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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[...]

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 with The X-Files, and encapsulated masonic ritual, alien intervention and small-town life in[...]

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[...]

He also wrote and drew Strange Embrace decades ago – and wrote The Man Who Laughs with Mark Stafford. And now they are teaming up again for a new graphic novel, The Bad Bad Place, to be serialised in the Meanwhile graphic anthology, joining the likes of Strangehaven, and published by the graphic-novel-publisher-one-hundred-metres-from-my-house, Soaring Penguin Press[...]

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[...]