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Weegee: Serial Photographer – Max de Radiguès and Wauter Mannaert Take Us to 1930s New York in Conundrum Press’s Fascinating Graphic Biography

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 23, 2018

“Tragedy comes to New Yorkers so naturally…” So says Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee, a renowned figure on the 1930s-40s New York press beat in one key sequence in the pages…

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Jinty Vol. 1 – Take a Trip to the ‘Land of No Tears’ and ‘The Human Zoo’ in Another Collection of Classic UK Comics for Girls

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 21, 2018

There’s a spirited introduction from legendary British comics writer Pat Mills to this recent Treasury of British Comics collection of Jinty strips that bemoans the lack of girls weekly comics in the current…

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NPC Tea #1 – A Fitting Introduction to Sarah Millman’s Ongoing Fantasy Series

  • by Holly Raidl
  • November 20, 2018

Beginning with an introduction to the universe in the style of a history lesson Sarah Millman’s NPC Tea combines gorgeous tonal colours with a fun fantasy tale to create a…

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Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie – The Crime Novelist’s Complex World Explored by Martinetti, Lebeau and Franc

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 19, 2018

In late 1926, following an argument with her husband Archie, celebrated crime novelist Agatha Christie’s sudden disappearance caused a media sensation. Having abandoned her car at a quarry she would…

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Reverse Flâneur – M. Sabine Rear Explores Contemporary Art and Being Visible as a Blind Woman in Her Ignatz-Nominated Minicomic

  • by Robin Enrico
  • November 15, 2018

Reverse Flâneur by M. Sabine Rear is a travelogue in multiple senses of the word. On one hand it serves as vicarious document of Rear’s time visiting art museums in…

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Minnie: 65 Years of Minxing! – The Beano Throws a Fitting Birthday Bash for its Much Loved Mischievous Miscreant

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 13, 2018

The creation of the (genuinely) legendary cartoonist Leo Baxendale and former The Beano editor George Moone, the long-running Minnie the Minx strip celebrated its 65th birthday this year. Eternally aged…

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All the Sad Songs – Summer Pierre Hits All the Right Notes in Her Meditation on Music and Memory

  • by Tom Murphy
  • November 6, 2018

It’s a bit of a truism to point out that comics isn’t the most obvious medium for dealing with music – and I’m certainly not going to dig out that overworked…

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Nate the Nonconformist Has a Rival! – Stephanie Mannheim Presents Another Engaging Sitcom-esque Romp Via Birdcage Bottom Books

  • by Robin Enrico
  • November 5, 2018

As much as indie comics is the realm of emotionally exploratory stories, the freedom inherent in the medium also allows for work that is more interested in tickling our funny…

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Dokudami Tenement Vol. 3 – Takashi Fukutani Tackles Transgender Issues in 1980s Tokyo

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • November 2, 2018

I admit to having been initially wary about the subject matter of Dokudami Tenement Vol. 3. Bearing the subtitle ‘Confessions of a Transgender (Killing Me Softly)’, and written and drawn…

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Penguins – Nick Thorburn’s Cutting Wit and Devastating Punchlines Allow the Reader to Cope with a Harshly Indifferent World

  • by Robin Enrico
  • November 1, 2018

Even with its minimalist style, blank slate characters, and a complete lack of dialogue, Penguins – Nick Thorburn’s collection of tragi-comic strips – is still acutely able to tap into the anxieties…

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Misty Vol. 1-3 – Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics Brings the Characters of the Cult 1970s Supernatural Weekly to a New Audience

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 31, 2018

Filled with supernatural thrillers that were surprisingly uncompromising in their approach, Misty is one of the great cult publications of British comics history. Debuting in the late 1970s, and running…

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Kingdom – Jon McNaught’s Quietly Melancholic Masterpiece is a Tour de Force of Slice-of-Life Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2018

The profound eloquence of artist Jon McNaught’s storytelling lies in his ability to speak to us without words; to evoke a sense of shared experience on a purely empathetic level;…

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Mami – Fun Comics with a Real Heart and Tasty Food from Diigii Daguna and Peow

  • by Holly Raidl
  • October 25, 2018

Some comics you hear about and just know they’re going to be right up your street. I’ve been a fan of Diigii Daguna’s work for a while so when I…

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The Alcoholic – Ames and Haspiel’s 10th Anniversary Edition is an Entertaining Blast from the Past

  • by Tom Murphy
  • October 23, 2018

To anyone with even a passing interest in the development of mainstream comics over the past – gulp – 30-odd years, editor Karen Berger will need no introduction. So when…

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Live/Work #1 and #2 – Pat Palermo’s Story of Young Artists on the New York Scene is One of 2018’s Strongest Debuts

  • by Robin Enrico
  • October 22, 2018

One of the best things about the first and second issues of Live/Work by Pat Palermo is that they feel like comics from a different era, specifically the early 2000s….

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Jazz Creepers #1 – Douglas Noble’s Anthology Unearths Horrors of the Past by Comics Talent of Tomorrow

  • by Tom Baker
  • October 18, 2018

Any good M.R. James story — or more appropriately, what with this being a comics site and all, any good Hellboy short — will see an old, seemingly forgotten myth…

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The Chronicles of Fortune – Coco Picard’s Tale of Magic Realism and Super-Heroics is Deeply Affecting in Its Minimalism

  • by Robin Enrico
  • October 16, 2018

Much of the work of a cartoonist is simply that, cartooning. They exaggerate and amplify in the hopes of capturing that which is invisible or hard to define. Told primarily…

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Petals – Borges and Peter’s All-Ages Story is Both a Poignant Tear-Jerker and a Delightful Celebration of Life

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 10, 2018

In the depths of the forest, a close-knit father and son family of foxes are attempting to get through a brutally cold winter. But when the elder fox falls ill…

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