Small Press comics creator since 1982
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Invasion of the Mind Sappers was published by Fantagraphics Books in 1996, and was I think Carol Swain’s first book for them. I reviewed it for the Comics Journal. This is evidently a promotional flyer produced by a PR agency in London, judging by the old phone number.
I received a copy of this new Chris Reynolds hardback book at the beginning of June this year. It’s from the French publisher Editions Tanibis. Chris’s stories from the 1980s and 1990s have been translated into French, and the presentation is immaculate; looks gorgeous, doesn’t fall into graphic novel design cliche, and has a suitably…
