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Ugly Mug #5 – After 30 Years the House of Harley’s Small Press Anthology Returns with Work from John Bagnall, Ed Pinsent and More

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 7, 2022

Thirty or so years ago, beginning in the late ‘80s, Ugly Mug was a British small press anthology that featured a number of creators who are now considered legends of…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Dusty Sideboard #1 – A Welcome Return to the Peculiarly British Idiosyncrasies of John Bagnall’s Gently Humorous Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 20, 2017

‘Small Pressganged’ has prided itself over the last few years of being a platform for the most exciting new small press talent and comics craft.  Discovery has been a prime…

Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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Celebrating 2014: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 1, 2015

As has become something of a tradition for the first ‘Small Pressganged’ of the New Year it’s time once again to look back on the self and micropublished material featured in this…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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The Mammoth Book of Cult Comics – ILYA Curates a Compendium of Largely Self-Published Gems from Three Decades of Comics

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 27, 2014

A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! While the remit of this column is to specifically focus on self and micropublished comics there are times when it’s wholly appropriate to bend the rules a…

Columns · Small Pressganged

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Knitting with Coalsmoke – John Bagnall Fondly Dissects the Eccentricities of British Life in this Collection of Ten Years of His Comic Strips

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 27, 2014

Knitting with Coalsmoke collects a selection of the “pleasantly musty” strips of John Bagnall – small press veteran of the heady 1980s days of Escape and Fast Fiction – and…

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