Small Press comics creator since 1982
New and recent comics by Ed
For once, I’ve managed to create a Cartography for Colossive that actually resembles a map, and incorporates map elements too. Maps of real locations. To a large extent, the piece is based on the walks of publisher and editor Jane Gibbens Murphy. I think she exercises every day and often snaps pictures of wildlife, nature,…
Available now. Drake Ullingsworth features in a typically ambiguous mystery story set in a hostile urban landscape. It’s not clear what the mystery is, nor whether he actually solves anything, but the surreal adventure is full of inexplicable events and startling images. Not exactly a comic. The story is written as prose in the manner…
Drake Ullingsworth & Dog return in “Seven Tales from the City of Cruelty”, an anthology of seven unlikely short stories – violence, sex, mystery, death, pain, and other wholesome entertainments served up wrapped in eccentric humour and strange dialogue. Every page in full colour lovingly hand-separated by the artist! Drake & Dog have always been…
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…
