by Joff Winterhart ; Jonathan Cape
Andrew Moreton — 03-Oct-12
Stuck with each other the whole summer, Joff Winterhart’s moving and subtle portrait of a single mother and her teenage son is a very human, subtle debut from someone who should develop into an even stronger cartoonist in the future.
Tags: Days of the Bagnold Summer, Joff Winterhart, Jonathan Cape
by Louis Roskosch ; Nobrow Press
Andrew Moreton — 10-Apr-12
Like the lives of its eponymous heroes, The Adventures of Leeroy and Popo is an engaging yet directionless story of twenty-something boys not getting much done.
Tags: anthro, colour, Louis Roskosch, Nobrow Press, Slackers
by Jesse Moynihan ; Nobrow Press
Andrew Moreton — 14-Mar-12
Genisis Reloaded! Jesse Moynihan has taken the creation myths of the great religions, stuffed them into a blender with a bunch of trash sci-fi, video game imagery and chatroom bullshit, then blitzed ‘em up into a technicolour mélange of wild, cosmic originality!
Tags: Forming, Jesse Moynihan, Nobrow Press
by Seth ; Drawn & Quarterly
Andrew Moreton — 15-Jan-12
In this strange unsatisfying ramble Seth, who corners us like an under-utilised room attendant in a minor stately home, spins us the interminable, winding non-story of the The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists.
Tags: Canada, Drawn & Quarterly, Ontario School, Seth
by Johnny Ryan ; Fantagraphics Books
Andrew Moreton — 05-Dec-11
Johnny Ryan’s Prison Pit is a breathless unbroken run of extraordinary violence, foul language, and weird cosmic shit that is as inventive and awesome as it is ugly and puerile. It’s 300+ pages so far of non-stop mayhem and the pace doesn’t appear to be easing off, the themes aren’t changing, but in its unerring commitment to all-out carnage and roller-coaster pacing, it’s a masterpiece of sustained vision not seen since the glory days of 2000AD.
Tags: Fantagraphics, indie, Johnny Ryan, punk, Underground
by L. Stein ; Fantagraphics Books
Andrew Moreton — 24-Nov-11
If you like this kind of thing, that is the autobio kind of thing, then Eye of the Majestic Creature will surely be to your tastes.
by Mikkel Sommer ; Nobrow Press
Andrew Moreton — 19-Sep-11
You don’t get many pamphlet comics from the indie publishers these days, but Nobrow press are attempting to resuscitate the format with 17 x 23, a series of 24 page single story booklets from a variety of up and coming artists. Mikkel Sommer’s Obsolete is part of the 17 x 23 series, and presents the [...]
by Luke Pearson ; Nobrow Press
Andrew Moreton — 14-Sep-11
Breaking up is never easy y’know and Luke Pearson’s extremely gloomy meditation on a relationship on the rocks doesn’t go too easy on the reader either.
Tags: Alternative Comics, heartbreak, small press, two colour
by David Collier ; Conundrum Press
Andrew Moreton — 14-Sep-11
He wears his artistic influences on his sleeve, Crumb being far and away the most pronounced. This manifests in a familiar first person delivery and copious cross-hatching, but instead of the confessional canon of the Crumb copiers Collier produces what he calls “comic strip essays” – usually self-narrated documentaries where the author’s reflections and musings are woven into and around a true story.
by Martin Eden ; Spandex Comics
Andrew Moreton — 13-Sep-11
Spandex are an all-gay superhero group who live in Brighton. Martin Eden, spandex’s creator has published four issues so far and they can either be bought separately or in a collectors pack of four that comes complete with a free Pink Ninja Attack badge.
Tags: brighton, gay, self-published, small press, Superheroes