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…
Owen D. Pomery’s Between the Billboards is a remarkable debut comic with a stark and misanthropic central premise. It tells the tale of James Ebner, a recluse who has voluntarily…
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…
Reads, the anthology title published by Avery Hill, has something of an old school small press feel to it – in the two issues currently available there’s a real sense…
“The Biggest Challenge for Me Was Having to Think More Like a Director” – Michael Schwartz on Writing for Comics for the First Time and His Supernatural Ghost Story ‘Armored’October 31, 2025
“It’s a Fantasy Adventure about Growing Up” – Joe Latham Talks ‘Haru’, the Self-Publishing Journey, and Using Colour as a Narrative ToolOctober 30, 2025
“I Cannot Wait to Really Dig into the Nuts and Bolts of Literary Adaptation” – Kristen Haas Curtis on Bringing Chaucer to Comics and on Moderating the Thought Bubble Literary Adaptation PanelOctober 29, 2025
“Themes Around Human Connection and Loneliness Are a Constant Throughline in All of My Works” – Rein Lee on Exploring Identity and Queerness in Comics, and Finding Your Way in the Small Press CommunityOctober 28, 2025
The Tale Spinner – Karrie Fransman’s Immersive Peepshow/3D Comic that Can’t Be Replicated by Al Comes to Thought BubbleOctober 28, 2025
