Tag Archive | "UK small press"

Paragon 4: Football, space Ganesh and mysterious dead folks – but not all in the same strip

Friday, January 22, 2010

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Paragon 4 Published by Dave Candlish Contributors: Dave Candlish, Alan Candlish, Terry Wilkinson, The Emperor, Stephen Prestwood, Paul Harrison Davies. An anthology title with a strange mix of strips this. Indian mythology, strange psychological horror and a sitcom style strip about football fans. Add in the magazine size, a couple of pinups and finally the [...]

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More Great Deeds Against The Dead

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Great Deeds Against The Dead Issue 2 by Rob Jackson Self Published The second and concluding chapter of Rob Jackson’s surrealistic tale of madness, mysticism and creepy looking toys. When we finished issue 1 (reviewed here), everything looked very dark indeed; with ageing artist Tisdale Carnegie being controlled by his dead wife and her suspiciously [...]

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Uncompromising stuff from Schmurgen…..

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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Schmurgen’s Uncompromising Comic! by Schmurgen Jonerhaffs Self Published Schmurgen Jonerhaffs is a very uncompromising artist from Norway recently moved to these shores who just happens to keep his face covered with a wrestler’s mask. He’s fallen in with the London comics crowd and seems to be rather influenced by them in his work. I swear [...]

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Find Comet, Read Comet, Love Comet…..

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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Find Comet, Hit Comet, Watch Comet, Sleep. # 1 by Hugh “Shug” Raine Self Published One of those comics I really could judge by the cover. One look at it’s tiny size (it’s just the size of a cd inlay) and the unusual design (yes, the cover is drawn directly onto what looks like graph [...]

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The Ulster Cycle – legendary tales.

Friday, January 8, 2010

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The Ulster Cycle: Ness and The Cattle Raid Of Cooley issue 1 by Patrick Brown Self Published A rather ambitious project from Patrick Brown, albeit one that I’d warrant many of us have no knowledge of – The Ulster Cycle is a series of legendary stories from medieval Irish literature, set around the time of [...]

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Bostin Heroes – the latest from yam yam land*…

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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Bostin Heroes 2: Godvilla by Matthew Craig and Jack Davies Bostin Group More tales of superhero daring-do from the depths of the Black Country (a particularly strange place in the Midlands – think Cornwall but more down to earth). After seeing the team’s  formation in the first issue (review), we spend this issue battling a [...]

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Tha Ballad of Hatty Jack

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Rob Jackson has started on a new work, The Balld of Hatty Jack. “Expect a lot of hats,” he says. Rumours that the title is an oblique reference to the great Carry On actress, the late Hattie Jacques, who Rob is said to be obsessed with, may prove to be totally made up for the [...]

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Fractal Friction

Monday, December 21, 2009

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John at Down The Tubes alerts us to Fractal Friction, which he’s describing as an online collaborative storytelling venture,  put together by a group of 2000 AD fans, including some contributors to the likes of FutureQuake’s 2000 AD fan comics Zarjaz and Dogbreath. The writer known only as ‘Emperor’ told DTT that it started from [...]

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Beware enemies of America! Sgt. Mike Battle is here to save the day….

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Sgt. Mike Battle: The Greatest American Hero! (Issues 1, 11-14) by Graham Pearce Pier-C Comics (Great Steranko pastiche covers from Mike Battle by Graham Pearce.) Tongue jammed firmly in cheek, join me on a Nazi / Kamikaze/ Commie / Iraqi / Taleban stomping adventure with Sgt. Mike Battle; fearless, brave, with great teeth and a [...]

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Space Hondle – Matthew Craig’s lovely old dog is back again

Friday, December 11, 2009

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Space Hondle by Matthew Craig Self-Published Always a pleasure to see more of Matthew’s work, and doubly so when it’s featuring more of his sweet and sentimental Hondle tales. I’ve been following Matthew Craig’s comics for a while now, since looking at the first batch back here (review). The standout of these was the near [...]

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Necessary Monsters – the finale

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Necessary Monsters 5 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self-published And here we are, at the end of the five issue first series of Necessary Monsters; Goodbrey and Azzopardi’s monster action-thriller that I’ve reviewed in depth twice before (reviews of issues 1&2 and 3&4). Issue 5 ties it all up nicely, giving us the [...]

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The B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S are coming…..

Monday, November 30, 2009

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B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S by Various Self Published B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S stands for British Artists Standing Tall And Reaching Distant Shores. The whole idea behind the comic anthology is to showcase the creators involved and, armed with the anthology, convince the selection panel behind Angouleme, French comics festival of renown, that these folks are worth a place at the festival. [...]

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“Some bloody holiday this is” – Harker issue 9

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Harker issue 9 Plot, story, script – Roger Gibson. Plot, art – Vincent Danks Ariel Press. And here we are again, another issue of Harker, another review (for the others try here). By now you can probably write these for yourself. But for those who haven’t been paying attention this is my standard description of [...]

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Forget the monkey, we talk to the Organ Grinder

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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Regular contributor to the blog, the Megazine and many others spots, Matt ‘madman’ Badham has been confusing the Twitterverse recently with multiple references to needing more artists and some project, ominously entitled ‘Grinder’. Intrigued and not a little alarmed at the title (visions of giant robotic meat grinder stomping across the land devouring humanity; I [...]

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PJANG 3 – watching the world end, from the outsider’s perspective…

Friday, October 23, 2009

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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 [...]

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