Owen Pomery, creator of the brilliant The Megatherium Club, recently received some fan mail. Obviously this in itself is far from an unusual event (maybe), but the writer of said email was of particular interest to Owen and the rest of us at AHP Towers, for it was Lorin Ottlinger, Assistant Director at The Grove National Historic Landmark. As I’m sure you all know, this was the boyhood home of none other than Megatherium Club member Robert Kennicott!
Robert Kennicott
1835 – 1866
Bloody loved a field mission, so much so that he
died on one. He has a glacier, a river and
a valley named in his honour.
Still resides at the Smithsonian, in skeletal form.
Lorin has kindly allowed us to print truncated excerpts from a couple […]
36 pages in US comic format, mainly b&w with some colour pages
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Reads Volume 2 begins here. 4 stories, in 4 parts over 4 issues.
Featuring:
Tim Bird, Luke J. Halsall, Ricky Miller, EdieOP and Owen D. Pomery
Cover by Eleni Kalorkoti
To kick things off we have Luke J. Halsall and Tim Bird’s ‘The Bullpen’. A story set in the offices of a comic book publishing company at the dawn of the Silver Age of comics. Think Mad Men but with Stan Lee instead of Don Draper.
Our second strip sees Owen D. Pomery return to the characters from his hit comic, ‘The Megatherium Club’. ‘Skeleton Crew’ is the first in a series of standalone adventures pitting the club against the same “villain”, a […]
Metroland by Ricky Miller, Julia Scheele, Rebecca Strickson & Jazz Greenhill
36 full colour pages, 239 x 168mm, perfect bound.
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No one seems to notice that things aren’t quite how they should be. What was lost has now been found, those dead before their time are alive and events from history that we know took a wrong turn have somehow been set right. It should be a golden age, but if everything is so great, why is there a growing theory that something cataclysmic is coming?
Meanwhile, on London’s outskirts, in a small castle in Greenwich, lives the indie band Electric Dreams. In the midst of their triumphs, failures, loves and losses, founder members Ricky Stardust and the mysterious Jessica Hill are constantly going AWOL. Are they slacking off on drink and drugs […]
We’re excited to announce that Gill Hatcher has been nominated for two SICBA (Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance) awards for The Beginner’s Guide to Being Outside. She’s been nominated in the category of Best Writer and Best Comic. Congratulations to Gill!
These are the fourth annual awards, celebrating and promoting new creators in Scotland’s expanding comic book industry.
The voting for the shortlisted winners will take place by the public at Glasgow Comic Con 2014 on Saturday 5 July, with the Awards ceremony being hosted at CCA on the evening of Saturday the 5th (7pm – 9pm), the ceremony is free to attend, but ticketed.
Here are those nominations in full:
Best Comic Book or Graphic Novel (supported by CCA: Glasgow) The Beginner’s Guide to Being Outside (published by Avery Hill Publishing Ltd.) Crawl Hole (published by Craig Collins) Crossing Borders (published by Rocket Puppy Press) Dungeon Fun: […]
The Beginner’s Guide to Being Outside by Gill Hatcher
40 pages in full colour 239x168mm landscape, perfect bound in a stunning wraparound colour cover
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Megan is a 14 year old girl who lives in Manchester with her mum and stepdad. Like most teenagers she is entirely reliant upon technology, until a family trip to the Scottish highlands reconnects her with nature and helps her to find solace during a turbulent time in her home life.
Gill Hatcher (Team Girl Comic, Go Wildlife) has created a wonderful story of a young girl coming to terms with life, her family and herself, set amidst the stunning scenery of the Scottish Highlands. Gill’s own love of the outdoors and the animals that call the highlands home radiates from the beautifully drawn pages and […]
To celebrate the impending launch of Metroland #1 and Reads Vol.2 #1 we’re offering 20% off when you pre-order the pair together through our online shop!
Metroland #1 is an all new starting point for Ricky Miller’s mysterious, mind-bending tale of a missing girl, time travel and music, with the main strip drawn by Julia Scheele (I Don’t Like My Hair Neat), and back-up strips drawn by Jazz Greenhill (The Festival) and Rebecca Strickson. We don’t want to tell you anymore for fear of getting spoilery, but rest assured, this one’s a thriller!
Our second volume of Reads kicks off with all new stories from Tim Bird (Grey Area), Luke Halsall (iHero), Ricky Miller (Metroland), Edie OP (Jonah, Dangerfun) and Owen Pomery (Between The Billboards), about comics, film, gentlemen scientists and a deadly, loveable virus, all topped off with a wonderful cover by […]
148 pages printed in a larger-than-original size of 239mm by 168mm, perfect bound.
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“Quite simply… one of the most important and intelligent creative voices in current U.K. small press comics”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
Avery Hill are proud to announce the release of Days, a collection of the work of Simon Moreton.
The collection covers Moreton’s comics output from 2011 and 2012, including three out-of-print issues of his acclaimed ongoing autobiographical series SMOO, and ten strips created for anthologies, including one previously unpublished piece.
“Moreton is using the comics medium to its greatest extent, encouraging us to derive every possible ounce of meaning from the imagery he presents”
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
Days features an all new wraparound […]
Comics journalist, Andy Oliver, has done a brilliant in depth interview with us over at Broken Frontier. It’s in two instalments, one that examines the editorial side of things and the other where we talk about the creators. You can read it all HERE.
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