Excessive Force

Here it is! The awesome comic anthology to kick off the birth of the Last Hours publishing wing. Excessive Force brings together a collection of international comics artists united under one theme 'police everywhere, justice nowhere'. And alongside Stephanie McMillan, Ken Dahl, Scott Smith, Edd Baldry and Jimi Gherkin, is yours truly, with a short 2-page comic about the Sack Parliament protest in 2006.so there you go, copies are available for £7 through me (deadtreesanddye@hotmail.com) or from Last Hours

Great Anarchists

I finished this zine over the summer but have had trouble getting it printed, etc and now have my head in a bunch of other projects but it is out there in the real world I promise. There are about 70 or so floating about, you can get one from me (deadtreesanddye@hotmail.com) or from Hausmans in kings cross, or from Last Hours. Also to save me putting up all the pages here you can have a look at the full thing on my website; deadtreesanddye.com just follow through to illustration then its the top link, great anarchists. also featured in Ponytail this month but I will get to that shortly!

MEDINA

makhno mark 2

i haven't already posted this have i?

what can i say, never get bored of drawing makhno. this was for a bit of research for a project i'm doing next year about the ukraine revolution and bolshevik backlash.

expect updates soon about;
excessive force and how awesome it is (my first published comic)
this football zine and what a pain it is (someone please give me money)
zine fairs and how rad they are (4 in 2 weeks? okay)
immigration comics and how confusing they are (i.e-i'm not very good at comics)
black sabbath covers and how nonexistant they are (i.e-i havent started yet)
until then......

Lord Kitchener

a face

if you know her don't tell her, bit weird.

comics comics comics

After sending off my submission to Excessive Force, a Last Hours produced comics anthology (that looks great, will post info soon), and fresh from a talk at the ICA by Joe Sacco (I literally started that night!) I have been really interested in making actual proper comics. My comic in Excessive Force isn't really a comic as such, mostly vaguely representational drawings surrounded by explanatory text, with no panels. I really haven't done a comic comic in forever, and the feedback I've had for the panel-less way have been pretty positive. but whatever, here is the first of hopefully quite a few (at the moment i've done 2 and a half) 3-panel wordless comics about immigration. I am hoping to produce a little collection at some point highlighting the extreme circumstances people go through to get to this country, only to be beaten, patronised, incarcerated and often sent home. that is if they even make it.

I'd love some feedback as making comics is something I've been increasingly interested in of late and really have no idea about. hopefully this zine will be out in a few months, it'll be called "No one is illegal" and possibly a No Borders benefit.

futbol

Eric Cantona - When the seagulls follow the trawler...
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been doing a zine on football, will post up some drawings at some point. but for the moment here are some football related videos i have been looking at for research. nice.

alex kercher

more Zine Soup

Zine Soup is a 200 page book of international zine and art book artists published by TTC Gallery in Denmark. and my copy came today and it looks completely dope!

as you can see i have my own double page spread which is nuts. they asked me to send stuff in when i was still a naive first year, so the zines contained therein are pretty old, i remember taking the photos on my floor in halls which is why they aren't great, but hey, i am in a fucking coffee table book so whatever right. also because I sent them picture from some issues of Click, the collaborative artzine i did, inadvertently my photographer friends Owen Richards and Matt Freer both end up in there! Nice one!

and the back page has a few of my zine covers, all wok n rolls, which i have handily ringed for you to pick out. i am pretty excited, this makes me feel like im actually real, even though the stuff featured is fairly horrible in terms of my drawing. it was the best i had at the time though eh. but being featured next to dudes like Sumi Ink Club, Craig Atkinson, Jody Barton, Bongout, Holly Stevenson, etc is pretty mental.

if you have a spare €40 you can buy it from here;http://ttcgallery.com/shop or else LCC library is trying to get one, or else come over and look at mine. awesome!

ZINE SOUP

i tend to hesitate when announcing big exciting things on here like being asked to do something for a magazine or something i'm working on mainly because there is a tendency that as soon as you tell people you jinx the whole thing and end up dissapointed when nothing happens. this happened recently with getting a zine published but i managed to avoid it in this instance, amazing Danish gallery TTC asked me over a year ago to submit some of my zines for a book they were doing about the international artzine scene. naturally it was delayed and i sort of forgot abit about it, thinking it had gone the way of a lot of projects, until i got the email earlier in the week saying it was ready to be shipped to my door!! amazing! I'M IN A FUCKING BOOK. 

not only that, a book that looks wildly good. check out some of the photos and have a gander at the TTC website where you can get a copy for a special introductory price of €30. be quick, only a thousand made. i am on page 162 according to this photo, expect another update when i can hold it in my hands. so dope. 

http://ttcgallery.com/exhibitions#ZINE%20SOUP%20BOOK%20RELEASE
http://ramarama.dk/zine%20soup/

sketchbook shit

a few sketchbook bits. i've also just done a new zine so i'll put that up on here possibly tomorrow. rad, hopefully should be more stuff up now i'm back in the flow of things