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Books
The Trouble With Comics: Can UK Comics Step Out From The Shadows?
Without America's scale, France's cultural capital or Japan's mass readership, the UK comics industry finds itself in a curious position. Katriona Chapman looks at the state of the art in light of Hannah Berry's UK Comics Creators Research Report
Film
Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream: A 400-Film Collage About Our Anxious Present
Almost a year into the pandemic, a 400-film collage is now reflecting our overwhelming reality, rather than offering any release. Igor Fishman writes on 'Just Don't Think I'll Scream', and how the fun of binge-watching has started to curdle
Black Sky Thinking
Why Mainstream AIDS Drama It’s A Sin Is Right To Provoke Tears Of Rage
Remembering what it was like to grow up in the shadow of AIDS, Luke Turner argues that Russell T Davies' moving drama It's A Sin provides an overdue opportunity for society to recognise its complicity in the crisis, as well as similar injustices today
A Quietus Interview
Something Of Substance: An Interview With Billy Nomates
As she releases the first track 'Heels' - which you can listen to below - from a new EP, Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, speaks to Patrick Clarke about class barriers, the fragility of DIY musicianship, and the government's 'sinister' disregard for an industry on the edge of collapse
Black Sky Thinking
Solidarity Beyond Borders: Why Artist Visas Are More Than A Brexit Issue
The ending of visa-free travel for artists threatens the livelihoods of many musicians, especially in the underground. Yet while fighting for change to these Brexit rules, we must consider the wider implications for those beyond the EU, and how attitudes to migration reflect Britain's colonial history, argue Fielding Hope, Mariam Rezaei and Stewart Smith
