At the end of the Glasgow comic mart the other week, my other half was offered a huge pile of unsold comics for a fiver. His friends mocked him for accepting the comics, saying they were all a load of rubbish and he’d been ripped off. But sifting through them that evening we came across a surprising number of ‘keeps’, including this gem, the first issue of Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey. Not an artist I’ve paid that much attention to in the past, I was captivated by this funny yet somewhat unsettling tale of a group of toys and their confrontation with a mob of disgruntled sea creatures. Lovely art, in what looks like soft graphite, giving this comic a cosy yet dark feel at the same time.