Monday, July 29, 2002

Posted by Pete

The new Comics Journal is out and while I haven't read it yet I received an email plugging their kinda relaunch supported by a rather long excerpt from the Dave Cooper interview on the site. And it's good.

4:07 PM |

Thursday, July 25, 2002

Posted by Pete

Bin surfing around the Top Shelf DotComics selection and remembered how much I liked Jean-Phillipe Peyraud's work. He had a book out a few years back in English called Pleasantly Disturbed which was top and this short online comic, Il Pleut (translated by Matt Madden) is equally good.

7:54 PM |

Monday, July 22, 2002

Posted by Pete

Go read Clamland by Mr Bob Byrne and enjoy it. His stuff's just been reviewed on trs2 and very good it is too.

4:13 PM |

Posted by Pete

Also, Alan Moore on mp3.com. Cool.

12:55 PM |

Posted by Pete

Coupla previews of Eddie Campbell's new book, After The Snooter. Nice.

12:53 PM |

Saturday, July 20, 2002

Posted by Pete

The USS Catastrophe Shop is back in action after a short break with some cool new stuff. So go buy. I know I will.

8:20 AM |

Friday, July 19, 2002

Posted by SiG

Recently returned from Iceland, where I visited the excellent comic shop, Nexus (Hverfisgata 103, 101 Reykjav?k). I bought an anthology called GISP containing mostly Icelandic strips, some of them very interesting and quite bonkers. I stuck the creators' names into Google but only came up with one decent link and, as this was for one of the weirder contributors, I thought I'd share it. Hallgr?mur Helgason makes slightly disturbing comic strips under the pen name 'Grim' but he is also a visual artist and author (he wrote 101 Reykjav?k which was made into a rather good film a couple of years ago).

2:19 AM |

Monday, July 15, 2002

Posted by Andrew Luke

A revamped website including a daily strip from the people who brought you "Toenail Clippings", Big If Publications.

8:04 PM |

Posted by Pete

I'm really behind on emails, both BugPowder ones and personal ones. My inbox just goes on for page after page. If you sent me one over the last couple of weeks and haven't had a reply, and more importantly actually want one, you'd better write again. Deepest apologies.

4:53 PM |

Sunday, July 14, 2002

Posted by Pete

Just spent some time on the Ivan Brunetti site and was about to recommend you go there for the extensive and enjoyable selection of his work on show, when I clicked on "Collections" and was astounded to see thousand of jpegs archived, some lovely, some interesting and some downright disturbing. All of which reflect his comics well.

5:15 PM |

Posted by Pete

Couple of other things from Phil Elliott's site y'all should know about: Tupelo is a work in progress written by one Matt DeGennaro about the "world's first junkie superhero" which looks intriguing and I'll be interested to see if they can pull it off and maintain the punk/urban set up. More immediately, Phil has published a collection of strips written by him and drawn by Paul Grist from the Escape / Taboo days. Absent Friends is only available by mail order from Phil himself, though I'm sure a few enlightened shops will get copies in. I read a few of these at the time and they're top smart. If any of you new kids are enjoying what Andi Watson's currently doing, you'll love this. Now, if only the Glenn Dakin scripted strips drawn by Phil were available everything would be wonderful.

4:50 PM |

Posted by Pete

After fluctuating around the 80s and 90s for a few weeks, the daily stats for BugPowder finally topped 100 for three sequential days last week. Thanks to all the contributors, everyone who links here and everyone who reads it again and again. Drinks at Caption methinks. Though that's not hard...

4:48 PM |

Posted by stupidmonster

God Hates Comics from Bright Red Rocket, is a DVD containing over an hour's worth of animations from some of America's sharpest independent comic creators. The line-up includes : Jim Woodring, Tony Millionaire, Kaz, Sam Henderson, Ivan Brunetti and others. Unfortunately, the catch is that it is only available on NTSC (all regions) format, and not PAL, which us poor Europeans are lumbered with. Shame.

2:16 PM |

Saturday, July 13, 2002

Posted by Pete

Do check out Patrick Brown's website. Currently he's serialising his experimental comic A Virtual Circle from 1994 which I really enjoyed at the time. It's very scratchy, but that's the point. Armed with a loose plot he draw each panel from scatch with no script, no pencils and no real idea where it was going. The result was a fresh, fluid comic which freed up his style no end. And I should also say it's a damn good, gripping story.

7:03 AM |

Friday, July 12, 2002

Posted by Andrew Luke


Did we really need the proof that this chap is going places?

The new comic, Issue 15 of the current definitive UK super soap opera, Martin Eden's The O Men has just been released. Martin's website has a rather smart re-design and also his own forum over at yawhoo!
Issues are £1.50 each, with specially priced back issue packs available (for details see the website). It's worth notemaking that Mart has moved house again, his new address: 19a Trevelyan Road, Tooting, London, SW17 9LS.

