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Never Mind It’s Only the Fucking Apocalypse – AJ O’Neill’s “Queer Fever Dream” Combines Social Commentary and Claustrophobic Horror

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 7, 2025

LDCOMICS ONLINE COMICS FAIR 2025! With a title like Never Mind It’s Only the Fucking Apocalypse AJ O’Neill’s LDComics Fair offering immediately feels like it’s reflecting the kind of weary…

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Free For All #1 – Waging War on Billionaires in Patrick Horvath’s Satirical One-Shot from Oni Press

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 17, 2025

If there were ever a time to “wage war on billionaires”, as the promo blurb for Patrick Horvath’s Free For All puts it, it is right here and now. This…

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Colossive Cartographies #61 – Julian Payne’s ‘Women’s Work’ is a Reminder that the Erasure of Women’s Contributions to History Goes Back Far Further than We Imagine

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 9, 2025

One of the most impressive aspects of the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series is the way in which they can explore big ideas or hugely important themes in such a…

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All in Line – From Absurdist Whimsy to Anti-Fascist Statements, New York Review Books Bring Saul Steinberg’s Classic Collection of Cartooning Back to Print

  • by Andy Oliver
  • January 7, 2025

Over the last few years we have reviewed a number of books from the direction of New York Review Books/New York Review Comics. Putting their original material to one side…

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Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S. – An In-Depth, Intersectional History of Women’s Fight for the Vote from Caitlin Cass and Fantagraphics

  • by Lydia Turner
  • August 1, 2024

Perhaps now more than ever, the right to vote and have our voice heard is at the forefront of many people’s minds. It’s so important that we remember the drastic…

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“It’s… Not a Great Feeling When Reality Outpaces Satire” – Jim Festante and James Asmus on the Social Commentary of ‘Survival Street: The Radical Left’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • July 2, 2024

Described as “an unrepentant action satire” the first Survival Street miniseries from Dark Horse Comics burst onto the scene in 2022 with a blistering mix of cutting social commentary, violent…

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