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Printed in full colour, across 40 B5 pages.
Limited to 100 signed and numbered copies
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“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
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 rival scientist who looks like he might just beat our “heroes” at their own game.
Our third strip, ‘Hitchcock & Film’, is brought to you by Ricky Miller and (that man again) Tim Bird. They begin 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!
EdieOP rounds things off with a full-colour strip featuring ‘The Story of Lucius Jellybean’, an orphan germ, born from the union of a slug and a virus. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll probably want to leave off eating until afterwards.
REVIEWS
“An essential platform for a healthy representation of the creative voices that make up the AHP stable, and a true testament to the continuing evolution of this important micropublishing presence on the UK scene.”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
“Great anthology, variety and quality throughout.”
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
“This is EdieOP’s first contribution to Reads, and the story shows her sense of humour and a clever mixture of innocence but blatant danger as well. Very entertaining.”
Mark Russell, A Place to Hang Your Cape
“This collection is a primer / advert for the fledgling (set up in 2012) Avery Hill Publishing, whose publications so far, I have found to be of impeccable merit! Keep up the good work!”
Jonathan, Page 45
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 induced lost weekends? Or is there a clue to their disappearances in Stardust’s recurring dream of a magical place outside of time and space called Metroland?
 Miller & Scheele’s soap opera of music and time-travel launches with ‘Electric Dreams – Part One’, the 20 page lead strip in which we’re introduced to Ricky Stardust as he recovers from what appears to be another epic drunken incident and has to deal with inter-band rivalry, a gig, another night out and a reunion with Jessica.
In ‘Sunday’ we travel back in time to the very first meeting between Ricky Stardust and Jessica Hill on a beach in Worthing, beautifully drawn by renowned illustrator, Rebecca Strickson, in her first ever comic strip.
Finally we travel far into the future to listen in on an old man in a nursing home telling stories about music in the old days to a young girl. ‘Memories’ is drawn by Jazz Greenhill, writer/artist of the acclaimed ‘The Festival’, also available from Avery Hill Publishing.
REVIEWS
“It’s a brilliant, brilliant comic”
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
“And characterisation is where Miller and Scheele’s creative connection is most obviously emphasised. While Miller’s dialogue is often snappy and playfully witty – underlining the casual confidence of Jessica or the roguish indifference of Ricky – it’s the subtler, visually-led moments of character definition where Scheele shows us the people behind the facades they project: a haunting dream sequence, or a quiet moment of poignant contemplation, employing a deceptive air of understatement to speak volumes about the book’s protagonists.”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
“Lovely example of how you can do something bubble-gum fun yet also thought provoking, and indeed stylish if you put your mind to it.”
Jonathan, Forbidden Planet International
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: Book One (published by Dogooder Comics)
The Standard #5 (published by ComixTribe)
Best Artist (supported by Homecoming Scotland)
Iain Laurie – And Then Emily Was Gone #3
Morag Kewell – Crossing Borders
Neil Slorance – Dungeon Fun: Book One
Best Writer (supported by Black Hearted Press)
Gill Hatcher – Beginners Guide to Being Outside
Colin Bell – Dungeon Fun: Book One
John Lees – The Standard #5
Best Cover (supported by Williams Bros. Brewing Co.)
Craig Collins, Iain Laurie and Derek Dow – Crawl Hole
Neil Slorance – Dungeon Fun: Book One
Jimmy Devlin – Saltire: Invasion
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