There's an interview with me tonight on Alex Finch's podcast radio 'Panel Borders'
Strip! - Small press Sci-Fi and FantasyContinuing Sci-Fi comics month on the show, we have a couple of
interviews recorded at comic book conventions with small press
creators who are working in the SF and Fantasy genres. In an interview
recorded at this year's Bristol Comics Expo, Dickon Harris talks to
comic book creator and musician Dave Lander who contributes to the
anthology comic Decadence which in the last couple of instalments has
been heavily SF themed, Dave also produced a CD soundtrack to go with
recent issues. Also, Alex Fitch talks to Rob Jackson about his fantasy
comics Random Journeys and Bog Wizards which combine unreliable
narrators, humour and magical landscapes, in an interview recorded at
a pub in the East End after the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing.
5pm Thursday 09/07/09, repeated 11.30pm Sunday 12/07/09 Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at
www.resonancefm.com / podcast soon after transmission at
www.panelborders.wordpress.comI haven't heard it yet so I'll have a listen when I get home tonight. I hope I don't sound too stupid. I was fairly drunk from 3 pints of Stella in rapid succession and no food all day, so that's my excuse...
It was just after the UK Web Comix Thing at Schmurgen Con.
ALSOPaul Rainey says nice things about 'The Pasty Anthology' on his
news blog.
PS- Listened to the interview now. I wish I'd sounded more enthusiastic about my comics... oh well, I was a bit grumpy as I had hardly sold anything at the UK Comix Thing that day. I like my comics really...
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The Pasty Anthology is still on sale in my shop. I thought I'd post it up again as a reminder as the original post has gone way down the page now.
This is the best issue of 'Tales Designed to Thrizzle' yet. It's a good place to start if you want to read one. They work very well as stand alone comic books. I got this one, with the Jordan Crane's from Fantagraphics as their post rates are cheap at the moment. This issue has loads of 'Twain and Einstein' stories and fake covers to comics, and also a story at the end about a man who is zapped by a passing alien and given sexy lady legs. Various events ensue. It's very funny.
Look how beautiful the cover is for Uptight 3! It's lovely. It was great to read some old formatted style proper comics for a change instead of graphic novels. I was reminded of how much I enjoy the comics format like this. They are both very good comics with a great mix of short stories about relationships that reminded me a bit of Adrain Tomine, families, and one about kids exploring a freezer and finding a monster, along with their talking cat! So a good mix of stuff. Highly recommended. The drawings a bit like Kevin Huizenga but with lots of interesting swirly shapes to show movement and wind blowing past.
Hurrah! This arrived in the post on Friday so I read it over the weekend. It's a very good book. It has the first four issues of 'Tales Designed to Thrizzle' in it, all in colour this time. If you like Kupperman you should get it, have a look at his blog to see if you find him funny as I guess some people won't. There was quite a lot of his stuff I had seen before, in various places, in the book but enough new stuff to make me happy. My only problem with it was there was quite a lot of filler pages with strange abstract patterns on them, I'd have liked to see these pages filled with his awesome cartoons instead of the patterns. There are some great new 'Twain and Einstein' stories in the book, especially funny was a 70's cop show version of the characters. The wording in his little comic strips is often just perfect like were Twain says 'and there's a little boy who needs us, very very much'. See it's just right.
This is going to be the cover for my new comic 'Great Deeds Against the Dead'. It's all finished now, just needs sending off to the printers in a week or two. This thing on the front is a weird plastic sweet / toy machine I saw in Croatia and took a photo of.
The Pasty Anthology is back from the printers and now on sale at my website, just go to the shop page. It is 28 pages with colour covers and priced only £2.50... free postage in the UK. Otherwise ask me for postage rates. It's very good. Thanks everyone who has done stories for it, they are great! I'll send the contributors copies out tomorrow.
