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Back in early 2017 I reviewed a short autobiographical zine by UK small presser Eleanor Crewes and was struck by the immediate connection its creator made with her readership in…
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store, comics events or digital storefront,…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Following up on her original short-form zine offering from last year, Eleanor Crewes’s The Times I Knew I Was Gay presents a fragmentary series of autobiographical vignettes in an often…
Synchronicity. This time last year I was reviewing the original version of The Times I Knew I Was Gay by Eleanor Crewes – an artist who was new to me at…
It’s D&D time again! The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is back this coming Tuesday March 21st with another fabulous threesome of peerless practitioners of pencilling prowess in Jamie…
Eleanor Crewes’ The Times I Knew I Was Gay is probably better classified as a fragmentary graphic narrative than, strictly speaking, a comic. Some of the vignettes here have their…
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