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Hot on the heels of the MKomix event a couple of weeks ago which you can read all about HERE we’re partaking in another! This time it’s the 2nd International Alternative Press Festival. We’re going to be at Conway Hall on Saturday 4th August from 11am – 5pm. Tickets are only £3 (+30p booking fee online) and this includes a programme and access to all rooms of the fair:
The Main Hall – 100′s or Exhibitors of comix, zines, radical literature, book arts, illustration and printmaking.
Brockway Room – Workshops
Bertrand Russell Room – Spoken Word, Poetry, Story Telling and Live drawing performances.
Tickets are available on the door, but if you are interested in taking part in the workshops then buying tickets in advance is recommended and you can do so from HERE .
Hopefully we’ll see you there!
– Ricky
It had been a fair old while since any Avery Hillers had pulled their (our) socks up and got themselves (ourselves) out of the house with a bag full of wares and a glint in their (our) eyes, and what a magnificent choice it was to do so for MKomix, the small press comics event organised by Paul Rainey in Milton Keynes. You’ll of course know Paul from his series There’s No Time Like The Present (a big AHP favourite), his current ongoing Thunder Brother: Soap Division, and his contribution to the latest Reads, and it was an absolute pleasure to be able to finally meet him in person. Continue reading MKomix Post-Mortem (although it was a lot more fun than that title suggests)
We’ve got a table at the Milton Keynes Comic Fair MKomix on Thursday 19th July. It’s run by the marvellous Paul Rainey (of Reads #2 fame) and features a host of talented comics people. We’ll be selling copies of Reads and Tiny Dancing (naturally) but also there’ll be freebies! Yes, we’ll be giving away posters of Becky Strickson’s wonderful cover to issue one of Reads. They’re A3 and all proper and everything! PLUS, and here’s the big news, The Tiny Mind of Michael Gosden has been working overtime and produced a special Milton Keynes edition of The Park which we’ll be giving away to those in attendance for hugs, promises and elaborate lies. WOW.
Details here: www.mkomix.blogspot.com/
It’s FREE. Come and see us!
– Ricky
The wait is finally over – Issue 2 of Reads is here! 42 pages of comics anthology goodness, worth the price of admission for the fantastic cover by Liz Jordan alone.
This time round we kick off with the next instalment of Metroland, Ricky Miller’s labyrinthine tale of multi-dimensional rock n roll. The legendary Tim Bird gives us another slice of London life in The Knowledge and the plot thickens in Dave and Goz’s Bad Times Ahead. Plus a trio of talent make their Reads debuts: Marjory Wallace with her charming childhood story The House, Claire Stewart’s beautiful and mysterious Cloudriders and Paul Rainey’s devastating Wednesdays.
Continue reading Reads Issue 2 Out Now!
If, like me, you are a connoisseur of the finer things in life, your switches will be flicked by the following itemised listing:
1 – cooking approaching a professional standard
2 – human drama at its most intense
3 – witty repartee that would make Noel Coward blush
If you remain unaroused by these things, then I pity you. But if your cultural antennae is now twitching like a rabbit’s nostril, may I introduce to you ‘Close Up Masterchef Volume One’ – a magnified, photographic documentary of the eighth series of Masterchef (not counting the Loyd Grossman years, of course).
Whilst I’ve been a fan of Masterchef for some years now, early on in this series I felt a provocation I’d never experienced before – although the dropping of the auditions round initially felt like a mistake, it quickly became apparent that the quality of what was on offer before me was at an all time high. Like a prima ballerina or virtuoso pianist, confidence seemed to flow from the very pores of all involved – I knew this was a different level of televised episodic competitive challenge based cooking. And so I felt compelled to document. To record. To celebrate.
After some searching for the most appropriate method of capturing the sights, the sounds, the smells of Gregg, John, Shelina, Aki et al in action (including but not limited to interpretive dance, slam poetry and animal puppetry), I settled on close up photography. It seems obvious now, but by my troth, many a pained evening was spent trying to express myself appropriately. Many a dark, lonely, pained evening…
And now I offer the fruits of my labour to you, my fellow connoisseur.
