Small Press Comics
Small Press Spotlight: Holly, Harker: Book of Solomon, Dreamscapes
With this weekend’s Thought Bubble Comic Festival turning into a purely digital affair, there have not been the raft of new books coming our way this month. However there have still been a few and so we take a look at some of them here.
Small Press Spotlight: Hoards of Surrey, Neurotic Fiction, The Shadows over Innsmouth
We take a look at three great small press titles: Hoards of Surrey from Dave Wimblett and Rory Donald; Joe Stone’s Neurotic Fiction, and Blue Fox Comics adaptation of the HP Lovecraft classic, The Shadows over Innsmouth.
Review: Success and Failure (WIP Comics)
These two anthologies is the new product of the WIP comics collective, a group of like minded creators from London who have been brought together by Stutter’s Joe Stone. As you might guess from the names, Success and Failure are both themed around the subjects and feel like a very apt pair of topics for […]
Review: Biggol (CPE Books)
The first book from Josh (Glorious Wrestling Alliance) Hicks’ new venture CPE Books, is Biggol, a fantastic documentary comic from his long time table mate Ioan Morris. Biggol tells the story of a fictitious fantasy TV program in the 1960s and reads like a TV documentary with talking heads, interviews and flashbacks. It’s steeped in […]
My Love Lies Beneath The Sea
My Love Lies Under The Sea is one of those comics where trying to explain what happens in it, diminishes it’s impact.
Review: IND-XED (Fraser Campbell/Lucy Sullivan)
Debuting on Kickstarter this week comes IND-XED a slice of really unique and thought-provoking dystopian science fiction from writer Fraser Campbell (Alex Automatic) and artist Lucy Sullivan (Barking).
Review: Quarantine (Burnt Barn Comics)
Quarantine sees Jordan Thomas and an army of top class comic artists used the lockdown to their advantage by telling a story about what happens to a family who are forced to remain in their own home.
Review: Write It In Blood (Rory McConville)
We’re always a sucker for a great crime comic and Rory McConville and Joe Palmer’s Write It In Blood is a bit of a cracker, with the body count of a Scorsese movie and sparkling dialogue of a Coen Brothers movie, it’s a delightful tale of two brothers on the run from a mob boss […]
Review: Alex Automatic #4 & #5 (Cabal Comics)
Fraser Campbell and James Corcoran’s mind-bending 60s spy series Alex Automatic is back with a new double issue, but is this small press stalwart still an automatic choice?! Publisher: Cabal Comics Writer: Fraser Campbell Artist: James Corcoran, David B Cooper, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Price: Now funding on Kickstarter The strange and outlandish world of Alex Automatic […]
Small Press Spotlight: Hopper! Detective of the Strange, Stan and Jack, Neotheric: Return of the King
With the world still in a state of self isolation we take a look at three more great small press comics to keep you entertained, including rabbit detectives, silver age creators on a space age adventure and dinosaurs with machine guns! Hopper ! Detective of the Strange (Fair Spark Books) This latest series from Fairspark […]
Review: London Horror Comic #8 (London Horror Comic Ltd)
Since the Golden Age and the work of EC Comics, the horror anthology has been a staple of the comics world, existing longer than even most of the Superheroes who now monopolise the industry. Now existing mostly in small press circles with titles such as Disconnected Press’ Disconnected series or TPub’s Twisted Dark anthology, this […]
Review: Raze (Good Comics)
The new book from Lost Light’s Claire Spiller and the fine folk at Good Comics, Raze is another story that looks at the environmental impact of mankind on the natural world. This time by look at the impact of roads and transport on Mother Nature. Publisher: Good Comics Writer: Claire Spiller Artist: Claire Spiller Price: […]