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Avery Hill are delighted to announce a Craig The Rabbit art competition!
Draw Craig in any of his various guises from the hit graphic novel The Rabbit by Rachael Smith and be in with the chance of winning some great prizes.
The winning entry from each category will be published on our website and the winner will receive a page of original artwork from the The Rabbit by Rachael Smith, as well as other The Rabbit related goodies!
The competition is split into two age groups, young people under the age of 18 and adults aged 18 & over.
Submit your entries as an image file (JPG, PDF or TIFF) of not more than 5mb to:
drawtherabbit@averyhillpublishing.com
Please include your full name, age and postal address.
The winning entries will be chosen by Rachael at Thought Bubble UK on Saturday 14th November and the winners will be notified shortly afterwards.
For full Terms & Conditions of entry, please click HERE
148 pages , full colour.
Pre-order start date: 3rd August 2015
Digital Release Date through SEQUENTIAL: 12th August 2015
Print Release Date: 28th August 2015 with a launch party/signing at Travelling Man, Manchester
Debut Convention: 5th September 2015 at International Comics Expo, Birmingham
London Launch Party/Signing: 11th September 2015 at Orbital Comics, London
Eleanor and her younger sister Kathy have run away from school, from home and from all of their troubles. They may also be running from reality itself, as they seem to have acquired a new friend in the form of a talking cartoon bunny rabbit called Craig. As Craig grows bigger and bigger, the girls soon discover exactly what kind of creature has joined them on their adventure. Running away is not as easy as it seems.
Rachael Smith’s follow up to the acclaimed House Party is a surreal and affecting coming-of-age tale that captures the wonder and vulnerability of youth. Both funny and sinister, familiar yet fantastical. You won’t soon forget The Rabbit.
All pre-orders before 28th August 2015 receive this special limited edition bookmark.
Early Praise for The Rabbit
“The comedy that Smith does so well is still there, the dialogue as always just right, but there’s a menace and sense of simmering heartbreak here as well. Smith just gets better and better and better. This is her finest yet.”
Richard Bruton, FPI Blog
“A deliciously dark, endearingly whimsical and tenderly observed tale of childhood rites of passage.”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
” I really felt like this was a bit of a new direction for her work and each work that she has released has really shown a growth in her craft so this is by far, the best one she has done yet and I can’t recommend it high enough.”
Pat Scattergood, The Curiosity of a Social Misfit
36 pages in US comic format, full colour
Reads #3. 4 stories, in 4 parts over 4 issues. Now in full colour!
Featuring:
Tim Bird, Luke J. Halsall, Ricky Miller, EdieOP and Owen D. Pomery
Cover by Eleni Kalorkoti
To kick things off, ‘Hitchcock & Film’, is brought to you by Ricky Miller and Tim Bird. They continue their look at four different periods in the life of Alfred Hitchcock along with a whistle-stop history of the development of film during his lifetime for good measure! This instalment covers Hitchcock’s time as a director at the start of the age of ‘The Talkies!’.
Our second strip is from EdieOP whose graphic novel Maleficium was recently published by us! You should totally check that out. In ‘My Friend Armi’, she tells another tale of mild horror, this time of a creature that maybe loves it’s owner a little too much…even by Edie’s standards, this one is pretty twisted.
In our third strip, Luke J. Halsall and Tim Bird’s ‘The Bullpen’ continues. A story set in the offices of a comic book publishing company at the dawn of the Silver Age of comics; similarities to certain publishing companies where the artists used to allegedly get regularly ripped off are ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL.
Or else it’s all done for purposes of satire, which I think makes it legal.
Finally, we have Owen D. Pomery’s return to the characters from his hit comic, ‘The Megatherium Club’. Here is the third of his series of standalone adventures pitting the club against the same “villain”, a rival scientist who looks like he might just beat our “heroes” at their own game.
Discover the bit of serendipity that took Elizabeth Querstret on a journey with a dog named ‘LuLu’.
Join them on their shared walks and you too can benefit from the therapeutic experience.
It turns out, spending time alone with your thoughts and a great dog is incredibly rewarding.
24 full-colour, A5, perfect bound, wonderful pages.
The End of Summer is the debut graphic novel from exciting new talent, Tillie Walden; a 19 year old comics creator from Texas, USA.
