Tag Archive | "British small press"

Ink + Paper…

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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Ink + Paper no. 1 — Winter 2012 Cover, design and editing by David O’Connell Contributors: Anna Jay, Barnaby Richards, Ben Whitely, Cliodhna Lyons, Dan Berry, David O’Connell, Ellen Lindner, Ellie Partridge, Helen Entwisle, Hugh “Shug” Raine, Jeremy Day, Jess Bradley, Joe Decie, Julia Homersham, Lizz Lunney, Michael Leader, Philippa Rice, Rick Eades, Sammy Borras, Selina Lock, Timothy Winchester Ink + Paper …..such an evocative little title for the little A5 sized anthology, bringing [...]

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New Futurequake

Monday, November 7, 2011

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Dave at fine small press stable FutureQuake Press drops us a line to let us know FQP has a slew of new titles out just in time for the upcoming Thought Bubble, including the excellent 2000 AD fanzine Zarjaz – the new issue 13 can be seen above, complete with fab Rogue Trooper wraparound cover [...]

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For your diary: Comica’s Comiket

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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London peeps, a must-have for your comics diary this month, a lovely part of the larger Comica festival – Comiket, in the Great Hall at the Bishopsgate Institute on Saturday 12th November. The guest list includes Roger Langridge, Luke Pearson, Warren Pleece, James Jarvis, Savage Pencil, Eyeball, Frederik Peeters and Brecht Evens, while the list [...]

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Stand and deliver!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

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Steve Tanner drops us a line to let us know that the follow up to Dick Turpin and the Restless Dead, Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague (got to love that penny dreadful style title!) will be coming from himself, Graeme Howard and Nikki Foxrobot through Birmingham-based Time Bomb Comics. It’s going to be another [...]

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NutScrewsWashersNBolts

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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Irish Comics News reports that NutScrewsWashersNBolts, a small press comics anthology which came out of Belfast in the early 90s, is now online to download as PDFs. Alan Perry explains about the comic for those who haven’t come across it before – “the intention was to have a monthly collection of strips showcasing comic artists [...]

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Ink + Paper

Friday, October 21, 2011

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I am loving this cover for the first issue of the Ink + Paper anthology, which features contributions from a whole parcel of cool comics folks, including Anna Jay, Ellen Lindner, Philippa Rice, Jess Bradley, Julia Homersham, Mike Leader, David O’Connell (who edits it as well), Joe Decie, Helen Entwisle, Lizz Lunney, Dan Berry, Cliodhna [...]

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Solipsistic Pop launch announced

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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The launch party for the excellent Solipsistic Pop‘s fourth outing has been announced: Tuesday 8th November from 7.30pm onwards in Concrete, London, E1.  Should be a good night, with live music, drink, various comics bods etc. This fourth Sol Pop has a theme of maps and boasts contributions from thirty top UK artists and writers [...]

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Thunder Brother: Soap Division

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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Paul Rainey, who created the brilliant Book of Lists (which still makes me chuckle) and the superb There’s No Time Like The Present series, has just started a brand new webcomic this week, Thunder Brother: Soap Division. He is deliberately not telling us much about it for fear of spoiling it – we’ll need to [...]

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Turn Left

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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Turn Left was a multi-media garden party held at the Fleece station studios in New Cross. New Cross itself is home to a large tranche of cartoonist currently occupying the self publishing boon in London. Here is a quick list (please excuse any omissions): deep breath – Ellen Lindner, Sarah McIntyre, Gary Northfield, Howard Hardiman, [...]

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Talking about Blood and Bricks

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

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You may have seen Richard mentioning a couple of times recently about a mysterious new project, Built of Blood and Bricks, a collaboration between two of our most intriguing Brit small press comics creators, Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi, following on from their very successful collaboration with Sightings of Wallace Sendek. We were curious, naturally, [...]

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Comix Reader 2 launch party

Friday, June 17, 2011

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Roll up, roll up, ladeez and gentz, boyz and girlz! Come join in the hoopla that is the magical comics circus of the launch party for the second Comix Reader from that esteemed ringmaster and impressario Mr Richard Cowdry, esquire, and associated ittinerant artists who shall amuse and delight your with their tricks in return [...]

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New Comix Reader available

Friday, June 10, 2011

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Our cartoonist in virtual residence, Mr Richard Cowdry, Esquire, FRSCC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Comics Chaps), DVP (Double Vodka Please), has announced to an expectant world the unveiling of the latest project which has been occupying his time, namely a second issue of the splendid and most enjoyable Comix Reader, which those of [...]

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Ink + Paper

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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We are starting to grow spoiled for choice on the British small press comics scene – we’ve seen some superb anthologies in the last couple of years, with some fab contributors, usually beautifully produced as well, and we’ve more to come, like Blank Slate’s Nelson project. And now we hear we have something else new [...]

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Dinopopolous – new from Blank Slate

Friday, June 3, 2011

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(cover art to Dinopopolous by and (c) Nick Edwards, to be published by Blank Slate Books’ Chalk Marks imprint) The excellent Blank Slate Books crew have announced their next Chalk Marks project, which will be Dinopopolous by Nick Edwards, which is new to my eyes and looks pretty unusual and interesting (as you’d expect from BSB). [...]

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Swear Down

Friday, June 3, 2011

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One of our favourite creators, Oli East, has been busy posting up a series of pages from his new work, Swear Down. This isn’t a reference to some Mancunian version of a western show down involving naughty words instead of sixguns, as I first thought.  Oli explained it thusly: “the basic premise is I’m walking [...]

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