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Future – Woodman and Smissen’s Twisting Time-Travel Tale is a Beautiful Celebration of Love and the Devotion it Inspires

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 13, 2021

It would be very easy when talking about Tom Woodman and Rupert Smissen’s graphic novel Future to prioritise describing it in terms of its complex and inventive science fiction elements….

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Vinyl #1 – The Premiere Issue of Wagner & Hillyard’s Series Ticks All the Boxes for a Promising Double-Platinum Hit from Image Comics

  • by John Trigonis
  • July 13, 2021

Vinyl #1 starts off with lots of blood and gore and ends with the promise of more to come in 12-Gauge Comics’ new original story about a serial killer with…

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I’m a Wild Seed – Sharon Lee De La Cruz Reconstructs Her Identity as a Queer BIPOC in a Vibrant Debut from Street Noise Books

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 12, 2021

Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s conversational narratorial style immediately welcomes the reader into her graphic memoir I’m a Wild Seed, an examination of her identity as a queer BIPOC published…

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Smithers&Wing – Heather Palmer and Kirsty Hunter’s Queer Graphic Novel Gives the Detective Genre a Magical Touch

  • by Holly Raidl
  • July 6, 2021

Smithers&Wing is a LGBT+ mystery fantasy story surrounding the disappearance of Catriona, a high school student whose absence is brought to our main protagonists Flora Smithers and August Wing by…

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Rebecca and Lucie in the Case of the Missing Neighbor – Pascal Girard Gives Us Another Unexpected Slice of Life

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 30, 2021

There’s almost always an element of doubt that creeps into the mind of a reader looking through the work of Pascal Girard. It is a healthy kind of doubt; one…

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All the Places in Between – A Powerful Reminder of John Cei Douglas’s Place as One of UK Indie Comics Most Eloquent Pure Visual Storytellers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 29, 2021

It’s been several years now since we first covered the often dreamy, always lyrical work of John Cei Douglas at Broken Frontier in the early Great Beast collection of his…

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Factory Summers – Guy Delisle Turns a Dispassionate Eye to His Own Past in His Latest Book for Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 24, 2021

Why is Guy Delisle turning his observant, careful, dispassionate eye upon himself? That was the first question that popped into my mind a few pages into Factory Summers. I thought…

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The Dancing Plague – One of History’s Most Mysterious Unexplained Events Revisited in Graphic Novel Form by Gareth Brookes and SelfMadeHero

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 16, 2021

New comics work from Gareth Brookes – whether it be experimental zines and minicomics or full-length graphic novel – is always to be eagerly anticipated such is his dedication to…

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Friend of the Devil: A Reckless Book – Pulp and Past Memories Make This Brubaker and the Phillips Book One of Their Best Yet

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 15, 2021

The most surprising thing in Friend of the Devil – the brilliant new entry in Ed Brubaker, and Sean and Jacob Phillips’ Reckless series – is when Ethan Reckless mentions…

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The Delicacy – James Albon Takes His Characters on a Dark Fungi-Fuelled Journey of Gastronomic Ambition

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2021

There’s something intimately appealing about a graphic narrative that so deftly wrongfoots the reader by taking them in one assumed direction before turning their expectations on their head. I went…

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Stone Fruit – Lee Lai’s Poignant Graphic Novel Debut on Queer Love, Family and the Detriment of Expectations, from Fantagraphics

  • by Rebecca Burke
  • June 10, 2021

Lee Lai’s debut graphic novel Stone Fruit is a tender and self-aware story with relationships at its heart: queer relationships, sibling relationships, parental relationships, and the self-referential relationships of our…

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Dog Biscuits – Alex Graham’s COVID Comic is an Engrossing and Ambitious Look at Modern Society

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • June 8, 2021

As Rosie (the Rabbit) puts it part-way through Alex Graham’s Dog Biscuits, “there are certain aspects of being alive that are impossible to control.” This is true of her hormonal…

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Crash Site – Nathan Cowdry’s Graphic Novel Tickles Your Ribs and Also Strikes Them a Few Times with a Hot Poker

  • by Nicholas Burman
  • June 7, 2021

The artist said it himself and it’s set to be a cliché in relation to his work, but it’s true that Nathan Cowdry’s Crash Site is not for everybody. Not…

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The City of Belgium – Brecht Evens Transfers a Beguiling Dream to Paper Via Drawn & Quarterly

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 4, 2021

To open a new book like The City of Belgium by Brecht Evens is the equivalent of breaking out a bottle of fine wine: It marks a special occasion, warrants…

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Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful – The Evil that Some Men Do is Laid Out in Stunning Simplicity By Darryl Cunningham

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • June 3, 2021

There is something particularly disconcerting about malevolence when it is being discussed in the form of a comic. That feeling of being disconnected from what is being revealed crops up…

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Beatnik Buenos Aires – A Charcoal and Smoke-Filled Tribute to the ’60s Argentinian Art-Scene

  • by Bruno Savill de Jong
  • May 28, 2021

Beatnik Buenos Aires informs us early on that “at night we are all ashes. We seek a fire that gives up meaning.” Amongst the torrents of cigarette smoke inside dimly-lit…

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Rangers of the Divide #1 – Megan Huang’s Smart Mix of Sci-Fi Technology and Dragon Adventure Makes for a Compelling Page-Turner

  • by Karen O'Brien
  • May 28, 2021

Creator Megan Huang (Princeless, Jia and the Nian Monster) launches a promising sci-fi/fantasy adventure with Rangers of the Divide. The nations of Veil and Ryllion are continuously at war, yet…

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The Down River People – Adam Smith and Matt Fox Plunge into Southern Gothic Literature

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • May 27, 2021

There’s something about troubled families that clearly attracts Adam Smith and Matt Fox. It is a theme the writer-illustrator team last explored on Long Walk to Valhalla a little over…

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