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Bastard Bee
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Slightly more threatening than beedogs, is Bastard Bee. Unfortunately the exhbition has now finished.

(Link via Sinkah via the charmingly named Artshole website)[…]

Gone Mad
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The Campaign against Political Correctness: somebody had to start it, the duty has fallen to one Laura Ridgeley, and we should be glad it’s as rubbish as it is. You know what this is going to look like even before you click on it, and in a way […]

WHO REVIEWS #8
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EVOLUTION by John Peel, featuring the Fourth Doctor (w00+!), Sarah-Jane Smith, Rudyard Kipling. Arthur Canon-Doyle and A FERAL HOUND…
‘Someone is tampering with the fabric of the human cell’, the Doctor said darkly, ‘perverting it’s secrets[…]

State of Fact
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Jenny Holzer’s latest project continues her move from texts written by herself to texts written by other people.
This time, for a few weeks in New York, she is scrolling excerpts from Abu Gharib Pentagon Reports, the 9/11 commission Report, an[…]

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Showcase Presents Superman
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DC have at last started their own equivalent of Marvel’s wonderful Essentials – fat and cheap B&W reprints of classic material. The first two (the other is Green Lantern) are at an extra-bargain price (£6.50 where I get my comics), […]

THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR IT!!
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viz “do you like hitler?” = BDELYGMIA“grebt”, “haf”, “ect ect” ect ect = METAPLASM“fan-feckin-tastic” = TMESIS“yay me” = BOMPHIOLOGIA or VERBORUM BOMBUS if ur betimes a LATIN)
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Bagthorpes Explained
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I don’t know why I put my RIP Helen Cresswell notice on NYLPM but it allows me to go into more detail here about the BAGTHORPE SAGA. This series of books doesn’t rate much as a ‘cult’ children’s book, there seem to be no[…]

WHO REVIEWS #7: Vampire hunters in Stoke-on-Trent?
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GOTH OPERA by Paul Cornell, featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa… or is it?!
“The age of humanity on this world has come to an end. The long night is starting. The age of the undead is upon us”.
First things first. You’ll be hearing mo[…]

WHO REVIEWS #ef6: cat lick your heart….
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MANAGRA by Stephen Marley, featuring the Fourth Doctor (huzzah!), Sarah Jane Smith and a cast of thousands…
“Europa is invested by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls and other grotesques spawned from old European folklore. I think we’re in a […]

Good ILE Thread Alert
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Racial puppetry in right-wing comics – fascinating and well-researched stuff, right-wing strips (as opposed to editorial cartoons) have never really caught on in the UK so it’s hard to think of an equivalent for this kind of thing. Also j[…]

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