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Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other Stories… sees John Cei Douglas’s lingering and poignant comics collected into one mandatory package from British publisher Great Beast. It includes…
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? Today, in the spirit of pushing some of those artists whose work really should have a greater fanbase, I am going to…
There are surely few periods of history more exploited in genre fiction than the late Victorian setting with its accompanying mental imagery of coaches on cobbled streets, pea-soupers and murder…
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When it comes to bringing British self-published voices to a greater stage Great Beast have made some inspired choices in the last few months. John Cei Douglas, Dan Berry and…
Last November saw the launch of 100% Biodegradable; a Brit sci-fi anthology edited by Dave Hailwood, long-term stalwart of FutureQuake Press (whose books I have covered in the past here at…
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Martin Eden’s “all-gay super team” Spandex hang up their capes and cowls – for the moment at least – in this grand finale to the critically acclaimed series. Way back…
The basic idea behind Haunters Gonna Haunt is actually a rather neat one, taking the stock sitcom standard of unlikely housemates one step further with a suitably supernatural twist. Jumping…
Is it really two years since I reviewed the first issue of Jamie Gambell’s celebration of old school super-heroics in The Hero Code here? Back then I noted that “in…
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“Welcome to Scotland’s first superhero!” is the proud proclamation in the introduction to this first edition of Saltire, the new independently published project looking to provide Scottish readers with their…
First debuting online last year as a serialised webcomic, the adventures of canine space adventurer Astrodog come to us from the witty mind of British artist Paul Harrison-Davies. Behind that…
In the depths of a secluded forest, a wizened witch lives a solitary life isolated from the outside world. Her reality is about to be disrupted, though, when she discovers…
Anna Bongiovanni’s Out of Hollow Water, published by U.S. micropublisher 2D Cloud, contains three thematically intertwined short stories that fuse the otherworldly and the ethereal with the most oppressive elements…
In December 1881 Georgina Moore disappeared from outside her school in London. Some hours later the child’s body would be discovered in a river near Yalding. Numerous eyewitnesses saw her…
Those soul-destroying jobs we did for little pay as teenagers. The positions we took straight out of university because the truth was we really had very little idea what we…
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If ever a comic added entirely new layers to the term “guilty pleasure” then it’s Richy K. Chandler’s Lucy the Octopus. The tale of a young schoolgirl cephalopod ostracised by…
What delighted me about The Heroines Zine when I first started flicking through its pages was the way in which it embraces old school zine philosophy. It really is a…
Accent UK’s supernatural Western series with its surly monster-hunting cowboy Josiah Black is one that I’ve covered twice before (on the old Broken Frontier site Book One here and Book…
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This first ‘Small Pressganged’ edition of 2014 provides us with a chance to reflect on and celebrate the last twelve months of micro and self-published comics in the UK as…
“You Laugh to Keep from Crying” — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections ‘Pastimes’ and ‘Fruit Salad’November 19, 2025
“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
