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I Don’t Like My Hair Neat #2 – The Comics Craft of Julia Scheele Examined

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 23, 2014

It was during my background research/reading for the recent coverage of Avery Hill Publishing’s summer launches – Julia Scheele’s collaboration with Ricky Miller on Metroland was one of four uniformly…

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The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James – Graphic Medicine with True Heart from Ian Williams and Myriad Editions

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 21, 2014

Graphic medicine with true heart, The Bad Doctor is a testament to the value of the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition in nurturing exciting new creative voices After Hannah Eaton’s Naming…

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“Finding Beauty in the Dark” – Ravi Thornton Talks HOAX Psychosis Blues, Cross-Media Storytelling and ‘Brin & Bent’ Two Years On

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 4, 2014

In 2012 cross-media creator Ravi Thornton made an immediate impact on the world of comics with the dark and layered fantasy The Tale of Brin & Bent and Minno Marylebone,…

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HOAX Psychosis Blues – Ravi Thornton, Bryan Talbot, Hannah Berry, Karrie Fransman and Company Underline the Astonishing Power of the Graphic Memoir

  • by Andy Oliver
  • May 6, 2014

HOAX Psychosis Blues is the ultimate expression of the graphic memoir’s unique power to share and communicate personal experience. A hauntingly beautiful masterpiece. Back in 2012, Ravi Thornton and Andy…

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Lighter than My Shadow – Katie Green’s Inspirational Graphic Memoir of “Eating Disorders, Abuse and Recovery”

  • by Andy Oliver
  • April 4, 2014

Lighter than My Shadow is an outstanding and courageous use of the graphic novel format to inform, to elucidate and to share. Arguably, the graphic memoir is the strand of…

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Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other Stories – Great Beast Showcases John Cei Douglas

  • by Andy Oliver
  • February 24, 2014

Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other Stories… sees John Cei Douglas’s lingering and poignant comics collected into one mandatory package from British publisher Great Beast. It includes…

Look Straight Ahead by Elaine M Will (Cuckoo's Nest Press)

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Look Straight Ahead

  • by Tom Murphy
  • December 5, 2013

Elaine M Will’s self-publishing success story uses every tool in the cartoonist’s kit to depict vividly the experience of mental illness. As you enter  ‘Paul Klee: Making Visible’, a major…

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