Small Press comics creator since 1982
New and recent comics by Ed
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…
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…
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…
Available now, a new full-colour version of this 1986 mini comic. If asked, I might sometimes tell you that the five Astorial Stories amount to some form of Christian allegory, an update on The Pilgrim’s Progress, or a retelling of Old Testament myths in a very oblique fashion. If that’s true, then The Roof Runner…
The fourth Astorial Story from 1986 now recoloured. Published in October 2024. I personally like this one for the story-within-a-story structure, where there’s about two or maybe three interlocked tales folding into each other. However, Italo Calvino I ain’t, that’s for sure! I can’t remember exactly when I read Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night…
This Colossive Cartography, my third submission for the imprint, is an imaginary fold-out instruction manual for the new digital showers in the Astorial Hotel. By way of background – I came up with a story called ‘The Cold Shower’ which I drew in summer 2024. It’s going to end up, I expect, published in a…
Previously unpublished comic book written and drawn in 1996.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…
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…
Continuing my plan to add colour to some of my stories, here are the first two Astorial Stories books now with added colours. The third story, The Building Trade, is also coloured – just not sent to the printer yet. I’m planning to complete all five mini-comics from the original series, plus The Floating Dan…
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”….
