Last week I had the pleasure of chairing a panel discussion at London’s Gosh! Comics focusing on the new graphic novel line from Unbound Books. It was an opportunity to…
Confession: I’ve been struggling to write this article about Beast Wagon for a REALLY long time. I’ve emptied the crumpled paper balls of draft after draft from my wastebasket more…
It was the atmospheric dark comedy that I said “simply begs you to enter its murkily menacing world” on its debut in 2015 and, since then, Owen Michael Johnson, John…
It’s the tenth Thought Bubble comic art festival at the weekend and this week at Broken Frontier we’re taking a tour of just some of the debut book highlights. Up until…
One of the five shortlisted entries for the Best Comic category in this year’s British Comic Awards Beast Wagon returns for the second part of its serialised story this November….
Writer Owen Michael Johnson and artist John Pearson’s Beast Wagon was first previewed back in the latter part of last year with an introductory 6-page offering premiering at Thought Bubble….
The Beast Wagon Kickstarter, Julia Scheele’s new fashion illustration blog, John Paul Kamath’s Graveyard Orbit #2 launch and more feature in March’s round-up of what the great and the good…
As Thought Bubble rapidly approaches we can always expect to hear rumblings of exciting debut releases to coincide with the UK’s major autumn convention/festival season. Courtesy of Owen Michael Johnson…
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