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When the premise of Afterwords was announced it gave me a sense of acute anticipatory glee. Forget your various super-hero cinematic blockbusters, if you’re a fan of UK indie comics…
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As writer Douglas Noble and artist Sean Azzopardi’s Sightings of Wallace Sendek was designed structurally to be periodically added to with new material interspersed among older work, it seems only…
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As I said when we chose the latest issue of Rob Carter’s annual music-themed anthology Radio On as one of our Staff Picks last month, its a project that is…
The second book, following Entity Reunion, from Undimensioned Press, the new micropress venture from Alexander Tucker (World in the Forcefield), R echoes its predecessor’s slightly oblique but hypnotically compelling narrative…
Grace Wilson’s work is so acutely observed, so perfect in capturing the fragile human foibles of the people she brings to her pages, that she puts me in mind of…
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Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…
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As if the six books already scheduled for 2018 were not enough of a draw, Broken Frontier Best Publisher Award-winning Avery Hill Publishing have announced a further three graphic novels today to…
João Sobral’s micropublishing venture O Panda Gordo began its life in Portugal several years ago. The project has since moved to the UK and is now based in Glasgow but,…
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Back in 2016, when I reviewed the original edition of Wired Up Wrong – Rachael Smith’s account of living with anxiety and depression told via witty vignettes, visual metaphor and…
Synchronicity. This time last year I was reviewing the original version of The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes – an artist who was new to me at…
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With a new book coming from Avery Hill Publishing later this year Bristol-based artist Seekan Hui’s comics will no doubt be finding whole new audiences in 2018. As part of the…
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Back in 2016, the first edition of Glorious Wrestling Alliance– a gloriously silly send-up of the wrestling ring with a sprawling cast of endearingly ludicrous characters – convinced me to include…
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BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONGOING SERIES WINNER! From her early, beautifully tactile forays into self-publishing with books like Brockley Foxtrot and Five, to her role in co-founding artzine Tiny…
“He just got Schitt-faced!” A throwaway punchline to a champagne-bottle-in-the-face action sequence via ’80s movie sensation Jack Schitt. Creator Gordon Johnston’s self-published Hot Schitt is something of a curiosity. Describing itself as the…
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The strange and fantastic world of OM – a realm with its own bizarre rules and evolutionary changes; a flowing, metamorphosing plane of oft unfathomable entities and their distinctly alien…
UK-based French artist Camille Aubry is another creator I had the pleasure of meeting last year when I was involved with giving portfolio reviews at the East London Comics and…
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Mindfulness and well-being have become the comics stock-in-trade for artist Mike Medaglia. A creator whose work brings a considered spirituality to the form, we’ve been covering his output here at…
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Jaime Huxtable’s versatile cartooning skills are always a pleasure to behold, and an equal pleasure to talk about. So it came as something of a surprise to me to realise…
“I Think it’s Really Important to Follow Your Dreams!” – Sarah Graley Talks Working on ‘Pizza Witch’ with Stef Purenins and the Pleasures of Rewarding Audience InteractionsNovember 13, 2025
“I Hugely Admire Comics with Dynamic Page Structure!” – Beatrijs Brouwer/Beastly Worlds on the Lure of Fantasy Storytelling and Her Creative ProcessNovember 13, 2025
“People Are Having Good Ideas All the Time and Putting Them into Practice” – Alison Sampson, Charlie Adlard, Lucy Sullivan and More on the Importance of the Thought Bubble Portfolio Reviews and Comics CommunityNovember 13, 2025
“I Liked the Uncertain Nature of it… the Feeling of Dread and the Unknown” – Jason Measures Gives Us the Lowdown on the ‘Beyond the Black Void’ Sci-Fi AnthologyNovember 10, 2025
“It’s about Fame, Friendship, and Just How Long You’re Willing to Fake it to Make it” – Duane Murray and Ahmed Raafat Talk ‘Who Are the Power Pals?’ from Dark HorseNovember 6, 2025
