Tag Archive | "small press"

Ignatz winners announced

Monday, September 12, 2011

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The annual Ignatz Awards (always a good pointer to some seriously  top Indy comics works we should all be paying attention to) were announced at SPX, the very busy Small Press Expo, in Bethesda at the weekend and boy, looked like a damned good haul for Secret Acres (via Tom at Comic Reporter): Outstanding Artist: [...]

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League of Volunteers – Irish alternate history and mythology mix

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Today we have a nice treat with a new guest review of some interesting sounding work coming out of the Irish Indy comics scene, so please welcome James Bacon stepping up to the reviewing plate: League of Volunteers By Robert Curley and Barry Keegan Atomic Diner This quickly paced comic neatly sets us up for [...]

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Secret Acres and 2010

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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The guys at respected small comics press Secret Acres blog about some tips and suggestions for small press publishing (which they acknowledge they haven’t always followed themselves!) and their own personal ups and downs. It’s interesting reading (via Top Shelf and Dirk Deppey): (Only Skin #5 by and (c) Sean Ford, published Secret Acres) “Recently, [...]

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Best of the Year – Richard Cowdry

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from one of our own regular contributors, the man who brings us our weekly visit to the strange and frequently disturbing world of Somersault, as well as creating some fab small press comics and regularly posting some fascinating thoughts on the comics medium on his Love the [...]

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Self publishing comics tips in comics style!

Friday, December 10, 2010

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Katie Green has published some tips for those folks self-publishing their own comics – amusingly and rather appropriately she’s done this in the form of a comic. I like her moxie (I’m not entirely sure what moxie is, but apparently it’s a good thing to have according to one old book I read and I [...]

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Five – a handmade adventure takes flight….

Monday, October 18, 2010

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Five by Masha Solon and Katriona Chapman. Tomatito Press Five is most definitely not comics. It’s very much an illustrated book, or possibly, by virtue of it’s length and style, a simple, but rather lovely illustrated poem. So why is it on here, on the FPI blog? It’s not comics. Not really even close. But [...]

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Colliding Words and Pictures: An interview with Sarah McIntyre

Friday, September 24, 2010

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Sarah McIntyre is, as regular readers will know, a huge favourite of your FP blog crew (not least with our cub reporter, young Molly) for her comics and her illustration work, as well as for her sparkly tiaras at comics and book events. This autumn sees the second wave of graphic novel collections from the [...]

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Ignatz winners announced

Monday, September 13, 2010

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The winners of the Ignatz Awards were announced over the weekend at the Small Press Expo and Tom at Comics Reporter has the list of winners, which included the always excellent Eddie Campbell taking Outstanding Artist for Alec the Years Have Pants Lifesize Omnibus from Top Shelf, James Sturm winning Outstanding Graphic Novel for D&Q’s [...]

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Small Press – we’ll sell your stuff FREE

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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We’ve flirted a little with small press comics in a few of our shops and truthfully it hasn’t quite worked out as we’d like. They got stuck in corners, people forgot to invoice us, parcels got lost (or sometimes arrived and got left downstairs), we took ages to pay people (sometimes because they hadn’t invoiced [...]

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Swimming With Shoes On – gags, gags and life on the road

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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Swimming With Shoes On Short Stories By David Ziggy Greene Greene mentions in the introduction to this 68 page collection of various strips from 2005-2010 that his style is “neither indie nor commercial“. But I disagree, his style sits in a new area of comics I’m seeing right now, a modern indie style I’m seeing [...]

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2000 AD fan comics go Irish

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Pádraig passes on an email from David McDonald who’s looking for contributors who would be interested in putting together a small press comics drawing on Irish characters from 2000 AD (guessing something like the excellent Zarjaz but with more of a Celtic flavour) for ‘a bit of fun’: “So far the characters that I have [...]

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Jarod Rosello – trapped cats, comic shop fights, undersea accountancy and a very well-dressed bear.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

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The Spirit: In Contention, Saving Carlos, Franz Kafka’s Poseidon, The Well-Dressed Bear Will Develop Intimacy Issues Later In Life. 4 comics by Jarod Rosello Self Published Another discovery through anthology titles this. Rosello’s quick strip in the recent Gin Palace anthology was enough to make me get in touch with him to see what else [...]

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Matthew Badham wants your thoughts….

Friday, March 12, 2010

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(Honestly, when I first saw that my first thought was “oooh, huge post-it note”. Matthew Badham pic by D’Israeli and his Flickrstream, grabbed from Down The Tubes) Matthew Badham, features writer at Judge Dredd Megazine, and contributor to this blog, has been in touch regarding a project that he needs some help with, particularly those [...]

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Necessary Monsters – the finale

Monday, December 7, 2009

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Necessary Monsters 5 by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi Self-published And here we are, at the end of the five issue first series of Necessary Monsters; Goodbrey and Azzopardi’s monster action-thriller that I’ve reviewed in depth twice before (reviews of issues 1&2 and 3&4). Issue 5 ties it all up nicely, giving us the [...]

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Windell Superhero Showcase – kicking your favourite superheroes in the face for laughs.

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Windell Classics Compendium Presents: Superhero Showcase Written by Garret Shanley. Art by Cathal Duggan. Self Published A forty page superhero piss-take, that manages to be funny and pretty interesting at the same time. It sets itself out Viz style, as a complete package, mimicing the style of old Marvel comics, with a very tongue in [...]

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