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“Feeling Part of the Community is a Big Reason I Make Comics” – Matthew Dooley on the UK Indie Scene and His Eisner Award-Nominated Graphic Novel ‘Flake’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2021

Matthew Dooley has an off-centre, idiosyncratic, and often bleakly humorous view of the world; something that has been a constant on the UK indie scene since his work first started…

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Flake – Matthew Dooley’s Tale of Warring Ice Cream Men is a Perfect Blend of Absurdism and Humanity

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 15, 2020

There’s something of the psychogeographical to the opening of Matthew Dooley’s Flake. Dooley, of course, is a Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica short story competition winner and a prolific fixture on the UK…

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