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The Great Lockdown Cartoon Book

By Mitch Available from: enquiries@sharpprinting.co.uk This year has been brightened by CCGB member Mitch’s daily Facebook cartoons. They began by looking at the bright side of life during self-isolation at the beginning of the year, and then the daily battles of looking for something fresh to do each day during lockdown. They’ve been a tonic […]

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The Department Of Mind-Blowing Theories

By Tom Gauld Publisher: Canongate ISBN: 9781786898050 Tom Gauld returns with an entire book of just science-based cartoons, all previously published in New Scientist. As Neil Gaiman says, Tom Gauld is funny in a way that makes you feel smarter. This is largely down to Gauld’s ability to tackle pretty much any topic and spin […]

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Giles The Collection 2020

By Giles, compiled by John Field Publisher: Express Newspapers ISBN: 9780600634775 There’s still plenty to enjoy in a Giles cartoon. Each one is an individual time capsule evoking how we used to live. Much of it still rings true today, but often the passage of years is laid bare by the decor, vehicles, or a […]

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LOVE And Other Weird Things

By Rich Sparks Publisher: idwpublishing.com ISBN: 9781684055791 Some of you may know Rich Sparks if you follow The New Yorker in one of its many forms, but he’s cropped up in many other places too. His cartoons are curiously odd, a little dark, acerbic and occasionally acidic. Dabbling in the slightly more unsavoury and unwholesome […]

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Giant Days Volume 1

By Allison, Treiman and Cogar Publisher: Boom! Box ISBN: 9781608867899 I bloomin’ well love John Allison’s Bad Machinery strip. It’s sassy, funny, quirky, inventive and unlike anything else I’ve read. Well, until I read Giant Days. Giant Days doesn’t attempt to recreate the characters and scenarios of Bad Machinery but it does thrum with the […]

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Baggage

By The Etherington Brothers Publisher: The DFC Library ISBN: 9780385618571 The Etherington Brothers were born two decades too late. Although benefiting from the inspirational material they grew up on, the market they so completely excel in is but a shadow of its former self, with many a nipper, squinny and pipsqueak distracted by YouTube Fail […]

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