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Middle Distance – Mylo Choy’s SelfMadeHero Debut Explores Exertion, Introspection and a New Way to Be in Your Own World

  • by Lydia Turner
  • January 3, 2024

Given that Mylo Choy’s graphic memoir Middle Distance started as an idea for a thirty-page comic, and quickly grew into a full-blown graphic novel produced by SelfMadeHero, this is no…

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2000 AD Prog 2362 – The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic Looks to the Future While Embracing Its Past, Including Rufus Hound’s Debut on ‘Strontium Dog’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2024

I imagine I am not the only long-term 2000 AD fan (yes I did buy Prog 1 from my local WHSmith way back in 1977) who, while perhaps not considering…

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A Christmas Bestiary – A Dark and Spellbinding Guide to Wintry Horror from Benni Bødker, John Kenn Mortensen and Fantagraphics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 2, 2024

Festively themed work can often go overlooked simply because the window of relevant reviewing opportunity is, by its nature, a restricted one. However, it would seem remiss to let that…

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Misty: 45 Years of Fear, the Essential Collection – The Treasury of British Comics Celebrates a British Cult Classic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 12, 2023

It scarcely needs mentioning that of all of the Treasury of British Comics’ many collections over the last several years few were as eagerly anticipated or have had such a…

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The Ballad of Betty Rizzo: An Abortion Story – Rachelle Meyer’s Minicomic Blends Autobio and Social Commentary to Make Its Incisive Point

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 7, 2023

When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe Vs. Wade in 2022 the repercussions went even further than the obvious horrifying backward slide for women’s reproductive rights. It also mirrored the…

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Noodle Wranglin’ – Anna Readman’s Canine-Themed Short Strips Have a Worldweary but Gentle Humour to Them

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 5, 2023

Embracing the true spirit of the minicomic in size and format, Anna Readman’s Noodle Wranglin’ is a collection of this year’s Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize winner’s Hourly Comic Day…

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Portrait of a Body – Julie Delporte Raises Intimate, Honest Questions About Feminine Identity and Sexuality, from Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • December 1, 2023

There’s a lot to unpack in Julie Delporte’s new book Portrait of a Body, not only because her brutal honesty may compel readers to address some thorny issues, but because…

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Entity Reunion 3 – Alexander Tucker Hints at Malign Entities at the Edge of Perception in His Latest Oblique Comics Narrative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 30, 2023

Issues of Alexander Tucker’s Entity Reunion seem to come along on a three-year cycle but each standalone offering provides a hypnotic mix of the oblique, the weird, and the elusive….

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Not Another Haunting! – Thirteen Ghost Stories that Display Sammy Ward’s Consummate Command of the Short Comics Form

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 27, 2023

Sammy Ward is fast establishing herself as one of the UK indie scene’s finest purveyors of eerie supernatural comics fare. Previous forays into the genre have been notable for their…

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Legato Loss (Creative Chronicles Vol. 1) – Nancy ArtMusic Reminds Us that Sometimes It’s Okay to Let Go of Our Dreams

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2023

The annual Manga Jiman competition has provided us with a number of comics to review over the years thanks to entrants and winners going on to self-publish print editions of…

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A Guest in the House – Emily Carroll Plumbs New Depths of Domestic Horror Via First Second Books

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 22, 2023

It’s easy to think of Emily Carroll as an obsessive watcher of horror cinema. It’s there in those hints she offers, in the way she deploys colour like a master…

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Golden Days – Revisit Those Halcyon Childhood Days with Tim Bird’s All Too Familiar Slice-of-Life Comic

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 20, 2023

Ah those wistful childhood days when summers felt like a lifetime, the wider world was an adventure waiting to happen, and we felt forever safe in the welcoming cocoon of…

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Walkies! – A Delightfully Canine View of the World from David Ziggy Greene and Bog Eyed Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 17, 2023

While Walkies! is an illustrated children’s book rather than comics (though techinically it is sequential art and makes use of comics tools like speech balloons) its provenance makes it a…

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Beauty – Hubert and Kerascoët’s Classic is a Gorgeous, Subversive Fairytale Now Available in English, Thanks to NBM

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 16, 2023

Nothing is ever as it seems when Kerascoët — the French illustrators Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset — are tasked with bringing a story to life. One is led down…

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Salome’s Last Dance – Frisk Your Noodle and Head to a Higher Dimension in Daria’s Tessler’s New Graphic Novel from Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • November 14, 2023

Looking for a phantasmagoric, psychedelic trip into the id, ego, and all things in between? Perhaps Salome’s Last Dance, a new graphic novel from acclaimed artist and printmaker Daria Tessler…

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Watership Down – James Sturm and Joe Sutphin Bring the Classic Novel to a New Generation of Readers with a Stunning Graphic Adaptation

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 13, 2023

The act of retelling a masterpiece can’t be easy. It implies confronting readers with preconceived notions, and the possibility of offending purists. There is an added element of failure that…

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Disorder – Erika Price Employs the Darkest Symbolism and Visual Metaphor to Propel Us Into a Nightmarish Mindscape

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! To describe Erika Price’s Disorder as body horror seems woefully inadequate. This collection of short visual essays takes autobiographical comics in new directions, employing the darkest of…

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Killtopia Vol. 5 – Dave Cook and Clark Bint Provide an Action-Packed Finale to this Epic Cyberpunk Story Arc

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2023

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2023! Ostensibly this is a review of the fifth and concluding story arc volume of acclaimed sci-fi series Killtopia. In reality, though, such is the unpredictable nature of…

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