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Section: Columns

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The Wolfmen/Fall of the Wolfmen

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 28, 2013

Accent UK’s lycanthropic noir series has enjoyed cinematic comparisons from the likes of Andy Diggle who described it as “Reservoir Wolves” and Kieron Gillen who summed it up as “Get…

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From the Light into the Dark

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 22, 2013

From moody western horror in Promise by Lamy & Mikaël to the uproarious photo comics of Ype Driessen, Crossing Borders has it all. Promise vol. 1: The Book of Last…

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Penguins, Cowboys & Aliens

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 15, 2013

Trondheim tackles the wild west in Texas Cowboys and The Godfrrrsaken Island is Luc Cromheecke’s new all-ages gag comic where anything goes. Texas Cowboys by Trondheim & Bonhomme The always…

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The Kid’s Alright

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 8, 2013

This one’s for the youngsters with all-ages European books aimed squarely at young readers: Kill Your Mothers 2 & The Adventures of Timo. Kill Your Mothers 2 (of 2) The…

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Story(cycle)

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 27, 2013

Kathryn Briggs’s Story(cycle) was completed as part of her Master of Fine Art degree this year. Ostensibly it’s an examination of the hero archetype as embodied in mythology in Joseph…

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Crawl Hole

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 26, 2013

It’s time to take another trip into the tortured psyches of Messrs Collins and Laurie and become witness to twisted familial obligations, breakfast time in Hell, and the social faux…

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A Handful of Groats

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 25, 2013

It may have a middle ages setting but all that’s missing from Rob Jackson’s A Handful of Groats to fully underline its Western genre influences is an Ennio Morricone soundtrack….

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Special Language #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 24, 2013

Emma Mould and Andrew Godfrey’s Special Language #1 is an uncompromising account of the two and a half months Mould spent in a psychiatric facility in Bath in the summer…

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Rork Returns

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 24, 2013

One of Europe’s greatest artists and virtually unknown across the ocean, the German writer and artist Andreas, is back with a reprint of his most famous creation Rork. Rork Volume…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Richy K. Chandler

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 23, 2013

Richy K. Chandler is a comics creator whose work embraces both the tactile and the digital through his Tempo Lush publishing brand. The cartoonist behind the popular Lucy the Octopus…

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And then Emily Was Gone #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 20, 2013

Greg Hellinger, a former policeman who is now haunted by visions of monsters wherever he goes, is a troubled man. His world is about to get a lot more complicated,…

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The Megatherium Club Volume 1: The Great Ape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 19, 2013

Named after an extinct giant sloth, the Megatherium Club were a group of largely amateur scientists who operated in Washington in the late 1850s to the early 1860s, enticed there…

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Cross Continental Heroes

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • September 17, 2013

On one side we have Judge Dredd: an American anti hero written by the finest UK creators. On the other side we have Blueberry: the stereotypical western hero created by…

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Tiny Pencil #2.0: Mammals, Monsters & Mars!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 16, 2013

Tiny Pencil, the artzine that celebrates all things graphite, returned this summer with a second issue focusing on all-ages fun, games and activities. This edition, subtitled Mammals, Monsters & Mars!,…

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kuš komiksi: mini kuš! #14-17

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 13, 2013

Imagined anecdotes, an ode to equine-headed amour, hallucinatory parties, and adoptive elves all feature in the latest round of minicomics from the kuš comics range… The joy of Latvian publisher…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Yeti Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 12, 2013

Established in 2011 by RJ Casey and Eric Roesner, Chicago-based Yeti Press are a micropublisher I’ve given continued review coverage to in ‘Small Pressganged’ since the Broken Frontier relaunch this…

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Blood Blokes #3

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 10, 2013

One of the early offerings from the exciting, up-and-coming U.K. micropublisher Great Beast, Adam Cadwell’s Blood Blokes is vampire fiction for readers who hate vampire fiction. It centres on Vince,…

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Team Girl Comic #8

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 9, 2013

The all-women collective behind small press anthology Team Girl Comic unveiled their eighth issue this summer with a carnival-themed launch party at Glasgow’s Plan B Books. I mention this not…

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