Tag Archive | "Tom Humberstone"

Best of the Year – Tom Humberstone

Friday, December 30, 2011

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year is powerhouse Brit Indy comics creator turned publisher (with the standard-setting anthology Solipsistic Pop)  Tom Humberstone: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Tom: 1. Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson, [...]

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Sol Pop 4 – a great British anthology needs YOU

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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Solipsistic Pop, if you didn’t already know, is one of the best Brit anthologies out there, with three issues so far (reviews of the last one here and here) of an astonishingly high standard. It really is blazing a trail for comics in the UK. The next issue of Solipsistic Pop is scheduled to be [...]

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Solipsistic Pop 4 details….

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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The Solipsistic Pop anthology, masterminded by Tom Humberstone, returns in November for it’s fourth volume with the fascinating theme of Maps. Very few details as yet, but it’s going to be the biggest volume yet, 80 pages, 30 different artists for a change to an annual format. As Tom Humberstone puts it: “Book Four will [...]

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Matt Sheret’s story ideas…. via Doctor Who and Tom Humberstone:

Sunday, May 15, 2011

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Matt Sheret is the brain behind Paper Science (Issue 4 out now!), and a fine one at that. And recently those fine brains have been called into use at Brighton’s SkillSwap, where he used Tom Humberstone’s great Doctor Who illustrations to illustrate a presentation on stories, data and Doctor Who. “Light but powerful, they helped me pepper a [...]

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Ellipsis – first new project from Tom Humberstone for 2011…

Saturday, March 5, 2011

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Tom Humberstone has posted news and a couple of preview images from his new comics project; Ellipsis at his website: “Ellipsis is a collection of six short, standalone but interweaving stories. I’ll refrain from revealing much else for now, but I’m really enjoying the writing process and looking forward to showing bits and pieces of [...]

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Drawing the line: students, comics and protest

Friday, February 4, 2011

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On the Cartoon Movement site Anne Holiday and Tom Humberstone have been busy posting up a series of strips, Drawing the Line, which comment on the recent massive student demonstrations that have taken place all over the country (especially the huge demo in London) in protest at the enormous hike in university fees imposed by [...]

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Even Voldemort wouldn’t approve…. Student Protests.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

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On the student protests this week – from Tom Humberstone: “In an attempt to follow up on my vague notions of documenting the student protests using the work of Denys Wortman as inspiration – here’s a quick drawing I did based on some reference provided by Dan Hancox. Thanks to Dan for allowing me to use it.” [...]

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Solipsistic Pop: Year Two

Thursday, November 25, 2010

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Artist and editor Tom Humberstone has decided now that Solipsistic Pop 3 has been successfully launched (see Richard’s review here and Kenny’s Twitter take on SP3 here) and Thought Bubble has passed he has time to think more about SP’s future. It’s established itself pretty swiftly as an outstanding collection of some of the best [...]

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Solipsistic Pop – Twittering a review…..

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Richard here – As I was putting my own review of Solipsistic Pop to bed the other day, Kenny Penman (Blank Slate publisher) was putting his own Solipsistic Pop 3 review together during his tea break – except he decided that he’d do it via Twitter. More than anything else, it’s fascinating to see two different readings [...]

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Solipsistic Pop Issue 3 – the all ages alternative…

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

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Solipsistic Pop Issue 3 Artists: Krystina Baczynski, Becky Barnicoat, Adam Cadwell, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Francesca Cassavetti, Faz Choudry, David O’Connell, Daryl Cunningham, Rob Davis, Joe Decie, John Cei Douglas, Marc Ellerby, Sarah Gordon, Anne Holiday, Tom Humberstone, Daniel Locke, Lizz Lunney, Mark Oliver, Luke Pearson, Octavia Raitt, Edward Ross, Philippa Rice, Anna Saunders, Julia Scheele, Tom Smith and Andrew Waugh. Edited by Tom Humberstone. (Great start – and a perfect cover for this [...]

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Solipsistic Pop 3 Cover – and it’s a doozy!

Saturday, September 18, 2010

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The next issue of the anthology Solipsistic Pop is due out in November (copies should be available at Thought Bubble) and Tom Humberstone has been putting various previews of the strips online. This issue’s has an all ages theme and they’ve carried the idea through with this gorgeous cover featuring Marc Ellerby’s Chloe Noonan: The [...]

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Exercises in Instant Gratification: an interview with Tom Humberstone

Friday, August 13, 2010

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Tom Humberstone is a cartoonist and editor. As the man behind such comics as Art School Scum, My Fellow Americans and How To Date A Girl In 10 Days, he’s had critical plaudits aplenty. Also, in 2008, he was the winner of the Eagle award for ‘Favourite British Black and White Comic’. In this interview, [...]

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Latitude

Friday, July 23, 2010

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The We Are Words and Pictures posse descended on the Latitude music festival recently, a fest known for not just the live music but incorporating all sorts of other artistic activities into the proceedings, like poetry, theatre and, as the guys showed, comics. A certain Mr Sheret, a well known itinerant doodler, has written up [...]

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Humberstone’s interrupted 100 days returns…

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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Tom Humberstone started his 100 days project a while ago now, but for obvious reasons, it’s been delayed. But he’s back now, with some gorgeous changes in art style in the few he’s posted so far.Go look.

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Solipsistic Pop 2 cover

Sunday, April 4, 2010

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Solipsistic Pop # 2 is due out later this month, but here’s the cover by Luke Pearson: Based on the previews over at the website this issue looks like it’s going to be just as good as issue 1.

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