Sunday

COMIX NEWS

It's tomorrow...
The UK's free alternative comics fair...






















Art by Paul Ashley Brown.
paulashleybrown.co.uk






















Art by Martyn Warren.

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.


































































































































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!






















Link.


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, but I'll let you know when I find out. Or you could ask these guys ...

Peter Lally

Paul Ashley Brown



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


Leeds Alternative Comics Fair....

Co-organizer, Steve Tillotson, reports.









































Noah Van Sciver interviewed by Dan Stafford




From Avoid The Future.


New Stool Pigeon! New DownTown!

The latest issue of the Stool Pigeon is now available from all these places.

issue 28 cover image
It features lot's of comics, including a new DownTown strip by me (or at least I think it does - I haven't seen it yet). Here's the first 3 panels from it :





Underground Comix Cartoonists




Can you name them all?


WAR The Human Cost - 260 Page Comic Book & CD

Sean (Paper Tiger) Duffield is raising funds to publish his latest comics anthology. The details are here :
www.indiegogo.com/WAR-The-Human-Cost-Book-CD-Project


This Saturday : Leeds Alternative Comics Fair

Saturday 18th Sept 2010, from 12-6pm, at A Nation of Shopkeepers, Leeds.



Info.

Saturday

Artists Ads



















Stockists... so far













LONDON

Gosh! Comics
39 Great Russell Street London WC1B
020-7636-1011

The Cartoon Museum
35 Little Russell Street, London WC1A 2HH. 0207 580 8155.
OPENING TIMES Tuesday- Saturday 10.30-5.30. Sunday 12.00 - 5.30

Foyles
113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB

Eastside Bookshop
166 Brick Lane, London, E1 6RU 020 7247 0216

Orbital Comics
8 Gt Newport Street, City of London WC2H 7JA
020 7240 0591

MegaCity Comics
18 Inverness Street, Camden Town London NW1 7HJ

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road, King's Cross , London N1 9DX. 020 7837 4473

PARIS

Thé-Troc, 52 Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud 75011 PARIS

AMSTERDAM

Lambiek
Off Leidsestraat between the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht, at Kerkstraat 132.

UNITED STATES

Floating World Comics
20 NW 5th Ave #101, Portland, OR 97209, United States (503) 241-0227


NOTTINGHAM

Page 45
9 Market Street, Nottingham NG1 6HY, Tel: (0115) 9508045
Email: page45@page45.com


LEEDS

OK Comics
19 Thornton’s Arcade, Briggate, Leeds, LS1 6LQ
Tel (0113) 246 9366
Email shop@okcomics.co.uk

BRIGHTON

Dave's Comics
5 Sydney Street, Brighton BN1 4EN 01273 691012

Punker Bunker
34 Sydney Street, Brighton, BN1 4EP. Punkerbunker@aol.com

NEWCASTLE

Travelling Man
43 Grainger St, NE1 5JE

WORTHING

Uncanny Comics
3 Station Parade, Tarring Road, Worthing

Type 40 Toys
23A, Rowlands Road, Worthing, BN11 3JJ

Friday

Selling The Comix Reader

The Comix Reader is the UK's first first major alternative comics newspaper to arrive since the heyday of the late-60s counterculture. It's aim : to reignite the free spirit of the underground press. It’s contributors are a rogues gallery of the UK’s funniest, edgiest and weirdest cartoonists.
The A3 pages look beautiful, and as a 24-page colour tabloid costing only £2 the Comix Reader is the easiest sell in town – with 1000s having been sold in select London comic shops. Give it a prominent location in your shop and we know from experience that it sells itself!

Reviews are here and here. Page samples and history here.

If you have an account with Diamond distribution, the order codes are :

FEB127900 – The Comix Reader #1
FEB127901 – The Comix Reader #2
FEB127902 – The Comix Reader #3
JUN127802 – The Comix Reader #4

Contact Diamond Comics UK 01928 531 773
orders@diamondcomics.co.uk
www.diamondcomics.com

If you don't have an account with Diamond, and want to order direct from us then you can buy The Comix Reader at 50% cover price (minimum order of 100 copies). Contact Richard Cowdry (richardcowdry@gmail.com) or Mike Medaglia (taoistartist@gmail.com), and be part of the New Comix Revolution!

The Comix Reader issue 1

The premier issue of Britain's biggest alternative comics anthology is widely available for the first time! Behind a cover by Richard Cowdry (Vice Magazine, The Stool Pigeon), are the liveliest, funniest UK cartoonists since the days of Ally Sloper's Half Holiday. Featured artists in issue 1 include Tobias Tak (Hotwire Comics), Gareth Brookes (winner of the 2012 Myriad Press Graphic Novel Competition), Ellen Lindner (America’s Best Comics), and Paul O’Connell (Dazed and Confused, The Guardian).


"There really is no reason not to pick it up next time you're in a comic shop." Existential Ennui Read full review of issue 1 : http://existentialennui.blogspot.com/2011/01/notes-from-small-press-7-comics-reader.html
The Comix Reader issue 2

With this second issue, The Comix Reader once again presents a unique blend of established talent, new discoveries, outsider art and unsung heroes of the art form.
Behind a cover by alt comics mainstay Lord Hurk you'll find soon to be megastars Elliot Baggott, Hannah Eaton and Kevin Ward, plus Cowdry, Tak, and the usual gang of talented misfits, and the UK's weirdest (and funniest) outsider cartoonists.

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

The Comix Reader issue 3

Hot off the press, Comix Reader issue 3 is easily the best issue yet. Behind a stunning cover by Elliot Baggott, we find the return of Bird and Paul O'Connell (with his amazing Carousel strip) from issue 1, plus regulars Richard Cowdry, Lord Hurk, Ralph Kidson, Tobias Tak (with a double length contribution!) and a lovely debut strip from Mike Medaglia.

“Comix! Cartoons! The funny pages! The Comix Reader, the new standard in indie cartoon anthologies, celebrates the release of its triumphant third issue.... 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! Comics