3:46 PM |

Posted by Andrew Luke

Margaret runs the Cerebus fangirl site which looks quite comprehensive. It includes many links, such as to some rather cool MPEGs. I found them rather fast and best viewed by guiding the play arrow by self.
The link to Margaret's site came off a rather neat Cerebus forum over at yawhoo, which leaves few pages unturned. Quite recommended.

3:37 PM |

Posted by Andrew Luke

Lying in the gutters: Rich Johnston's new column @ new home, comicbookresources.com.

2:54 PM |

Thursday, July 11, 2002

Posted by stupidmonster

Paul Grist's self-published Jack Staff, coloured in by Phil Elliott, to be published by Image early 2003. Definitely worth the wait.

12:55 PM |

Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Posted by kookymojo

Progressions is my newest favourite online comic. The writing is fun and the artwork is gorgeous ( it took me ages to decide which picture to use in this post!). Each issue comes with a pin-up and a back-up magazine feature. Although the stories are all self-contained, they all take place in the same city and are interconnected, making up a broader picture, which is intriguing, to say the least. Well worth your time. (And don't forget to check out the fab poster in issue # 5, which is available to download.)

6:40 AM |

Tuesday, July 09, 2002

Posted by Pete

Never Again Will He Mock My Power Vest! Being a blog generated by the members of the "Thimble Theatre" e-mail group, who are themselves members of the comics collective "Les Cartoonistes Dangereux"

A new community / collaborative weblog that's just started so there's bugger all on there right now, meaning you can get in on the ground floor, or something.

4:06 PM |

Sunday, July 07, 2002

Posted by Pete

For one week only, a R. Crumb strip from the Comics Journal Summer Special, which has an interview with Jim Woodring.

7:31 AM |

Saturday, July 06, 2002

Posted by Andrew Luke

Interesting interview with Eddie Campbell over at Slush Factory,

"Usually towards the end Alan's mind starts to go to other projects and you start to get the scripts one or two pages at a time. I was talking to Dave Gibbons [Moore's collaborator on Watchmen] about this last year. Dave was telling me that at the end of Watchmen he was getting the script in like two or three pages at a time being sent to him by taxi. The taxi would arrive and on the passenger seat would be an envelope with a few pages of script in it and it would cost Alan like 50 quid, to send it all the way from Northampton to St. Albans."

7:07 PM |

Thursday, July 04, 2002

Posted by Pete

Coupla new addition to the list of essays:

Toby Tripp's Rough Guide to Publishing on how to get an ISBN and what to do with it. This was originally posted to the mailing list and then reposted on this weblog.

My Why should you do this? piece written for the self publishing guide given away at Bristol this summer.

Any further pieces of a similar ilk are more than welcome. In fact I'm actively asking for them. Send them in.

2:33 PM |

Posted by Pete

New DaDa Dice comic strips on comixwerks. These are strips sent it by people based on four words. There's some good stuff in there.

11:50 AM |

Posted by Pete

Not been mentioned here before, I think, but it should be. The Comics Creators Guild.

9:52 AM |

Wednesday, July 03, 2002

Posted by Pete

Well, by golly. James Kochalka has a forum!

2:14 PM |

Posted by kookymojo

Woodrow Phoenix emailed me to suggest that I post a link to Jesse Reklaw's site. I thought that someone had already done so, but it doesn't hurt to link it again, so here it is.

Now, when are you going to sort a website out for yourself, Mr Phoenix? Y'got fans here a-waitin', y'know.

7:29 AM |

Monday, July 01, 2002

Posted by Pete

BugPowder Admin

Thinned down the side bar a bit and added all the new things on there so you can find them, plus some old things I'd forgotten to list previously.

Brand new on the site is an addition to Mark Stafford subsite: the Magnifying Glass Photos collection, being photographs of comics-types with a magnifying glass over their gobs. This one's of Steve Whittaker. And lovely he looks too.

1:53 PM |

Posted by Leonie

There goes Tokyo is trying to get in touch with any creators working in the Rep. of Ireland, we'd like to add some Irish titles to our ever expanding stock list. I'll be in Dublin between the 4th and 8th of July, so if anyone wants to meet up and discuss getting their work sold/promoted in the UK please e-mail : tgtokyo@animail.net or call Leonie (between the 4th and 8th)at (01) 2875367.

12:23 PM |

Posted by kookymojo

Blogging helps cartoonists to gain a wider audience. As if you didn't know. And speaking of cartoonists with blogs, Mike Norton, artist on The Waiting Place and Jason & The Argobots has a Livejournal. It's worth a read; he's a funny guy.

2:39 AM |

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