June 2012
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THIS IS THE NEWS: Anthologies
Since finishing Smoo #5, I’ve been doing some anthology pieces. Here are some pictures of some pages from them.
Untitled
Untitled appearing in Moonshot Magazine #4. Two pages about spring-time walking.
Evacuee
Evacuee from Decadence #9. I try and use anthologies as an excuse to experiment a little bit with my comics. This one is 5 pages long and is science fiction, which is a...
May 2012
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TCAF report (part 3 of 3)
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In May this year, I headed to Canada for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival with my friend and fellow comics maker, Ian Williams (AKA Thom Ferrier). We did some teaching and exhibited and sold our comics. Here is my third and final report from the weekend.
[Edit: in this post, I am speaking mostly about large, UK comic events which claim to represent both mainstream comics and the small-press...
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TCAF report (part 2 of 3)
TCAF
In May this year, I headed to Canada for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival with my friend and fellow comics maker, Ian Williams (AKA Thom Ferrier). We did some teaching and exhibited and sold our comics. Here is part 2 (of 3) of my report on the trip.
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Saturday morning I awoke, enthused and not besieged by my usual comic convention curse that is the hangover. This was...
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TCAF report (part 1 of 3)
Pre-CAF
In May this year, I headed to Canada for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival with my friend and fellow comics maker, Ian Williams (AKA Thom Ferrier). We did some teaching and exhibited and sold our comics. This is the first of three posts about my trip.
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
After an extremely difficult 4am start, and a wholly insufficient four hours of sleep, I managed to marshal my...
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Review of Smoo #4 from Optical Sloth
It must be review season, because the ever-hard-workin’, ever-generous Kevin at Optical Sloth has reviewed Smoo #4. He says:
“Hot damn, I think he’s done it. I think Simon has created the perfect comic about growing up in the suburbs, the little rebellions that you take along the way to try and keep things slightly interesting, and the shock of feeling exactly the same but finding...
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New review for Smoo #5
The ever so kind Richard Bruton of the Forbidden Planet blog has written an ever so kind review of Smoo #5. This is made all the more curious because the comic is about Falmouth and the people sitting behind me at the airport as I type this are from Falmouth. The small South West. He writes
“Frankly, I’m running out of ways to praise Moreton for what he’s doing. His development in the last...
April 2012
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I'm off to Toronto and I haven't got a stitch to...
Massively under-prepared, in the midst of moving house, and two weeks and one day into a new job, I’m packing for TCAF. It’s very exciting, if frantic. Here’s what’s happening:
On Thursday 3rd May I’ll be giving a talk at the Department of Geography, University of Toronto, entitled “The promise of the affordable artist’s studio: governing creative spaces in London”. Drawn...
Bear Pit: Bristol-based writer looking for comic... →
bearpitzines:
Bristol-based writer Daniel Humphry has been in touch and is looking for comics artists to illustrate some of his scripts. Here’s what Dan is after:
“I’ve a series of about 6-10 scripts for one page comic stories, to be submitted to major publishers for consideration in both anthologies and…
Order Smoo #5 now!
Left: Praise from Sam Spina and Jordan Shiveley for the new Smoo Comics. Advance copies of Smoo #5 are gone but you can pre-order for delivery in mid- May, or to pick up from me in person at TCAF. Click here to place your order. Also, check out Sam and Jordan’s work. They’re ace.
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Smoo #4 and The Escapologist #2 Reviewed by Rob...
Two of my comics have been reviewed by Rob Clough at High/Low. Of Smoo #4 he says, “Moreton takes the reader on a recapitulation of his perceptual journey of Marlow, going from the awe of childhood to the contempt of his teenage years to the ways in which he and his friends tried to create meaning. The revelations Moreton provides about his sense of growing old externally but not feeling it...
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Muster-List →
Great idea from Charles Forsman. Please do consider looking through the great (and growing) list of artists, checking out their work, reblogging this post, and spreading the word. For mini-comics and zine makers like me a resource like this is invaluable! Thanks Chuck!
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I woke up this morning and thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a site that linked to all the places that...
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THIS IS THE NEWS: March/April
Oh how the month of March has rattled its way away from me over here; unseasonably sunny, and startlingly productive (well, it startled me). Here are some highlights:
Smoo #5: new issue available for pre-order now.
Hot on the heels of January’s release of Smoo #4, the next issue of my autobiographical zine is done and dusted. Smoo #5 was completed in record time - 40 pages in three months - in...
March 2012
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Bear Pit: Call for submissions: Bear Pit 4 →
It’s that time of year again, folks…
bearpitzines:
We’re looking for comics, illustration and other forms of sequential art for the third issue of our anthology zine, BEARPIT. Details as follows:
Theme: “Other”
Deadline: Monday 7th May
Format: The zine is in black and white. It will be reproduced on a laser (or risograph) printer, so…
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Smoo #5: pre-order now!
EDIT: the deadline for pre-orders is bed-time on Sunday 15th April 2012!
Smoo #5 is available now for pre-order. This comic is about the year I spent living in Falmouth. I’ve been trying to write these stories for a long time now, and this is what finally came out. I’m very proud of it. I hope you like it too. Previews below.
Benefits of pre-ordering: As well as getting a...
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February 2012
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January 2012
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Smoo #4: AVAILABLE NOW!
Smoo#4 is now available to buy from my shop. This issue deals, in an abstract sort of way, with being a teenager, and then, years later, realising that for all you don’t feel like one, you find yourself being a grown up. It was written in response to my parents moving away from Marlow, the small town in SE England where I spent my teenage years. Each copy comes with a print of a hand-drawn...
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Toronto or bust!
That’s right folks! I’ve recently found out that I’ve been offered a chance to exhibit my comics at the awesome and prestigious Toronto Comics and Arts Festival 2012. This is fantastic news, not least because of its reputation as one of the best comics shows happening at the moment. Unfortunately, I’ve been in and out of work for a while and have not got the resources to...
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