Fast Fiction info sheets

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I’ve started to add scans of the Fast Fiction info sheets, which I hope will do something to enhance readers’ understanding of the history of the UK small press. These four-page pamphlets contained listings of small press comics as they appeared, offering what was then a form of “instant” recognition. As Nick Jones has expressed…

John Watson

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Continuing the galleries for UK small press mini-comics, I’ve started a page for John Watson. 16 covers up so far; more to come from this exceptionally wonderful and talented illustrator. As an introduction to this artist, here’s an appreciation I wrote for him soon after his death in 2002. It was published, along with other…

Mini-Comics galleries

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New galleries recently added…a small selection of mini-comics from the UK Small Press. These are mostly A6 and A7 size; A6 is half of A5, A7 is half as much again. An A7 comic could easily be created by printing an A4 sheet on both sides and cutting it into 4 rectangles. Even more clever…

Club Zoo

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A drawing from 1987 which was published in City Limits, a now-defunct London listings magazine. Untypical for me as I never really made a decent fist of finding paid illustration work. Also I know nothing about nightclub life!

Emerging from the Wreckage

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This postcard originally bore the hand-lettered title “Emerging from the Wreckage”. I removed it from the scan because the lettering was just too small and in the wrong place. These two jolly factory chimneys appear to be the only survivors in a ghastly ruined or bombed-out landscape. It’s a common favourite of dystopians and sci-fi…