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Tag Archives: comics
Pirate Pete
M’learn’d chum Neill Cameron put out a request on the communication network known as Twitter for people to pull pirate faces so he might utilise them in the backgrounds of his much anticipated comic strip series Pirates Of Pangea (dinosaurs, … Continue reading
“The creation of a polite word always signifies a major fucking.”
I’m currently working with a number of groups of Young People aged 15-19. The collective term for them is annoying me for some reason. They’re not children, they’re adults, but they’re a special sort of adults that need dealing with … Continue reading
Billy the Sink speaks
It’s the comics saga that just keeps on giving. Ever since Kevin Eastman’s Tundra went under piece after piece of the epic saga that started with the parodic Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles and ended with the Mandelbrot-inspired Big Numbers keeps … Continue reading
Darryl on climate change
Darryl Cunningham‘s latest chapter in his book on science has emerged onto his blog. The topic this time is Climate Change. First page: Read on.
Zine Fest Talk
I did a talk at the Birmingham Zine Festival on Friday about the emergence of the British Small Press Comics scene in the early 1980s. Here’s the video. The majority of the scans came from Dez Skinn’s fanzine page and … Continue reading
Talking comics at the Birmingham Zine Festival
You may have heard there’s a four day Zine Festival happening in Birmingham in September. This is, of course, a great thing and I was wondering how I might get involved, given I used to do a lot of zine … Continue reading
Ed Pinsent’s Magic Mirror
Oh, now this is good news! I was searching around the Internets for some scans of Luke Walsh‘s early work to avoid rummaging in the cupboards for my own copies of his comics and zines when I came across Ed … Continue reading
Darryl on Homeopathy
I very much enjoyed Darryl Cunningham‘s book Psychiatric Tales the other week and am pleased to see the sequel on science is shaping up well. He’s serialising the chapters online with MMR going up in May and Homeopathy this week. … Continue reading