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    Author: Tom Murphy

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    Starman: Freddie Burretti, The Man Who Sewed the World – Paul B. Rainey Puts the Spotlight on One of David Bowie’s Key Collaborators

    • by Tom Murphy
    • June 9, 2020

    When David Bowie took his final bow (with typical panache) in 2016, cultural luminaries queued up to testify to the liberating and even life-changing inspiration he had provided. And one…

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    Roy of the Rovers: The Best of the 1970s (The Tiger Years) – Kick Back and Enjoy the Drama of The Beautiful Game 1970s-Style in a New ‘Roy of the Rovers’ Compilation

    • by Tom Murphy
    • May 28, 2020

    Of course, it’s possible that “@TheJeremyHaynes” – who apparently “helps take personal brands to 7 figures monthly” (sic) from his Miami headquarters – is actually the creation of a skilled…

    Wax Ever Grander by Oliver East

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    Wax Ever Grander – Oliver East’s New Comic Hums with the Energy of Spontaneous Drawing and Verbal Verve

    • by Tom Murphy
    • May 7, 2020

    If you’ve got a modicum of sense and taste, and can spare less than a quid a month, you may well have seen these strips develop pretty much day by…

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    Once & Future Vol. 1 – Gillen and Mora’s High-Energy Supernatural Romp Captures the Power of Myth and Magic

    • by Tom Murphy
    • April 22, 2020

    The number of reprints indicated in the cover gallery at the end of this collection reveal that Once & Future – written by Kieron Gillen and with artwork by Dan…

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    Familiar Face – Michael DeForge Spotlights the Impermanence and Insecurity of the Shifting Contemporary World

    • by Tom Murphy
    • April 14, 2020

    For all the surface appeal of Michael DeForge’s frenetic pop surrealism, his real gift is an ability to use that dazzle to land punches of sobering pathos and wry commentary…

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    Nothing – Gareth A Hopkins Uses His Abstract Method to Highlight the Power of Empathy

    • by Tom Murphy
    • March 30, 2020

    If you spend much time around the dark entries and shadowy corners that attract your average small-press aficionado, you’ll have heard the name of Gareth A Hopkins murmured often in…

    Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre

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    Peterloo: Witnesses to a Massacre – Verbatim Comics Reportage Brings to Life a Bloody Chapter of Social History

    • by Tom Murphy
    • March 16, 2020

    If we let it, time will bury everything under dust. For nearly 200 years, that’s what threatened to happen to the terrible events of August 16th 1819, when a peaceful…

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    A Puff of Smoke – Sarah Lippett’s Touching Memoir of Childhood Illness is a Tribute to Family and Resilience

    • by Tom Murphy
    • February 25, 2020

    I’m sure it’s in the post, as they say, but I’ve always been uncommonly jammy with my health. Having lumbered around the earth for half a century now, I’ve never…

    Constantly by GG (Koyama Press)

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    Constantly – GG Brings Control and Artistry to Her Intimate Vignette of Anxiety from Koyama Press

    • by Tom Murphy
    • February 3, 2020

    As we all know, comics is a medium of infinite possibilities. And as a long-overdue openness about mental health has become increasingly prevalent, it’s no surprise that creators have used…

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    Minor Leagues #7 – In His Multi-Faceted Memoir ‘Where?’, Simon Moreton Takes His Work to an Ambitious New Level

    • by Tom Murphy
    • February 22, 2019

    Although Simon Moreton’s artistic style has changed dramatically over the ten years or so he has been creating comics and zines, the importance of our environment and the emotional bonds…

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    ‘The 12 Labours of Windy’ and ‘Drake Goes into the Underworld’ – New Adventures for Two of Small Press Godfather Ed Pinsent’s Familiar Faces

    • by Tom Murphy
    • February 1, 2019

    If Pete Frame did one of his “rock family trees” for the UK small press comics scene, a lot of the current activity could probably trace its roots back to…

    Eyecatcher · Reviews

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    ‘The Prince’ and ‘The Inspector’ – Providing Chills, Laughs and Social Comment, Two Very Different Comics Highlight the Distinctive Talent of Liam Cobb

    • by Tom Murphy
    • December 3, 2018

    Reading a review of The Prince on a reputable US comics site, I was surprised to read that Liam Cobb might be best known in that part of the world…

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    All the Sad Songs – Summer Pierre Hits All the Right Notes in Her Meditation on Music and Memory

    • by Tom Murphy
    • November 6, 2018

    It’s a bit of a truism to point out that comics isn’t the most obvious medium for dealing with music – and I’m certainly not going to dig out that overworked…

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    The Alcoholic – Ames and Haspiel’s 10th Anniversary Edition is an Entertaining Blast from the Past

    • by Tom Murphy
    • October 23, 2018

    To anyone with even a passing interest in the development of mainstream comics over the past – gulp – 30-odd years, editor Karen Berger will need no introduction. So when…

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    Niki de Saint Phalle: The Garden of Secrets – Osuch and Martin Bottle the Lightning of an Extraordinary Female Artist

    • by Tom Murphy
    • September 28, 2018

    It’s probably no surprise that artists’ biographies make up a sizeable chunk of the market for high-end, broadsheet-acceptable ‘Waitrose comics’. Those among us who are enthralled by the visual arts…

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    ELCAF Artist-in-Residence Charlotte Dumortier Brings Something Old and Something New to the Festival

    • by Tom Murphy
    • June 22, 2018

    ELCAF FORTNIGHT! If you’ve admired the lovely poster and visual identity of this year’s ELCAF (and it’s certainly been hard to avoid it around here over the past couple of…

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    “I Was Scared Out of My Wits. But I Gradually Became Obsessed” – Henry and Stan Miller Talk About The Fall, Plasticine and Their New Comics

    • by Tom Murphy
    • June 20, 2018

    ELCAF FORTNIGHT! Having made their ELCAF debut last year, South London-based Henry Miller and his son Stanley – the organisers and charming hosts of last year’s supremely convivial Catford Comic and Zine…

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    Shit is Real – Aisha Franz Looks Through the Cracks at the Strains of Modern Life

    • by Tom Murphy
    • June 19, 2018

    ELCAF FORTNIGHT! I picked up a mini-comic extract of Shit is Real at ELCAF a couple of years ago, so it’s fitting that I’m now looking at the complete work…

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