Wherein the Avery Hill gang regale you with scandalous tales of dropping out(!), cats(!), the disturbing underbelly of Milton Keynes(!), ruined trousers(!), rotten reviews(!), low sales(!), inevitable financial ruin(!) and a desperate need to be stalked(!). They also spend more time plugging work by other people than they do their own, which may explain many… Read More »
Hot on the heels of the MKomix event a couple of weeks ago which you can read all about HERE we’re partaking in another! This time it’s the 2nd International Alternative Press Festival. We’re going to be at Conway Hall on Saturday 4th August from 11am – 5pm. Tickets are only £3 (+30p booking fee… Read More »
It had been a fair old while since any Avery Hillers had pulled their (our) socks up and got themselves (ourselves) out of the house with a bag full of wares and a glint in their (our) eyes, and what a magnificent choice it was to do so for MKomix, the small press comics event… Read More »
We’ve got a table at the Milton Keynes Comic Fair MKomix on Thursday 19th July. It’s run by the marvellous Paul Rainey (of Reads #2 fame) and features a host of talented comics people. We’ll be selling copies of Reads and Tiny Dancing (naturally) but also there’ll be freebies! Yes, we’ll be giving away posters… Read More »
The wait is finally over – Issue 2 of Reads is here! 42 pages of comics anthology goodness, worth the price of admission for the fantastic cover by Liz Jordan alone. This time round we kick off with the next instalment of Metroland, Ricky Miller’s labyrinthine tale of multi-dimensional rock n roll. The legendary Tim… Read More »
If, like me, you are a connoisseur of the finer things in life, your switches will be flicked by the following itemised listing: 1 – cooking approaching a professional standard 2 – human drama at its most intense 3 – witty repartee that would make Noel Coward blush If you remain unaroused by these things,… Read More »
Tweet Cast your mind back, dear reader, to the days of the dim and distant past. To a time of civil unrest, political skulduggery, and international warmongering. To a time of uncertainty, despair, and anger. To a time when you couldn’t be sure that one day would follow another, and so lived every moment as… Read More »
Despite the best efforts of all involved, the return from Leeds was made with minds, bodies and souls mostly intact. Thought Bubble was excellent fun, and damned inspirational to boot. What more could we ask for? Erasure being played as requested on the Saturday night, that’s what, but then we are very difficult to please…… Read More »
And lo, they did say that after the calm did come the storms and that. And they were very, very right indeed. We’ve been a bit quiet lately. If you’ve seen me walking down the street, I may have nodded and serenely smiled, perhaps even proffered a cheeky wink, but deep inside I was a… Read More »