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Other Comics
"The Workburger International Comics Anthology features some of the finest masterworks of world-renowned artisans and craftsmen/craftswomen of the comics medium. This skillfully woven patchwork of diverse comic strip narratives, revolving around the topic of contemporary work, has been manually assembled from many serious and witty as well as provocative and investigative artistic takes on the topic.
Contributing artists, drawing from both theory and personal experience, have tackled this elusive term, bridled its creative momentum and harnessed its vast, explosive potential: one of work’s most useful and at the same time dangerous characteristics."
Featuring, among others, Comix Strippers Lord Hurk, Alex Potts, Paul O'Connell, Lawrence Elwick and Paul Ashley Brown.
Workburger - custom made product with a flawless defect.
Thursday
Wednesday
Comix Reader 5 : the first reviews
brokenfrontier.com
Comix Reader 5 art by Tobias Tak
Comic Bits Online
Comix Reader 5 art by Julia Homersham
The Comix Reader 5 Launch this Friday at Gosh! Comics
With The Strumpet and Score and Script.
Friday, November 8th from 7pm to 9pm
At Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, Soho, W1F 0DR
At Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, Soho, W1F 0DR
Monday
Comics Are My Rock And Roll
Only EIGHT DAYS to go till the end of Daniel Baldwin's kickstarter campaign to fund his documentary about Jimi and Peter and the epic 18 day event that was the first International Alternative Press Festival back in 2011.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/550140509/comics-are-my-rock-and-roll-documentary
www.kickstarter.com/projects/550140509/comics-are-my-rock-and-roll-documentary
Wednesday
The Comix Reader 5 Mega-Launch at Gosh! Comics
With The Strumpet and Score and Script.
Friday, November 8th from 7pm to 9pm
At Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, Soho, W1F 0DR
At Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, Soho, W1F 0DR
Wednesday
The Comix Reader issue 5 gets printed tonight!
Featuring : Alex Potts, Elliot Baggott, Paul O'Connell, Dan Locke, Bernadette
Bentley, Ellen Lindner, Saban Kazim, James Parsons, Tobias Tak,
Sally-Anne Hickman, Peter Lally, Lord Hurk, Richard Cowdry, Kat Kon, Sina
Evil, Craig Burston, Ralph Kidson, Martin Meeks, Julia Homersham, Sean
Duffield, Kevin Ward, Tanya Meditzky, Mike Medaglia, Steven Walsh, and
Maartje Schalkx.
Friday
Gareth Brookes' The Black Project – Book Release and Two Upcoming Exhibitions
The Black Project comes to bookstores this September.
Between September 4th and 7th there will also be an exhibition of some of the original lino prints and embroideries that went into The Black Project, plus one or two surprise installations. It’ll all be at the London Print Studio, London W10 4RE. Further info here.
Then, as part of The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Gareth will be showing work at the Castle Dairy in a show entitled ‘Getting Yourself A Girlfriend is Easy’ between the 16th September and November 10th. Info about all the exhibitions taking place can be found here.
Between September 4th and 7th there will also be an exhibition of some of the original lino prints and embroideries that went into The Black Project, plus one or two surprise installations. It’ll all be at the London Print Studio, London W10 4RE. Further info here.
Then, as part of The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Gareth will be showing work at the Castle Dairy in a show entitled ‘Getting Yourself A Girlfriend is Easy’ between the 16th September and November 10th. Info about all the exhibitions taking place can be found here.
Saturday
Comix Reader 5 Preview Art
The Comix Reader issue 5 cover detail by Alex Potts :
Not only has Alex Potts drawn the cover, he's also contributing his best Comix Reader strip so far. The first few panels are below.
Next we have artwork by Bernadette Bentley, and like Alex Potts, it's also her best strip so far for the Reader. It reminds me somehow of Rodolphe Töpffer.
Here's a bit of Thor Gang Four, a totally gonzoid and highly creative strip by Lord Hurk for CR5. Wonderful design and colours... really a great page.
Below is the first tier of Peter Lally's Opus 15, aka "Taxi". Typically raw and intense, it features a (probably real) character you'd likely rather view from a safe distance. It's the kind of strip that makes doing The Comix Reader feel worthwhile and it's Peter's best comics work so far.
Not only has Alex Potts drawn the cover, he's also contributing his best Comix Reader strip so far. The first few panels are below.
Next we have artwork by Bernadette Bentley, and like Alex Potts, it's also her best strip so far for the Reader. It reminds me somehow of Rodolphe Töpffer.
Here's a bit of Thor Gang Four, a totally gonzoid and highly creative strip by Lord Hurk for CR5. Wonderful design and colours... really a great page.
Below is the first tier of Peter Lally's Opus 15, aka "Taxi". Typically raw and intense, it features a (probably real) character you'd likely rather view from a safe distance. It's the kind of strip that makes doing The Comix Reader feel worthwhile and it's Peter's best comics work so far.
Sunday
Last Few Days To Order The Fur Trap
The new book and record by Kevin Ward available from kickstarter.com. See the great promo video a few posts below.
Friday
Monday
Comics Are My Rock And Roll: Trailer
Comics Are My Rock And Roll: Trailer from Daniel James Baldwin on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/68364485Just wonderful! The first APF's (especially the after-festival drinks) were really the start of something good.
Sunday
Catapulte Records festival today (June 30th)
With art by The Fancy Butcher (Lord Hurk and Kevin Ward).
