July 31, 2001
10:57 AM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

Mighty Gosh! I got a letter this morning from Gary Parkin.

Gary who?


Gary Parkin: never the most elaborate small press comic creator in terms of story structure's density, Gary's work had/has a simplistic, too uncluttered level to it. Those with a tolerance for that sort of thing found it to be absolutely lovely, as Pete referred to it providing "a warming of the cockles". Hero, (Gary's superhero effort), On A Day Like Today (teenagers in a rock band) and the popular children's comic, Fuzzball didn't really require the complexity or greater experimentation. And if there were those who found Gary's stuff 'below them', they would buckle under at the encompassing energy Gary had to offer. Most of his work was done around aged fifteen, were Gary published at least one comic booklet per fortnight for about a year..


Gary writes about his new comic,


"XANDER AND FRIENDS #1, available from the 1st of July. It's got 24 wonderful pages, of which 4 are in full colour. And check out that low cover price! See the first appearance of Xander, Dolly, Marlo and the rest! On the following pages you'll see a sneak preview of the first story in Xander #1. If you like what you see and want to order the comic, just send 50p in cash, cheque or stamps to my snail mail address in the Contact section."


Gary's address is up on the 'contact' section of his website.


Gary, it's good to have you with us again! So you coming along to Caption, yeah?

July 22, 2001
5:23 PM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

New works by Trevor Smith, Leonie 'O' Moore and Malcy Duff make up a percentage of the updates at There Goes Tokyo.

July 18, 2001
4:22 AM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

More news from those pioneers of the Irish comics scene. Brendan Byrne, Des McElroy and the rest of the Toenail Clippings gang continue their media rampage with a two page feature in the culture section of Ireland's Sunday Times!

July 5, 2001
3:23 PM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

Another new address! This for Martin Eden, creator of Eagle-award nominated The O Men. Martin is now to be found at 35 Woodbury Street, Tooting, London SW17 9RP. Issue Eleven is now available and... it looks a fine piece of work.

July 1, 2001
6:15 AM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

The New Address for Material To Be Reviewed at TRS2 is:

5 Stanley Avenue, High Street, Bangor, County Down, BT20 5EN, Northern Ireland


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5:56 AM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

Okay folks, reading and viewing is goods. Good is Clive Nolan's Coda which has just gone into second printing. Structuralist experimentations, sequential abstraction, motion blurs, digital text-handling, photographic stylization. This fulfils many of the criteria for a very readable comic indeed, near the head of the procession of comicbooklet re-invention. And if you don't send off for this now (NOW), bookmark the page, save these details in a notepad, do something SOMETHING to leave a clear trail so you CAN find this comic.

I'm guessing it's somewhere in the region of ?3-?4, although you should probably email Clive or Coda Press for more details. Whatever. It is worth it. And I reckon change is available.

You can send for a copy. Here's his address:

Coda Press, 117 Shakespeare Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24 OPY
Make it so!

(Trust me number one, I think you'll like what Mr. Nolan has on show. Unless you've already seen it....)