And lo they did deliver the next issue of their comics anthology, Reads. Perfect bound and glossy to the max, with more content than you can shake a particularly large stick at and room enough within to swing a cat in each hand if you’re so inclined. We’re calling this the best issue yet and by some distance. Marvel at the stunning cover by Coleen Campbell! Take pause for a moment of melancholic nostalgia from Tim Bird! Thrill to the penultimate action-packed edition of Hilary Harper from Steven Horry and I! Be scared out of your tenuous wits by the Wallace siblings! Get moist with anticipation at our preview of a new comic by Owen Pomery coming from AHP soon! Become even more confused by my epically mysterious life work, Metroland! Freak out as Luke Halsall and Staticgirl prove they can read your mind! And prepare to […]
We’ve got a table at the marvellous DIY Cultures fair on Sunday 7th April. We’ll be premiering Reads Vol.3 along with all the other usual wonders such as Tim Bird’s Grey Area, Tiny Dancing and Close Up Masterchef! It’s at the Rich Mix in London’s “authentically unspoilt” Shoreditch and it all kicks off at lunch time (please bring me a sandwich). Even if the thought of getting a copy of Reads 3 straight from our sweaty, shaking hands doesn’t do it, there’s a whole heap of other stuff going on as well as outlined by the good people themselves below. And it’s free! Hope to see you there!
– Ricky
Sun 7 April 12pm – 7pm Free / Main Space Rich Mix hosting the first DIY Cultures fair on Saturday 7th April! It will be a day long festival of zines, artist books, comics and distros. There will be […]
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Avery Hill Publishing are in a veritable stew of aromatic emotion as they announce the publication of David White’s Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2, a magnified photographic documentation of MasterChef: The Professionals series five.
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Grey Area: While the City Sleeps – Buy Physical (Sold Out) or Digital
Grey Area: The Old Straight Track – Buy Physical or Digital
Printed in A4 size, and features 28 black and white pages with a lovely Cairn Board cover
Titled ‘While The City Sleeps’, Tim’s first full length comic is a paean to London and the culmination of an obsession that started when he moved to Golders Green in 2005.
“I took the tube to places across town. Places with familiar names, unusual names, places where friends lived, places where there were good comic book shops, or second hand record shops. Tottenham Court Road, Mudchute, Kilburn, Camden Town, Finchley. I wore comfortable shoes and carried my camera everywhere. I photographed graffiti, bus stops, abandoned supermarket trolleys, tower blocks, barbed wire and […]
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If I were to list the reasons why it’s taken a loooong while for Tiny Dancing Issue 8 to appear, it would be boring. Real life, job related, boring. So please forgive me if I do not do that. Instead, I will tell you about the things that are not boring. These are the things that are in Tiny Dancing Issue 8.
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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 online) and this includes a programme and access to all rooms of the fair:
The Main Hall – 100′s or Exhibitors of comix, zines, radical literature, book arts, illustration and printmaking.
Brockway Room – Workshops
Bertrand Russell Room – Spoken Word, Poetry, Story Telling and Live drawing performances.
Tickets are available on the door, but if you are interested in taking part in the workshops then buying tickets in advance is recommended and you can do so from HERE .
Hopefully we’ll see you there!
– Ricky
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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 of Becky Strickson’s wonderful cover to issue one of Reads. They’re A3 and all proper and everything! PLUS, and here’s the big news, The Tiny Mind of Michael Gosden has been working overtime and produced a special Milton Keynes edition of The Park which we’ll be giving away to those in attendance for hugs, promises and elaborate lies. WOW.
Details here: www.mkomix.blogspot.com/
It’s FREE. Come and see us!
– Ricky
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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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, then I pity you. But if your cultural antennae is now twitching like a rabbit’s nostril, may I introduce to you ‘Close Up Masterchef Volume One’ – a magnified, photographic documentary of the eighth series of Masterchef (not counting the Loyd Grossman years, of course).
Whilst I’ve been a fan of Masterchef for some years now, early on in this series I felt a provocation I’d never experienced before – although the dropping of the auditions round initially felt like a mistake, it quickly became apparent that the quality of what was […]
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