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“But once the world numbs you, you’ll feel like it’s only one you”
Last Friday I went down to the Power to the People demonstration outside the Scottish Power building in Glasgow. Turnout was decent, with trade unionists, political activists and radge punters all withstanding the hair-melting heat to show a bit of opposition to the impossible conditions we are being told are inevitable. Fair play to the…
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Sad Train Station Sandwich
(Sarah Broadhurst, self published, 2022) “A traditional redemption arc in zine form” according to its creator, who as one half of the much missed One Beat collective should know what she’s talking about, much as I’m usually up for distrusting an artist’s interpretation of their own work. Still, one read of Sad Train Station Sandwich…
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Casino
CW: one extremely violent gif, some plot details from a big film from the ’90s (Martin Scorcese, 1995) Watched this at the GFT with some pals last night, having never seen it before. What can I say, I was a dumb Scorcese contrarian before it was popular, though I always had time for After Hours…
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Tie Me Up, I’m Yours
CW: Hot Filth! (Jules Scheele, self-published, 2022) The cover to this zine promises is that the content will be “18+ explicit”, and Tie Me Up, I’m Yours makes good on this promise again and again, with a series of erotic images depicting a crew of lush queers in what someone only slightly more emotionally repressed…
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Future Crimes #2
I put the second issue of my Future Crimes anthology up for sale yesterday. Unlike the first issue, which was mostly a way for me to refresh and release unpublished work, this issue is all about collaboration. The first and longest piece in the book is Uncle Frank, which was drawn by my friend Shaky…
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There Are Other Alphabets – on the fall of Roe and dirt bikes
Browsing twitter the other day, I found myself getting annoyed at someone who asked for an explanation of a comic strip Eleanor Davis had shared. Drawn for the New York Times, the strip itself covers a journey to and from a protest for abortion rights that had been undertaken in the company of a small…
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A Bampot’s Inferno
“Respectable” anti-trans rhetoric attempts to hide its fuel in the fire, but like gay panic and anti-immigrant propaganda, it’s not hard to figure out what’s powering this project by observing how it works in the world. The plan is to depict a whole class of people as predatory monsters, and to label anyone who objects…
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Eric Sturgeon Allison RIP
My dad died in the early hours of Friday 19th February 2016, and while I’m glad to be able to say that his last moments were peaceful, nothing can fill the absence he leaves in the world. Having been delirious last weekend, he snapped back into focus on Tuesday and seemed to be recovering well…
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