Wednesday

This Saturday : Leeds Alternative Comics Fair

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



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Jimi Gherkin

COMICS

If you like The Comix Reader, some of the publications below may also be to your taste.

PAUNCH and UP A BLIND ALLEY by Scott Jason Smith





scottjasonsmith.com

TALES FROM THE COSMIC MOUNTAIN






















By Bird. I'm sure Bird still has comics available to buy. You should contact him at thetrianglesky.com

ETHEL SPARROWHAWK & ETHEL SPARROWHAWK'S TERRIBLE HANGOVER




































Steven Tillotson and Jemima Von Schindelberg (banalpig.com)
Review!

GOOD FOR GRANNY!






















By Peter Lally (The Firmament)

HOOTIEBITS, GIANT CLAM, & MORE























Ralph's work is available by writing to Ralph Kidson, 3 Langridges Close, Newick, East Sussex, BN8 4LZ. Please add 50p (£1 for non-UK) for postage and packing. Make sure you ask for Ralph's new comic, Hootiebits, which is briliant.






SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. SKELETOR






















(Review)
By Gareth Brookes appallingnonsense.co.uk

THE BEDSIT JOURNAL
























(Reviews).
By Richard Cowdry, Peter Lally, Bird, Hannah Glicksfein, Tim Levin, Takashi Makita, Mardou & Fortenski, Alex Levin, Ed Scott.

STATIC REVOLVER






















By Lord Hurk and Kevin Ward

MEAT HILL






















By Lord Hurk

fancybutcher.com

PUBLISH YOU



















Rich Cowdry, Scott Smith, Gareth Brookes, Jimi Gherkin, Peter Lally, Saban Kazim and Edd Baldry, to name but a few!
alternativepress.org.uk

JONES COMIX














Tim & Alex Levin, and friends.
JonesComix

A PINT OF TITTER






















By Julia Homersham. Available from appallingnonsense.co.uk

WHORES OF MENSA



Ellen Lindner, Jeremy Dennis, Mardou, plus guests.
www.whoresofmensa.com (See the trailer for issue 5).

CRAPPY D, and other comics.



I'm sure Shabs has comics still available. You'll have to ask him where to get them though.

SOUND OF DROWNING


































Paul O'Connel
Issue 14 drawn by Lawrence Elwick!

BROWNER KNOWLE






















5 issues available, by Paul Ashley Brown.

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.