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    There’s No Time Like the Present – Time-Travelling Isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be in Drawn & Quarterly’s Reissue of Paul B. Rainey’s Graphic Novel 

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • April 15, 2025

    “I like the idea of creating comics for people who might not otherwise read them. People who enjoy watching classic British TV soaps, for example.” That’s how Paul B. Rainey…

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    Why Don’t You Love Me? – Paul B. Rainey’s Twisting Tale from Drawn & Quarterly Finds the Humanity in the Gloom

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 7, 2023

    Many people who have been around the UK small press scene for decades rather than years have a version of the same anecdote; of how when they first discovered small…

    Eyecatcher · Features

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    “I Am My Favourite Subject” –  Paul B. Rainey on ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?’, His First Work with D+Q

    • by Lindsay Pereira
    • January 12, 2023

    It’s always difficult to predict what Paul B. Rainey will decide to work upon next. His history in comics is so varied and intriguing that it sometimes feels as if…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Gripe Night – Paul B. Rainey is Back with Another Collection of Darkly Humorous Strips and Semi-Autobio Flights of Fancy

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 1, 2022

    Paul B. Rainey is indisputably one of the true veterans of the UK small press comics scene with a prominent presence on the circuit for decades rather than years. His…

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    The Gosh Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw Returns Online! – Join Us Thurs, Feb 3rd with Guest Artists Paul B. Rainey and Sam Baldwin

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • January 31, 2022

    Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, February 3rd with guest artists Paul B. Rainey and Sam…

    Eyecatcher · Reviews

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    Starman: Freddie Burretti, The Man Who Sewed the World – Paul B. Rainey Puts the Spotlight on One of David Bowie’s Key Collaborators

    • by Tom Murphy
    • June 9, 2020

    When David Bowie took his final bow (with typical panache) in 2016, cultural luminaries queued up to testify to the liberating and even life-changing inspiration he had provided. And one…

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    The Corbyn Comic Book – SelfMadeHero’s Anthology One-Shot Celebrates a British Political Phenomenon

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 24, 2018

    BROKEN FRONTIER AWARDS – BEST ONE-SHOT NOMINEE! SelfMadeHero‘s 10th anniversary year in 2017 was packed full of high-profile releases that underlined the UK publisher’s always eclectic and dizzyingly diverse line-up….

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Preview: Thunder Brother Special – Paul B. Rainey’s Tales of the Soap Division Return at Leamington Comic Con

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 23, 2017

    What if your favourite soap operas were real? That was the premise of Paul B. Rainey’s Thunder Brother: Soap Division series which originally ran for six issues until 2014. Rainey…

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    Staff Picks for March 22, 2017 – Cosmos & Other Stories, Underwinter, The Interview, Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story and More!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • March 21, 2017

    It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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    Covers Album: Paul B. Rainey – Spotlighting Three Favourite Comics Covers from Andy Dog, Jaime Hernandez and Jack Kirby & Joe Sinnott

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • February 22, 2017

    In ‘Covers Album’ each Wednesday we ask comics creators, publishers and commentators to pick three of their favourite comic covers …but with a small twist. One must be chosen for…

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    Tales to Diminish – The Satirical Sting of Paul B. Rainey’s Comic Shorts

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 28, 2016

    From the very outset, with its fond and droll wordplay on the melodramatic mainstream mystery mags of the 1950s and ‘60s, Paul B. Rainey’s Tales to Diminish signals its intent…

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    Staff Picks for August 3, 2016 – March, Lady Killer 2, Growing Up in Public, The Adventures of Augusta Wind, Tales to Diminish and More!

    • by Broken Frontier Staff
    • August 2, 2016

    It’s nearly Wednesday, and you know what that means: a fresh load of comics and graphic novels! With so many publications hitting your local comics store or digital storefront, the…

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    Small Press Spotlight on… Paul B. Rainey

    • by Andy Oliver
    • April 9, 2015

    The recent publication of Paul B. Rainey’s sprawling time-travel epic There’s No Time Like the Present by Escape Books gives much deserved recognition to one of the true mainstays of…

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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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    Thunder Brother: Soap Division #1-6 – Paul B. Rainey Asks “What if Your Favourite Soap Operas Were Real?”

    • by Andy Oliver
    • October 22, 2014

    A COMICA FESTIVAL TIE-IN! What if the fictional soap opera worlds that are beamed into our homes several times a week were anything but? What would happen if, instead, they…

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