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You may not have heard of Inchkeith, an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. Completely uninhabited, not much is known about the early history of Inchkeith, yet it…
“This is the history of every 70 year old gay man in Britain today.” Striking words on the back cover of Forty Lies: A Work of Ipsedixitism by David Shenton that…
David Robertson has been one of the most prolific creators on the UK self-publishing scene for many years, with his short story comics anthologies seeing him collaborate with a huge…
The first thing the reader will notice about Nick Merdasi’s Condoms is its physicality. Its square paperback format and the plastic “packet” it comes in are designed to mimic the…
It seems inconceivable to imagine now that a weekly print magazine for teenage girls could at its peak sell well over a million copies, and yet that’s what DC Thomson’s…
One thing I have come to expect from the work of Dave Baker (as seen in our coverage at Broken Frontier of his multiple comics collaborations with Nicole Goux) is…
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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…
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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…
“I Have a Vague Endpoint in Mind” – Linnea Sterte on the Epic ‘A Garden of Spheres’, Inspirations, and the Appeal of AmphibiansJuly 3, 2026
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“Trans People Are Facing Pronounced Challenges to Our Rights Across the World Right Now” – Jua OK! on ‘Road to Chimera’ and Finding Spiritual Meaning in the Trans JourneyJune 29, 2026
“Don’t Let Perfect Be the Enemy of Done – Finish Things” – AJ O’Neill on Finding Your Voice in Comics, Queer Autobio, and Experimenting with the FormJune 25, 2026
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