In a secluded castle, at the beginning of a winter that is predicted to last for three years, Lars is battling illness, boredom and the pressures of family life. Locked inside for the duration, he passes the time playing with his siblings and his giant cat, Nemo, while tensions within the family begin to simmer…
Tillie Walden tells the tragic and moving story of Lars and his twin sister, Maja. A melodrama full of subtle and tender character moments and set in an exquisitely rendered castle, it’s a hauntingly beautiful work that will no doubt be considered as one of the great debuts of 2015.
88 pages, perfect bound in black & white with a colour cover.
Swear Jar collects a series of short comics drawn between 2014 and 2015 by Abe Christie, one of the most talented and unique creators to come out of the UK small press in recent times.
Occupying itself chiefly in flirting with neurosis and mundanity, Abe’s work attempts to keep a gentle humour whilst querying the value of ones nemesis, failed friendships, and the inconveniences of finding oneself radioactive and powerless.
Abe is a cartoonist and former art student based in London. He spends his days working a dead end job where he dreams of other lives he might have lived, then attempts to live them in comic form. Swear Jar is the first published collection of his work.
Printed in full colour, across 40 pages.
“From the composition of his visuals it’s readily apparent that Pomery is one of those creators who fully appreciate the unique storytelling opportunities inherent in the comics page”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
Avery Hill are delighted to announce the release of Between the Billboards & The Authoring of Architecture, a collection of the comics work of award-winning architectural illustrator Owen D. Pomery, on the 9th May 2015.
Collecting Pomery’s acclaimed self-published series Between the Billboards for the first time, readers will be able to experience the story of existential protagonist James Ebner in a newly formatted and edited edition, as Pomery always envisaged.
 And in The Authoring of Architecture, Pomery presents his comics work against the context of his practice as an architect, with a short essay and commentary accompanying the selected pieces, and a new comic framing the collection as a whole.
Continue reading Between the Billboards & the Authoring of Architecture by Owen D. Pomery
Avery Hill are delighted to announce the release of A is for Amos, an illustrated musical A to Z by internationally renowned artist Daria Hlazatova, on Record Store Day, 18th April 2015.
Taking its inspiration from childhood A to Z books, A is for Amos features subjects from the world of music, all hand-picked by Daria, and re-created in her astonishingly detailed and fantastic style across twenty-six original illustrations. Bowie sits alongside Tchaikovsky. Zappa with Florence. Kate Bush with Underworld.
A is for Amos is printed in full colour, 7″ perfect bound format across 60 beautiful pages, and is essential for music fans and art lovers alike.
Avery Hill are delighted to announce details of three of the new publications that we have coming out in 2015.
Between the Billboards & The Authoring of Architecture
By Owen D. Pomery
Release date: April 2015
A graphic novel collecting the six-part series Between the Billboards, alongside a series of comics and essays on The Authoring of Architecture.
Between the Billboards
Ebner has elected to live between two advertising boards, in a converted water tank in the centre of the city. What follows is a simple and cautionary tale, detailing the perils of shutting yourself off from the rest of the world. The main content is of small, apparently inconsequential happenings, often dark, sometimes amusing, but all way-markers on the road Ebner has chosen to walk.
The Authoring of Architecture
Through a series of short comics and essays, Owen explains how architectural ideas can be explored in graphic stories and the different ways they influence his work.
Swear Jar
By Abraham Christie
Release date: June 2015
Swear Jar collects a series of short comics drawn between 2014 and 2015. Occupying themselves chiefly in flirting with neurosis and mundanity, they attempt to keep a gentle humour, whilst querying the value of one’s nemesis, failed friendships, and the inconveniences of finding oneself radioactive and powerless.
Abe Christie is a cartoonist and former art student based in London. He spends his days working a dead end job where he dreams of other lives he might have lived, then attempts to live them in comic form.
And…
Title TBD
By Isabel Greenberg
Release date: Winter 2015/16
Avery Hill are delighted to announce that we will be publishing a new comic by the superstar writer/artist of The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, Isabel Greenberg. The story covers the early Greek Myths, focusing on the formation of the Earth, the birth of the Gods, Zeus’ battles with the giants, the creation of man, Prometheus and Pandora’s Box. No images or further details are available at present, as the project is in its very early stages, but suffice is to say that we’re stupidly excited about it!
Other Releases Coming in 2015
Reads Vol.2 #3 (Spring) & #4 (Summer)
Metroland #3 (Spring), #4 (Summer), #5 (Autumn)
Announced Last Week
A is For Amos by Daria Hlazatova (April)
Buttertubs by Donya Todd (June)
The End of Summer by Tillie Walden (June)
The Rabbit by Rachael Smith (August)
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