With comic conventions back on the agenda once again, we take a look at some of the books appearing at this year’s Thought bubble comic festival, which include the 4th volume of Dan Butcher renowned superhero webcomic, Vanguard.
We begin our rundown of the best 50 indie and small press comics of the year with packed small press anthologies, Shakespearean classics, supernatural cowboys and intergalactic adventures!
It’s hard to believe it’s been 2 years since the second volume of Dan Butcher’s awesome superhero series Vanguard crossed our paths, and this new volume is a timely reminder of what a fantastic high octane series it has became during this period. Publisher: Dan Butcher Writer: Dan Butcher Artist: Dan Butcher Price: TBC Dan’s […]
Collecting together chapters 6-9 of his webcomic, Vanguard Volume 2 is where Dan Butcher’s Brit superhero comic really begins to mature and evolve and become more than just another wannabe Big Two book – instead it becomes a compelling mix of gritty action and smart social satire with a really strong sense of where it’s heading.
Our rundown of Indie Comic of the Year 2016 continues with numbers 21 to 30 and features some awesome anthologies, simian secret agents, Victorian detectives and ultra-violent webcomics. You can read our picks for #31-40 here and #41-50 here.
Thanks to the rise of digital comics the indie and small press world is flourishing and every month we round-up the best indie digital comics available via apps like Sequential, as well looking at online webcomics and those available via small press publisher’s websites. It wasn’t easy to choose just 10 so let us know which you’d […]
Dan Butcher’s Vanguard started life as a twice-weekly webcomic about a team of British superheros. But in recent months it has morphed into a devastatingly bleak, highly self aware, post-modern take on the superhero genre that is a million miles away from where it began. With a lot fewer characters too! We caught up with […]