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Smedley: The Story of a Worm-Shaped Man #1 – Todd Oliver is Back with His Own Particular Brand of Cartoon Violence and Scatalogical Humour

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 19, 2018

ELCAF FORTNIGHT! In the pages of a Todd Oliver comic the grotesque and the nihilistic are so commonplace that they become almost banal. That’s the appeal of the worlds he…

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Boxes #2-3 – Todd Oliver’s Uncompromising Fever Dream of a Comic is Back with More Gross-Out Slapstick

  • by Andy Oliver
  • June 14, 2017

ELCAF WEEK! When I last reviewed Todd Oliver’s Boxes series I was particularly taken by the slapstick body horror on show – that cringingly funny and deliciously gross procession of…

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Boxes #1 – Todd Oliver Combines Breezily Brutal Body Horror and Dark Humour in this Collection of Bleak Comedy Shorts

  • by Andy Oliver
  • December 26, 2016

Wildly imaginative and constantly surprising, Todd Oliver’s Boxes is strangely reminiscent of the elastic visuals of some of the greats of the British weekly comics traditions of yesteryear …but ramped…

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