Posts from the ‘Comics’ Category
The latest (and last in the current run) issue of Paper Science hit the online shop today.
For a paltry £3, 16 pages of colour comics can be yours, including the latest one-pager from Tom and I. Tom has a lovely sneak-peek of the comic over on his blog.
See more on the preview from publishers, WAW+P here.
– Photo by Matthew Sheret | Cover image by Adam Cadwell.
I’m collaborating on a new short comic with Tom to be published in the next Paper Science. It’s about birds.
Well, sort of.
While I was up in Leeds at Thought Bubble I spent a little time in the Central Library poking around their microfilm collection. I say poking around because really I just opened a drawer on a staircase because it had a sticker on it labelled secret. Turned out it held a collection of bird illustrations by a Reverend and a book on Norwegian natural history. Not exactly what you’d call confidential but two of my favourite ever subjects nonetheless.
Just look at the loon:
So, yes. Somewhere between an icy landscape on the Hurtigruten and the wilderness of the Hebrides comes ‘The Blushing Scot’, a tale about a man, a woman and an ornothological index.
More details to follow soon.
I’ve made a film documenting the 2011 Thought Bubble festival, Leeds.
It’s centered around an interview with the festival’s Development Manager Clark Burscough and aims to scratch a little below the surface of the team’s passion for comics and what makes the festival unique.
I’ll do a little writeup about lessons and process soon but in the meantime, enjoy!
So I’m making a little film about this year’s Thought Bubble Festival. Here’s the initial trailer.
Buy a copy of Paper Science from We Are Words + Pictures here.
Chuffed to bits with these words from Richard at Forbidden Planet on mine and Tom’s contribution to Paper Science 6.
But the best thing here, beautifully drawn by Tom Humberstone, written by Anne Holiday, is the gorgeously poetic In The Running.
An esoteric/sideways impression of what “work” can actually mean to some people…. to you it may be 9-5, the job. To others it can be a lifestyle, putting in a “shift” doing something interesting, something essential, something they feel driven to do. Such is the case here, with Rebecca taking a small obsession and turning it into a regular thing, not necessarily clocking on, but attending to watch the object of her affection / interest / obsession with a regularity of employment. And then we see the other side, the object of Rebecca’s observations, and she’s just as dedicated to her work, in her own special way.
Or maybe it’s something completely different, maybe I’m reading too much into it. Maybe not enough. Doesn’t matter a bit… lovely.
Read the full review here.
With a brief as focused as “jobs” I didn’t want to do something that felt too obviously task focused. We all, each of us, understand the nature of actions and doing stuff for money. That, to me, felt too rooted in the everyday to stand out amongst a collection of really talented contributors.
I’d been thinking a lot about the Olympics and how the discipline of athletes is pretty extraordinary. Imagine training for years, only to catch a cold the day before your first event. Or getting attached to a pair of trainers that went missing or the laces broke or your favourite t-shirt shrank in the wash. Maybe I’m too nostalgic or emotional in the way I look at things and become attached to objects and people. But when your job is to the same thing almost every day for almost four years, it seems like appreciating a t-shirt design or a pair of comfortable socks might just keep you sane.
I wondered what it would be like to flip that output of dedication and obsession on its head and see it from someone else’s perspective. Someone whose own experiences of “work” are very different.
