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Printed in full colour, across 96 A4 pages.
RRP: £11.99
Suitable for All-Ages
Publication Date: 14/11/2014, launching at Thought Bubble
Pre-Sale Begins: 02/11/2014
Buy it HERE
“Melissa pushed me down the stairs. I don’t want to be her friend anymore.”
“Who is Melissa?”
“The monster that lives in our walls.”
Avery Hill are delighted to announce the publication on 14th November 2014 of EdieOP’s first full-length graphic novel. ‘Maleficium’ is the story of Huxley Leighton-Lomax; an aspiring wizard who should know better than to feed the dark forces that lurk in the corners of his home. Will Huxley know enough magic when it’s up to him to save the day?
Edie is an illustrator, creator of comics and truly awful things. She likes to draw in inks and crayon, occasionally paints and works with collage and mixed media to create macabre and sometimes slightly absurd illustrative narratives and comics. Her self-published titles include: ‘Jonah’ and ‘Danger Fun’.
Available for pre-sale on Sunday 2nd November through the AHP website, each copy coming with a drawing by EdieOP.
Avery Hill Publishing is delighted to announce that ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Being Outside’ by Gill Hatcher, has been shortlisted for the British Comic Awards in the category of Young People’s Comic Awards.
We couldn’t be more proud of Gill who has worked so hard and created a beautiful piece of work that is being enjoyed by readers of all ages. The work the BCA is doing to introduce new reads to comics is invaluable and we’re delighted to be a part of that through Gill’s brilliant book. The fact that it’s children who will be voting makes it even more special. A few words from Gill:
“I’m absolutely delighted to be nominated for the BCA Young People’s Comic Awards, and it’s very exciting to see my name next to so many comic creators I admire. It might seem a little contradictory, but getting out and being in nature, and sitting down to read great comics are the two things I would love to see young people have more opportunities to experience. I hope my book can inspire both. It’s great that this category will be judged by school pupils, we’ll be getting feedback directly from our readers.”
The 3rd Annual British Comic Awards Ceremony will take place at 6pm on Saturday 15th November in the Royal Armouries Bury Theatre in Leeds as part of the Thought Bubble Festival.
Printed in full colour, across 40 B5 pages.
Limited to 100 signed and numbered copies
Buy it HERE
“A beautifully paced example of Medaglia’s pensive and meditative narratives that are always worthy of your time – delicately constructed and reflective in delivery”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
Avery Hill Publishing are over the moon to announce a very limited printing of Last Days Of Nobodies: Wheatfields After The Rain, by breakout writer and artist Mike Medaglia.
Limited to a run of just 100 copies, with each one signed and numbered by Medaglia, Last Days Of Nobodies: Wheatfields After The Rain is a graphic exploration of the last days in the life of Vincent van Gogh.
Poetically written and drawn in loose, scratchy pencil, with Medaglia’s signature dramatic-yet-subtle colour work, it weaves the tale of an artist who lived and died as a nobody.
Originally published online, this is the first instalment in a three-part series that explores the last days of now famous artists and writers who died in obscurity.
Parts two and three will focus on the poet Emily Dickson and the writer Franz Kafka, and will be released online in summer 2015.
REVIEWS
“Quite lovely, very quickly affecting”
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
RELEASED ON 20TH OCTOBER 2014
*PRE-RELEASE OFFER – ALL COPIES BOUGHT BEFORE THE OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE OF 20TH OCTOBER 2014 WILL BE SKETCHED IN AND PERSONALISED BY TIM WITH A MESSAGE OF YOUR CHOOSING!*
Printed in A4 size, across 36 full colour pages.
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Avery Hill Publishing are delighted to announce the release of Grey Area: From The City To The Sea, by critically acclaimed writer and artist Tim Bird.
In this issue, Tim travels east out of London to the North Sea, through the outskirts of the City, suburban streets and marginal spaces, loosely following the route of the River Thames to the estuary and beyond.
From The City To The Sea is a comic about this landscape and how personal stories and historical memories become embedded in this place.
Praise for the work of Tim Bird
“This is beautiful work, Bird creating images that sit there and demand the reader ask questions, images that look gorgeous yet also demand that the reader engage”
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
“Grey Area is a piece of beautifully understated storytelling from Tim Bird, and one that fully deserves your considered attention and support”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
Bristol Comic and Zine Fair
Saturday 4th October
12 – 6pm
FREE ENTRY
The Station, Silver Street, Broadmead, Bristol
We’re delighted to announce we’ll be at the Hackney Flea Market in Stoke Newington on Saturday 30th August for the inaugural D.I.Y. Art Market! There are plenty of great exhibitors there + food, drink and music so it’s going to be a fun day! It all kicks off at 11am and entry is free. You can get all of the details HERE.
A Quiet Disaster by Alex Potts
239x168mm, 32 colour matte pages, £5.00
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Philip was getting old. His face was getting wrinkled, his hairline was moving backwards and he was on the waiting list for a knee operation. It was his day off and he didn’t have any plans, so he ate his breakfast in front of the computer screen and asked himself “What do I want to do?”
A grand existential crisis, a surreal Bulgakovian satire, or simply A Quiet Disaster? We follow Philip on his day off work as he struggles to find meaning and happiness through the everyday decisions that make up a day. Why did he cross that street? Does he keep walking, or shelter from the rain? What will make him happy? And just why is that dog wearing glasses?
Alex has been working in the animation business in London since the year 2000. He does traditional 2D animation, Flash, storyboards and illustration. He has collected some of his comic strips in self-published titles ‘Hand’, ‘Me, Talking to Myself About Myself, As Usual’ and ‘Lost Shoe Comics 1-4’. He is also a frequent contributor to The Comix Reader, including being the artist of the cover to Issue #5.
‘A Quiet Disaster’ by Alex Potts is on sale now from the Avery Hill shop and all good comic shops.
REVIEWS
“It’s somewhat absurdist, existentialist even, Potts taking a step back from reality to dissect a day in the life and observe so well just how we can find the smallest, most insignificant things absolutely disastrous. The biggest thing Potts has done so far and by far the best.”
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
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 of her emails below. This is all genuinely exciting to us, but then we’re basically geeks.
Continue reading Owen Pomery Gets the Best Fan Mail
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