Get your Geek On (after you've taken your shoes off, please)

Many thanks go to Thom Burgess at Get Your Geek On - a website dedicated to cult tv, tech/gadgets, and, of course, comics - for he has just posted a comprehensive review of my three ghostly publications: The Grinning Man, Nature Red, and Proscenium! 

Check it out for a good word on what they're all about - and get yourself up to speed with all the latest news in games, tech, comics and tv, too!

Again Yet More Dirty Rotten Fun

"Remnant"; 420 x 594 mm ; oil on canvas

If your eyes appear to be watering and your nose is throbbing, it may be because Throwaway Press have just stepped out from behind a curtain and thrown yet another volume of excellent small press comics into your soft and delicate visage.

Just a thought.

Yes, it's true. Dirty Rotten Comics is back with its 12th volume. This time I have not provided a story within, but a story on the cover. Only I'll leave its interpretation up to you. Yup. Above is shown the image in its entirety; designed as a wraparound cover. Below you can see the image as printed on the back and front covers respectively, plus some concept sketches.

You can order the latest issue here. Fill yer boots.

Upwards and on, to Comic Con

Well, then. Here we are at last.

Hot - well, warmish, off the presses is my brand spanking new and spanking comic book Proscenium - best described as an anthology of Strange Stories. That and so much else besides will adorn my table at London Super Comic Con at the end of this very week.

As well as Proscenium, there will be copies of The Grinning Man and Nature Red; my two stand alone ghost story comic books, available too.

What else? Well, my second fan book - The Vault of Such; containing the collected art from the Vampire Variations series a while back plus various other illustrations from video games to classic horror movies, will be available alongside my remaining pair of custom painted shoes - Dragon Ball Z pair A. This pair is UK size 8. Prints, and Mike Read has Beautiful Breath; my strangely titled first fan book containing illustrations from video games, cartoons, and such, shall be available also.

So - if any of the above tickles your proverbial pickle; then my table, and indeed the rest of Artist's Alley, may be for you.

Yet More Dirty Rotten Fun

It's that time again.

Crack out the paper plates and Postman Pat tablecloths - UK Comics Anthology Dirty Rotten Comics have reached their tenth issue. In celebration, DRC #10 will feature and chin-bashing 92 pages of indie comics talent - and in full colour. MmmmMMMmmmm, I know!

I am very happy to be included in the line-up for this landmark small press title; having produced a brand new story - The Mulberry Tree especially for it.

You can now order this and previous issues of DRC in physical or digital copies on Amazon! Issue 10 may be ordered here.

My two other entries in the series: The Laundry Goblin and Insert 20 Pence are available in issues 7 and 8 respectively. But obviously there are multitudes of other reasons to buy them. Natch!

So yeah. Go nuts.

Hallowe'en at the Podbean. Unseen.

Big thanks to Vince, Tony and Dan and all at the Awesome Comics Podcast for their generous hat-tipping to The Grinning Man and myself in their recent Hallowe'en Special.

The ACP is indeed an awesome comics podcast and I recommend it to anyone and everyone even remotely interested in what's going on within the world of comics; small press or mainstream. My required reading list has now grown larger still because of it. If you haven't listened to their latest shenanigans, do so now. If you have - listen to it again.

On the subject of The Grinning Man, very few copies of the physical edition remain on my Etsy store, and sadly it is unlikely to be reprinted within the foreseeable future. You can still however obtain a digital version here.

For those who prefer the papery goodness of a physical copy, don't forget you can claim a 20% discount when you type in HALLOWSINTHEDARK2015 as a coupon code at checkout until the end of 2nd November.

In Tooth and Claw

 

Remember that new comic that I said was almost-sort-of-nearly here? Well, now it is. Really.

 

Nature, Red; the second of my stand-alone ghost stories is now available online and in select comic book retailers across the UK, including:

 

Orbital Comics

Gosh! Comics

Foyles (Charing Cross Road, London and Cabot Circus, Bristol)

Excelsior! Comics Bristol

 

Online it is available direct from myself through my shiny new Down In The Dark store. Also available there are limited quantities of The Grinning Man, Illustration and Such from Popular Culture Vol. 1, and a special 'double pack' allowing you to get both ghost story comics at a reduced cost. You're welcome.

 

Nature, Red is limited to 75 signed and numbered copies.

 

 

 

Nature, Red



 

The Grinning Man

 

 

Mike Read Has Beautiful Breath: Illustration and Such from Popular Culture Vol. 1