Longtime appallingnonsense and ahhh distro co-conspirator J Homersham has a website! See her pun – believable art work from the comfort of your office chair, or if you have wi fi, from a different sort of chair.
The image below is a self portrait from the recent portraiture exhibition at Orbital Comics. You can also see her cake making comic in the brand new ink + paper anthology!
Doing stuff is certainly in order this month, with events springing up all over the place like so many commonly occurring vegetables.
First up;
The fantastic Orbital Portrait Exhibition, there was a private view the other day in which some of the choicest small press talent congregated in a clammy, mildly inebriated bunch.
Photo’s here
Then if that wasn’t already more than enough, next weekend its;
In about 25 minutes I’m getting on the bus to catch my train to the Bristol Comics and Zines Fair!
It’s tommorow!! more info here
Finally but by no means last it’s the Camden Zine Festival, a small but perfectly formed event that should be writ large on the calender of all right thinking human beings, more here
There are many reasons to start a distro, in my case it was because I’d thought of a really good pun. And so Julia and I took Ahhh Distro (get it?) on the road, first to the Port Elliot Festival and a few weeks later to the West Dean Festival . Our plan was to make a bit of cash for some of our favourite artists, plus get rid of some of our still rather massive pile of Comix Readers
Painting the sign
The stall
The stock; Tobias Tak Karoline Rerrie Sofia N
Steve Tillotson Static Revolver
Phillipa Rice David O’Connell Browner Knowle Saban Kazim Maartje Schalkx Decadence The Bedsit Journal
Ellen Lindner Barnaby Richards and Tanya Meditzky
Gareth Brookes J Homersham and finally The Comix Reader
Julia selling Comix Reader at Port Elliot
My Turn at the West Dean Festival, notice improved board
At West Dean we were joined by the lovely Ellen Lindner and Steven Betts
It was hard work.
We had a lovely time, and I’m glad to report that our stack of Comix Readers is greatly reduced. Most importantly we learned a lot about selling stuff at festivals and next year I reckon we’re ready to tackle some big ones!
It’s all going on next Wednesday the 22nd June at the Miller in London Bridge from 6.30! Not only the spleen rupturing excitement of another epoch defining issue of the Comix Reader, nor the bum moistening anticipation of another issue of the Static Revolver, but also the sublime reverie of the launch of my own new comic, the Black Project!!
Surely the most anticipated second coming in history, the Comix Reader 2 has arrived!! This second manifestation of the essential underground Comix newspaper features 24 pages of Full Colour A3tastic Action! Edited by Richard Cowdrey and including; Gareth Brookes, Julia Homersham, Steve Tillotson, Barnaby Richards, Gareth Brookes, Jimi Gherkin, Kat Kon, Lord Hurk, Richard Cowdrey, Gareth Brookes,Daniel Locke, Peter Lally, Tobias Tak, Gareth Brookes, Ellen Lindner, Saban Kazim and Gareth Brookes and many many more!!
and all for the laughably ridiculous pre war price of ten shillings!
After a long and painful wait, during which time fate threw many strange and uncanny obstacles in my path (so much so in fact that many people close to me came to believe in ‘the curse of the black project), my new comic ‘The Black Project’ has finally come into being!
Its a weird little tale about a somewhat obsessive young man with a secret hobby, and indeed, the making of it became a rather weird little hobby for me too. The first comic (to my knowledge) to bring together the mediums of lino-cut and embroidery, it was a labour of love to say the least, and taught me an important lesson, namely if you bring your embroidery to the pub with you, your mates are likely to frown on it.
A big thank you has to go to the fabulous Ditto Press who risographed it for me and made it look beautiful despite being heavily encumbered by my appalling photoshop/indesign buffoonery and my inability even to get pages in the right order. All hail Ditto Press!!!
(sorry about the quality of this image ditto, I spilt orange juice on the flier)
The Black Project 1 will be the first of 3 comics which I’ll probably put together into one volume in the very distant future, in the meantime you can buy issue 1 at appallingnonsense.co.uk for the very cheap price of £4 (+£1p&p)
