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If you’re reading this article then the chances are high that you’re already an advocate of the unique storytelling power of biographical comics – that powerful ability to so empathetically immerse…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
An exotic, richly detailed setting and universal themes draw the reader into Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña’s gritty high-fantasy epic. All the best comics, regardless of genre, essentially serve as…
November always sees a flurry of artists taking part in the #30dayscomics challenge and – just as we did earlier in the year when we collected the #hourlycomicday strips of…
It’s the end of the year again and that means it’s time for our respected colleagues at the Forbidden Planet International blog to ask the assembled masses of the comics…
He may be one of the most genial gents in comics that you could meet in the flesh but the artist known to the public as Krent Able (aka…
It’s payday and what better way to celebrate than by pre-ordering the ninth issue of the ever essential and popular small press anthology Dirty Rotten Comics from Throwaway Press? For our…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
The humble nature of a pair of Y-Fronts is a recurring theme in Alex Potts’s Underpants, a comic with a name that was no doubt designed to cause sniggering guffaws in…
Arguably the most anticipated release of the year, Snyder and Lemire’s first collaboration as writer and artist more than lives up to the hype. An instant classic of science-fiction, transcending…
From the very outset, with its fond and droll wordplay on the melodramatic mainstream mystery mags of the 1950s and ‘60s, Paul B. Rainey’s Tales to Diminish signals its intent…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
There are a number of small press serial comics that probably never quite get as much attention as they deserve in this column. The reason for that is a very…
A harrowing spy thriller that pits the “wickedest man in the world” against Adolf Hitler’s Nazi occultists, Aleister & Adolf is a thoroughly well-researched, beautifully illustrated journey through the secret…
The nights are drawing in and there’s a festive buzz in the air so why not get in the end-of-year spirit by joining us for the final Gosh! Comics and…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Can we really be at Dirty Rotten Comics #8 already? (And with a ninth issue imminent!). When this much respected anthology – in its present incarnation – burst onto the…
It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…
It’s pleasing indeed to see such an exciting and distinctive newer talent as Grace Wilson getting the attention their work so readily deserves. Whenever I have encountered the work of…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
‘State of the Small Press Nation’ was the umbrella title for Broken Frontier’s ground-breaking series of reports last year on the UK’s rapidly expanding self-publishing world and the challenges it faced…
“Lots of My Sapphic Comics Focus on Small, Intimate Moments” – Nessie Mooo Talks ‘Deathmetal’, Comics Community, and Queer Representation in the MediumJune 12, 2026
“In Order to Create Societal Change, We Have to First Imagine It” – Tyler and Wendy Chin-Tanner Talk A Wave Blue World, Their LGBTQIA+ Anthologies and Publishing with a Social PurposeJune 9, 2026
“We Wanted to Publish the Books We Wanted to Read” – Outgoing Avery Hill Co-Founder Dave White Looks Back on 14 Years at the UK’s Game-Changing Indie Comics PublisherJune 8, 2026
“There is No Singular or Correct Intersex Narrative” – LJ Nakamura on Intersex Representation and the Liberating Nature of Pulp Sci-FiJune 4, 2026
“We Want Trans and Queer Teens to Feel Seen and Understood” – Tilly Bridges and Susan Bridges on Their New Graphic Novel ‘Just Another Summer’ and the Collaborative Writing ProcessJune 2, 2026
