult foil…

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Reviews

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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…

Features

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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…

Eyecatcher · Features

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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…

Eyecatcher · Reviews

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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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