Features
An Able Tour Through the Bizarre and Horrific
Artist Krent Able is a man capable of creating stories and worlds which are truly surreal and macabre, yet remain oddly joyful. (read more)
comics
Society
Deeply Real Mysticism: Wolf
Presented with a deep sense of whimsy, Rachael Ball’s Wolf is a story about loss, and builds an impressive world to explore. (read more)
Society
Existential Sci-fi: I Feel Machine
If you enjoy a splash of life and warmth in your darkness, I Feel Machine might just be the collection of stories you’ve been waiting for.
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News
Mike Mignola Brings Michael Moorcock to Life
Hellboy creator and artist Mike Mignola, Batman artist Kelley Jones, and Eisner Award winning writer Mike Baron bring Michael Moorcock’s Chronicles of Corum comic to life in this brand-new hardcover collection.
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Society
Comic Creators, Ex-Presidents and Oprah
Elderly males can get frisky. It’s a post-pubescent flare before death. (read more)
Art
Spectral Awakenings: Kazuki Takamatsu
Spectral and monochromatic, the post-tsunami art of Kazuki Takamatsu is a more mature form of manga (read more)
Events
Jamie Hewlett: The Suggestionists (Saatchi Gallery)
Hewlett’s three-part exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery sees the designer and artist’s first UK show (read more)
Society
The Death Ray Goes Underground (Comix, S Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb)
Underground comix gave space to bold and innovative talents who thrived in the ‘anything goes’ atmosphere following the summer of love. (read more)
Society
Doing the Cartoon Nasty: Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt (Part Two)
Bazooka Joe is a one eyed boy who heads a secret society and is named after a powerful projectile weapon. He was given life by an ex-pornographer then wrapped in wax and sold to children. (read more)
Features
Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt
By the roaring twenties a cinematic lens was steadily streaming increasingly deranged and lusty images out into the hinterlands of dullsville USA (read more)
Art
‘The denseness of the work creates a mystery’ Russell Miller’s Dark Art
After his exhibition at Studio 73 in London, we catch up with the dark and macabre comic artist, Russell Miller (read more)
Society
Fraudulent Four: It’s time to sue 20th Century Fox for Fantastic Four
A hopeless mess without discernible form, sympathetic characters or clear narrative structure (read more)
Society
Why Guardians of the Galaxy Sucked
They’ve made a successful film; the least they can do is follow up with a good one. (read more)
Society
The World’s Rarest Comic Book
The discovery of a medium grade copy in a thrift sale (following the death of Day’s daughter Gracia) has been confirmed. (read more)
Art
Shaky Kane : Interview
A pencil and a cheap drawing pad – those are the only tools you need, that and an idea bursting to get out the graphite running up that stick of wood’ (read more)
Society
Time is Tights : London Super Comics Convention
Modern corporate comics are creatively empty franchises that have completely lost touch with the general public. (read more)
Art
Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill signing
GOSH IT’S A HIPPY Sightings of the world’s best known comic writer are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. Gosh were honoured by his presence on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, seated behind a table in (read more)
Art
Kapow! Comic Convention: BDC, London
KAPOW COMIC CONVENTION Way back in the nineteen seventies super hero comics were only for the lonely (males). Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons nails the stereotype perfectly: bad hair, lousy posture, bad hygiene, and (read more)