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Other Horrible Folk – Douglas Noble Does It Again with Sinister Subtlety and Canny Uncanniness in this Poetic Time Capsule of Tradition

  • by Jenny Robins
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! “They see what they want to see, don’t they? The Devil in the long grass and old gods scratching behind the moon.” Other Horrible Folk dances through…

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Thought Bubble Anthology 2019 – The Annual Festival Anthology Makes a Welcome Return Mixing New Talent with Established Creators Including Luke Pearson, Rachael Smith, Jock and Tula Lotay

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 4, 2019

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2019! One of my annual traditions for Thought Bubble in years past was to devour that year’s Thought Bubble Anthology on the train journey up to Leeds. What…

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Scream! Presents The Thirteenth Floor – A Full-Length Return to a ‘Scream!’ Classic Just in Time for Halloween, as the John Stokes Renaissance Continues

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2019

There’s no Scream! and Misty Special this year for Halloween but instead we do get to take an extended trip to a familiar horror environment in Scream! Presents The Thirteenth Floor. Continuing…

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Assassinistas – Tini Howard and Gilbert Hernandez Explore Family and Friendship in this Hitwoman Crime Thriller from Black Crown

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 23, 2019

The recent news that IDW Publishing and Shelly Bond’s entertainingly eclectic Black Crown imprint were parting ways was one met with understandable sadness from fans of genuinely indie serial comics…

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The Lonesome Era – Jon Allen’s Graphic Novel Fosters an Intimacy that Makes this Story About Funny Cartoon Animals Deeply Human

  • by Robin Enrico
  • October 21, 2019

Jon Allen has been quietly working away at his Ohio Is For Sale series for years now. While the series’ first collection showcased his eye for finding the dark comedy…

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Mooncakes – Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker’s Sweet Coming-of-Age Fantasy from Lion Forge

  • by Holly Raidl
  • October 18, 2019

Mooncakes begins with autumnal tones, coinciding nicely with the weather during the month of its release. The story surrounds Nova Huang, a powerful witch with hearing loss, and her close…

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Brownstone’s Mythical Collection: Kai and the Monkey King – Joe Todd-Stanton and Flying Eye Books Revisit the Brownstone Lineage in Another Wildly Imaginative Adventure for Younger Readers

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 17, 2019

Time for another visit to Professor Brownstone’s vault of treasures courtesy of creator Joe Todd-Stanton and Flying Eye Books this month as the latest volume of Brownstone’s Mythical Collection –…

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Get Over It – Mary Shyne’s Intensely Kinetic Tale of Emotional States Brought to Projected Life

  • by Robin Enrico
  • October 14, 2019

Mary Shyne’s Get Over It is a graphic novel shot out of a cannon. Rendered in crisp black and white, and vibrant orange the book is intensely kinetic, moves at…

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Frogcatchers – A Disconcerting Journey into One Man’s Psyche from Jeff Lemire

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 11, 2019

A young boy spending a hazy summer’s day collecting frogs in a tin sets the scene for Frogcatchers, Jeff Lemire’s new graphic novella from Simon and Schuster imprint Gallery 13….

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Dead Eyes #1 – Duggan and McCrea’s Crime Drama is a Strangely Pleasing Mix of the Grim, the Slapstick and the Poignant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 8, 2019

Having ripped off the mob in the 1990s in one last big job, Martin (the former feared masked criminal Dead Eyes) has spent the intervening decades looking after his disabled…

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Taxi!: Stories from the Back Seat – Aimée de Jongh’s Collection of Interweaving Encounters with Taxi Drivers Has a Quiet and Compelling Humanity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 4, 2019

Some of the most powerful slice-of-life work speaks to us so eloquently not through an overt attempt at ostentatious profoundness but rather because it reveals familiar truths with a quiet…

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They Called Us Enemy – George Takei Revisits a Shameful Chapter in US History in His Acclaimed Graphic Memoir on Growing Up in a Wartime Internment Camp

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • October 3, 2019

Legendary actor; LGBTQ+ advocate; community activist; social media influencer. As one of the most visible Japanese Americans in the public eye, George Takei has consistently used his platform to draw attention to urgent…

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The River at Night – Kevin Huizenga Turns Sleeplessness into Something Magical in His New Drawn & Quarterly Offering

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • October 2, 2019

That space between lucidity and sleep has always been an elusive one, especially for writers and artists who have long tried to pin it down. Kevin Huizenga has made a…

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I Feel Weird #3 and 4 – Haleigh Buck’s Account of Living with Depression and Anxiety Opens the Reader’s Minds to the Thorny Realities of Psychotherapy

  • by Robin Enrico
  • September 30, 2019

In the third and fourth issue of Haleigh Buck’s I Feel Weird series she mixes grim and grotesque humor with achingly honest confession to depict the challenges of her depression and…

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Scooby-Doo Team-Up #50 – ‘Crisis on Infinite Scoobys’ in the Meta, Multi-Dimensional Wrap-Up to Ironically the Most DC Universe Book DC Have Published Since 2011

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 30, 2019

Undoubtedly the most delightful hidden gem in the Big Two’s super-hero publishing schedules, DC’s Scooby-Doo Team-Up came to an end this month with a fittingly celebratory 50th anniversary issue. Over…

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Fran of the Floods – The 1970s ‘Jinty’ Tale of Environmental Collapse from the Treasury of British Comics Has a Vital Topicality

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 27, 2019

If your vague memories of the 1970s UK girls comics market were limited to twee tales of ballerinas and boarding schools then Rebellion’s recent Treasury of British Comics volumes will…

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Arrowheads – Steven Christie’s Softly Packaged, Razor Sharp Satire on the World of Art

  • by Robin Enrico
  • September 25, 2019

The sharpest satire always comes from satirists who are well versed in the subject matter they are skewering. In his graphic novella Arrowheads, Steven Christie takes aim at the haughty…

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Horizontal Collaboration – Navie and Carole Maurel Bring Forgotten WWII Stories of Forbidden Love to Life Via Korero Press

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • September 20, 2019

There is something decidedly prosaic about a title like Horizontal Collaboration until one is informed of what the term once meant to the French. During World War II, it referred…

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