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British micropublisher Avery Hill Publishing are no longer the new kids on the small press block. In 2013 their comics output expanded rapidly. Critically acclaimed books like Jazz Greenhill’s The…
Columns · Eyecatcher · Small Pressganged
Over the last few years Avery Hill’s Reads has served as the micropublisher’s showcase comic; a self-styled shop front featuring an ever eclectic mix of genres and approaches to the…
Press Release Avery Hill Publishing are delighted to announce the release of “Infrastructure”, by illustrator and comic creator Tim Bird (Grey Area, It’s A Bird’s Life), the latest instalment in…
Tim Bird’s Grey Area is a comic that pushes environment to the forefront, making geographical locations its central characters and replacing traditional plotting with a flowing journey of contemplative reflection….
Avery Hill Publishing’s Reads is an anthology that is steadfastly unashamed of its old school, grassroots small press approach. As diverse a collection – in terms of both genres and…
Published by Avery Hill, whose anthology Reads! I reviewed here on ‘Small Pressganged’ last year, Tim Bird’s Grey Area #1 is a sequential art tour of London’s streets, thoroughfares and hidden corners at night. Three…
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