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One of the most impressive aspects of the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series is the way in which they can explore big ideas or hugely important themes in such a…
Described as “the world’s goofiest comics magazine!”, editor Marc Jackson’s GOOF is a fun collection of short humour comic strips by an extremely impressive line-up of creators from across the…
Over the last few years we have reviewed a number of books from the direction of New York Review Books/New York Review Comics. Putting their original material to one side…
As someone who once wrote a Masters dissertation that included an evaluation of the importance of ephemera as social history (in regards to collection development in academic libraries) a project…
I first discovered Bhanu Pratap’s work back in the pages of Fantagraphics’ NOW anthology. As all the best anthologies are, NOW has always been an excellent introductory point to exciting…
If there’s one thing that’s undeniable about the first two issues of Peter J. Tomasi and Francis Manapul’s The Rocketfellers it’s that the reader is thrown headfirst into events without…
Detached by Angela Oddling, is an ongoing comic series which began in 2018, and first published in 2022, in which Oddling explores her mental health journey, and subsequent diagnosis with…
It sometimes feels as if this began with The Beatles and then simply forgot to stop. By ‘this,’ one refers to the cultural force that was once an Empire. It…
As we like to remind you every time we look at one of Colossive Press’s Colossive Cartographies series of fold-out zines some are most definitely comics while others fit into…
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In 2020, French journalist Benoist Simmat delved into one of his country’s oldest obsessions. The result was a graphic history of wine, tracing its origins from the Middle Ages to…
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THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH 2024! Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan’s Pricks, in all its multi-named and numbered incarnations, has become one of my favourite Thought Bubble print fixtures, albeit a delightfully…
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