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Section: Columns

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Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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John Tiffany on the Run

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 26, 2013

A lackluster bounty-hunter-on-the-run plot is turned into a spectacular action movie by the stunning visuals of the brand new & re-invented nineties artist Dan Panosian. Starting out as a Rob…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Red Plains: Accidents Will Happen

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 25, 2013

The old West as it really was. That’s the mission statement behind Caryn A. Tate’s western series Red Plains… When I was preparing to write this review I was rather…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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And then Emily Was Gone #2

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 22, 2013

Debuting at Thought Bubble! I reviewed the opening issue of John Lees and Iain Laurie’s And then Emily Was Gone a couple of months back in this column. It was…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Youthful Attack

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2013

Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Dungeon Fun Book One

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2013

New at Thought Bubble! Fantasy role-playing meets retro video gaming meets anarchic fairy tales in Bell and Slorance’s witty all-ages offering. The first release from the Dogooder Comics stable, Dungeon…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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It Girl

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 19, 2013

Debuting at Thought Bubble! From the roaring Twenties to a life of self-imposed solitude, writer/artist Jessica Martin tells the story of actress Clara Bow, forgotten icon from another era. While…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Vikings: The New Bwahaha

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 19, 2013

Crossing Borders is just one big barrel of laughs with vikings on the run from a vulcano (?) confusing Scotland with Walhalla and 5 easy steps on how to turn…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Seasons

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2013

Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Tales from Scene City #4

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 15, 2013

Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today we return to the environs of Scene City in the latest issue of Rob Cureton’s music industry satire… When last we left Rob Cureton’s Tales…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Fever Dreams

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 14, 2013

Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today’s column takes a look at Adam Murphy’s Fever Dreams, a collection dredged up from the darkest corners of his imagination… Adam Murphy is the creator…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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One Day Only

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 12, 2013

The lives of travelling show people come under the spotlight in creator Abbey Massey’s look at 24 hours of a working circus. I ‘m (sort of) returning to the Comica Festival…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Get Harry Ex

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 12, 2013

If you’re going to be referencing one of the all-time great revenge movies, you better make sure that your comic lives up to the reference and I can safely say…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Angus & Felix #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2013

Katie Craven’s poignant twilight allegory is the first spotlighted book in ‘Small Pressganged’ from the attendees of the latest Comiket independent comics fair. The recent Comica Festival Comiket – the…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Comics Are My Rock and Roll: Daniel James Baldwin’s Self-publishing Documentary Needs YOU!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2013

Daniel James Baldwin’s documentary on the self-publishing scene both needs and deserves your support! Today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ isn’t the usual review or in-depth interview piece. Instead I want to belatedly…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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The Comix Reader #5

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2013

“Anything can happen in the next half hour!” – it’s the tagline, of course, of Gerry Anderson’s cult ‘60s Supermarionation series Stingray but it’s one that could also quite easily…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Requiem for a Screaming Planet

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • November 5, 2013

Famed director and comics scribe Alexandro Jodorowsky steps up to the short story challenge with Screaming Planet featuring an all-star roster of artists like JH Williams III, Ladrönn, Adi Granov…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Happy Birthday ‘Small Pressganged’! Celebrating Two Years of Unearthing the Gems of the Small Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 1, 2013

Broken Frontier’s ‘Small Pressganged’ column – our regular spotlight on the worlds of small press, self-published and micropublished comics – will be two years old this weekend and, at the…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Elric Stormbringer Returns

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 29, 2013

Fantasy legend Elric of Melniboné is back in a European comic series endorsed by Michael Moorcock with the words ‘If I could go back, I would do it like this.’…

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