Purveyor of comics and other photocopied goods
Prices here all include P&P and are in GBP. If you're curious, you can also read some excerpts here. If you have any questions, queries or comments, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
Smoo comics / The Escapologist / The Sorry Entertainer & other publications / Real Shops!
Smoo Comics #5
Smoo #5. 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. B&W, white card cover, 40 A5 pages. Review here
Smoo Comics #4: Marlow
Smoo #4:Marlow. 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 map of the town and, while stocks last, a tourist postcard and excerpts from the local newspaper, "The Marlow Free Press". B&W, white card cover, 28 A5 pages. Review of a slightly shorter version here.
Smoo Comics #3
Smoo #3: one long story, broken up into little bits about dealing with anxiety, monsters, mobile telephones and the washing up. B&W, white card cover, 36 A5 pages. You can read the first 6 pages here. Reviews here, here and here.
Smoo Comics #2 1/2
Smoo #2 1/2: material new and old (but never before published) collected in one comic! Includes stories about visiting Sicily, a lonely night spent in a hotel room, as well as teenage thoughts on girls and a piece about feeling guilty. B&W, coloured card cover, 20 A5 pages. Review here.
OUT OF STOCK
Smoo Comics #2
Smoo #2: this issue contains more semi-autobiographical musings and in which I cut my long hair short and grew out my beard. Contains stories about: moving on from the past; walking, thinking, and coping; remembering childhood lessons. Also: the morning after the argument night before. B&W, 'Ivory' card cover, 28 A5 pages. Reviews here and here.
OUT OF PRINT
Smoo Comics #1
Smoo #1: my first ever minicomic and inaugural issue of Smoo. Contains semi-autobiographical musings on broken washing machines, being followed, nature, cities and the secret world that's going on, just below our feet... B&W, 'Ivory' card cover, 28 A5 pages. Review here.
OUT OF PRINT
The Escapologist #2
The Escapologist #2: The Texture of Things The slow race to find something pretty while you can continues. A5, white card cover, 12pp.
The Escapologist #1
The Escapologist #1: This Paper, This Ink A slow-paced, nearly silent, abstract comic, this is the first part of an ongoing comics series, dealing with the lightness and the weight of things. Pretty pictures, too. A5, white card cover, 12pp.Reviews here and here.
The Sorry Entertainer and other publications
The Sorry Entertainer
The Sorry Entertainer is a high-quality, black and white, tabloid sized newsprint comics anthology, featuring comic book artists from across the world. These contributions aren’t your usual superhero fare; they’re specially commissioned works of underground, alternative and small-press storytellers, spinning yarns of sad theatre performers, blackmailed entertainers, plane crashes, wrestling matches gone wrong, flatulent stand-ups, persecuted human statutes and of four eyed-wonders - plus a whole lot more besides. It is the first Things in Panels publication. More info here!
OUT OF PRINT
Days
Days: this mammoth comic collects my never-before-seen-in-public diary comics documenting, amongst other things, the tail end of a move, a week house- sitting in London, and not dressing up as Sarah Palin for Halloween. Also includes a review of the year in comics form. B&W, white card cover, 56 A5 pages. Review here and here.
OUT OF PRINT!
Lisbon
Lisbon: a mini-comic documenting a weekend in Lisbon back in 2008. Based on photographs mostly taken by my better half, Becky, this contains ruminations on travelling, buildings, trams and tiles. B&W, cover on coloured card, 16 A5 pages. Review here.
My comics are also available from the following Forbidden Planet International
shops:
Worlds Apart, 58-60 Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 1JN, UK Tel. 0151
707 0839
Forbidden Planet, Piccadilly, 65 Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1J, UK Tel. 0161
839 4777
Nostalgia Books and Comics, 14-16 Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham, West
Midlands B5 4EN, UK Tel. 01216 430143
They can also usually be found at the following stores elsewhere:
Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA.Travelling Man Newcastle, 43 Grainger St, NE1 5JE, UK Tel. 0191 2614993
Lambiek, Kerkstraat 132, Amsterdam 1017 GP, The Netherlands Tel. +31 20 626 7543
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave. Chicago, IL 60622, USA Tel. 773/342-0910
