Andrew Moreton - Review

Prison Pit 1-3

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.

Eye of the Majestic Creature

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.

Obsolete

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 […]

Everything We Miss

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.

Chimo

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.

Spandex

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.

Fuzz and Pluck – Splitsville

Stern renders this world in a fairly sparse scratchy line, all in black and white, and the end result is folksy, rather than arty. Despite a notable (and desirable) lack of slickness to his style he conveys the world he’s conjuring up with considerable deftness – it’s a world full of carnies and pirates and broken junk, shacks and sideshows and charabancs – and his ability to suggest character and mood is excellent.