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I Feel Machine – Shaun Tan and Tillie Walden Are Among the Contributors to this Unsettling SelfMadeHero Anthology Exploring the Darker Side of Our Relationship with Technology

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 10, 2019

Humanity’s complex relationship with the technology it creates, relies on and arguably becomes subservient to is fertile ground for sci-fi/horror hybrid parable. SelfMadeHero’s anthology I Feel Machine explores those ideas in…

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The Thirteenth Floor Vol. 1 -The Treasury of British Comics Takes Us Back to a Horror Comics Cult Classic from the Pages of ‘Scream!’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 8, 2019

The Thirteenth Floor is perhaps the most fondly remembered of all the strips to originate in the very short-lived early ’80s British horror comics weekly Scream!. Written by the popular…

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Ken Reid’s Creepy Creations – The Treasury of British Comics Collects Reid’s Gloriously Grotesque Creature Features from the Pages of ‘Shiver and Shake’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 3, 2019

The Chip Chomping Tater Terror of Tring! The Fanatical Fungus Grower of Frogpool! The Boggle-Eyed Butty-Biter of Sandwich! The Barmy Wellington Boot Bee Monster from Barnsley! The Vampire Banana! And…

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Wolf – Rachael Ball Examines the Realities of Childhood Bereavement through the Dual Lenses of the Everyday and the Outlandishly Imaginative

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2019

Rachael Ball had already established her skill at weaving autobiographical experience into new narrative form in her previous graphic novel The Inflatable Woman a couple of years ago. There she…

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Through a Life – Juxtaposing the Epic and the Human as We Dream of the Stars with Tom Haugomat and Nobrow Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 31, 2018

In Through a Life from Nobrow Press Tom Haugomat exploits comics’ distinctive relationship with the passing of time to poignantly encapsulate an entire lifetime in less than 200 pages. Beginning…

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Felice the Christmas Fairy – An Enchanting Festive Children’s Tale by Irene Mathias and BF ‘Six to Watch’ Artist Anja Uhren

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 19, 2018

To be completely upfront, Felice the Christmas Fairy isn’t strictly comics (though it does employ some of their specific structural tools) but this charming children’s book is still a graphic…

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Snowbird – Erin K Wilson Adds a Meta Touch to Their Distinctive Self-Analytical Autobio from Silver Sprocket

  • by Robin Enrico
  • December 17, 2018

As they get older everyone has to reconcile who they once were with who they have become. For the autobiographical cartoonist this is even more complicated as they also have…

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Thee Collected Cyanide Milkshake – Examining the Hilarious Yet Sincere Minicomics of Liz Suburbia

  • by Robin Enrico
  • December 10, 2018

Powerful as any given issue of a minicomic can be there is a certain weight to having a larger collection of an artist’s work. With the thicker spine comes not…

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Earthbound – Blonk’s Undead Slice-of-Life Tale Makes Us Feel a Part of Its Characters’ World

  • by Robin Enrico
  • December 6, 2018

Earthbound by Jean-Claude Aumais (aka Blonk) is the kind of comic that ends up being more than the sum of its parts. Blonk takes the Twilight Zone-esque premise of a…

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‘The Prince’ and ‘The Inspector’ – Providing Chills, Laughs and Social Comment, Two Very Different Comics Highlight the Distinctive Talent of Liam Cobb

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 3, 2018

Reading a review of The Prince on a reputable US comics site, I was surprised to read that Liam Cobb might be best known in that part of the world…

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24 Panels – Over 50 Creators Come Together in a Truly Powerful Benefit Anthology for the Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire

  • by Andy Oliver
  • November 28, 2018

Whenever approaching a review of a project like 24 Panels there’s an understandable temptation to suspend a critical eye; to focus on promotion and publicity first and foremost. In short,…

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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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