John Watson Cornflakes Box

John Watson was commissioned to draw a series of comic strips that appeared on the back of the box for Kellog’s Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes. Evidently, I managed to save one of them, “A monstrous oversight at Loch Ness”. This is a charming little story told with a “fixed camera” viewpoint much like a Buster…

Woodrow Phoenix promo cards

Woodrow Phoenix created these colourful and stylish cards for the comics shop Meanwhile, which had a short but eventful run in Camden Town in the early 1990s. Meanwhile was notable for trying to create a vibe or an image that departed radically from the “traditional” comic shop, and wanted to make the shop look colourful,…

Promo flyer by John Watson

John Watson was the creator of SPY and other well-loved mini-comics, and contributor to later issues of Fast Fiction magazine. He also drummed for an indie band, Hackney Five-O. Midnight Music was Nick Ralph’s label in the 1980s and 1990s, and home to This Mortal Coil, cindytalk, and Robyn Hitchcock. This flyer probably dates from…

An interview with Mark Robinson (1996)

Here you may download the complete text of a 1996 interview I conducted with Mark Robinson. The interview was published in Zum magazine. This was after Mark and I had created our Silver-Age Superman comic, and his work took a sudden departure into a very bold, heavy-outlined style of drawing, along with compressed storylines with…

Primitif In The Land Of The Dead

Here you may download a PDF of this story in full colour. Primitif In The Land Of The Dead (65 MB) Primitif in The Land of the Dead was written and drawn in 1990-1991. It was the first time I tried drawing a story for this character in full colour; the second was the Revenge…

A postcard from Julie Doucet

I received this great postcard from Montreal cartoonist Julie Doucet in August 1988. I guess then she would have just started her comics career and was doing the first issues of Dirty Plotte as self-published mini-comics. Soon after this she found success with Drawn & Quarterly and then Weirdo magazine. The front of the card…

Why self-publish? Ed responds to 10 questions

In 2003, I responded to ten questions sent to me by Marc Baines. As I recall he was studying for an arts degree and I think this may have contributed to his thesis in some way. Marc Baines was more of a music journalist at the time when we somehow connected at the Westminster Comic…