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2 x Carol Swain is a perfect intro to the elusive, intriguing work of Carol Swain. A road trip reveals troubling truths, and the spectre of war hangs uneasily over a small town. With new introductions and an interview with the artist.
Available to order here: darkandgolden.bigcartel.com
One of the few filmed that isn’t just a stage production put on screen, but a whole howl of a thing in itself.
Dear sainted Ken steals the show.
Arkhipov is a mood. Images set in conflict with one another. Fire and everything that comes after. A mystery with an inevitable solution.
A new Strip For Me comic by Douglas Noble.
28 pages / B&W / 148 x 148
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2 x Chris Reynolds is a collection of Space Food, from 1990, where sci-fi and kitchen sink collide in an uneasy fashion, and 2005's The Animals' War, where time travel proves to be less of a blessing than first thought, and the landscapes are littered with dark warnings.
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On a cold, bright December morning in the 1970s, the rock star Wallace Sendek vanished. Since then, he has been seen dozens of times around the world, by old fans and strangers to his work.
This is a record of those sightings.
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Our first zine of UK comic ephemera collects together some of the most historic and attractive of the price stickers that UK comic shops have used over the last 50 years. Both a valuable record of how comics have been sold, and a potent nostalgia bomb.
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A few sell outs on the webshop - and low stock on a few more, so now is the time to grab what you can while you can!
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Early Gigs collects the underground comics work of
@davegibbons90.bsky.social for the very first time - out of print since their first publication, get your hands on this vital, vibrant work now! darkandgolden.bigcartel.com
Good, informative Bissette introductions on a lot of them.
Gina Hart?
As there’s only one colourist listed, it also looks like the took the colour out of IV to fill it all in again. Which means that they had everything in B&W right there available, as the baby Jesus would have wanted.
Dare you witness the glory?
The cartoons of Kevin Woodcock are an unnerving trip to a place that is just not quite right. In these glimpses of unease the funny bone is always exposed and the widest grin belongs to a skull. Discover one of the most distinctive voices in British cartooning.
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Simon Harrison's Shuk & Doode chronicles the wild misadventures of two demons who have escaped from hell, plus urban satanism, cat burglary and many other moments from the night life of a big city. They grin! They leer! They stole my popcorn! Originally published in C&VG.
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Arkhipov is a mood. Images set in conflict with one another. Fire and everything that comes after. A mystery with an inevitable solution.
A new Strip For Me comic by Douglas Noble.
28 pages / B&W / 148 x 148
Now available to order! stripforme.bigcartel.com
I'll Be Glad When Today Is Over is a new selection of the work of Kevin Woodcock - spend a day in his world as a series of calamities unfold about you. Sudden octopi and horrifying zoos, bleak tropical islands and unwelcoming living rooms; all indelible and hilarious.
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The Dead Are Awake and Walking is the very first professional comics work by @davegibbons90.bsky.social, originally published in 1971 in Pocket Chiller Library. A story of creeping dread, of the uncanny and of betrayal, it heralded the debut of a major comics talent.
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In more 'Scary is stubbornly using the internet like it's 2012' news: I've opened a big cartel shop (UK only; sorry overseas folk. I will do my best to look at international shipping/getting some sort of distro sorted before too many months pass).
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Yeah, I doubt you'd need to pay more than ten quid for any of them if you hang on for long enough.
Titan also did the Moore Superman comics in B&W, and six books of Neal Adams Batman. All nicely printed too.
They still pop up for fairly cheap, especially as the glue attaching the covers has started to fail for a lot of them. Some interesting new intros on a few of them too.
I'd only have bragging rights if I had the five volumes of Hellblazer that they did in the same format. Those Ridgway issues look better in B&W than they ever did in colour.
Eleven volumes - the whole Moore run, bar his first issue.
The Titan book or the Vertigo reprint?
And then...
Happy birthday to the best of the best!
Béla Bartók's DUKE BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE, as adapted and directed by Leslie Megahey (SCHALCKEN THE PAINTER) for the BBC, 1988. Probably my favourite opera, and it was stumbling across the ending of this film that first turned me on to it.