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Over the last few years Isabel Greenberg has carved something of a niche out for herself with work that puts her own distinctive spin on the worlds of myth, legend…
With a foot in both the worlds of comics and traditional children’s storybooks, Richy K. Chandler and Sally-Anne Hickman’s Bang! Crash! Whizz! is a delightful piece of storytelling designed primarily…
Brigid Deacon’s work has cropped up in a number of anthologies lately – from Eyeball Comix to the second issue of Donya Todd’s Bimba – and has immediately grabbed my…
Inside Look is Broken Frontier’s director’s commentary-like feature in which creators take you behind the scenes of one of their latest comics to hit the stands. In this edition, Jamie…
Free comics! It’s hardly a difficult proposition is it? It’s been a while since I last spotlighted accessible online work covering creators who have either appeared in ‘Small Pressganged’ in…
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Jamie Coe is an illustrator from London who recently saw his first graphic novel, Art Schooled, released in the UK and the US. It’s both a work of fiction and a reflection…
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John Riordan and Dan Cox’s animated music industry parody Hitsville UK was one of the very earliest self-published comics to be featured in this column, and one I described at…
Deconstructing an ‘80s Patrick Swayze movie in graphic novel form is an exercise in comics making that sounds so obscure that it couldn’t even aspire to reaching a niche audience….
If there’s one thing that constantly attracts me to Sarah Gordon’s artwork it’s its vibrancy and animated energy. That was very much on show in Last Tape in Hell – the minicomic which…
While 2013’s The Encyclopedia of Early Earth was the graphic novel that brought Isabel Greenberg to a deservedly wider audience – indeed she was the winner of our Breakout Talent…
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If I were to say that Score and Script is an anthology title quite unlike any other I have reviewed in ‘Small Pressganged’ I would be making a claim that,…
Show Me the Map to Your Heart & Other Stories… sees John Cei Douglas’s lingering and poignant comics collected into one mandatory package from British publisher Great Beast. It includes…
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When it comes to bringing British self-published voices to a greater stage Great Beast have made some inspired choices in the last few months. John Cei Douglas, Dan Berry and…
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If ever a comic added entirely new layers to the term “guilty pleasure” then it’s Richy K. Chandler’s Lucy the Octopus. The tale of a young schoolgirl cephalopod ostracised by…
A heady mix of the spellbinding, the poignant, the wacky and, at times, the heartbreaking, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth is a book worth both the wait and the hype…
Clandestine first love with a papier mache twist is the order of the day in this remarkable debut graphic novel from creator Gareth Brookes. No doubt all of us can…
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Richy K. Chandler is a comics creator whose work embraces both the tactile and the digital through his Tempo Lush publishing brand. The cartoonist behind the popular Lucy the Octopus…
Community-based super-heroics with a Morrison-style vibe are the order of the day in the second issue of T’sao Wei’s Windrush series… ‘Small Pressganged’ exists at Broken Frontier to promote all…
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“I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!” – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel ‘Finding Home’December 3, 2025
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