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The Megatherium Club – Vol.1: The Great Ape
By Owen D. Pomery
28 black and white B5 pages, perfect bound and with a colour cover
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“What more noble pursuit for immortal souls? Riches? War and Butchery? Political Chicanery? Superstition? Pleasure? What we seek is the TRUTH!” – William Stimpson, Founder of the Megatherium Club
The Megatherium Club was a group of scientists who operated out of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington between 1857 and 1866. They were that peculiar brand of gentleman scientist that can no longer exist due to the emphasis in our time on such boring trivialities as academic qualifications, sobriety and safety. Essentially it was like the Royal Society if its president had been Dave Bassett instead of Sir Isaac Newton. In this volume we join our intrepid heroes during one of the darkest periods of their existence, as they set out on a quest to find evidence of the Yeti. A quest, which if unsuccessful, may mean the end of The Megatherium Club!
Here as a special treat is the first Megatherium strip from Reads #3 in its entirety.
Owen D. Pomery is an Architectural Illustrator and producer of many well-received comics such as Benson and his magnum opus, Between the Billboards. He currently resides in South London with his girlfriend Kate and an unopened carton of Eggnog.
REVIEWS
“Another great comic from Pomery, delivering something by turns ridiculous, quaint, and very funny“
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International Blog
“With a level of absurdity that is almost painstaking in its presentation The Megatherium Clubis a comic that combines rapidly paced set pieces, wily wordplay and some wonderfully gratuitous gags. It represents not just a coup for Pomery as a creator but also a further reminder of the growing stature of Avery Hill as publishers of some of the brightest new talents on the British small press scene.”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
“The dialogue is laugh-out-loud funny in the best kind of way, and every page will make you laugh. “
Ari Carr, Comics and Cookies
Invincible
By Rebecca Strickson and David White
20 full colour A5 pages in a limited edition of 25
Invincible is a collection of ten unique captured images from a corrupted digital recording of the opening sequence of Werner Herzog’s 2001 film ‘Invincible’.
The corruption occurred quite by accident, and was only discovered on viewing some time after the recording took place. After the first fifteen minutes or so of the film, the corruption stopped, and returned to normal.
The result of the corruption was a kaleidoscopic glitch effect, where image bled into image, leaving ghosts from previous scenes haunting the next, and where colour bled into colour, often enhancing, sometimes diminishing.
The beauty of these corrupted images, and the fact that they never appeared in the same way on repeated viewings, established the creation of something unique and localised that we wanted to share.
Invincible collects our favourite captured images from various viewings of the corrupted opening sequence, and we present them HERE in a strictly limited edition of 25.
– Dave
Event: The Megatherium Club Launch Party
Date and time: Friday 26th July 2013 from 6pm to whenever
Location: Natural History Museum, London
FREE ENTRY
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/after-hours/lates-master-card/index.html
Yes that’s right, your favourite indie punk rebel publishing company has sold out to The Man and gone all corporate on your ass. To celebrate the birth of Owen Pomery’s new comic, The Megatherium Club, we’ll be swilling champagne with all the other yuppy pigs at the Natural History Museum (the London one in case there’s one in Stoke or something) and we’d be delighted if you’d care to join us for a drink. All very casual so turn up when you want/ for as long as you want. Be sure to take the time to check out the museum as well. If you don’t know what any of us look like then we’ll have some kind of sign there so you can find us. We’re not certain what form this sign will take as yet, but it will probably be a particularly bright star in the sky pointing the way. Or it might be a sheet of A4 paper with “AHParty” written on it.
Early birds get a party bag!
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
– Ricky
Mitchell Collection
Edited by David White
24 black and white pages in an edition of 25
I purchased Photographic Album Letter N of the Mitchell Collection from a stall in Deptford Market in 2012.
The personal photographs within Album Letter N mainly cover what appears to be a short period of time in the summer of 1984, taken in various European countries by and of someone who I assume to be T.P. Mitchell.
The photographs are split between portraits of Mitchell and his travelling party, panoramas, and candid snaps of police and military figures, and it was this last category that intrigued me most.
