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    Tagged: small press

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    Curriculum Vitae – Danish Artist Bue Bredsdorff’s Cleverly Crafted Minicomic Serves a Dual Purpose

    • by Andy Oliver
    • March 16, 2015

    As minicomics go they don’t get much more mini than Danish artist Bue Bredsdorff’s Curriculum Vitae. This 26-pager is little more than a couple of inches square, giving it a…

    Sinners by Simon Birks and RH Stewart

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    Sinners #1 – A Self-Published Horror Tale That Explores the Twin Themes of Death and Redemption

    • by Jason Wilkins
    • March 11, 2015

    On the heels of a successful Kickstarter campaign, UK scribe Simon Birks delves into the universal themes of death and redemption in this twisted, violent tale of a troubled young…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    All at Sea #1 – Bereavement and Loss Are at the Emotional Core of Samuel C. Williams’s Layered Drama

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 24, 2015

    In All at Sea #1 – the first instalment of a three-part drama – creator Samuel C. Williams explores themes surrounding one of the most profound rites of passage in life,…

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    Paragon #17 – Whimsical, Eclectic, and Raw, this UK Anthology Series Wears Its Heart on Its Sleeve

    • by Jason Wilkins
    • February 12, 2015

    Time-traveling samurai love stories meet outlandish, post-apocalyptic western slapstick in this small-press anthology with a little something for everyone. There’s something to be said for perseverance. Venturing into the highly…

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    Die Homer Volume 1 – ‘The Simpsons’ Meets ‘Die Hard’ in Tyler J. Hutchison’s Mirth-Filled Mash-Up

    • by Andy Oliver
    • February 9, 2015

    At last November’s Thought Bubble there were two comics I was told time and again were essential books to pick up in print form for review in ‘Small Pressganged’, both…

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    Baggywrinkles #1-5 – Lucy Bellwood’s Enthusiasm for the World of Tall Ships is Infectious in these Maritime-Themed Minicomics

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 29, 2015

    I would like to pretend that I discovered Lucy Bellwood’s Baggywrinkles series at the UK’s Thought Bubble festival last November but the truth is that – despite being told by several…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Scout #1 – Patt Kelley’s Idiosyncratic Imagination Bursts onto the Pages of this Eerie Burton-esque Mystery

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 27, 2015

    The last time I reviewed a Patt Kelley comic at Broken Frontier I was entranced by a distinctive mix of the everyday and the utterly bizarre within its pages. On…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Long Divisions #1 – Paddy Johnston Presents a Slice-of-Lifer with a Fantastical Twist

    • by Andy Oliver
    • January 23, 2015

    It’s hard not to hum along with the thoughts of Rex Harrison’s Doctor Dolittle when reading Paddy Johnston’s Long Divisions. “Think of the amazing repartee/If I could walk with the…

    Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged

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    Celebrate 3 Years of ‘Small Pressganged’ at Broken Frontier with Our Great UK Small Press Comics Giveaway Competition!

    • by Andy Oliver
    • November 3, 2014

    Three years of dedicated and committed self-publishing coverage. Around 300 small press comics reviewed. Approximately 40 creators interviewed. Comics from four continents featured. Yes, today we’re celebrating the third birthday…

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    BLOCKS Comics – A Looping Minicomic with an Irrepressibly Tactile Aesthetic from Ryan Cecil Smith

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 30, 2014

    Ryan Cecil Smith’s BLOCKS minicomic began life as an explanatory design for the Loop de Loop Animation Challenge – the cyclical reading experience inherent in its distinctive physicality mimicking the creation…

    In HIs Cups: Collected Tales from Gimbley (Phil Elliott)

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    In His Cups: Collected Tales from Gimbley – Raise a Glass to Phil Elliott, One of the Godfathers of British Small Press Comics

    • by Tom Murphy
    • September 24, 2014

    This neat little collection offers a showcase of Phil Elliott’s Tales from Gimbley – the core work of one of British small press comics’ early giants. Phil Elliott plays such a…

    Pictorial Histories of Leider (Gus Hughes; Cardboard Press)

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    Pictorial Histories of Leider – Gus Hughes’s Collection from Ireland’s Cardboard Press is a Startling, Primal Blast

    • by Tom Murphy
    • September 17, 2014

    Showing the value of small press subscription services, cartoonist and fine artist Gus Hughes provides an unnerving collection of short stories that seem to daub the subconscious straight onto the…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    The Man Called Uncle Tim #1- A Journey of Discovery through Family History by Artist Lindsay Draws

    • by Andy Oliver
    • September 10, 2014

    It’s important to mention from the outset that today’s ‘Small Pressganged’ choice – The Man Called Uncle Tim #1 – is not so much a comic book as a zine that employs…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Operation Paperclip – ‘The Inbetweeners’ Meets ‘The Boys from Brazil’ in Patrick Goddard’s Sinister Yet Strangely Droll Graphic Novel

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 25, 2014

    How would you react if you discovered that everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie? That you owed your entire existence to history’s greatest monster? And that…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    David Robertson’s Dump #2 – An Anthology Celebration of Grassroots Publishing from Fred Egg Comics

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 22, 2014

    David Robertson’s Dump anthology is one of those refreshingly old school small press publications that embody the DIY culture of self-publishing with an unashamedly eclectic collection of shorts. Published under…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    Fixed Up #1-3 – A Compelling Catalogue of Romantic Mishaps from South African Creator Ian Norris

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 21, 2014

    “The story of one man’s journey from a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy teenager in Cape Town to a geeky, awkward, Jewish, shy adult in Oxford”  is how Ian Norris’s autobiographical comic Fixed…

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    Omnipathy #3 – Joe Sparrow’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy Anthology Comic Employs a Stunning Use of Colour to Further Narrative Intent

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 20, 2014

    Reading the entire run of Joe Sparrow’s Omnipathy – a series of minicomics offering self-contained stories in genres that have so far included science fiction, horror and fantasy – in…

    Columns · Small Pressganged

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    My Whole World – Share in a Child’s Eye View of Life in Nuala C. Murphy’s Touching Minicomic

    • by Andy Oliver
    • August 13, 2014

    Sometimes it’s all too easy to forget that comics as a medium are just as appropriate a format for dwelling on the smaller, quieter moments of life as they are…

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