Tag Archive | "Tom Humberstone"

Happy Valentines Day from We Are Words + Pictures

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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Stuck for something to do on Valentines Day? Or maybe you and significant other fancy something a little more unusual than a candle lit dinner? We Are Words + Pictures have the answer: Head down to Notting Hill Arts Club for two comics and music events Part 1: 3-7pm – Drop In + Draw. A [...]

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Hype Machines Top 50 artists of 2009 – with pretty pictures….

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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Hype Machine is music website that links to a huge assortment of music blogs. They’ve recently posted up their top 50 artists of 2009, depending on how often they were listed on the site. But what makes it of interest here is the decision to commission 50 artists to accompany each entry. And there are [...]

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All this and it smells great too. Solipsistic Pop Vol 1…

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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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: [...]

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Solipsistic Pop – I love the smell of comics in the morning…

Monday, November 30, 2009

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“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 [...]

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Tom Humberstone – he knows what he’s doing every day until March 2010…

Saturday, November 28, 2009

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The 100 Days pledge is simple – promise to do one thing every day for 100 hundred days, starting from 1st December. In what I think may be the first of a brave (and possibly slightly mad) few Tom Humberstone has announced he’s taking part with the promise of a new comic strip every day. [...]

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Solipsistic Pop launch at the ICA

Friday, October 23, 2009

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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 [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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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 [...]

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Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Crohns Disease – Surely too good to be done in 24 hours?

Monday, October 5, 2009

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Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Crohns Disease by Tom Humberstone Self-published I’ve seen a fair number of 24 hour comics over the years. It’s a simple concept; 24 hours, 24 pages, start to finish, no prep. The results are everything you might expect more often than not; rushed, sketchy, fractured works that are [...]

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How To Date A Girl In Ten Days

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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How To Date A Girl In Ten Days by Tom Humberstone Self published In just a few pages Tom Humberstone took me back to my youth, to stumbling, angst-ridden, fumbling relationships that took place more in my head than in reality. And when you read it, which you should, you’ll feel just the same. Humberstone [...]

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Solipsistic Pop updates…

Sunday, September 27, 2009

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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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Solipsistic Pop – New UK Comics Anthology

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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Tom Humberstone (author of How To Date A Girl In Ten Days)sends us word on a new anthology series he’s putting together called Solipsistic Pop: Solipsistic Pop is a biannual anthology designed to spotlight the best in alternative Comic art from the UK. It features diverse, beautiful, twisted and peculiar Comics that you won’t be [...]

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Publishing your own comics

Monday, July 20, 2009

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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 [...]

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