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Movements and Moments – D+Q’s Anthology Brings Together Eight Powerful Stories of Indigenous Resistance

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 23, 2022

The introduction to the striking Movements and Moments anthology makes an interesting point that doesn’t often crop up in discussions about comics. It points out that while there have been more…

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Welcome Home – Residents Fight to Save Their Tower Block in Clarrie and Blanche Pope’s Graphic Novel Commentary on the Housing Crisis

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2022

Given the current cost-of-living crisis and the UK’s imminent descent into a debilitating, Brexit-influenced recession, a graphic novel that touches on the housing crisis (the only thing we are not…

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Voices That Count: A Comics Anthology By Women – Gender Imbalance and Toxic Masculinity Explored in IDW’s Collection of Comics Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 18, 2022

Translated from the original Spanish edition, Voices That Count is described by English language publishers IDW as an “anthology [that] dissects what it means to be a woman in today’s…

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Hell Phone Book One – Busting Ghosts While Looking Good in Benji Nate’s Hauntingly Stylish Comic

  • by Tom Baker
  • November 17, 2022

Hunting ghosts is a messy business, you’d think. Cobwebs getting in your hair, ectoplasm spraying this way and that, decrepit old houses absolutely covered in dust. That’s no excuse for…

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The Joy of Quitting – Keiler Roberts Celebrates the Wry Complexities of Everyday Life, from D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • November 16, 2022

In May 2021, when cartoonist Keiler Roberts published My Begging Chart, she was asked how she viewed her work and if there was any distance between her and the person depicted…

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We Have Demons TPB – Snyder and Capullo Document the Ages-Old Battle Between Good and Evil

  • by John Trigonis
  • November 16, 2022

The clash between Godfolk and Demonfolk rages hard in the trade paperback collection of Best Jackett Press’s ComiXology Original We Have Demons from Dark Horse Comics. Back in March of…

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Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine – Mohammad Sabaaneh Provides an Award-Winning Account of Imprisonment, Confinement and Interrogation

  • by Jon Aye
  • November 15, 2022

In 2013, Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh was detained while crossing the King Hussain checkpoint between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. This wasn’t altogether unexpected, as Sabaaneh has been working…

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Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir – Maureen Burdock Provides an Artfully Choreographed Visual Memoir Via Graphic Mundi

  • by Sathyaraj Venkatesan
  • November 14, 2022

“Is it possible to build a strong home that transcends one’s history and culture?” asks Maureen Burdock, the award-winning graphic storyteller in Queen of Snails. As much as it is…

Columns · Reviews · Small Pressganged

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April’s Chop to the Top – Morgan Mei’s Fun Fantasy Quest Employs a Musical Accompaniment in this Cross-Media Comics Experience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Multimedia comics allow us an opportunity to think about how we interpret and interact with the form, giving us extra levels on which to appreciate narrative and…

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Meat4Burgers #1 and #2 – Christof Bogacs and Becca Kubrick Serve Up a Delicious Mystery in this Existential Fantasy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! We all like an intriguing premise that immediately grabs us before we even begin reading a comic. Christof Bogacs and Becca Kubrick’s Meat4Burgers certainly accommodates us in…

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WiPXL – WIP Comics’ Giant Newspaper-Style Anthology Features Boundary-Pushing Work from Mike Armstrong, Emily Maher, Mereida Fajardo and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 11, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Cliché-ridden as it may sound you can always expect the unexpected when it comes to the WIP Comics group’s annual anthology. WIP is a regular meet-up of…

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It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth – Zoe Thorogood’s “Auto-Bio-Graphic-Novel” Masterpiece is a Triumphant Testament to the Language of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 10, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! To say I am far more interested in Zoe Thorogood’s work when it’s her own pure and unfiltered artistic vision rather than when she’s illustrating someone else’s…

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Children of the Earth & Sky – Manon Wright’s Debut Comic is a Cleverly Structured and Thought-Provoking Sci-Fi Parable

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes you only need the smallest sampling of material to know an artist has both that extra special understanding of the mechanics of comics and also that…

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Pricks – Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan Revisit the World of ‘Purple Hate Balloon’ in Another Caustically Funny Dark Comedy

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 9, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! For Thought Bubble last year Fraser Geesin and Laurie Rowan introduced us to the cast of Purple Hate Balloon. In that memorable one-shot they took us to…

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Splat – Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley’s Warped Comedy Stylings Return in a Second Split Comic Offering

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Last year for Thought Bubble Joe Stone and Matthew Dooley, those two much respected gentlemen of the UK indie comics scene, collaborated on a split format, reversible…

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Peach Fuzz #1 – Anna Readman Takes Us on an Enticing Journey Into Melancholia in this Absolutely Essential Thought Bubble 2022 Purchase

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 8, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! When I chose Anna Readman to be one of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch’ artists in  2019 it was based solely on a few short pieces on…

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All Ghosts: A Slice of the Afterlife – Sammy Ward Takes Us on a Haunted Tour of Life After Death in this Spooky Collection

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! Sometimes we don’t need the sequential part of sequential art to find whole narrratives bound up in a single image. Sammy Ward’s All Ghosts: A Slice of…

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Alfcat – Rebecca K. Jones Introduces Us to a New Feline Member of the Family in this Charming Autobio Tale

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 7, 2022

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2022! “In September 2020 I had an affair with next door’s cat”… That’s an opening sentence in one of the strips in Rebecca K. Jones’s Alfcat that is…

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