It seems clear that as well as having a very nice holiday, which Mitchell was keen to document, he was also using the opportunity of touring Europe to somewhat covertly build or supplement an archive of photographs of state empowered officials.
After studying the photographs at some length, I have been unable to establish a firm theory as to why men and women in uniform played such an important role in Mitchell’s holiday, and perhaps his life.
Was he an ex-police or military man himself? Was this the latest instalment of a bid to document subtle differences in uniform and practice across the globe? Was this the moment an obsession was born? Or something more sinister?
Draw your own conclusions by purchasing the Mitchell Collection HERE .
– Dave
Lunch Music is a series of free gigs at 1:30 as often as possible.
Curated by Extra Bones
Date and time: Saturday 22nd June 2013 from 1-5pm
Location: Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Hackney, E8 4AE
www.powerlunchesltd.co.uk
Music, food and Avery Hill Publishing! And it’s free entry!!! What more could you want on a Saturday? Well whatever it is, you’re just getting this and you’ll like it.
– Ricky
44 pages in glorious black and white A5 landscape, perfect bound in a stunning wraparound colour cover
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As summer begins, Ari, Lynda and Rob experience the overwhelming wonder and excitement of their first music festival…
 In her first full-length comic, Jazz Greenhill brings you this lovely and touching tale of kids venturing out into the unreal madness of a large music festival at night and discovering an adult world that excites, scares and bemuses in equal measure.
We met Jazz at a comics fair last year and were smitten with some of her truly unique comic zines, so when she came to us with this project we leapt at the chance to work with her. The Festival exceeded even our expectations and we think you’ll agree that she’s a talent that everyone will want to keep an eye on.
Unlike other festivals this summer, Avery Hill can guarantee you won’t need wellies or soft drugs to enjoy it!
“The Festival is a truly impressive comics debut.”
Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International Blog
“I would suggest bookmarking her site and keeping an eye on this new creative voice because I suspect we have a very special talent-in-the-making here…”
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
Date and time: Saturday June 1st 2013 from 11am-5pm
Location: The Albert, 1 Albert Road, London, NW6 5DT. The Fair will be in Function room 1
The lively small press fair will take place between 11am-5pm with a line up of over 40 artists, illustrators and designers selling zines, prints and hand made goods. Workshops will take place throughout the day including a free stop motion animation session. Details of the full workshop programme and artists in attendance will be announced on the Alternative Press website HERE.
Alternative Press is a collective of London based artists dedicated to supporting and encouraging creativity with a focus on small press, comix, self-publishing and zine making. Since forming in 2008 Alternative Press have been instrumental in the London small press scene and have hosted international festivals dedicated to DIY creative culture.
See you there!
– Ricky
Come join us for another chat around the proverbial campfire. In this episode we bring you the cutting edge of hot, cool and sexy small-press news, views and hastily edited out libel. We PLUG Close-up Masterchef 2, Reads 3 and Grey Area 2! We SPILL THE BEANS on what really goes on at the Sheffield Zine Fest, DIY Cultures and Comica Comiket, including the tale of “Table 8” (and believe me, it’s not for the faint-hearted)! We REVEAL the winner of the competition to be “Sexiest Man in Sidcup”! There’s also a lot of stuff about Iggy Pop for some reason.
Dive in now and then fuel your new obsession by subscribing to us for free on iTunes!
http://www.averyhillpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/AHP-Podcast-05.05.13.mp3
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– Ricky
Avery Hill Publishing are delighted to present Grey Area Issue 2, by artist and writer Tim Bird.
“Much has been written of travel, far less of the road.” – Edward Thomas, The Icknield Way
Titled ‘The Old Straight Track’, Grey Area Issue 2 is a tribute to the Great British Motorway System. A narrative created by constantly moving across tarmac. A biography on roads. A spiritual journey through the sacred service stations of the country. A meditation of traffic jams.
Following on from the best-selling Grey Area Issue 1 (although unrelated narratively), Tim’s second issue further establishes a unique voice and vision in British comics, as he explores the mysterious connection between electricity pylons and standing stones. Lines painted on roads. Roads drawn on maps.
Grey Area Issue 2 is printed in A4 size, and consists of 28 black and white pages, with a silver Cairn Board cover. You can get it HERE.
 
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