Hollow Earth at the Make and Mend

I'll be selling prints and comics at Make and Mend on Saturday 1st September in the Grainger Market in Newcastle. I might also want to talk about the card game i'm making called 'Kick Punch Stomp'.

The first three issues of Tales of the Hollow Earth are £3 each, but you can get all three for £7.50.

“...like Edgar Allan Poe and Kafka discussing Doctor Who in a teak lift” Ian Mayor

The prints are from my Cosmology series - they are signed limited edition giclee prints, 16 inch square in a 20 inch black square mount and i'll be selling these for £42 each.

More information on the Make and Mend market can be found at the website http://www.makeandmendmarket.co.uk/ and on twitter: @makemend

This is Where it's Art

I'm very pleased to be taking part in the This is Where it's Art festival in Spennymoor this weekend, where i'll be sharing a stall with Brittany Coxon, who designed their website and whose new website design has just been launched.

Issue 1 - Boltzmann's Eye

I'll be there selling comics and art on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and this festival should (printers willing) be the first outing of the fourth printing of Issue 1 : Boltzmann's Eye - which is the first to be printed in full colour and feature a backup story and artwork to bring it up to the same page count as issues 2 and 3.

Sunday!

Sunday is going to be a very comics themed day: Daniel Clifford and Lee Robinson will be running a programme of comic themed events all day as Art Heroes - details of their workshop can be found on the Art Heroes Blog.

12 - 1pm - "Comics: words + pictures where time = space"

From 12 - 1pm the same day, I'll be doing a talk on the topic of comics and sequential art storytelling.

Aimed at artists and writers looking to make comics, or jest folk who want to spend an hour thinking more about their comics, I'll be talking about some of the comics storytelling techniques i've learned as I've been making comics.

Note that this is aimed at an audience from teenagers upwards.

Boltzmann's Eye - Fourth Printing!

I'm pleased to announce the fourth printing of Tales of the Hollow Earth Issue 1 with a brand new colour cover.

This new printing, to the infuriation of everyone who has purchased previous editions and for whome a deal can be made, features re-toned interiors to match issues 2 and 3, a colour cover and five extra interior pages.

The new colour pages include Lure - a Gudrun Black tale which first appeared in A4 Comics Presents, edited by Daniel Clifford, and a new single pager.

Here's the cover:

This new edition will be launched at the This is Where it's Art festival in Spennymoor, which really is the place to be in the North East of England on the weekend 8th-10th of June.

Merry Christmas!

Tales of the Hollow Earth Issue 2: Entomology - 2nd Printing, New Cover

Coming soon to a Canny Comic Con near you.

Also, if you're a google+ kind of person, Tales of the Hollow Earth now has a page on that system.

Entomology Redux : Digitally Remastered.

With the move of Tales of the Hollow Earth 3 to colour, and what with issue 2 (Entomology) having had a pretty rushed final few pages and a terrible, terrible print job, i'm digitally remastering it.

Never go back, I know... but... damnit, i'm redrawing all the balloons, colouring all the pages and fixing some of the panels. Some quite radically.

The new colour version of issue 2 will be available at The Canny Comics Con on December the 10th. The new version will cost £3 unless you had a copy of the previous print in which case it'll cost you £2. There weren't many of you and I know who you are :-)

Scanning and Pollen: Prints available on Etsy and from Bondgate Gallery

I now have two of my prints from the Cosmology series available to buy on Etsy. Cosmology is an exploration of the symbol system within my comic 'Tales of the Hollow Earth', which will be reprinted and available soon.

LuxPollen is highly dangerous: accidentally created, it proliferates the architecture and design of Novalucia to any receptive environment.

Printed by Bondgate Gallery, they're both 16 inch giclee print onto 240gsm ultra matt paper, with a two inch black mount (so the finished product is 20 inches square), in a limited edition of 24.

SCANNING

 

POLLEN

They're £42 each, mounted but not framed. You can get them framed with non reflective glass from Lynn at Bondgate Gallery for £79 each. Plus postage costs.