This month’s small press spotlight sees us turn our attention to some shadowy contemporary crime in Point Blank, a case of supernatural writers block in Deadliner and a fantastical owl adventurer in Mossvale.
It’s that time of year when we begin to look back on the best indie and small press comics of the year and reflect on our favourite titles from 2020.
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 […]
The 77 is the latest series to try and rekindle that 70s spirit of comic anthologies like Action or Warrior. Evolving out of a 2000 AD Facebook group, editor Ben S Ky has assembled a really eclectic and interesting group of stories for this debut.
Even though we are in the middle of a global lockdown, we are still seeing great comic launching on Kickstarter. The latest to join this trend is the fantastic Reanimator Incorporated from Andy Perry and Lyndon White, so how are these two planning to bring life back to the indie comics crwodfunding scene? Your new […]
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: […]
With everyone self isolating, what better time than to catch up on some excellent small press comics! This month we check out three great British titles, Steve Tanner’s Clockwork Cavalier, Rich Carrington’s Mahoneys and Kev F Sutherland’s Findlay MacBeth. The Clockwork Cavalier Special (Time Bomb Comics) Bursting forth from he pages of Time Bomb Comics’ […]
With no snow or rainstorms to battle this year, we headed to Cheltenham for True Believers Comic Festival 2020, one of the best days out for UK comic fans!
With Christmas and New Year disappearing into the distant past, it’s time to start thinking about comic conventions again, and this means we turn our attention to the traditional season opener The True Believers Comic Festival 2020, which is held in Jury’s Inn, Cheltenham on Saturday 1st February 2020. One of our favourite events of […]
“I take ingredients from different places, combine them and see what kind of result I get” Gustaffo Vargas on his recipe for success with MANU, Trujillø and L1MA