Saturday 16th 2016 : The Great Big COMIX READER GIVEAWAY... UPDATE II (The Broken Frontier link)

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Saturday 16th 2016 : The Great Big COMIX READER GIVEAWAY... UPDATED

Today the Comix Reader Crew are giving away back issues at selected venues in London. 

Confimed venues are :  

The Amersham Arms  
John the Unicorn pub in Peckham
Hope Pub in Peckham
Vinyl Deptford in Deptford   
I'Klectik Art Lab in Lambeth   
Veg Bar in Tulse Hill
George Tavern, Commercial St E1
The Victoria, Grove Rd E3 
Maxima,  Roman Road E3 
Crate, Hackney Wick 
The Approach, Approach Road E2 
Hurwendeki, Cambridge Heath Rd, E2 
The London Fields Brewery E8 
The Owl And The Pussycat, Shoreditch 
The Islington N1.
 

This list will be added to if other venues confirm.   

Saturday 16th July, folks! A grand day. It will probably be known as Comix Reader Day in the future.

www.goshlondon.com/2015/04/comix-reader-six-launch-party

Comix Reader 6 Launch Friday 8th May at Gosh!

The Comix Reader issue 6 has arrived!!!

The Comix Reader issue 6 has arrived at Mike Medaglia's garage (he took this photo too). It's a really good issue. Well, I haven't actually seen it, but I've seen all the work that's in it. I did the cover.

Featuring comics by :

Lord Hurk, Sina Evil, Alex Potts, Ellen Lindner, Paul Ashley Brown, David Peter Kerr, Peter Lally, Brenda Henderson, Maartje Schalkx, Mike Medaglia, Craig Burston, Ralph Kidson and Martin Meeks, Richard Cowdry, Alex Widdowson, Saban Kazim and Kat Kon, Bernadette Bentley and Julia Homersham, Paul O'Connell and Dan Locke.

This issue sponsored by Knockabout Comics.

 

THE COMIX READER - Prix de la BD alternative 2015 Selection

The Comix Reader makes the 2015 Selection for best Alternative Comic at the Festival de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême.

bdangouleme.com

Preview Art from Comix Reader Issue 6 : Richard Cowdry

A black and white version of the next Comix Reader cover.

Preview Art from Comix Reader Issue 6 : Peter Lally

A panel from Peter Lally's "Our Thing" :

It's not quite the first appearance of this strip, as it was originally in Peter's limited edition London: October 2013 to May 2014, and that comic you can read about here in an interesting article and review by Andy Oliver.

Preview Art from Comix Reader Issue 6 : Craig Burston

I just find it very pleasurable (and strangely relaxing) to follow Craig Burston's retro graphics sequences. Here are 3 panels from a new 2-page story for CR6.

Preview Art from Comix Reader Issue 6

And first up is ..... Alex Potts! Here are the first six panels (of thirty five) from his typically brilliant story "A Crack In The Door" :

Comix Meet-up Next Week

October Comix Meet-up Tonight

Come and discuss comics with other people - in a pub! Everyone welcome.

Upstairs at The Cock, Great Portland Street, W1W 8QG

September Comix Meet-up

 Tuesday 16th September. Come along, you might like it!

August Comix Meet-up

July Comix Meet-up

Comix Reader Monthly Meet-Up tonight, from 7pm, just round the corner from Oxford Circus.  Bring a comic/some work if you can.

June Comix Meet-up

Monthly Comix Creator Meet-Up / Support Group

 

Dear Comix People, 

There will be a meeting of the Comix Reader meet-up/support group this month. It will be next Tuesday, which is the 20th of May, and it will be upstairs at The Cock, Great Portland Street, London again. It's advertised as being at 7 o'clock although some people arrive about 8 o'clock. Last time there were a good few people there at 7 so don't worry about turning up and being on your own.

The new Comix Reader webstore

Get them while they last (Issues 1 and 2 are running out fast).

www.comicsy.co.uk/comixreader

Alternative Press Takeover this Saturday

 

www.alternativepress.org.uk

Monthly Comix Creator Meet-Up / Support Group

The Comix Reader presents our monthly Comix Creator Meet-Up/Support Group, open to anyone interested in/struggling with the making, reading, and writing of comics, graphic novels and suchlike.

 Tuesday, April 15 at 7:00pm. Upstairs at The Cock, Great Portland Street, W1W 8QG