Thursday

Banal Pig's Showcase






















Stevo Tillotson's new comic.
He'll be doing competitions to win a free copy in the near future, plus a special discount for banal pig lovers so watch his blog!

Sunday

Don Donahue - R.I.P


The pioneering underground comix publisher died last week. Publisher of the very first issues of Zap Comix, plus other Robert Crumb comics, S.Clay Wilson, Rory Hayes, and many others.

Dan Nadal has written a nice article on Comics Comics.


Panel from "Gary's Birthday Present", 1986, published in Weirdo issue 24. Art by Dori Seda and Don Donahue.











Sunday

'MIND YOUR MANNERS!'


I highly recommend everyone checks out the new Donald Hamilton comic by Peter Lally and Paul Ashley Brown. It's one of the funniest things I've ever read. I'm not sure where it's available from yet, but I'll let you know when I find out. Or you could ask these guys ...

Peter Lally

Paul Ashley Brown

Wednesday

COMIX NEWS - Hurk's Influence Map

"Influence maps" are popular amongst comics types right now. Some are interesting, some are downright scary, but Lord Hurk's is best I've seen :






















Hurkulaneum

Monday

Contents

THE COMIX READER issue 1 :



CHARLIE PARKER "HANDYMAN" by Paul O'Connel and Lawrence Elwick



THE MAGNIFICENT ORB by Lord Hurk



COMICS by Ralph Kidson



SOMERSAULT by Richard Cowdry



THE COMET by Bird






















A CLASSY DRESS by Tobias Tak






















PORTRAITS by Kat Kon



PNEUMA by Dan Locke



TREETOP SINGERS; AN ODE TO MAN by Gareth Brookes



SABRINA by Paul O'Connel






















by Julia Homersham




MINOR HEAD INJURIES by Alex Potts






















KEVIN COSTNER HAS LEPROSY/MR PANDA GOES TO THE RESTAURANT/BATTLE OF COMIC PROPORTIONS by Tim and Alex Levin






















DRAWING COMIX? WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!! by Jimi Gherkin



BEING HOMELESS AIN'T SWELL by Scott Smith



WANKSY by Peter Lally






















THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE by Darron Northall and Paul Brown



by Steve Tillotson



CRAPPY INDIE GAY BAR by Sina Evil



FESTIVAL FASHION THROW DOWN by Ellen Lindner



SOMERSAULT by Richard Cowdry


JUST GO STRAIGHT by Saban Kazim