March 22, 2002
6:53 PM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

I've just added a comment function to the blog with Yaccs. It'll be in a different file but I believe you folk can make it worth looking for. Reviews of sp comic booklets and zines are welcome. If you can put a new perspective on something I've already looked at thats welcome too,

March 4, 2002
12:03 PM posted by Andrew Luke | link to this post

As this didn't get enough coverage before here it is again. I haven't viewed a copy quite, but quite I recommend it anyway,
Gimp City by Tony McGee, £1 from 143 Meldon Drive, Bradley, Bilston, West Midlands, WV14 8BE

And some more new stuff that I've got in but is going to sit in my hallway until I come up with an innovative way of disposing of them,

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The Lupus #3 (£1) by Ben Oakes with a brand new 'Bruising Pit' strip by John Cake. If you missed once cult favourite, '15 Nuns' check this! Available from 65 South Grove, Sale, Manchester, M33 3AR. For more details email BixandFloodie@Yahoo.co.uk

Gary Northfield, producer of 'A Little box Of Comics', which were in fact a little box of comcs, has sent me a copy of 'Hillmonster and Dave the dinosaur', protagonist of said little box. The cover print is on a lovely woodpulp stock.
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Stupidmonster #2 is approx £1.50-£2 from Gary Northfiled, 6 Foxberry Court, Foxberry Road, Brockley, London, SE4 2SQ. For more details email Mr. Northfield at stupidmonsters@aol.com

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Malcy Duff has another new booklet, 'Hoofprints' available. 24 pages, A5 wrapped in baige. Costing approx. £1.50. Contact address: 24 Belmont Gardens, Edinburgh, EH12 6JH, or malcolmduff@hotmail.com

Top Notch Tosh #6 by Andrew Lewis is on the market. This is more experimental each time I see it, Andrew pushing his own boundaries. This issue contains a strip, art by Matt Brown, a text-tale by Andrew, and a drawn strip from him adapted by John Keats. I look forward very much to properly getting a go through this.

It's worth noting that in addition to the siz issues of this (all six for £4 folks), Andrew is also the writer on 'Caliburn', an ongoing series drawn by Justin Askham. That's A4 format w. 36 pages and costs £3. And Zarjaz, the new 2000 AD zine, 11 strips, a Frazer Irving interview, £2.50 for 64 pages.

All available, readers viewers from Andrew Lewis, 39 Priory Court, Brynoch Neath, SA10 7RZ. Busy man. You do admire that.

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Laura Watton, whose comics are available through Sweatdrop Studios, sent a review copy of Biomecha #4, 36 pages, A5. I seem to remember this costing somewhere in the region of £1-£2. What Lauras doing is just a small part of a much larger manga self-publishing market in the UK.

Windhead's Dogs#9 and Rod Hathway - Space Detective are both available from the publishin' like a Duracell bunny Trevor L. Hughes, Zephyr, PO Box 6, Liscard, Wallasey, Merseyside, CH45 4SJ. Send a couple of stamps for each A6 comic booklet.

Finally, is two new Leaflits from the John Robbins. 'A Memory of Heat' and 'Time of No Reply', I suspect, are the usual in your face from John Robbins, 11 Avonmore Avenue, Tallaght, Dublin 24, Eire. I suspect a SAE or reporting of interest be welcome. Email John at rhubarb108@hotmail.com

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Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention the homegrown Luke-Clan product, Just Suppose #3 costs £2 (p&p incl). 'Preacher Ted' should appeal to fans of the Vertigo series, the Channel 4 sitcom, Radio Times illustrator John Ireland and Stuart Luke and colour cover artwork by Paul J. Holden. Its available from 5 Stanley Avenue, Bangor, BT20 5EN, Northern Ireland.

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P.S 'Strip For Me #8" comes through from Douglas Noble, 42 Nightingale Walk, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 7QY. It is recommended, strongly. Honestly, no of course I haven't read it. The featured jpg is from the latest though, in an experimental piece Douglas did years ago, its agreat little strip all the same. Recommended and only 50p .