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Now Playing in the Shadow Gallery

The archives are stored in the basement. Here you will find the following material, previously featured on this site:

How they order this matter in France: Beaux Arts Magazine - Comics Special
The double life of Trudy Honeyvan: Private Beach
Neil Gaiman called it "the flip side of Understanding Comics" - Eddie Campbell's How to be a Artist
A boy, his dog, and some inch-thick tomato-ketchup sandwiches: Eek! It's the Perishers!
The magical guide to Northampton: Voice of the Fire
All I know about the United States, I learned from Doonesbury
Cute Goths, rock stars and Boris the Spider: Death: the Time of your Life has something for everyone.
Before The Minx, there was Girl
Forget Strangers in Paradise, for a touching tale of friendship between two young women try Sleaze Castle
One of the stars of European comics :Brüsel

Men in chain mail: the Arthurian romance and the superhero comic have more in common than you think.
Other Media: an overview of some comics-related websites, a CD and even a book!
Genre bending: the Chaz Brenchley commercial.
Those monthly blues: what is the future for comics, periodical publication or graphic novels?
Men in Tights (the original homepage, with the Steve Parkhouse graphic!)

Francis Blake is perplexed: what's a Stuck Rubber Baby?
Stephen Mellor's Study of the Language Differences between Comic Books of the 'Golden Age' and Today contrasts the earliest Batman comics with Arkham Asylum and doesn't always find the expected results.