Small Press comics creator since 1982
Be sure to come to The Comika Comiket small press comics event at the Royal National Hotel on Sunday 7th November 2010. I have one third of a table where I will be exhibiting copies of the Magic Mirror book to sell and to sign, along with the Windy and Primitif books and anything else…
We just discovered an excellent blog by Nick Jones, who has posted on the UK Small Press with a detailed overview of The Elephant of Surprise. He also has some images of some Fast Fiction info sheets. Which reminds me that we must get around to putting scans of those online here, although it’s not…
Eibonvale Books are publishing Magic Mirror, a sumptuous collection of my comic strips as a 350pp paperback (with a hardback edition to follow). It’s all printed A4 size, with a new painted full-colour cover. I made the selection myself, drew a new frontispiece page, and added some extensive notes at the back of the book,…
Just created a new shop page today. From here you can buy the Windy Wilberforce and Primitif paperbacks. I also have a few unsold Fast Fiction and Staring Eye items. All prices include postage to anywhere in the world.
Help! Shark was a small press comics imprint based in Chester in the North-West of England. I suppose the main man behind the operation was Chris Flewitt, a talented and self-effacing artist who approached me to submit a strip of his own to Fast Fiction magazine in early 1985. He was also the designer behind…
A painting of Ramollo from 1993. The original is about 2 feet across and painted in acrylics on paper. In this image, the homeless outcast Ramollo appears to be dreaming about himself as he suffers a sleepless night. One of his own apparitions is giving him indigestion.
Our thanks go to David A. Simpson, a long standing reader and collector of UK small press comics, who kindly sent us scans of the covers of Fast Fiction #1 from his own copy. He also provided the catalogue description of the contents. This is the first time I’ve ever seen this artwork, an early…
Most of my A5 small press comics collection is now completed and covers are available to view in four galleries. A special gallery devoted to the works released under the Help!Shark imprint is in preparation. Today, started the gallery of A4 size comics; titles starting A-B are now represented. For American readers, maybe I should…
We were absolutely delighted to hear from Russell Christian last month. “Check out my World In Disarray“, he suggests. “Mostly old comics, but stuff you’ve never seen. Putting them up on the blog might even encourage me to start drawing comics again (when I’m not spitting fire at the Big Bankers, or teaching little kids…
To our great delight we were recently contacted by Tim Budden who got in touch by email from Taiwan. In the 1980s, this Welsh artist contributed his extraordinary badger stories to issues of The Wimp, which he co-published with Mike Hemsley and other art school friends, sometimes working under the alias of T.N. Neddub. He…
