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 organised by Paul Rainey in Milton Keynes. You’ll of course know Paul from his series There’s No Time Like The Present (a big AHP favourite), his current ongoing Thunder Brother: Soap Division, and his contribution to the latest Reads, and it was an absolute pleasure to be able to finally meet him in person. […]
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 Bird gives us another slice of London life in The Knowledge and the plot thickens in Dave and Goz’s Bad Times Ahead. Plus a trio of talent make their Reads debuts: Marjory Wallace with her charming childhood story The House, Claire Stewart’s beautiful and mysterious Cloudriders and Paul Rainey’s devastating Wednesdays.
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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 if it were your last. Yes, dear reader. I speak of August 2011, when the last issue of Tiny Dancing made itself known unto this world of tumult. So much has happened since then. So much has come to pass…
But one thing happened of such import that the foundations of the very internet were ever so slightly wobbled. I shall remind you of this one thing – the comics left Tiny Dancing. You remember this, because I told you.
And now here we are. Older. Wiser. Bigger. And we are comic-less. What […]
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…
So we begrudgingly return to the real world. We playfully teased you last week with a mention of Reads Issue 1, the new home of all things comic-like in the world that was and will once more be Tiny Dancing. Now we are coy no more. It is time to let it all hang out.
We showed you the wraparound cover, dreamt up in a fever by Ricky Miller and realised in a storm by Rebecca Strickson, and we told you it was amazing. But we were wrong. It’s also great […]
It took 5 months. It didn’t need to, but it did. I blame the ills of society, but what can you do? Get on Tiny Dancing Issue 6, that’s what!
But filling in for the vacuity of Big Dave’s Big Plan isn’t the only reason why you should get involved. Let’s start with the cover, by Becky Strickson. Not only is it a wonder in itself, as you can see, but it’s also the first of our covers that has the potential to offend Tom Cruise. It is also exciting to touch. Now that’s what a front cover is all about.
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