A new review of an old comic

 The great Gareth Brookes (whose new book The Black Project is out soon from Myriad Editions) reviews my first comic on Make 'em Squirm at his Appalling Nonsense site.

Some additional information, as Gareth has an incomplete edition : The comic was called Kartoon Cuts and came out in 2004. It had a cover and 4 colour pages in the centre. I was getting my b/w photocopying done at Punker Bunker in Brighton and I was sneaking back into my old university to print the covers. Then I would fold it all by hand and staple it at a community resource centre. But one time the b/w interior pages were folded and stapled together by mistake. I ran out of copies of Kartoon Cuts a long time ago, but I still had those incomplete b/w versions and took a few with me to comics fairs, etc. The cover can be seen at the bottom of this page.  The back cover strip was a comics version of Terminal Preppie by The Dead Kennedys and is here on the Stool Pigeon site.

Chicks On Comics

Time to catch up on news!

Pictures from the Chicks On Comics exhibition that opened on 14 March. It ran until 26th April at the Alphanova and Futura Gallery in Berlin (yet another cool Berlin arts space).

This is my piece from the exhibition. You can see much of the work on the Chicks On Comics blog.

BLACK EYE 2: The Anthology of Humor + Despair

I'm in BLACK EYE 2 - the follow-up to the Ignatz-nominated anthology of comics, art, fiction, poetry and essays. Check out the classy Kickstarter film below.

BLACK EYE 2 on kickstarter.

Zu spät!

Every now and then I have a go at the single panel cartoon. It's really hard to get right!

Submission for Chicks On Comics

A  cartoon about Spring and and Feminism for chicksoncomics.blogspot.de and the Alpha Nova Gallery in Berlin.

The drawing sums up the last few weeks of my life.

A DownTown Christmas

The latest DownTown strip for The Stool Pigeon. I had to pull an all-nighter to get this finished for the deadline. By 6.30 am I was falling asleep at the desk. I had to rest then for 40 minutes. Got back to work after taking Eddie to the nursery at 9.30. Tiredness caught up with me in the late afternoon and I took another rest after Eddie went to bed at 7pm. Ended up falling asleep and missing the monthly Comics Stammtisch at the Renate.

More DownTown strips are collected on the 'Down Town, etc' page, which is to be found in the menu above.

Where's the ladybird?

A drawing to decorate my son's folder at kindergarten.

More drawings of this type are on my little kinder blog Wobbly Toe.

Latest Review

Comix Reader Issue 4 reviewed in the new YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.
Plus cover and interview by comix pal Dave Ziggy Greene.
Read it all here :
yourdaysarenumberedmag.com

The New Stool Pigeon...

... is out this week sometime. Issue 40! Features a new Down Town strip by me. Get it from the usual places.

Sleeping Rough

Here's a rough sketch from a strip I'm drawing for the new Stool Pigeon. I dunno, I just found it funny...

The Stool Pigeon #39

They've probably all been snapped up by now, but Richard Bruton tells us what we've missed (and includes some nice words about my strip).

The review is here.

The COMIX READER issue 4 Out Now

The UK’s funniest, edgiest, weirdest and CHEAPEST comics anthology returns with a fourth helping. Behind a new cover by lost underground cartoonist Tobias Tak, is the usual blend of established talent, new discoveries and outsider art. This issue features the return of Julia Homersham and Gareth Brookes, plus Richard Cowdry, Ralph Kidson, new alternative comics superstar Elliot Baggott, and 2 pager by the UK's oddest cartoonist : Peter Lally.
24 page A3 colour comics tabloid. Only £1!!!!

Available from Gosh! Comics and... I'm not sure where else.

“The creative minds behind the Comix Reader are an enthusiastic and prolific group of contributors whose sketch jams, talks and meetings make for an unprecedented underground scene.” GOSH!

"the most alternative of the current anthology set" - Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet

Comix Reader 3 Launch : Tomorrow

Tomorrow sees the launch of the third issue of my alternative comix tabloid, The Comix Reader.
The comics arrived from the printer today - so as usual it was a close thing!!

Here's the skinny :

The Date: Friday March 2nd 2012

The Time: 7pm

The Location: Gosh! London, 1 Berwick Street, Soho, London, W1F ODR

Come celebrate the Launch of The Comix Reader Issue #3. There will be an exhibition of original artwork from the issue and you can chat with some of the many artists involved!! Free to get in and drinks are on us, so feel free to pop by! No need to RSVP, just come along to this exciting event! Yowza!

Cover by Elliot Baggott :

thecomixreader.com

The Stool Pigeon 36

Pigeon 36 should have rolled out to all it's outlets by now. It should have a new Downtown strip in it, and maybe also a couple of small cartoons by me... and of course all the usual good comix, interviews and reviews.

Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters

berfrois.com have recently published one of my strips.
I'm delighted to have something in an online publication of such obvious high quality and interest! You could spend weeks reading berfrois.

More Real Men...

... pages have been going up over on the FP blog. I should have another done by Tuesday-ish. Here's a couple of panels from page 25.