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Windell Superhero Showcase – kicking your favourite superheroes in the face for laughs.
Windell Classics Compendium Presents: Superhero Showcase Written by Garret Shanley. Art by Cathal Duggan. Self Published A forty page superhero piss-take, that manages to be funny and pretty interesting at the same time. It sets itself out Viz style, as a complete package, mimicing the style of old Marvel comics, with a very tongue in cheek letters column [...]
Continue reading...PJANG 3 – watching the world end, from the outsider’s perspective…
Friday, October 23, 2009
PJANG issue 3 by Rol Hirst, art by Andrew Cheverton, Nigel Lowrey, Davey Metcalfe Self-published The third issue of Rol Hirst’s People Just Aint No Good (see here for the review of #1 & #2) – three stories, two hits, one not so much, and all dealing with the point of view of the outsider to one degree [...]
Continue reading...Solipsistic Pop launch at the ICA
Friday, October 23, 2009
The Solipsistic Pop anthology launches during this year’s Comica at the ICA in London on November 8th. We’ve mentioned this cracking-sounding collection a number of times on here as Tom Humberstone has been adding preview pages to the SP site – with it featuring some brilliant talent from the vibrant British small press comics scene [...]
Continue reading...Musetopia – bring on the puns…..
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Musetopia by J. Homersham Self-published. There’s really not that much I can say about Musetopia. Not because it isn’t good, merely because it’s a very simple, very visual 14 page mini comic. And when those 14 pages have just one panel gags on each page there just isn’t that much to be said (unless you really want to [...]
Continue reading...At last – comics for real Manly Boys!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Manly Boys Annual by Steven Tillotson & Gareth Brookes An Appalling Nonsense / Banal Pig Production Imagine Viz crossed with those horrible “Boy’s Books Of Doing Lots Of Things Your Dad Thinks Are Cool But You Will Hate” that seem to infest the bestseller charts at Christmas. That’s The Manly Boys Annual by Steven Tillotson and Gareth [...]
Continue reading...Birmingham Zine Fest….
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Following hot on the heels of the biggest comics convention in the country comes something a little smaller. This week sees the first Birmingham Zine Fest (well, the first one for a while anyway): “What with our love for all things Zine….Gallery of Owls presents: All You Can Eat Zine. Thursday 15th October, 8pm-late, The Sunflower [...]
Continue reading...We Are Words + Pictures: Robots for the cover, Covers EP for the insides (oh, the irony)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
We Are Words + Pictures: The Robot Zine & The Covers’ E.P. by Matthew Sheret, Julia Scheele & Sarah Gordon. Self-published (Two from Words + Pictures: top – The Robot Zine, bottom – The Covers Zine) Two self published comic collections from the writers and artists who call themselves Words + Pictures. Nicely put together stuff. The Robot Zine may [...]
Continue reading...Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Crohns Disease – Surely too good to be done in 24 hours?
Monday, October 5, 2009
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Crohns Disease by Tom Humberstone Self-published I’ve seen a fair number of 24 hour comics over the years. It’s a simple concept; 24 hours, 24 pages, start to finish, no prep. The results are everything you might expect more often than not; rushed, sketchy, fractured works that are artistic exercises rather [...]
Continue reading...Tabella and Thomas Wogan
Saturday, October 3, 2009
From Down The Tubes, news that Dave Hughes’ Thomas Wogan Is Dead has been picked up by new(ish) publisher Tabella. This is good news, as I rather like Thomas Wogan and said so in the review: I may have painted a picture of a dour, morbid tale of death and reflection. But Thomas Wogan Is Dead [...]
Continue reading...Rob Jackson’s Great Deeds Against The Dead
Monday, September 28, 2009
Great Deeds Against The Dead Issue 1 by Rob Jackson Self-published The first part of Jackson’s new supernatural horror story two-parter is a horror of the psychological kind rather than an all out gore-fest. Much the better type I’ve always found. And Jackson’s creeping tale of lost love, old age and voices from beyond the grave works so [...]
Continue reading...Surrealist stories of Donkey Heads and Hoovers…..
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Donkey Head issues 1 & 2 by Daniel Baker Self published When you describe your comic as “envisaged as William Blake does Tintin” you’re really setting the bar quite high. And although I can see what Daniel Baker’s trying to do with Donkey Head and why the William Blake, Tintin and clear line references do sort of [...]
Continue reading...More of those Necessary Monsters…
Monday, September 21, 2009
Necessary Monsters issue 3 & 4 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self Published. “There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know. Where the creatures of our nightmares stalk amongst humanity and play their games of vengence, murder and intrigue. To police this world there is the Chain; a covert agency of monsters [...]
Continue reading...Small Press and so much more at Thought Bubble
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Hugh (Shug) Raine gets in touch to show us his poster showcasing the host of classy small press folks who will be appearing at the Leeds Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival. Thought Bubble is taking place 19th to 23rd November in Leeds. Last years one day comic festival was a wonderful experience and with a line [...]
Continue reading...Howard Hardiman’s Polaroids From Other Lives: Volume 2.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Polaroids From Other Lives: Volume 2 by Howard Hardiman Self published Howard’s Polaroids series continues with the idea of writing a series of imagined autobiographies; detailing snatches of other people’s lives. These are very short comics (just 12 pages here), mere fragments of a tale, more akin to illustrated poetry than actual comics. But within the small page [...]
Continue reading...Jake Harold’s Justine Tyme….
Monday, September 14, 2009
Justine Tyme Chapter One: Dreamgirls and Lazer Cannons by Jake Harold Self-published I read Jake’s debut comic Tards (superheroing meets mental and physical disability) and just didn’t like it at all; childish, unfunny, deliberately gross and badly written. But I was pleased to see a while ago that Jake’s moved on – in fact, he now hates his [...]
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