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Section: Columns

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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…

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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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Robotnik

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 26, 2013

Douglas Noble’s Robotnik is a troubled little automaton. He has mechanical body issues. He’s waiting with some concern for the imminent robot revolution. Oh, and his infatuated pursuit of Gabriel…

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Picasso, Love and Mary Shelley

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 25, 2013

High art ahoy as both Picasso and Shelley received a multiple volume biography in comic form. Pablo 2: Apollinaire As told by Fernande Olivier, one of Picasso’s main models in…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Zarina Liew

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 21, 2013

Fashion illustrator and webcomics artist Zarina Liew is the creator behind manga-influenced webcomic Le Mime, the dreamy The Art of Sleep collection and her new fashion-based webcomic The Higgs. She…

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kuš komiksi: š! #13

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 18, 2013

Founded in 2007, the aims of Latvian publisher kuš komiksi are twofold: to provide a showcase for the art form in a country with little tradition in comics, and also…

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The Isle of Amoras Now and Then

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 18, 2013

One of Belgium’s longest running kids adventure comic series Bob and Bobette gets a radical adult make over in Amoras 2047. Running since 1947 and still ongoing today, Bob and…

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Dementia Dad

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 17, 2013

While Hannah Lee Miller’s Dementia Dad may concern itself with heartrending subject matter it’s a 15-page comic that is utterly uplifting in tone and presentation. An entry in the autobio…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Gill Hatcher and Team Girl Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 13, 2013

With seven issues published since the group was founded in 2009, the Scottish all-woman collective behind anthology Team Girl Comic have become an established presence on the U.K. small press…

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Everything Takes Forever

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 11, 2013

Victor Kerlow’s Everything Takes Forever, published by Koyama Press, is a collection of the Manhattan-situated artist’s splendidly peculiar and dreamlike comic strips. Characters with tacos for heads compete with the…

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Better the Devil You Know

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 11, 2013

Frodo De Decker is back with his everyman hero Otto facing giants, vampires, dwarfs, knights, devils, demons and a broken heart. Otto Volume 2 : Better The Devil You Know…

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Ordinary Street

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 10, 2013

Taking the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s 1965 song ‘Desolation Row’ as inspiration, Ordinary Street is a haunting and sometimes surreal journey through a world of urban decay and moral ambiguity….

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Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 7, 2013

Collecting the first forty strips of creator Richy K. Chandler’s popular webcomic series, Lucy the Octopus #1: Better in Small Doses takes us to an undersea realm both vibrantly fantastical,…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Mike Medaglia and Wu Wei

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 6, 2013

Mike Medaglia’s Wu Wei – a spiritual comics anthology with an emphasis on eastern philosophy – looks set to be one of the highlights of the U.K. small press publishing…

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Miss Endicott Versus the Steampunk Dwarfs

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 4, 2013

Historical London is under siege by deformed little people living beneath the streets of London in this adventure tale by Derrien & Fourquemin. Miss Endicott by Derrien & Fourquemin Prudence…

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The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel 2013

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 31, 2013

Science fiction anthology book The Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel is a collection of one-shot tales overseen by the same editorial eye that brought us last year’s rather witty Doctor…

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Wrong Songs

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 30, 2013

Dan Cox’s Wrong Songs is a collection of inventively bizarre takes on children’s nursery rhymes from the same gent who co-created the madcap music industry book Hitsville UK (shortly to…

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Small Press Spotlight on… Katriona Chapman

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 29, 2013

Katriona Chapman can count comics as just one part of a varied career in the world of illustration. Co-editor of the recently launched anthology artszine Tiny Pencil, Katriona’s self-published work…

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