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It seems appropriate today, given that it’s the deadline day for the 2018 Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition, to be giving some time to a book that was shortlisted for…
Just over a century after her death, the story of the infamous Mata Hari – the “exotic dancer” executed in 1917 on charges of being a German spy – is…
Sara Lautman has firmly secured her place as a cartoonist and illustrator with her professional work for The New Yorker. While Lautman is highly competent at the single panel gag…
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Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and his Get Jiro! co-writer Joel Rose reunite to cook up Hungry Ghosts #1; the first instalment of a four-part miniseries via new Dark Horse imprint Berger Books. The…
Ink Toby by A.T. Pratt is a rare thing in the world of indie comics, simultaneously a take down of the scene’s at times Pollyanna-ish culture yet one so steeped…
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It is always interesting to see a cartoonist step outside their artistic wheelhouse and try something new. What is somewhat unique within indie comics is that this new thing can…
Gritty, witty, and tenacious, Abbott #1 deftly combines hard-nosed crime with a supernatural twist. This debut from the creative team of writer Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä challenges the investigative…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL WINNER! Every year the comics critics’ “best of” lists start to congregate like wiry hairs in the internet plughole, and every year…
Only the End of the World Again began life as a short story commissioned for Steven Jones’ compilation of fiction inspired by H.P. Lovecraft: Shadows Over Innsmouth in 1994. It…
BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONE-SHOT NOMINEE! SelfMadeHero‘s 10th anniversary year in 2017 was packed full of high-profile releases that underlined the UK publisher’s always eclectic and dizzyingly diverse line-up….
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