July 2026 Comic Fairs

Ed will be tabling at two fairs in July this year. The first of these is the lovely South London Comic and Zine Fair, or SLCZF. As some readers may remember, this was when I made a sort-of return to fairs in 2023 after an absence of some time and was very pleasantly surprised. Since…

Windy Wilberforce – Jackanapes Regained

All-new comic published September 2025, available now. Review by Ben Williams of Comic Book News: If you’re after a comic featuring black and white art, a character over forty years old and some wildly insane dreams, then Windy Wilberforce – Jackanapes Regained, by Ed Pinsent, is probably the comic you’re looking for. Or maybe you…

Henrietta – The Pirate of Love

New comic published May 2025. 40 pages in full colour. REVIEW BY LAWRENCE BURTON 01/06/2026 “Subtitled The Pirate of Love, I’ll admit I picked this up because of the adults only warning on the cover supplemented by a list of transgressive acts depicted within. Whatever I imagined didn’t seem like the sort of thing Ed…

Astorial Feature Fables

All-new comic book published April 2025. This is a collection of all-new stories set in the imaginary Astorial Hotel, arriving some years after the first “Compendium” (2021) which featured Tamblyn The Secret Architect on the cover. That earlier book was a revisit of stories first authored in the 1990s, which allowed me the chance to…

Out Now – The Race from 1996!

Previously unpublished comic book written and drawn in 1996. Now available in full colour for £6.00 + p&p. The Race was scripted by Chris Butler, who sent me the story from his Sheffield address in summer of 1996. We had previously collaborated on a couple of stories, ‘Miserable Slaves Of Dogs’ and ‘Enlberia’. The first…

New Astorial – The Building Trade

The third comic from the original Astorial Stories series of 1986, now with added colours. The Building Trade features the character of Tom the Builder, at work on the exterior of the Hotel, apparently carrying out repairs and works all by himself, apart from the interventions of a well-meaning but ineffectual foreman. And of course…

Sounds of the Past – now in colour

Another mini-comic back from the printer today. This one is a colourised version of ‘Sounds of the Past’ from 1988. According to my records, it was published in Phil Elliott’s Gag magazine #7. This is one of those one-off fable type stories where the characters, Douglas and Mary, never appear again in the Pinsent “universe”….

A Return to Mini-Comics

Herewith a couple of recent mini-comic publications. Well, actually neither of them are new strips, but I’m re-presenting and reworking these 1980s strips in an A5 8-page format. I used to put out xerox zines this size quite a lot, so for me it’s a welcome return to a favourite form. I’m planning to publish…

The Forgotten Batman Book 3 – out now

The Forgotten Batman Book 3 of 3Published January 2024 The conclusion to this three-part story, started in July 2020. The first instalment appeared in 2021. In this conclusion, we see our hero make a triumphant return from the past and successfully puts everything right in Gotham City. The defeat of each colourful criminal is given…

Night Parade – A5 book of Macabre Tales

Night Parade – short stories 1987-1992 Four unrelated stories, and years separate their creation. They weren’t really planned as a single volume, but I think they work together well. Each is a self-contained tale featuring an invented character, never used before or since. Coincidentally, they all happen to be drawn at A4 size instead of…