Small Press comics creator since 1982
Not Red Deeps! by Sean Azzopardi I’m impressed by the honesty and emotional truth of this very personal comic by Sean Azzopardi. He personally handed me a copy in Harrogate at the Thought Bubble fair in November, when there was a lull on Sunday morning. I never read his other books, and don’t know if…
Homelight by Gareth A Hopkins I bought a number of books by this UK creator when I was at the Brew Zine comic fair in July. I wanted to say hello to Gareth as I’ve seen a few tweets about his work and been intrigued. To say he’s prolific is an understatement; I have the…
Chris Reynolds 2 x Chris Reynolds UK Dark and Golden Books 008 (2024) Very happy to receive this recent publication from Dark And Golden Books. It reprints two stories from UK artist Chris Reynolds, ‘Space Food’ from 1990 and ‘The Animals’ War’ from 2005, and as a backup article it reprints an interview with Reynolds…
Recommended for your consideration, may we mention Dead Watch issues 1 and 2 by British-Russian designer Natasha Denezhkina Campbell. In this series (started in 2022), she proposes a fictional account of a very hot topic – the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Her idea has been to recast it as vampire fiction, portraying The Enemy…
Published November 2023: Parts 3 and 4 of The Rogue’s Gallery. A5 booklets of drawings and sketches. Click the links to purchase from Lulu.com Rogue’s Gallery Part 3 – Skeletons and Skulls – £5.11 Rogue’s Gallery Part 4 – Demons and Devils – £5.39 The stuff of nighmares — John Harvey: sound, image, word (@johnharveyaber)…
Three days later I am still in a very buoyant mood after the day tabling and selling comics at the South London Comic and Zine Fair 2023. Everyone was so helpful. Tom Murphy had put in a word for me in the first place – that was back in November 2022 when I first made…
Chris Reynolds passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday morning 4th May 2023. I heard the news from my friends John Bagnall, Harley Richardson, and Paul Gravett. We are all profoundly saddened. I’ve lost an old friend and the world has lost a unique cartoonist. We had an email exchange in early 2021. Even…
This just arrived. Drawn earlier this month, after a discussion with publisher Tom Murphy in November last year. That’s more like it – I mean the speed of delivery which is something I like about the small press (in the 1980s, Fast Fiction really was aiming to be fast). Colossive Press has this unique range…
I received a package of comics from Jason Atomic in November – this was after my recent review of Ugly Mug # 6, in which he appears. So far I’ve read Satanic Mojo Comix #7, a US-sized book with a mini-comic insert. Just by looking at the cover alone you can see the E.C. Comics…
This is a totally biased, partisan, non-objective review of the new issue of Ugly Mug comic, published by Harley Richardson…Harley is an old friend of mine, he helped me with the Fast Fiction service in the 1980s, and we’ve collaborated on other projects too. Also he happens to like my comic strip work, so my…
