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The Private Eye #3

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • July 4, 2013

Where do you go when you dream? Welcome to the peep show of P.I.’s drug-induced dreams and a revealing look into his mind that lays bare (very bare) a private…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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The Grinning Man

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 4, 2013

Andrew Warwick’s The Grinning Man is a true embodiment of the traditions of the Victorian ghost story, but set firmly in a near contemporary Britain. In this grimly foreboding tale…

Features

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Farewell to ‘The Dandy’: UK Comics Anthology Ends Digitally As Well

  • by Tony Ingram
  • July 4, 2013

Yesterday, word got out that the long-running UK comics anothology The Dandy had halted its digital publication plans and that last week’s edition was the final one. It was only…

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Catalyst Comix #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • July 3, 2013

More Nineties properties get the comic book version of a reality TV makeover, courtesy of Joe Casey, et al. Billed as Comics’ Greatest World when it first appeared back in…

Reviews

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Swear Down

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2013

Part walking diary, part social observation, part slice-of-life, and part love letter to landscape and architecture, Oliver East’s books have that rarest and most inspiring of all things in the…

Reviews

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Satellite Sam #1

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • July 2, 2013

Steamy, sexy, and downright seductive, Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s murder mystery set against the Golden Age of Television raises the benchmark for modern crime noir comics. When two masters…

Blog

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Ariel Olivetti’s Hollywood Killer Coming to the US in 2014

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • July 2, 2013

It’s been a while since Ariel Olivetti has produced any interior work for a US comic book. He’s been doing covers here and there still, but has kept busy working…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Cocoon Motel

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2013

German small press creator Sharmila Banerjee’s Cocoon Motel is a darkly comic 14-pager detailing the life cycle of the Atlas moth. It’s published under the Salmiak imprint, part of the…

Blog

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Photo Recap: Brandon Graham’s Tusk at Gallery 33 in Amsterdam

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • July 2, 2013

Over the past couple of weeks, Brandon Graham (King City, Multiple Warheads) has been the focal point at Gallery 33 in Amsterdam. The art gallery has been running Tusk, an…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Nazis, Guns and the Women Who Love Them

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • July 2, 2013

Silas Corey is a man of questionable morals but also one of the greatest detectives of the early 20th century. So going after a mysterious stamp filled with secret Nazi…

Reviews

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Stalag-X #1

  • by Kris Bather
  • July 2, 2013

Famed novelist Kevin J. Anderson (The Last Days of Krypton) creates a new miniseries, mixing sci-fi flair and P.O.W scares. Stalag-X is a new digital 6-issue miniseries by Australian publisher…

Eyecatcher · Features

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How to Capture a Ghost: Joshua Williamson Talks ‘Ghosted’

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • July 1, 2013

On sale next week from Image Comics is Ghosted, a five-issue miniseries about Jackson T. Winters, a criminal mastermind who’s locked away in jail for good, until some rich bloke…

Reviews

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Man of Steel

  • by Kris Bather
  • July 1, 2013

Selling Superman yet again to cinema goers was always going to be somewhat of a hard sell, especially since the misfire that was 2006’s Superman Returns. Screenwriter David S. Goyer…

Blog

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Broken Frontier Staff Picks for July 3, 2013

  • by Frederik Hautain
  • July 1, 2013

It’s almost 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, BF…

Reviews

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Nobrow 8: Hysteria

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 1, 2013

A perfect entry point to the Nobrow outlook and a reminder that it’s not hyperbolic to state that the publisher continues to produce some of the most beautiful examples of…

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Wolverine #5

  • by Jason Clyma
  • June 28, 2013

Can mutant healing prevent an untimely drowning? Paul Cornell’s Wolverine #5 is the definition of a fun book.  Much like many other Marvel titles, Cornell structures his story with an…

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Fatale #15

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • June 27, 2013

Fatale #15 is a modern noir knuckle sandwich with less Lovecraftian horror and more pulp in its fiction. After a revealing several-issue sojourn into Josephine’s past, Brubaker and Phillips return…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Beginner’s Luck

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2013

RJ Casey and David Alvarado’s Beginner’s Luck takes that old story of a small-time loser coming good only to squander his lucky break, and adds an ostentatiously surreal, aquatic twist to…

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