After thoroughly enjoying issue 1 of possibly the most stylish anthology around, it’s nice to see that the contributors to issue 2, as recently announced over on the Solipsistic Pop website, look like a collection of artists who will be more than up to maintaining the quality. And anyone familiar with the UK comic scene, or [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Solipsistic Pop Volume 1 Editing, art direction and design by Tom Humberstone Contributors: Phillipa Johnson, Julia Scheele, Anna Saunders, Daniel Locke, Howard Hardiman, Rachel Reichert, Matthew Sheret, Robbie Wilkinson, Stephen Collins, Mike Rimmer, Andrew Blundell, Joe Decie, Tom Humberstone, Phillip Spence, Richard Cowdry, Mark Oliver. (Full list with relevant weblinks here) Solipsistic Pop Books Solipsism: The belief that all [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
“Trying to describe, in as succinct a manner as possible, the reasons I wanted to publish something like Solipsistic Pop has been difficult. Discussing the state of the British alternative comics scene, the comic industry in general, the joy of anthologies, and the slow decline of print is not a simple task. These are all [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 23, 2009
The Solipsistic Pop anthology launches during this year’s Comica at the ICA in London on November 8th. We’ve mentioned this cracking-sounding collection a number of times on here as Tom Humberstone has been adding preview pages to the SP site – with it featuring some brilliant talent from the vibrant British small press comics scene [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 22, 2009
Alex Fitch takes time out from chasing the squirrel who stole his jelly babies around autumn trees to fill us in on his next batch of audio delights and some events he’s involved in, including a spot with some of the boys from the always interesting Ecletic Micks Irish comics artists collective and folks involved [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 27, 2009
New anthology title Solipsistic Pop, put together by Tom Humberstone, has been putting some extremely impressive preview pages up on their website: (Stephen Collins from Solipsistic Pop.) Solipsistic Pop anthology is out in November.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
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