Publishing your own comics

Joe — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:04:27 +0000

You might remember a few weeks back Eagle award winning creator Tom Humberstone posted up some advice on how to go about selling your small press comics (see here). Now Tom’s followed it up with an article on printing your own comics: “You know that famous illustration that appeared in a punk fanzine (Sideburns I believe) with the immortal lines “This is a chord, this is another, this is a third, now form a band”? That’s essentially how I feel about starting a comic. If you have a story you want to tell, an idea you’re dying to express, a feeling you need to communicate – all you really require is a pen, piece of paper (or fabric, or tissue paper, or whatever you can draw on) and access to a photocopier. Anybody who tells you different is lying and doesn’t know the first thing about why comics are so amazing and thus, shouldn’t be trusted.”

Sushi Karaoke! Genius & Fun stuff from Lizz Lunney

Richard — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:24:40 +0000

Sushi Karaoke!

by Lizz Lunney

Self Published

I last had a look at Lizz Lunney’s wonderful mini comics a while back. (damn, given away what I thought of the new comic already.) I started it with this:

There are some mini-comics that really want to be grown up, proper comics, who want to be published in bigger form but haven’t made it yet. And there are some mini comics that don’t. Mini-comics so happy at being minis, who never want to be big, who go around cavorting in their mini-comic-ness. Guess which one Lizz Lunney’s mini-comics are?

A even though her new mini-comic is just that little bit bigger, the sentiment’s still exactly the same. This time it’s under a genuinely funky 3D cover – free specs included. There’s also a 3D Dino Story on the back cover. Sushi Karaoke! is full of all the great LizzLizz characters you should have come to know and love by now: Depressed Cat (Oh. The Joy), Leaning Rabbit (He likes to lean), Troy the talking chair, Hairy Midget Elf and his creepy elf friends, Watermelon Boy (Juicy, juicy, juicy) and Keith the wizard and his magical unicorns. It’s all totally daft stuff. But daft in a fantastical, cheer you right up ad make you smile like mad person type daft.

It probably says something about me, but my favourite of Lizz’s creations is Depressed Cat. I’ll read a page and spend most of the next hour snickering with the memories:

But if I had to give you just six panels that make Lizz Lunney’s Sushi Karaoke! worth buying it’s these from Gummy Cat:

(”Then I saw the empty gin bottles” almost had me on the floor at the time. Just so perfectly timed.)

Lizz Lunney is online at lots of places: website, blog, webcomics, online shop, interview at Bug Powder, interview for Insight Out program at City University Birmingham. (QUICK UPDATE – Lizz writes to say her website is don right now, but an old one has been reactivated. So if the links above don’t work try www.lizzlunney.com instead.)

Her website has some fantastically fun stuff. Definitely pick up a copy of Sushi Karaoke! while you’re there, but it also has loads of great online strips and some excellent gifts: my personal favourite has to be The Comic Sushi Takeaway; 2 mini-comics, badges, stickers and more all packaged in a take-away container. Genius and fun. Pretty much the summary of Lizz Lunney’s comics really.

(Lizz Lunney’s Comic Sushi Takeaway Pack. Brilliant.)

Richard Bruton.

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