Tag Archive | "British small press"

Review: holiday

Monday, May 13, 2013

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Holiday By Simon Moreton Simon Moreton‘s developing into a real star for me, and just the thought of being able to peruse a new comic by him makes me smile, as I know just what I’ll get out of it; that sense of wonder, of looking at the world through an artist’s eyes, made new [...]

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Comics: Don’t be Fooled by the Rocks

Friday, April 26, 2013

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One of our regular faves on the blog, Douglas Noble, has a new Strip For Me comic out, Don’t Be Fooled by the Rocks; from the description the new comic contains “forty-three intimate portraits of stones, obelisks, and rocks, and matches them to the secret names that they are known by. An invisible anthology of [...]

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Review: Big in Japan

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

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Big in Japan: an Illustrated Travel Diary Moogs Kewell Moogs is a sculptor and jewellery maker, as well as a comics creator, working out of the well known Hope Street Studios in Glasgow. In fact it was her hand-made jewellery which caught my eye at the recent Dundee Comics Expo (I had to get a [...]

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Comics: Zoom Rockman profiled

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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Richard Godwin profiles one of the younger members of our vibrant British small press scene, twelve year old Zoom Rockman, in the London Evening Standard: “I’ve been drawing and writing stories since I can remember, but when I read the Beano, that inspired me to bring the two of them together…I always look for the [...]

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Upcoming: Off Life 4

Friday, April 12, 2013

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Coming out on April 16th, issue four of  Off Life, “the UK’s only street press comic magazine”, which features Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Jack Teagle, Isabel Greenberg, Hannah Berry, Oliver East, Dan Berry and also some “new unearthed gems” Daniel Humphry tells us. You can also check out previous editions digitally via the Off Life site and [...]

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Review: Neil Slorance in Spain and Germany

Thursday, February 28, 2013

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Nine Lines of Metro Seven Days in Berlin Neil Slorance, Pipe Down I know Zainab had mentioned Glasgow-based Neil Slorance’s Seven Days in Berlin on the blog before, but browsing in Glasgow recently I picked up both that work and the preceding Nine Lines of Metro mini comics and took an instant liking to them; [...]

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Comics: Boo!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

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Andy Waugh and Paul Harrison-Davies have announced a new anthology, Boo!, a horror comic collection aimed at younger readers. Originally something the pair of them were going to create between them it has snowballed now to include eight very fine UK creators – Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Rob Davis, Jonathan Edwards, James Howard, Gary Northfield and [...]

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Reviews: I Don’t Like My Hair Neat

Monday, February 11, 2013

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I Don’t Like My Hair Neat By Julia Scheele, including stories written by Katie West and Chrissy Williams Julia Scheele doesn’t do enough comics. I’m sure she’ll be the first to agree with me as well, but bills, job, life…. they all get in the way. Such is the way of things. So 32 pages will [...]

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Reminder: Ink + Paper issue 2 out now

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

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I’ve slowly been getting a little more familiar with British comic creators, thanks mainly to Richard’s superhuman efforts on here and also via British comic anthologies. Ink +Paper may only be into it’s second issue, but it’s pretty damn good. Along with a litany of fantatstic contributors: Will Morris, Sarah McIntyre, David O’Connell, Andrew Waugh, [...]

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Review: Blood Blokes Issue 2

Friday, August 24, 2012

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Blood Blokes Issue 2 By Adam Cadwell Blood Blokes is Adam Cadwell’s vampiric social comedy of manners, all dressed up in gothic student chic, where the blood and gore are completely secondary to the cutting quips and the deadpan gags. Blood Blokes Issue 1 introduced us to soon to be undead Vince, one of life’s perpetual [...]

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