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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 - The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

Colossive Cartographies #22-32 – The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines and their interactive format. Each one is an example of the Turkish Map Fold – a process that takes an A4 sheet, folds it into an A6 cover that then opens up as an interactive…

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GOOD COMICS ANNOUNCES THREE NEW TITLES FOR AUTUMN 2017 AND NEW ‘GOOD ZINES’ LIST

Good Comics is delighted to announce three brand new titles for autumn 2017, all of which will debut at Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival on 24th September. Pre-orders for all titles are now open in our BigCartel store. If you’re a retailer and would like to stock these comics, or if you’re a reviewer and would like to see preview copies, please get in touch with us at goodcomics@hotmail.com!

SID by Olivia Sullivan

52 pages | £9 | Perfect Bound | Full Colour

Sid is unemployed. Maybe he’s also unemployable. He’s also paranoid, ruled by his insecurities, and experiencing some incredible delusions and strange visions. SID is a visual narrative exploring his world - a technicolor journey of twists and turns through the hellish landscape of a mind best by brutal illness. In her latest and most ambitious book, artist Olivia Sullivan builds upon the themes of religion, su ering and the strange human mind explored in her previous work I Drank Holy Water to deliver this year’s most wonderfully strange graphic novel. Welcome to the world of SID.

“I can pretty much guarantee that you won’t  nd another book like this on the shelves. SID is, to put it blatantly, severely fucked up.” - Tony Esmond, The Awesome Comics Podcast

“Olivia’s newest work is brutally honest and allows you to step inside the unpleasant but candid world of obsessive compulsive disorder. SID opens up to us in a way which you don’t necessarily ask for, but o ers another excellent example of honestly talking about mental illness.” - Rozi Hathaway

In addition to SID being published under the Good Comics banner you know and love, we’re delighted to announce that we’re also launching a new list at Thought Bubble this year called Good Zines. The list launches with two brand new comics from Elizabeth Querstret and Sarah Crosby, and aims to be a specialised list of low-priced, accessible titles with a DIY feel that retains the Good Comics sensibility and seal of quality whilst promoting the best of UK small press talent.

New York (A Holiday to Remember) by Elizabeth Querstret

48 pages | £4 | Saddle Stitched | Black and White

Elizabeth Querstret is well known in UK small press comics for her quirky humour and upbeat au- tobiographical storytelling, as well as her amazing ability to personify animals. New York is her latest and longest autobiographical comic, and is a deeply personal and moving tribute to the city that never sleeps, as well as being a candid look at families, partners, sickness and health - and some incredible food, too.

Stir Fry by Sarah Crosby

36 pages | £4 | Saddle Stitched | Black and White

With her new collection Stir Fry, Sarah Crosby explores weird and extraordinary lives in three bizarre stories featuring satanic childcare, petty grudges and insect infatuation. With her trademark dark humour and clean cartooning style Sarah presents a world that is, just subtly, not quite right.

The Good Zines logo was created for us by James Howard. Thanks, James!

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Sneak Preview - 'A Day With Querstret' by Elizabeth Querstret

Sneak Preview – ‘A Day With Querstret’ by Elizabeth Querstret

    Created by Elizabeth Querstret

The Story: This is a slice of life, 24 hours in fact, for creator, artist and urban adventurer Elizabeth Querstret. It describes, moment to moment, what she did in a day of creating the Hourly Comic Day project on the 1st of February 2015.

In it we get:

Drawing Comics

Annoying and Painful Back Problems

Scanner Rage

The Discovery of Hidden Creme Eggs

Awkward Yoga

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Colossive Cartographies #22-32 - The Pandemic, Joni Mitchell, Mental Health Awareness and a Fear of Wasps Feature in the Latest Releases from Colossive Press

by Andy Oliver

Whenever I review the Colossive Press Colossive Cartographies series there’s an obvious piece of necessary introductory housekeeping that needs to be addressed first for those unfamiliar with these tactile zines…

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New York (A Holiday to Remember) - Elizabeth Querstret's Travelogue Zine is as Full of Heart as Its Creator

New York (A Holiday to Remember) – Elizabeth Querstret’s Travelogue Zine is as Full of Heart as Its Creator

DEBUTING AT THOUGHT BUBBLE! Ever since we were the first site to cover the comics of Elizabeth Querstret – one of the most endearing characters on the UK small press circuit – way back in January 2014 I’ve had a pronounced fondness for not just her always engaging autobio work but also her other idiosyncratic projects. These have, over the years, included tactile, elaborately folded comics, an…

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Thought Bubble 2017 Preview: Three Debut Books from Good Comics - Olivia Sullivan's 'SID', Elizabeth Querstret's 'New York' and Sarah Crosby's 'Stir Fry'

