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The Black Project

After a long and painful wait, during which time fate threw many strange and uncanny obstacles in my path (so much so in fact that many people close to me came to believe in ‘the curse of the black...

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The Comix Reader Issue 2

Surely the most anticipated second coming in history, the Comix Reader 2 has arrived!! This second manifestation of the essential underground Comix newspaper features 24 pages of Full Colour A3tastic...

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Reviews!

I thought it was high time I drew attention to some of the lovely reviews I’ve had in the past from supportive persons…. so here goes; manly boys on FP blog manly boys on Top Shelf blog just about...

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The Comix Reader Mega Launch! 22nd June

It’s all going on next Wednesday the 22nd June at the Miller in London Bridge from 6.30! Not only the spleen rupturing excitement of another epoch defining issue of the Comix Reader, nor the bum...

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The Black Project Reviews

Some nice feedback from forbidden planet blog and the wonderfully laid back podcast over at good comic books on The Black Project. Thanks to Richard and Joe!

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Super Chuckle Sandwich T Shirt!

Check out this superfly Chuckle Sandwich T Shirt made by the good people at tshirtprinting.net Where’s yours?

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AAAH DISTRO at Port Eliot and West Dean Festivals

There are many reasons to start a distro, in my case it was because I’d thought of a really good pun. And so Julia and I took Ahhh Distro (get it?) on the road, first to the Port Elliot Festival and a...

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Nuff Events

Doing stuff is certainly in order this month, with events springing up all over the place like so many commonly occurring vegetables. First up; The fantastic Orbital Portrait Exhibition, there was a...

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Handmade and Bound to be worth a look!

Handmade and Bound is always a corker of an event, and it returns on Sunday the 20th November at a new venue in Fleet Street. I will be there, peddling my seditious pamphlets, so come along its free to...

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J Homersham’s New Website

Longtime appallingnonsense and ahhh distro co-conspirator J Homersham has a website! See her pun – believable art work from the comfort of your office chair, or if you have wi fi, from a different sort...

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Mega Update

I haven’t updated this blog in a very long time because I’ve been travelling the world, however I’m on my way back and will see everyone at the Alternative Press Fair on the 4th and 5th of August . The...

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Alternative Press Festival This Weekend

It’s time once again for one of the best small press events on the calendar, I’ll be in attendance selling my work along with that of J Homersham, Banal Pig and Myriad Editions I’ll also be running a...

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A Couple of Things You May Have Missed.

A few months ago Forbidden Planet Blog did me the splendid honour of allowing me to pontificate at some length on the making of The Black Project. All interested parties can view it here! A few weeks...

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Caption Oxford this Weekend

I’ll be travelling up to Oxford this weekend to take part in the Myriad Editions Panel as part of Caption 2012. This events been going for donkeys years and has always been notable for its symposium...

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I’m Reading; Christopher Wren – In Search Of Excitement by Steve Tillotson

The new one from my old Banal Pig sparring partner Steve Tillotson is a thing of no small novelty. The story is simple enough, a wren called Chris wakes up determined to pursue a day of excitement....

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Great Covers From my Collection 1

I’ve been doing a bit of thinking recently about visually arresting front covers, and as I’ve just moved house and therefore had occasion to re-connect physically with my unwieldy and burdensome...

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The State of The Nations : New Zealand

Having been travelling recently I had the opportunity of trying to discover what (if any) small press comics exist in other parts of the world. Being heavily acquainted with the British small press...

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I’m Reading Autopsia 2 by Jemma Webster

Few small press comics, or books in general for that matter, still intrigue after multiple readings. Not so with Autopsia by Jemma Webster. In the couple of years I’ve had it knocking around my...

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Great Covers From My Collection 2

Never judge a cover by it’s book, and just to prove it here’s a nice example, ‘The Americanisation of Emily’ from 1960. Now as we all know nothing grabs the attention like sexy, and what could be...

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Crimes Against Hugh Manatee

One tradition of the Alternative Press Fair is the fabulous Zine-in-a-Day, where all the exhibitors are given the opportunity to contribute to a zine which is drawn, collated, risographed and sold...

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