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I’m incredibly proud to announce that Seasons by Mike Medaglia and The Festival by Jazz Greenhill made it into the Broken Frontier top 10 small-press publications of 2013! Congratulations to everyone else on the list as well, particularly Owen Pomery (of our very own The Megatherium Club infamy) and Simon Moreton, both of whom you’ll be seeing a lot more of around this neck of the woods in 2014!
Read the article on the Broken Frontier site HERE.
2013 really was a big year for the UK indie publishing scene and lists like this are great for shining a light on some gems that you may have missed. With no real comics industry existing in this country, self/micro/indie publishing is a vital outlet for creators who might otherwise have been lost to the art form. In many ways it’s what the UK has always done best (you can see it in all aspects of our culture), talented creators finding a way through despite a lack of support and interest from the mainstream. This can only continue to happen with help from websites like Broken Frontier (champions of UK indie comics) and from the comic shops who help to promote independent British comics rather than ignoring or ghettoising them.
There is nothing difficult or scary about any of the publications on this list, they’re just great works, lovingly made by people whose need to create is greater than the obstacles involved in getting their work out there. Do yourself a favour and pick up any one of them today.
– Ricky
Here’s a little trailer for Mike Medaglia’s comic Seasons, filmed on location at the Winter Gardens at Avery Hill. You can get a copy of the wonderful comic HERE.
It’s time again for the now legendary Avery Hill Christmas Podcast! Truly we are all blessed. What’s more, we’ve got two special guests in the form of Tim “Grey Area” Bird and Owen “The Megatherium Club” Pomery!
Those fine gentlemen help us review what’s been a bumper year at Avery Hill Towers (not a real place), featuring ten publications, parties and more events than you can swing a cat with an unusually long tail at.
We then move on to each choose our picks of the year from “The Scene”, featuring work from Eleni Kalorkoti, Structo Magazine, Oliver East, Decadence Comics and Gareth Brookes.
Then, like three wise men, a donkey and the baby Jesus, we look to the stars and farrrrrrrrrrrr into the future at the magical land of 2014 and attempt to predict what we’ll be reading as we fly around in our hover cars.
All this plus What Owls Are Really Saying! 50% Sunburn! Secret Santa! The Best Editing Job Since 2001: A Space Odyssey, Especially That Bit At The End Where It Goes Into Christmas Wish By NRBQ (Seriously, I Should Get Some Kind of Award For It)!
Avery Merry Christmas from Dave, Michael, Owen, Ricky and Tim
https://averyhillpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AHPChristmasPodcast2013.mp3
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Music Purple Snowflakes by Marvin Gaye, Christmas Wish by NRBQ
Main Image by Rebecca Strickson
– Ricky
Issue 4 of Reads is here, bringing you 44 pages of comics excellentness, closing out the first volume of Avery Hill’s first ever comics title in the process!
As ever, Reads features all new strips from the finest British based comics talent around – Tim Bird, Michael Gosden, Ricky Miller, Carlos Pascoa, Owen D. Pomery, Rebecca Strickson and MJ Wallace and Cameron Wallace, and with a flabbergasting cover from that man Bird, channelling his finest Hitchcock!
All that talent and wonder for the frankly ludicrous sum of £3.00 – dear lord help us, we don’t know how we do it.
No, really – we’re trying to work it out as we speak.
READS 4!
You can get it HERE.
    
– Dave
Join us for a weekend of drinking, dancing and gambling; punctuated by brief moments of comics selling. Thought Bubble is one of the highlights of the comic convention season and this year boasts attendance from the likes of David Aja and Fiona Staples, possibly the two best artists in comics at the moment. I for one am going to be queueing up to get a sketch. If that isn’t enough to tempt you then we’re debuting Seasons by Mike Medaglia and the latest and, I think, greatest, issue of Reads. We’ll be in the Allied London Hall all weekend. Or in the casino.
– Ricky
Full colour, 28-page perfectly bound B5 book, with a fifth story printed on a special accompanying bookmark
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What marks the seasons of a life?
In his new comic Seasons, Mike Medaglia (Wu Wei, The Comix Reader) seeks to understand that question, through four short stories by turns touching, funny, but always insightful, tied together by the rhythm of the natural world and the time his characters find themselves placed in their lives.
Seasons is a beautifully printed 28-page full-colour perfectly bound B5 book, with a fifth story printed on a special accompanying bookmark that recounts a stolen season of love that was, but should never have been.
“Mike Medaglia has provided the quintessential union of theme, words and imagery on the comics page.“
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
“It’s touching and personal, without being overly earnest. It has style without shouting ‘DESIGN’ to the post Warhol crowd. The great use of colour cannot be stressed enough in a critique. It changes our conceptions throughout the pages. The eye adjusts to the changing emotions through the books seasonal palette. Superb stuff indeed.”
Antony Esmond, Beard Rock
“Seasons by Mike Medaglia tells a familiar theme, looking at the passing of seasons in the year and comparing them to the seasons of our lives. It does so with four short, poetic tales, just 4-pages long each, that speak a brief, but powerful truth about the moments of our lives. You’ll easily recognise and empathise with the characters here, they’re you, or they will be, these generic characters capture the essence of their particular moment, vague enough to feel universal, but still containing enough truth to seem right.”
Richard Bruton, FPI Blog
Here’s an excellent video of Roman Klonek of Fronts fame, showing his process for woodcut printing.
You can get a copy of Fronts issue one featuring his work and an exclusive interview right HERE.
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Fronts is a new series of profiles showcasing the talents of innovative, exciting artists from around the world. The series will aim to provide an introduction to the work of some of the best contemporary artists around, all in full colour and featuring exclusive interviews!
Issue One features the vibrant, colourful woodcuts of Roman Klonek, a Polish-born artist working out of Dusseldorf.
Mixing playful Eastern European cartoon stylings, German folklore and modern pop culture, Roman Klonek has produced a body of work that is instantly recognisable and truly unique. He has exhibited in the UK several times as well as in his adopted homeland of Germany and recently completed a one-man show at the Feinkunst Krueger in Hamburg.
Limited to 50 copies, Fronts Issue One features 10 full colour plates and an exclusive interview with the artist.
Here’s an excellent video of Roman Klonek of Fronts fame, showing his process for woodcut printing.
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