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October 29, 2009 - Thursday 

 

Unspeakable Things

Gracing the cover of this weeks Design Week magazine is a page from the comic strip I recently produced for the CTRL+ALT+SHFT 'Unmasks Corruption' anthology which is due to be launched at this years Comica at the London ICA and features specially commissioned work from a host of people ranging from Pat Mills to Lightspeed Champion (!!)

My own contribution 'Unspeakable Things' portrays aspects of the humanitarian crisis in DRCongo using the imagery of photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale. This latest issue of Design Week (available in newsagents) contains a feature on the anthology and interviews with contributors. There will also be a coinciding exhibition of artwork from the anthology at the Lazarides Gallery in Soho where prints of some of the artwork will also be available.

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The Bullet

Melbourne based 'Torpedo' literary quarterly has put out a special 'graphics' issue - 'The Bullet' - which includes a full colour mini-comic supplement and features over 30 pages of recent and new comic strips by myself (including collaborations with Lawrence Elwick and Dan Locke) as well as solo strips from Mr.Locke again as well as comics work by such luminaries of the underground as Richard Cowdrey, Pete Lalley and Jeffrey Brown.

The Bullet is available to order from the Falcon Vs Monkey website at http://falconvsmonkey.com/latest/latest.html

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It Should Have Been a Picture

Appearing on the backpage of The Stool Pigeon free music paper starting this month is a new mini-series by myself and Nelson Evergreen who I have press-ganged into trying to recreate in his own inimitable style some weird and grotesque unphotographed moments from rock history. This month it's an all too brief moment from 1977 when Sid Vicious attempts to get the autographs of the girls from Abba.

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New British Comics #2

The second collection of this anthology series featuring books in both Polish and English is out now and features a few more Charlie Parker:Handyman strips by Lawrence Elwick and myself as well as a great cover by Nelson again and some superb new work from Dan White amongst others.

More details here - http://newbritishcomics.blogspot.com/

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October 4, 2009 - Sunday 
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August 13, 2009 - Thursday 
I've pretty much moved everything that used to be here to

http://soundofdrowning.blogspot.com

and there's a new post as of today...

http://soundofdrowning.blogspot.com/2009/08/unspeakable-things.html

For some reason the links when I tried them took me to a phishing warning - which is obviously bollocks - honestly - I  really do not want to steal your identity. I have trouble enough coping with just my own, let alone wanting yours.
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July 11, 2009 - Saturday 
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June 3, 2009 - Wednesday 
I did a 'colouring job' for my girlfriend Laura a while ago when she'd been asked by Lush Longboards to do a couple of designs for their bestselling Makonga longboard range. Not enjoying working with colour (so she says - I think she just wanted to get back to killing mutants on Fallout 3) she passed the line drawings over to me to add some colour. Lo and behold, said designs are now on sale. Unfortunately they couldn't get exact matches for the colours I'd used but we're both still extremely chuffed with how they came out.



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May 10, 2009 - Sunday 
I've just started up a new blog at

http://soundofdrowning.blogspot.com/

...and you're all invited!

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March 26, 2009 - Thursday 


You never quite know what you're going to get with each issue of The Sound of Drowning and I'm never sure what it will be until it arrives. It's really quite out of my hands.

And so it is that The Sound of Drowning 12: Fun and Games is the first issue to be completely digital and online and non-existant in any other realm.

It's not a precedent. The next couple of issues at least will be paper and ink and each again is something completely different.

But number 12 only inhabits a space elsewhere...It's online, it's free and I hope it does things to the inside of your head.

Till we meet again. It's been a pleasure.

http://issuu.com/soundofdrowning/docs/sod12
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March 11, 2009 - Wednesday 





(Gasp as) given semi-technicolour birth at last, the second anthology of different artists' 'illustrations inspired by those lyrics that get
stuck in your head all day' - "HE BOUGHT ME ANOTHER SODA AND HE TRIED TO MOLEST ME IN THE SAME PARKING LOT AGAIN!" is now out and available for...

Purchase -

http://www.soundofdrowning.com/books.html

and online viewing and/or download -

http://issuu.com/soundofdrowning/docs/soda2


(Marvel as) speaking of issuu.com, Zine Arcade has a feature on this excellent online publishing site where I thro in my tuppence worth -

http://www.zinearcade.com/issuu.html


(Vomit in trepidation) as you tune into 'Gary Lactus’s Vault of
Tymbus' - the latest podcast of the compelling comic blog Mindless Ones which reviews the recent Brighton Zinefest and regurgitates in dramatic form a thread of 'The Call' - the 'choose your own adventure' comic produced by myself andd Laura O - with gratifyingly stressful and hilarious results. Intention fullfilled. Our work here is done:

http://mindlessones.com/2009/03/09/gary-lactuss-vault-of-tymbus-3/



(Google in wonder as) A recent stip by myself and Laura O graces the
virtual pages of the sublime (yeah, sorry for ruining that vibe) 'Area
Zinc' Italian art-zine. Much of the other work in this online art
magazine is simply stunning, do check it out by clicking on the
'Delirium 2' link on the left:

http://www.area-zinc.com


My thanks for your eyes.


**p.s. soda contributors who I haven't alreadfy got in touch with - please contact me - your copy of the zine is waiting for you!
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February 14, 2009 - Saturday 




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January 27, 2009 - Tuesday 


This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Richard Brautigan, one of my favourite writers. To mark the occasion Torpedo fiction quarterly's latest offering is a special Brautigan themed issue.

Co-edited, and with a foreword by, Richard Brautigans daughter Ianthe Brautigan, the special issue features Brautigan inspired fiction from 30 writers, a section of Richard Brautigans own writing in the middle plus a specially designed envelope containing 8 full colour A5 double-sided prints featuring artwork based on his stories. One of which prints is a comic strip by myself, using Richard Brautigans own text, called 'The LIbrary'.

In Brautigans novel 'The Abortion: A Historical Romance 1966', the narrator is the sole employee of a library that collects unpublished and unpublishable books*. It's sole criteria is that books must be delivered in person.  A chapter in the novel which I adapted into comic strip form describes a typical day in the life of the library and the many kinds of characters who stop by to leave their charming, idosyncratic and bizarre manuscripts and books.
*The idea for such a library proved so popular that it inspired more than a couple of actual real life libraries based upon the same principle  - http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/09/25/libr.php)

It's a real privilege to be included in this special edition of Torpedo, which is available now to buy from the Falcon vs Monkey website - http://falconvsmonkey.com/store/store.html
 
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