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Tag Archives: small press
Kafka’s The Castle Receives Graphic Novel Treatment
Graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero has been raising the bar on literary adaptations, and its latest offering is the difficult The Castle, Franz Kafka’s existential novel on bureaucracy. Continue reading
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Tagged comic adaptations, Franz Kafka, indie comics, SelfMadeHero, small press
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Wolves of Summer #2 is Out Now
The second issue of Tony Keaton’s excellent series Wolves of Summer is out now. Continue reading
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Tagged adult comics, comic books, Digital Comics, indie comics, Nazi Werewolves, small press
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‘The Obscure Cities’ Gets English Translation, Kickstarter Appeal
Alaxis Press will be publishing Benoît Peeters and François Schuiten’s The Leaning Girl, translated into English for the first time. Continue reading
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Tagged comic books, Franco-Belgian comics, Kickstarter, small press
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Archaeologists of Shadows Vol 1: The Resistance Review
Archaeologists of Shadows paints a cybernetic vision of the future, in which technological modification has not only become standard, but the organic is being phased out in favour for the mechanical. Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Novel Reviews
Tagged Digital Comics, graphic novels, sci-fi comics, Septagon Studios, small press
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‘The Trip’ Graphic Novel Review
Action Lab Comics has certainly upped the ante with its Danger Zone imprint for mature readers, and The Trip is yet another highly polished indie title – a Tales from the Crypt inspired horror tale about a drug which induces lethal hallucinations. Continue reading
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Tagged Action Lab, comic books, Danger Zone, Digital Comics, horror comics, small press
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Free Comic Book Day Approaches…
While it isn’t such a big event in the UK as it is in the US, Free Comic Book Day seems to grow in prominence with each passing year, gaining increasing support from artists, celebrity fans and the sort of authority figures who several decades ago would have been calling for the toxic pamphlets to be taken to a communal … read more
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Tagged Action Lab, comic books, Free Comic Book Day, graphic novels, small press, Wayward Raven Media
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The Murder Mile Graphic Novel Review
Paul Collicutt’s The Murder Mile, an Arizona-based detective story set in 1954 and detailing on the battle between several middle-distance runners to achieve the world’s first four-minute mile, is an idiosyncratic gem. Continue reading
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Tagged adult comics, graphic novels, indie comics, SelfMadeHero, small press
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Asylum Releases Fearless Dawn Animated Comic App
Asylum Press and Visionborne are collaborating with the use of Airmid technology to produce animated comics for the iPad. Continue reading
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Tagged Asylum Press, comic book movies, indie comics, small press
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