Small Press comics creator since 1982
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…
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…
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…
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!
Drawn 22/12/2010, edited and coloured in The GIMP.
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…
Another in my series of surreal postcards. Here’s a fairly freakish mutoid on two spindly legs, more swollen head than man, yet his deformed state doesn’t mean he can’t feel the terrible pain of loss. He may be regarding something outside the panel, or simply recalling an unpleasant memory which only he can understand, an…
