WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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The perils of involuntary re-entries, the Afterlife, interplanetary clergy and ‘fat fantasy’
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Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE
The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner
MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings
THE REMNANTS of the human race live on orbiting space ships in Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne (Titan, £7.99), waiting for the ruined planet to be inhabitable again.
For some of those in the poorer and less sustainable ships, the wait proves too long. This is a future in which to be working class is to risk your dilapidated refuge burning up during involuntary re-entry.
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