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Tormenting the Tormentors
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'The Bullet' is a special graphic issue of Melbourne based literary quarterly Torpedo which is out this month and features no less than 30 pages of recent and brand new strips by myself including collaborations with artists Lawrence Elwick and Dan Locke. Other contributors include Jeffrey Brown, Richard Cowdrey, Peter Lalley, Stanley Donwood, Ghost Patrol, Mandy Ord, Adam Golaski, Eric Dando, Oslo Davis, Laurie Clancy and many more. Plus you get a miniature full colour supplement. It sounds fancy, doesn't it?
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Future Ghosts of Battersea
As part of this years London Comica event the Pumphouse Gallery in Battersea is hosting a site specific exhibition - 'The Shapes of Comics to Come' which features work by Dave Mckean, Daniel Merlin Goodberry, Adam Dant and Warren Pleece.
Originally destined to be exhibited on the parks bandstand the four pieces above form part of a larger strip that forms a further aspect of Daniel's installation. The bandstand comic strip, which features work by several other artists including Douglas Noble, Ellen Lindner and John Cei Douglas, depicts a fictitious free festival that took place in the bandstand in the 1970's. Amongst the crowd figures from history with some kind of a connection to Battersea assemble for the show.
The more observant among you will thus no doubt spot amongst the audience...William Blake, Malcolm McDowell & Stanley Kubrik (A Clockwork Orange was partly filmed in Battersea), Morrisey, Mick Jones, Timothy Spall, Alfred Hitchcock, Ronnie Biggs, Pink Floyds inflatable pig, a crowd surfing Victorian policeman and some residents from the nearby animal shelter.
The exhibition runs from 12th August to 26th September 2010 and looks to be well worth a visit.
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Enter the HIVE / Postcards from Paris
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Issue 5 of HIVE, an international comics anthology published by Grimalkin Press in the US is now available for ordering here. Weighing in at a chunky 192 pages and featuring a hand made silk-screen cover and containing work by too many people (including yours truly) to possibly list here, it's a steal at the price - you can take my word for that.
Also winging their way around the world are a series of postcards which comprise the latest issue of Paris based found-art project Do Not Look at The Sun If you're not lucky enough to be a recipent you can always go over to the site and buy yourself one.
Enough with the plugs. On with the show.
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Gracing the cover of the latest issue of the nations favourite music paper is none other than our very own Charlie Parker: Handyman illustrated by the man with the sideburns himself, Lawrence Elwick. Not bad for a character who was only ever intended for a few strips in SoD #14.
Inside Charlie gets a brand new 5 page strip and you'll also find comics by the brilliant Krent Able amongst others. Pick up a free copy in record stores and music venues across the country.
Thanks to Phil and Mickey at The Stool Pigeon for being such big Charlie fans!
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If you're a lot more technologically advanced than me you might want to check out the free Ether Books App. I'm reliably informed that this will enable you to download for nothing one of my short stories entitled A Precious Little Thing along with lots of other short fiction by other people.
Science. Ain't it a marvel?
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Carousel/The Comix Reader
A brand new issue of The Comix Reader (#3) is now out and features a new full page strip by myself and a young Californian writer named Addy Evenson. You can order a copy directly from me if it pleases you...
