Ghost Galaxy 1 - Ed Syder
Ghost Galaxy 1 is a cool comic, it's only short but a good introduction to the story. I will watch out for more issues of this. Its got a nice Scooby Doo - Hannah Barbera feel to it which is a refreshing change.
Girls in Trouble

Rob Jackson Comics on Tour 2008

Hello, I'm going to be at two more comics conventions later this year. Birmingham International Comics Show and Leeds Thought Bubble

I'll have a new comic out for Birmingham, and I'm going to get it properly printed this time.

Ethel Sparrowhawk - by Steven Tillotson (Banal Pig) and Jemima Von Schindelberg
This was probably my favourite comic I bought at Birmingham last year. Ethel Sparrowhawk is a woman with an enormously long bird style nose working a miserable job in a call centre and living alone with her pet cat. This comic is very funny in a super dark way, i like the ending, it's just right. I don't want to describe it too much so just get it, well worth a go. Banal Pig always has a stall at all the Comics Conventions so it won't be any trouble...
Banal Pig

Only Skin 1 - Sean Ford
This is the first part of a continuing series, Sean is published three so far. This one sets the scene, which is a tiny slightly odd American town by the side of the highway. The main character has come to the town's gas station to look for her missing father along with her young son. The son soon meets a ghost drawn in a very interesting super cartoony way who leads him into the woods to show him a slaughtered deer, killed by some kind of monster. It's all about atmosphere and mystery. Nothing is revealed in this first issue, as it should be. The drawings really nice, showing a lot of space - wide open plains, woods and flat townscapes. Well worth watching to see what happens next...
Only Skin

Curio Cabinet 3 - John Brodowski
This is my favourite of the Curio Cabinet series so far. John is from Rutland in the USA and I assume lives deep in the wild American woods, drawing with hand crafted birch sticks. his comics are therefore full of bears and trees and nature. This one is very cool, he draws in pencils a bit like Banal Pig does, with no inking. There are two main stories, 'Silent Watcher', where two men are on a cross country trip when one of them is struck by a bear and thrown into a kind of nirvana and 'Hot Rockin' where various musicians play, summoning giant dinosaurs from the deep. There are also a number of stories starring Jason from 'Friday the Thirteenth' in a reflective mood. Highly recommended, by me.
Secret Acres

Who Gives A **** About Mickey Rourke?

Who Gives A **** About Mickey Rourke? - A Monkeys Might Puke Anthology
I got my copy of this anthology yesterday, its really good! I have a two page story in it and the back cover is mine too, a portrait of Mickey Rourke, vaguely in the style of Vic Reeves.
It has loads of good cartoons in it. Get a copy from Dan Lester

Washing Machine - Mardou
This is the latest minicomic by Mardou. This comic has a good story, well worth a read for anyone, especially the ending which is great. It's basically a story of a woman who meets a new man while at the laundrette (in this case laundromat as it's set in America where Mardou now lives) and then goes on a disastrous date with him. She is suitably shallow and pretentious so its a lot of fun.
Mardou