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"Static RevolTer was as awesome as it seemed from a distance. A collaboration between London-based artists Kevin Ward and Lord Hurk, this issue serves to showcase their vastly different styles and debuts serials from both... ...'Black Ink Lagoon', is a 'late-night b-movie caper about aliens and disappearing tea', which says it all, really. Lord Hurk is an immensely talented guy, and his hyper-stylised, idiosyncratic two-tone art makes me think of a much more rigid, graffiti-inspired Peter Bagge. Yes, I did just say Peter Bagge; I like the visuals that much."

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"Dozens of stallholders will have hundreds of titles, though you may have to work hard to sort to genuine gems from the self-indulgent poetry that may have been best left on that MySpace blog. But rest assured, the gems are there, often in the shape of travel fanzines by unknowns and the comic books from the likes of Scott Jason Smith, Paul Ashley Brown and Lord Hurk."

THE GUARDIAN

 

"I loved the rather ludicrous Kolchakaish superhero strip by Lord Hurk, in which King Cecil I turns into a huge flying superpowered eye."

FA THE COMICZINE

 

"...all black line with hints of grey, it is similar to what i would normally read but the story is crazy. its a fast pace comic about a mysterious robot that seems to make everyone jump into the black lagoon. it follows that wife of a man who fell in and now has a ?piggy bank stopper? on the back of his head. the story is placed on the page in 4x2 grid squares, it?s an ease to read and rather jolly."

BOUND AND COVERED BLOG

 

"Urgent Telex is a handsomely outfitted comic with screen printed covers and cool graph paper endpapers. Inside you'll find three stories and a few one page pinups. The best story is the creepy and colorful, "Glass Chops." ...Hurk's art is expressive and fun. Often it brings to mind some of the better work in the now defunct Nickelodeon Magazine."

SIZE MATTERS 

 

"we're huge fans of Hurk's hyper-cartoony, graffiti-esque illustration, and in this piece, he impresses once again. Letting the art speak for itself - quite literally - sound effects and symbols are used to communicate a story of an artist who witnesses a terrible crime..."

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