The great Chris Reynolds has a new website dedicated to his Cinema Detectives series. From here you can purchase new Cinema Detectives stories for your Kindle. Rosa Pleck tracks down Gan at Sheffield Hallam University and is puzzled by the sight of a large egg sitting on the stairs of the halls of residence…and that’s just the opening pages! Essential reading!
New work out now! A collaboration with the American performance artist / writer / poet Bryan Lewis Saunders. Protective Geometry is a string of images drawn to accompany a transcript of one of Bryan’s sleep-talking sessions. It is very odd and disturbing. Not a comic as such, more like an illustrated text, but a must for Pinsent fans.
Here’s a digital version of Illegal Batman, written and drawn in the closing months of 1989, and published as a small press comic in early 1990. For this digital version I made new scans directly from the original artwork, and I have added new colours to the front and back covers. Batman copyright and trademarks are owned by Warner Brothers and DC Comics. Illegal Batman was written and drawn by Ed Pinsent in 1989-1990 and this 2011 digital edition is a work of fan art offered free of charge to my readers. Please direct any questions to the artist.
Here is a video made by Stephen Poulacheris of last November’s Comica event. I turned up to sell books, do a live drawing, and I also took part in a short interview with Stephen. I appear from around 8:30 on this YouTube video.
Here’s a PDF of a new Illegal Batman story which I wrote and drew this summer. Batman copyright and trademarks are owned by Warner Brothers and DC Comics. Illegal Batman in the Moon was written and drawn by Ed Pinsent in August 2011 and is a work of fan art offered free of charge to my readers. Please direct any questions to the artist.
Some feedback received so far:
“Brilliant! Thanks Ed, not only did I enjoy that immensely but feel very privileged to be sent it before it’s posted publicly. Also, I don’t think I ever wrote to you to thank you for giving me a copy of Primitif at the Comiket last November. If I did, forgive me for repeating myself, but that really “clicked” with me, I guess that’s not surprising as I’ve done stuff with a similar prehistoric/primordial content. Great art style, with a real sense of that sort of permanence and barbaric power that very early examples of art and writing seem to exude. Sort of like Beanworld without the tweeness? Apologies if that’s an annoying comparison.” (John Miers)
“I’ve got it. This is really good. Pleased Illegal Batman got his inhabited moon in the end! And the use of Bat-stuff is fantastic. The pointers showing the gantry etc. and “I’ll land in a certain zone”. As I’ve probably said before Batman kind of dropped away for me after the Year One stuff because then they took that as the new template and now unfortunately I haven’t read a current Batman for many years. I did re-read the Steve Engelhart and Marshall Rogers run with Hugo Strange from the late 70′s the other day. Have you been watching the Adam West re-runs on ITV4? I wondered, ‘Is it retarded to like the same programme I did when I was six?’ – but it is great and you’d never guess it was nearly 50 years old. I think there’s a case for the US government to step in and say to DC comics, ‘Batman’s far too important to have mere publishers in control. We’re nationalising it and putting Ed Pinsent in charge.’” (Chris Reynolds)
“Hi Ed – this is beautiful! Another masterpiece. Let me know when it’s available in some public form, and I’ll spread the word.” (Dylan Horrocks)
“I read it. I really enjoyed it, it did weird things to my brain, and it has a lot of humour. A pleasure to read. Thanks.” (Luke Walsh)
“Wonderful comic!” (John Bagnall)
Started a new galery for “foreign” small press comics, that is to say non-UK small press publications. My collection of these is not very extensive and I expect the entire collection to fit into a single gallery. We’re starting off with titles from A-D, with some beautifully produced items from the USA, Canada, and France. More to come.
Created a new gallery for 1980s UK article zines; these are mostly text-based reviews and interview fanzines. Not quite in my line as they mainly covered genres of comics which held little interest for me personally, but AKA was a very incisive and well-written Scots publication; the 7th issue has an extremely readable interview with Harry Harrison, the science fiction writer who worked in comics in the 1940s. It ends with his scathing comment about working in the industry at that time: “It was utterly boring, you know, I was very glad to leave it behind”. Also published in this issue was the two-pager by Graham Johnstone, ‘Dead Trees’, his experimental rendering of a brief excerpt from L’Etranger by Albert Camus.
Catalyst was edited by Norman Herrington in Sussex. I’m not sure if it went beyond two issues. The magazine folded out into a large poster, with each panel of the folded page containing one short article; it covered small press and more mainstream comics in its reviews. In #2, I contributed short articles on Joost Swarte and Asterix.
Probably more titles to come; watch this space.
Some additions to the UK small press gallery of A5 comics…this includes some issues of Automatic, a 1990s venture seeing an editorial collaboration between Darryl Cunningham and Rich Holden, representing the work of artists in the north of England.
Lawrence Burton has made a large number of his small press comics available on Flickr. He’s uploaded some very hi-quality scans up there, enabling anyone to download and read his comics for free. There’s also a set containing one-off gags, drawings, cartoons, drafts and sketches – over 300 images!
A few examples are linked below, but once you browse the photostream you’ll find more things, including examples of his Mexico paintings.