Nightrains & Homecomings #0 – A Tense Opener for Erol Debris’s New Series
In a world just one cataclysmic war removed from ours, a covert group of operatives are seeking to recover information from a hard drive in a high rise apartment building….
Section: Small Pressganged
Designed to shine a spotlight on the often overlooked world of small press, self-published and altcomics.
Yule Log – A Dark Christmas Tale from Christopher Adams and 2D Cloud
The triumphant rise of both the micropublisher and the small press collective as viable models for distributing and nurturing new talent has been one of the most exciting developments in…
Tales from Scene City Christmas Special – Festive Fun from Rob Cureton’s Pop Parody Series
It’s something of a rarity for me to squeeze anything Christmas themed into ‘Small Pressganged’ but Scene City creator Rob Cureton has produced a delightfully cynical stocking stuffer featuring some…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
ink + PAPER #4 – UK Digest Anthology Showcases EdieOP, Sean Azzopardi, Katriona Chapman and More!
It’s been a longer than usual gap between issues for David O’Connell’s chunky but digest-sized ink + PAPER – a publication that I’ve referred to here in the past as…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Faction #2 – Kiwi Comic Anthology Showcases Best of New Zealand Sequential Art
Science fiction anthology Faction represents something of a ‘Small Pressganged’ first. While the Australasian continent has not been unrepresented in this column in the past, with work from Paul Bedford,…
Mr. Yang Fights Aliens Part 1- Science Teacher Turns Extraterrestrial-Buster in New Series from Illustrator: Lam
A science teacher with attitude takes on otherworldly invaders in Mr. Yang Fights Aliens, Mickey Lam’s tale of an extraterrestrial incursion in London. Ostensibly a recently qualified schoolteacher with a…
Sea Change – A Choose-Your-Own-Way Story from Caitlin Skaalrud
‘Stories from the St. Louis’ is the banner tagline under which Caitlin Skaalrud has grouped all of the self-published work I’ve read from her to date, including the nostalgically structured…
RhiZome Volume 1 – Jackson and Baddeley-Read Launch New Brit Sci-Fi Small Press Anthology Comic
Rob Jackson and Kyle Baddeley-Read’s sci-fi anthology RhiZome is a conscious attempt to create a comic that hearkens back to an edgier time of experimental small press publishing, as noted…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Hatchlings – Manga Jiman Winners Come Together in the First Cross#atch Anthology
Cross#atch are a small collective of five manga creators from a variety of cultures who all share the experience of success in the UK Manga Jiman short story competition. Their…
Join the Army – Darren Cullen’s Anti-Armed Forces Recruitment Comic
Reading the background information which arrived with my copy of London artist Darren Cullen’s Join the Army I wasn’t surprised to note the polarised reactions this most uncompromising of anti-war…
Red Plains: Accidents Will Happen
The old West as it really was. That’s the mission statement behind Caryn A. Tate’s western series Red Plains… When I was preparing to write this review I was rather…
And then Emily Was Gone #2
Debuting at Thought Bubble! I reviewed the opening issue of John Lees and Iain Laurie’s And then Emily Was Gone a couple of months back in this column. It was…
Youthful Attack
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Before I begin my reflections on Douglas Noble’s Youthful Attack I want to return to a soundbite from the great man himself about his comics from…
Dungeon Fun Book One
New at Thought Bubble! Fantasy role-playing meets retro video gaming meets anarchic fairy tales in Bell and Slorance’s witty all-ages offering. The first release from the Dogooder Comics stable, Dungeon…
It Girl
Debuting at Thought Bubble! From the roaring Twenties to a life of self-imposed solitude, writer/artist Jessica Martin tells the story of actress Clara Bow, forgotten icon from another era. While…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Seasons
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Mike Medaglia’s stunning Seasons underlines that 2013 was the year that Avery Hill Publishing came of age… A small boy pondering the apparently arbitrary rules of…
Tales from Scene City #4
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today we return to the environs of Scene City in the latest issue of Rob Cureton’s music industry satire… When last we left Rob Cureton’s Tales…
Fever Dreams
Debuting at Thought Bubble! Today’s column takes a look at Adam Murphy’s Fever Dreams, a collection dredged up from the darkest corners of his imagination… Adam Murphy is the creator…
Broken Frontier Anthology
312 pages • 27 stories • 50 star creators
Limited copies available!Recommended Reads!
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