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Bar Delicious – Blaise Moritz Examines the Oppressive Hold of Late Stage Capitalism in this Conundrum Press Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 15, 2024

Conundrum Press’s ‘Conundrum 25’ series spotlighting “masters of the graphic short story form” continues to celebrate the publisher’s silver jubilee with thought-provoking and medium-embracing comics practice. Blaise Moritz’s Bar Delicious,…

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Colossive Cartographies #51 – Ed Pinsent Fondly Parodies the Batman Mythos in this Fun, Foldout Comics Zine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 12, 2024

It was another year of outstanding DIY culture output from micropublisher Colossive Press. One where comics became a more fixed part of their publishing plan with new material from A…

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Yurayura #1 – François Giro and emino’s Flipbook Gives Two Fascinating Perspectives on the Same Events

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 11, 2024

François Giro and emino’s Yurayura is fascinating in that it’s a collaborative zine wherein the two creators concerned don’t actually, strictly speaking, collaborate. Rather it uses a flipbook format to…

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Adherent – Chris W. Kim Takes Us on a Quest for Knowledge in this Key Conundrum Press Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2024

There are books that ask us to find our own truths within their pages; to not simply solicit responses in their audience but to provoke them as well. Chris W….

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Boxes #1 – ThirdBear Press’s Carefully Curated New Anthology Series Provides a Vital Platform for Emerging Indie Comics Talents

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! If there’s been one thing we have been sorely lacking on the UK small press scene in recent years it’s the plethora…

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Mind Over Margins – Comics Youth Presents A Collection of Empowering Mental Health Awareness Stories from Marginalised Voices

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 4, 2024

10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Before we look at anthology comics collection Mind Over Margins today let us first consider the aims and objectives of Comics Youth,…

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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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