Metrodome
Metrodome is the latest offering from the warped imaginations of writer Craig Collins and artist Iain Laurie, combining playful storytelling experimentation with deviously demented all-out carnage. These two gents are,…
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Our writers reflect on what makes their hearts beat. Critical, witty, honest.
Grey Area #2: The Old Straight Track
Tim Bird’s Grey Area is a comic that pushes environment to the forefront, making geographical locations its central characters and replacing traditional plotting with a flowing journey of contemplative reflection….
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Wu Wei: A Spiritual Comics Anthology
The stated aim of Wu Wei is to provide “an anthology that gives writers and artists a space to creatively explore spirituality through the medium of comics.” If you’re wondering…
Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher
The Client
Falling in love with a prostitute and kidnapping the pimp’s daughter to locate her after her disappearance is on top of the list of humongously bad ideas. Especially if you…
Tabatha #1-2
Writer Neil Gibson is back, with one of his most chilling and unpredictable thrillers to date… Earlier this year in ‘Small Pressganged’ I reviewed the two volumes of Twisted Dark…
Hitsville UK #1
Surreal music industry send-up Hitsville UK was one of the earliest books to be covered in ‘Small Pressganged’ so I was particularly pleased when I heard that Adam Cadwell and…
Summer Break
Crossing Borders is going on a summer break for two weeks. To make sure you at least have something to do to pass the time, here’s the wonderful trashy nineties…
Jonah and Seven Blows to the Head
“The sunny side of sinister” is the tagline EdieOP uses to describe her work on her website and I can think of no more appropriate soundbite to describe this wickedly…
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Crime, Elephants and Aliens
Mixing anthropomorphism with crime, classic newspaper comics and superheroes; Pierre Gabus and Romuald Reutimann have created a unique series in District 14 full of intrigue that oozes atmosphere by the…
Chris Smith and the Nazi Zombies from Hell #1
A future dystopia, a likeable loner who can talk to God, and the re-animated corpses of the Nazi undead all feature in the first offering from Dapper Chimp Press. There…
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Sky in Stereo #2
The North of England in the Nineties and teenage student Iris’s life is fast becoming defined by her experimentation with drugs in Mardou’s slice-of-lifer from Yam Books… Last year I…
Deep in the Woods
Two young women, two quests, and two entrancingly menacing takes on the folk tale tradition make up Noah Van Sciver and Nic Breutzman’s double header Deep in the Woods from…
Pancakes
A household chat over the breakfast table may not seem the most dynamic of starting points but all is not as it seems in Kat Leyh’s Pancakes from Yeti Press,…
Lou #1-15
Melissa Mendes’s Lou follows the adventures of the titular 9-year-old tomboy, her two brothers – the younger John and older Eddie, and an extended cast of friends and family. Published by…
Bimba #1
In her own words British comics artist Donya Todd created the anthology Bimba as a showcase for “kick-ass female artists”. The first issue features not just Todd’s work but also…
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Rembrandt and the Price of Genius
By focusing on his entourage, Typex delivers a stunning psychological inside look into the 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt. After studying Rembrandt for over 3 years, dutch comics artist Typex…
The Grinning Man
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…
Cocoon Motel
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…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
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