1-9pm, Seven Sisters tube. https://www.facebook.com/
Friday
Ralph Kidson at Wildseed Studios
This is cool : Ralph Kidson has an animation project in the works. He is collaborating with Wildseed Studios to animate some of his strips. According to Ralphie the project is wholly due to one of the producers picking up a copy of The Comix Reader in Gosh!
Ralph is interviewed here. Further information here.
Ralph is interviewed here. Further information here.
Wednesday
Festival Season Continues
This year (that I can remember) we were at Angoulême, Comiket, Lineup Comics and Illustration Fair, ComicsInvasionBerlin (which was f*cking amazing), and London Radical Book Fair.
Next up are.... Alternative Press Spring Fair Saturday 1st June.
ELCAF Saturday 22nd June (courtesy of Elliot Baggot).
And Green Man Festival 15th - 18th August (courtesy of Gareth Brookes and Julia Homersham).
Next up are.... Alternative Press Spring Fair Saturday 1st June.
ELCAF Saturday 22nd June (courtesy of Elliot Baggot).
And Green Man Festival 15th - 18th August (courtesy of Gareth Brookes and Julia Homersham).
Sunday
Wednesday
Monday
Comix Reader Monthly Meeting
We're having another Comix Reader Monthly Meeting. It's at the Crown on New Oxford Street on Tuesday the 5th of February. Please come!
Thursday
Another Comix Reader review
Stumbled across another review. This one is from bleedingcool.com
Comix Reader #3 by various - 5/5
The third issue of Richard Cowdry's Comix Reader anthology is another great comic, printed on newsprint at tabloid newspaper size and with the awesome cover price of £1. It has a lovely cover by Eliott Baggott, and a great mix of pages from small press & indie creators. Cowdry's Fat Charlie Chaplin is great, with a sense of humour that fans of his Bedsit Diaries series will recognize. Elliot Baggott follows up his lovely cover with a great joke about Johannes Guthenberg, inventor of printed movable type. Maartje Schalkx has a minimalist page that works in an impressionist suggestive way. Tanya Meditzky & Tobias Tak provide a great two page comic about a walking tree who wants a makeover. Steve Tillotson of Banal Pig gives us a glorious "gradual reveal" page where each panel in an enormous grid reveals a bit more of a larger scene. Steve Ward's Invisual Arts is a gorgeous-looking darkly-comic page, and Lord Hurk's back cover comic "Lonely Bomb" is fantastic. And that's just 8 of the 20-odd pages in there. It's great. Check it out.
More info at The Comix Reader.
Comix Reader #3 by various - 5/5
The third issue of Richard Cowdry's Comix Reader anthology is another great comic, printed on newsprint at tabloid newspaper size and with the awesome cover price of £1. It has a lovely cover by Eliott Baggott, and a great mix of pages from small press & indie creators. Cowdry's Fat Charlie Chaplin is great, with a sense of humour that fans of his Bedsit Diaries series will recognize. Elliot Baggott follows up his lovely cover with a great joke about Johannes Guthenberg, inventor of printed movable type. Maartje Schalkx has a minimalist page that works in an impressionist suggestive way. Tanya Meditzky & Tobias Tak provide a great two page comic about a walking tree who wants a makeover. Steve Tillotson of Banal Pig gives us a glorious "gradual reveal" page where each panel in an enormous grid reveals a bit more of a larger scene. Steve Ward's Invisual Arts is a gorgeous-looking darkly-comic page, and Lord Hurk's back cover comic "Lonely Bomb" is fantastic. And that's just 8 of the 20-odd pages in there. It's great. Check it out.
More info at The Comix Reader.
Saturday
Comix Reader Monthly Meeting
Flyer designed by Alex Potts using a photo from the first ever Comix Reader meeting.
From the Facebook page (I don't know who answered the question) :
Q :
Friday
Overview Celebrating 2012: Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!
The Comix Reader
Anthology – Various creators
The newspaper feel of The Comix Reader,
and that larger size presentation, give it a true comix vibe; a
sensation of something slightly underground and ephemeral in tone. It’s a
real grab-bag of styles and approaches with each strip generally having
just a one-page canvas on which to present its narrative or make its
point. Cheaply-priced and so accessible; its 2012 editions were a
fantastic starting point for further investigation of the work of the
small press creators within its pages.
Small Pressganged review here.
Small Pressganged soundbite: At an incredibly affordable price of just one shiny pound coin it means that even if you only enjoy half the strips on offer here you still come out a winner. Only the cheapest of churls could surely argue otherwise.
Visit The Comix Reader site here. Buy copies here.
(From Andy Oliver's Smallpressganged on Broken Frontier.)
Anthology – Various creators
The newspaper feel of The Comix Reader,
and that larger size presentation, give it a true comix vibe; a
sensation of something slightly underground and ephemeral in tone. It’s a
real grab-bag of styles and approaches with each strip generally having
just a one-page canvas on which to present its narrative or make its
point. Cheaply-priced and so accessible; its 2012 editions were a
fantastic starting point for further investigation of the work of the
small press creators within its pages.Small Pressganged review here.
Small Pressganged soundbite: At an incredibly affordable price of just one shiny pound coin it means that even if you only enjoy half the strips on offer here you still come out a winner. Only the cheapest of churls could surely argue otherwise.
Visit The Comix Reader site here. Buy copies here.
(From Andy Oliver's Smallpressganged on Broken Frontier.)
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