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Sun Bakery #1 – Corey Lewis’s Stylish One-Man Anthology Crackles with Pop Comics Energy

  • by Tom Murphy
  • May 6, 2016

The three stories in Sun Bakery, Corey Lewis’s anthology, sacrifice plot-heavy narrative for sparkling graphic energy. As a foggy-brained dolt who drifts around thinking of ponies and kabaddi most of the…

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Elsie Harris Picture Palace – Jessica Martin’s Gorgeously Rendered Evocation of a Bygone Era of the Silver Screen

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 3, 2016

From tentative first-time small presser to published graphic novelist, it’s been a remarkable couple of years for Jessica Martin. In 2014 Martin was a finalist in the Myriad First Graphic…

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Dept H #1 – Matt and Sharlene Kindt Go Deep with the Ultimate Locked Room Mystery

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 22, 2016

In Dept H, his eagerly awaited follow-up to Mind MGMT, Matt Kindt leads the reader into what promises to be a meticulously designed mystery, with the addition of lush watercolours by his artist…

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Modigliani – Laurent Seksik and Fabrice Le Hénanff Create Bleak Beauty from the Painter’s Final Years

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 20, 2016

A genius for the ages, largely unrecognised in his own time; an egotistical monster who rails against the world and pushes away those closest to him; a dissolute rake, living…

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Buck Slaughter’s Book of Rock ‘n’ Roll Facts #1 – Ken Eppstein Relives His Record Store Days in His Debut Solo Comic

  • by Paul Mirek
  • April 18, 2016

Buck Slaughter’s Book of Rock’n’Roll Facts, writer/publisher Ken Eppstein’s first fully solo release, is both a straightforward collection of vignettes inspired by his record store days and a gently mocking send-up…

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House of Penance #1 – Tomasi and Bertram Turn Back the Clock on a Fascinating Piece of American Folklore

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • April 14, 2016

House of Penance, Peter J. Tomasi’s harrowing return to creator-owned comics is a tour de force of atmospheric supernatural horror, thanks in no small part to the gritty art of collaborator…

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5,000 km Per Second – Manuele Fior’s Angoulême Winner Lifts the Lid on Time, Distance and Relationships

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 11, 2016

5,000 km Per Second, Manuele Fior’s delicate Angoulême-winning graphic novel, is a beautifully executed look at what time does to our hopes and our relationships. Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson, who died in…

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Irmina – Barbara Yelin’s Compelling Study of a “Normal German” Asks Painful Questions about Choices and Complicity

  • by Tom Murphy
  • April 1, 2016

Irmina, Barbara Yelin’s award-winning graphic novel, is a paradoxically beautiful and unsettling piece of work that avoids all the obvious choices to ponder how an independently minded young woman can…

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All My Ghosts – Jeremy Massie Paints a Bittersweet Portrait of a Small Town in Decline

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 30, 2016

Well-crafted and emotionally stirring, All My Ghosts, Jeremy Massie’s fictional account of a town and a protagonist left behind by the rest of the world, is a work of rare…

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Una the Blade – Steve LeCouilliard Recasts the Classic Barbarian Heroine as the Ultimate Working Mom

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 28, 2016

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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye – Sonny Liew’s Biography of an Artist and a Nation is a Comics Tour de Force

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 24, 2016

Sonny Liew’s presentation of the life and work of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, an overlooked (fictional) Singaporean cartoonist, is a stunning amalgamation of history, politics, character and art. The name Charlie…

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Goldtiger – Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton Uncover High Adventure and Creative Lunacy in a Lost 1960s Classic

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 17, 2016

A chance encounter at the Malta Comic Con led artist Jimmy Broxton to the lost newspaper adventure strip Goldtiger – a classic document of 1960s comics. But that was only the…

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Turncoat #1 – Under New Management: Creator-Owned Sci-fi Thriller Reveals Humankind’s Next Chapter

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 16, 2016

This hard-boiled futuristic thriller from rising star creators Alex Paknadel and Artyom Trakhanov stands out from a recent glut of sci-fi epics thanks to a smart, original premise and fresh,…

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Patience – Daniel Clowes Returns in Triumph to the Mess of Human Relationships

  • by Tom Murphy
  • March 10, 2016

One of the most eagerly awaited books of 2016, Daniel Clowes’ Patience is a velvet glove of a time-travel thriller cast in the iron of exquisitely depicted human turmoil. Daniel…

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The Discipline #1 – Sexual Mythology 101: Milligan and Fernandez Give Readers a Crash Course in the Transformative Power of Sex

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 4, 2016

Provocative and disturbing, this stylish dark fantasy by Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernandez creates its own erotically charged mythology, scouring away the polished veneer of appropriate behaviour adorning intimate human…

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Reddin – A Legendary Friendship Turns Bloody in this Rip-Roaring Tribute to the Old West

  • by Jason Wilkins
  • March 3, 2016

More than just a simple genre mash-up fusing familiar horror and classic western conceits, the story of Reddin explores the archetypal frontier concept of the “pardner”, in the relationship of…

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The Red Shoes and Other Tales – Metaphrog Re-Imagine Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tale to Eerie Effect

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 1, 2016

A striking showcase for the talents of the Metaphrog team this is an all-ages book that is, nonetheless, unafraid to confront some of the harsher realities of life with an…

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The Listening Post #1 – Stephen Goodall Moves His Mysterious Island Confidently from Webcomic to Print

  • by Tom Murphy
  • February 26, 2016

In The Listening Post, Stephen Goodall expands the mysterious world of his Institute of Marine Research webcomics with an intriguing, atmospheric opening issue. As you might have gathered, we get a…

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