Thought Bubble 2017 Preview: Three Debut Books from Good Comics – Olivia Sullivan’s ‘SID’, Elizabeth Querstret’s ‘New York’ and Sarah Crosby’s ‘Stir Fry’

It’s festival season in the UK and with Thought Bubble fast approaching on the horizon we’re sifting through the annual plethora of debut comic, graphic novel and zine coverage requests here at Broken Frontier. In the run-up to the festival we’ll be running our usual series of previews, representing just a fraction of the new books awaiting you this September. We begin today with UK small press…

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The Inking Woman: Elizabeth Querstret – Showcasing the Artists of the Latest Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum

The Inking Woman: Elizabeth Querstret – Showcasing the Artists of the Latest Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum

“The Inking Woman is an excellent celebration of a diverse mix of talent. The comics world can often (perhaps not intentionally) sideline the female creatives. I feel it is important to celebrate and highlight how much talent there is and always has been from Inking Women. I am very proud to be a part of this exhibition – I got happy warm fuzzy feelings in my tummy when I saw my work displayed…

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"Making Comics is Definitely a Therapeutic and Personal Explorative Experience" - Elizabeth Querstret on Her Very Individual Approach to Zine-Making and Comics Self-Publishing

“Making Comics is Definitely a Therapeutic and Personal Explorative Experience” – Elizabeth Querstret on Her Very Individual Approach to Zine-Making and Comics Self-Publishing

HCZF FORTNIGHT!

Elizabeth Querstret is one of a long line of UK small pressers who you heard about first here on Broken Frontier! A prolific zine-maker, her self-published comics have largely centred on autobiographical work like her witty look at her employment history in Enter My Working World.

Elizabeth has been seen in anthologies like Dirty Rotten Comics and A Bit of Undigested Potato. She…

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Too Serious to Sleep - Elizabeth Querstret's 'Musings of My Mind' Prove to Be Both Profound and Whimsical

Too Serious to Sleep – Elizabeth Querstret’s ‘Musings of My Mind’ Prove to Be Both Profound and Whimsical

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“My name is Elizabeth and I am addicted to creating and expressing thoughts.”

So much of UK small presser Elizabeth Querstret’s practice can be summed up in that one soundbite. With her several years of prolific output Querstret is now one of the true established mainstays of our self-publishing scene. Her work has ranged from DIY stream-of-consciousness zine output like her…

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The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday March 28th with Guest Artists Michelle Mildenberg, Jenny Robins and Elizabeth Querstret

The Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw is Back on Wednesday March 28th with Guest Artists Michelle Mildenberg, Jenny Robins and Elizabeth Querstret

Our third Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw of 2018 is next week! And, as ever, we have three of the movers and shakers of the UK small press world with us on Wednesday March 28th. Creators Michelle Mildenberg, Jenny Robins and Elizabeth Querstret join us for our regular monthly meet-up, sponsored by Cass Art. Please note that we’re in our new venue again this time around. You can…

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Sneaky Business Volume 2 - Danny Noble and Wallis Eates Steal the Show in the Second Issue of Rozi Hathaway's Anthology Offering

Sneaky Business Volume 2 – Danny Noble and Wallis Eates Steal the Show in the Second Issue of Rozi Hathaway’s Anthology Offering

By its very definition editor Rozi Hathaway’s new multi-creator Sneaky Business anthology is a difficult prospect for any reviewer to tackle. Comprised of 17 short strips – most of them just two pages long with a couple of one-pagers thrown in for good measure – its premise is formed on each contribution being themed around the idea of sneakiness or stealth. As a result, much of the work herein…

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In Review: Walks with Lulu

In Review: Walks with Lulu

  Created by Elizabeth Querstret 24 full colour pages – A5 size Me, yes me, I’d like to go on a walk with Lulu. Maybe she could tell me about her days with Take That? Maybe tell me some stories of the swinging sixties or hanging out with Hot Gossip on Top of the Pops. Hang on? It’s a dog and not a tiny pop star with a big voice? Even better! Walks with Lulu can be summed up by a line from Of Mice…

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In Review - Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 4

In Review – Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 4

  Edited by Gary Clap and Kirk Campbell

I was fortunate enough to get to review the last issue of this anothology series and that was pretty darn good – but I am pleased to say that this release – a square bound book with 43 seperate stories –  is another step again in terms of upping the quality stakes.

An anthology is a difficult thing to get right but this is packed full of some really…

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Enter My Working World - The Employment Misadventures of Elizabeth Querstret

by Andy Oliver

Those soul-destroying jobs we did for little pay as teenagers. The positions we took straight out of university because the truth was we really had very little idea what we wanted to do with our lives. Managers who redefine the term “socially inadequate”. Cliquey colleagues, workplace cal...

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