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Safari Showcase: Donya Todd – From the Hallucinogenic World of ‘Death & the Girls’ to Kick-Ass Anthology ‘Bimba’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 13, 2015

A SAFARI FESTIVAL TIE-IN! “It’s not often I get the opportunity to describe a creator as a true original but in Donya Todd’s case it would be criminal not to…

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Love Looks Away – Memory and Family History Explored in Line Hoven’s Beautifully Crafted Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 12, 2014

Love Looks Away is a graphic memoir that emphasises the underlying delicacy of memory; of how small, isolated and fragile moments combine to create our own personal narratives. In Love…

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Darryl Cunningham’s Uncle Bob Adventures Volume 1- All-Ages Tall Tales Offering from Blank Slate Books is Rollicking Good Fun

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 3, 2014

The Uncle Bob Adventures allow Darryl Cunningham to mischievously genre jump, opening up a world of story opportunities for his most affable central character. Darryl Cunningham has become renowned over the…

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Take Away! – Blank Slate Books Presents the Comic Genius of Lizz Lunney

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 2, 2014

If you are new to Lizz Lunney’s idiosyncratic comic strips and their resplendently ridiculous narratives then this is the collection that your bookshelf is just begging to house. If there…

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Pimo & Rex – Blank Slate Books and Rotopolpress Co-publish the Fantasy Fun of Thomas Wellmann’s Comic Duo

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 6, 2014

Captivating, endearing and brilliantly absurd. Published collaboratively between Germany’s altcomics outfit Rotopolpress and Blank Slate Books in the UK, Pimo & Rex is the creation of German artist Thomas Wellmann….

From Rolling Stock by Oliver East

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Location, Location, Location: Oliver East

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 11, 2013

Striding out from his home in Manchester, the critically acclaimed artist Oliver East has blazed the trail for ‘landscape comics’ in the UK. As in most narrative media, the vast…

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The Listening Agent

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 29, 2013

The Listening Agent is another laconic and beautifully understated collection of work from Joe Decie, underlining his undoubted status as one of the most unique creative voices on the current…

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Death & the Girls

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2013

Death & the Girls takes us to an eerie, hallucinatory world of violence, vomit and voyeurism, all infused with the distinctive imagery of Mexican folklore. Betsy, Bunny and Batstone –…

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Playing Out

  • by Andy Oliver
  • September 2, 2013

Playing Out combines Medway’s lively cartooning comedy with an incisive eye for slice-of-life observational analysis. It’s most appropriate to be reviewing Jim Medway’s Playing Out at this time of year…

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Swear Down

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 3, 2013

Part walking diary, part social observation, part slice-of-life, and part love letter to landscape and architecture, Oliver East’s books have that rarest and most inspiring of all things in the…

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