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I have been reading Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven for thirty years; part of the Dave Sim-inspired self-publishing boom of the early nineties, Millidge began self-publishing an artistically detailed drama about a man who comes to a village and, for unknown reasons, cannot leave. Compared to Twin Peaks and the X-Files, it included ideas about masonic ritual, alien abduction, and[...]

Whatever 2023 brings in terms of doom and despondency, bringing Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbordinto the world may make up for a lot of it. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ People aside from me who have backed the campaign include Gene[...]

I have been reading Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven for thirty years, give or take Part of the Dave Sim-inspired self-publishing boom of the early nineties, Millidge began self-publishing an artistically detailed drama about a man who comes to a village and for unknown reason cannot leave Compared to Twin Peaks and the X-Files, it including[...]

Gary Spencer Millidge is one of the unsung heroes of British comic books he has been writing and drawing his comic book Strangehaven for around twenty-five years, recently being republished and continued by Soaring Penguin Press A story about a man who cannot leave the village he finds himself driving through, it crossed The Archers[...]

Gary Spencer Millidge posted to his blog today that he has two items in the December Previews magazine The first is Meanwhile… #5 from Soaring Penguin Press The second is the cover he did for Titan Comics Millidge did a video breakdown of how he put together the cover for Sherlock: The Blind Banker #2[...]

Featuring the return of Gary Spencer Millidge's Strangehaven and the debut of David Hine and Mark Stafford's The Bad Bad Place, it made an immediate impression on me and I was happy to include it in the Top 11 Best Comics Of 2014. IN 2015 however, it is making its way to the USA The first[...]

A colour anthology features the return of Strangehaven (with a special introduction to bring new readers nicely up to speed) by Gary Spencer Millidge, a far more disturbing take on The Addams Family by David Hine and Mark Stafford. I wrote a piece about it here. Here are the new solicits… MEANWHILE #1 SOARING PENGUIN (W/A) Gary Spencer Millidge &[...]

But the new Meanwhile… has something even more special. It has the return of Strangehaven. Strangehaven, by Gary Spencer Millidge, was the premier self published British comic book of its day, a cross between Twin Peaks, The Wicker Man, The Prisoner, The Archers and Big Numbers, telling a detailed tale of a village full of many interesting[...]

But it's been eight years since the last issue of this cross between The Archers, The Wicker Man and Twin Peaks. It's Strangehaven, folks. That meticulously detailed self published comic from the nineties and noughties, in a English village that our protagonist was unable to leave, dealing with the masonic, the alien and the downright weird. And last[...]

For his fiftieth birthday, Gary Spencer Millidge put out the anthology Alan Moore: Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman I had a page in it Now, ten years later, Millidge has made his contribution which told Moore's life as a biographical comic, available free on the Sequential App for iOS devices, expanded, updated, remastered and resequenced[...]

Gary Spencer Millidge wrote a fantastic book, Alan Moore: Storyteller They literally announced it the day I signed my contract for this book So I sat there for six months thinking, "Oh, God Someone's just written my book" It's a fabulous book There's so much text in there I've used it for the book I[...]

Into this comparatively small pocket of biography and study (seriously, why is it you could staff a whole bookshop with books about Hitler and only prop up a wobbly table with anything on Brendan McCarthy?) comes Gary Spencer Millidge's Alan Moore: Storyteller, a lavish and exhaustive tome on Affable Al's life and work. Drawing from[...]

Creators involved include Natalie Abadzis, Nick Abadzis, Adrian Bamforth, Jasper Bark, Donna Barr, Jordie Bellaire, Paul H Birch, Bolt-01, Dan Boultwood, Mark Buckingham, Jim Campbell, Richmond Clements, Jason Cobley, Simon Coleby, Mike Collins, Martin Conaghan, Gary Crutchley, Glenn Dakin, Al Davison, Brandon DeStefano, Benjamin Dickson, Martin Eden, Mats Engesten, Gary Erskine, Al Ewing, Glenn B[...]

Why? Because he was delivering me this thing. Alan Moore: Storyteller is by Gary Spencer Millidge, long time friend of Alan Moore, creator of Strangehaven and author of Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman, a Moore anthology I contributed towards around the time of his fiftieth birthday. But this is a very different kind of volume[...]