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Upcoming: Rachael Smith – I Am Fire

Saturday, May 18, 2013

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I really enjoyed the first few comics I’ve seen from Rachael Smith, the band comic The Way We Write was excellent fun, her uplifting and involving web and print comic One Good Thing is well observed and sweet, and the material on her blog looks really promising including the long way off but looking fab Cooking With Annie And Oxford. [...]

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Upcoming: Simon Moreton’s Grand Gestures

Saturday, May 18, 2013

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Coming very soon (Monday!) from Retrofit Comics, and featuring some truly beautiful minimalist work; Simon Moreton‘s Grand Gestures. Just the cover should convince you of this one. Meanwhile, Moreton’s also looking at releasing Smoo Issue 7 as a trio of zines wrapped in a map – that should be out later this summer. But first, [...]

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Upcoming: MCM Comic Con London, Manchester & Glasgow

Friday, May 17, 2013

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Oh lucky geekdom, we seem to have moved in just a few years from having a handful of comics events to having a whole multitude to choose from, from small and intimate Indy themed gatherings to large US style ones which also embrace gaming as well as TV and film science fiction and fantasy. Into [...]

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Upcoming Peeks: Battling Boy, Hellboy Junior, Duran DurAngela Lansbury, Julius Chancer….

Sunday, May 12, 2013

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It’s coming, it’s definitely coming…. Paul Pope’s long awaited Battling Boy. Here’s a sticker design from Pope’s Flickr: And Destroy Comics has a pre-release arrangement from First Second: “First Second has trusted me to run a series of give-aways and one contest between May and Battling Boy’s release in October. This means you will have [...]

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Upcoming: More Cafe Suada

Saturday, May 11, 2013

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Great news… Jade Sarson has a new print collection of Cafe Suada coming out in time for the upcoming MCM London Comic Con on the 25th & 26th of May. This is a great thing, as I really enjoyed the copies of Book 1 and Book 2 I read at the start of the year. It’s [...]

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Upcoming: Cheverton, Keable, Doherty – two in May

Saturday, May 4, 2013

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It’s coming up to spring convention season here in the UK, and as usual that means lots of great comics being sorted out for debuts at shows over the next few months. Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable’s West series has long been a favourite, a western done properly, following the life and times of the [...]

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Upcoming: Lighter Than My Shadow

Friday, May 3, 2013

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Here’s an upcoming graphic novel I think a lot of folks in the Brit comics community are going to want to read, Lighter Than My Shadow, a very honest autobiographical comic work by someone well known on the Brit scene, Katie Green, dealing with developing an eating disorder as she grows up, growing realisation of [...]

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Upcoming: Top Shelf have two delicious looking books….

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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Top Shelf released the press info on a couple of really great sounding books earlier in the week. They both look fantastic, but they’re poles apart…. First there’s all-ages adventure fun with Monster On The Hill by Bob Harrell: “Rob Harrell is a veteran of newspaper comic strips, but his first graphic novel is a [...]

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Upcoming: Grinning Masks and finding Shuggoth…

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Ryan Taylor’s The Grinning Mask has managed but 2 issues in more than two years, but the issues we did see we’re good, slices of weird horror with lots of creeping promise, as we ventured into a little village in middle England and explore a little bit of the local folklore, complete with its very [...]

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Review: The From Hell Companion

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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The From Hell Companion By Eddie Campbell and Alan Moore Knockabout / Top Shelf Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics present THE FROM HELL COMPANION, an astonishing selection of Alan Moore’s original scripts and sketches for the landmark graphic novel, with copious annotations, commentary, and illustrations by Eddie Campbell. Here for the first time are a set of [...]

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