Phatcomics

I have been keeping a folder of random stuff from the past few months.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/phatcatz/sets/72157606189296351/

A blast from the past, Mozzjoka from March 2006. I think i may continue this retro theme for the rest o the week.

That lovely man Paul Gravett has flagged up Twelve Hour Shift in his PG tips column, and also in the extensive interview over at Forbidden Planet, with that other nice man Joe Gordon. Both articles are worth reading if you are interested in what is happening with the UK scene at the mo’. After this weekend at Caption, i feel that self published comics are in very good health. There seems to be new people every time I attend an event. But, importantly, good stuff being produced.

The weekend in Oxford was good fun, and the new printing of NM was well received. Some of the excitement can be viewed here, although it seems that myself and Daniel fail to appear together in any picture. Could we be the same person perhaps?

Over at CBR, that powerhouse of comics reporting, Daniel was interviewed about the goings on with NM.

The Nm crew will be at Caption this weekend, selling the new edition of Monsters.

It looks something like this…

Due to falling a few pages short, this is a 15 page sampler of part two, as the inside cover text explains.

“Hi folks, Sensational Sean Azzopardi here! This issue of Necessary Monsters is a special Caption Preview edition! What does that mean, you ask? Well, it means there’s only 25 of them in existence and one day they’ll be worth a bazillion dollars due to their rarity!* It also means we didn’t quite finish this issue before Caption. Ho, ho, ho! Silly us!

If you’d like to get your hands on those extra pages, they can be yours within a few short weeks! Just bring this issue along with you to Low Energy Day in Camden Lock on the 31st August and you can get an official copy of Necessary Monsters #2 for half price! Or, if you can’t make it to London, send us a photo of yourself holding this preview edition and we’ll pop one in the post to you! Because we’re just
lovely like that!

*speculative estimate.
Possibly also a lie.”

So hopefully that is clear.

I had to find a new printer for this edition, as my regular had surpassed his usual shoddy but cheap approach by having all machines out of action. Striding along the Grays Inn Road, i just had to go in this place, the sign, was indeed a sign. And an excellent result was obtained.