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Metrodome

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 12, 2013

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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Grey Area #2: The Old Straight Track

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 9, 2013

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….

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Wu Wei: A Spiritual Comics Anthology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 8, 2013

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

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The Client

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 6, 2013

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…

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Tabatha #1-2

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 30, 2013

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…

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Hitsville UK #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 26, 2013

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…

Columns · Crossing Borders

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Summer Break

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • July 26, 2013

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…

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Jonah and Seven Blows to the Head

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 18, 2013

“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…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Crime, Elephants and Aliens

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • July 16, 2013

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…

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Chris Smith and the Nazi Zombies from Hell #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 16, 2013

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

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 15, 2013

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…

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Deep in the Woods

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2013

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…

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Pancakes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 11, 2013

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,…

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Lou #1-15

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 10, 2013

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…

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Bimba #1

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 9, 2013

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…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Rembrandt and the Price of Genius

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • July 9, 2013

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…

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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…

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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…

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