I would not be uttering a mistruth if I were to tell you that I captured literally hundreds of images across the fifteen episodes of series eight, but that kind of indulgence simply would not do. As anyone who knows anything about cooking will tell you, it does not do to gorge oneself. So I present a distillation of the very essence of the toughest cooking competition the known universe has ever seen. A photographic jus, if you will.
I present Close Up Masterchef Volume One. Bon appetit.
Get your copy of Close Up Masterchef Volume One from the Avery Hill Publishing Online Shop – it’s here!
– Dave
Cast your mind back, dear reader, to the days of the dim and distant past. To a time of civil unrest, political skulduggery, and international warmongering. To a time of uncertainty, despair, and anger. To a time when you couldn’t be sure that one day would follow another, and so lived every moment as if it were your last. Yes, dear reader. I speak of August 2011, when the last issue of Tiny Dancing made itself known unto this world of tumult. So much has happened since then. So much has come to pass…
But one thing happened of such import that the foundations of the very internet were ever so slightly wobbled. I shall remind you of this one thing – the comics left Tiny Dancing. You remember this, because I told you.
And now here we are. Older. Wiser. Bigger. And we are comic-less. What does this mean? What could this possibly mean?
It means that like Crazy Mel at the start of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, a familiar yet strange figure is emerging from the smokes of the apocalyptic wasteland (well, Dartford – it’s a long story) to set the story straight. It means that Tiny Dancing 7 is here.
And we have so much to tell you.
Continue reading Tiny Dancing Issue 7 Out Now!
Despite the best efforts of all involved, the return from Leeds was made with minds, bodies and souls mostly intact. Thought Bubble was excellent fun, and damned inspirational to boot. What more could we ask for? Erasure being played as requested on the Saturday night, that’s what, but then we are very difficult to please…
So we begrudgingly return to the real world. We playfully teased you last week with a mention of Reads Issue 1, the new home of all things comic-like in the world that was and will once more be Tiny Dancing. Now we are coy no more. It is time to let it all hang out.
We showed you the wraparound cover, dreamt up in a fever by Ricky Miller and realised in a storm by Rebecca Strickson, and we told you it was amazing. But we were wrong. It’s also great – and how do we know this? Because Jock told us, that’s how. A wise as well as very nice man – we suspected as much.
But what else is there? Continue reading Reads Issue One Out Now!
And lo, they did say that after the calm did come the storms and that. And they were very, very right indeed.
We’ve been a bit quiet lately. If you’ve seen me walking down the street, I may have nodded and serenely smiled, perhaps even proffered a cheeky wink, but deep inside I was a tumultuous whirlwind of new. ‘New what?’, you may well ask. ‘New this!’ is my response.
Continue reading NEWS FLASH! – 14/11/2011
Back in the dim and distant days of Tiny Dancing, when we didn’t really exist and were not people of art, we used to talk about stuff and then make that talking available for people to listen to, if they were that way inclined. You know the type.
Then we stopped doing that, didn’t do anything at all for a bit, then started doing Tiny Dancing as a venerable publication of the great and the good, which you know about because we tell you about it often enough.
But we’d stopped talking, and if there’s one thing we at Tiny Dancing like more than beautiful illustration, writing, comics and other stuff, it’s talking. So we’ve started again.
We’re calling this talking ‘Tiny Dancing Summer 2011’, because it seemed topical and because we read an article about selling stuff on the interweb, and it said it was a good idea. We talk about what we’ve got in Issue 6 of Tiny Dancing (topical), what other people have got in Issue 6 of Tiny Dancing (topical), and round things off with an interview with Steven Horry – the man, the life, the art. All in all, the two magic words. Added. Value. Right click.
http://www.averyhillpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/The-Tiny-Dancing-Podcast-Issue-6.mp3
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– Dave
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