Manchester Comix Collective

This is a place for people who make comics in and around Manchester UK and for those who are interested in those that do.

Latest Activity

Telling the story as clearly as possible is always the first priority, but once you've done that it's always nice to tie the page together somehow. I'm taking baby steps into designing pages as a whole. Everything I do is still based around a 3 x 3…
yesterday
Emma Chibulu is now a member of Manchester Comix Collective
on Sunday
sounds good to me. i will probably need reminding though closer to the time but i would be up for it...
February 3
As I mentioned to you Jim, I'd be very interested in being part of this. I'll get practicing Batman's muscle structure right now!
February 3
Jim Medway I hereby promise to visit MCC more oftenly.
February 3
Come on the rest of you - free butties!
February 3
Nice to have so many responses - good prompting Chris! I try to keep it as simple as possible, and like symmetry and echoed panels, sometimes using big talking heads as a visual punctuation.
February 3
I'm so out of the loop man - thanks for the tip off. We should all give him lots of custom.
February 3

Members

  • Ian Pattinson
  • Emma Chibulu
  • kier gill
  • Adam Cadwell
  • Jim Medway
  • Angie
  • rob jackson
  • John Allison
  • Ste Hitchen
  • hwayoung
  • irkthepurist
  • Joe List
  • Jaimé
  • Matt Badham
  • M D Penman
  • Steve Henderson
 

Blog Posts

Adam Cadwell

Little White Lies comic competition



While I'm very wary of doing speculative work, and of opportunities which give little more than a week to create new work on a loose brief with no payment or guarantee of publication, I'm not against the idea of a competition and the chance to be printed in the esteemed and lushly designed Little White Lies magazine's Kick-Ass issue ( with cover by John Romita Jr.) is a little tempting.… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on February 3, 2010 at 12:00pm

Adam Cadwell

Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon A School



I found this incredibly inspiring. It made me laugh, cry and want to pack in my work and do something like this.

I think we, as a highly literate and creative community, should start to look at ways that we can do something like this. Let's start the year with some high hopes shall we? What do you say? Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on January 8, 2010 at 3:03pm — 2 Comments

Oliver East

Good Grief

anyone been to Good Grief yet, the new comic shop on the top floor of Afflecks? It's worth a trip. He's got some stuff from Picturebox, saving you their pricey p&p costs.

go check it out, share the love.

pees
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Posted by Oliver East on January 5, 2010 at 1:08pm — 4 Comments

Ste Hitchen

Comicraft Fonts Sale 2009

Thought this was worth mentioning:

"HOORAH! It's almost a New Year, and once again it's your one-day-only opportunity to rummage through Comicraft's remainder bin and snap up Comicrazy for a mere twenty dollars and ten cents rather than $395! And, yes, yes, yes, and thrice YES, ALL of our fonts will be on sale for $20.10, even the ones that usually cost $19! We're THAT crazy!"

More info here

Posted by Ste Hitchen on December 30, 2009 at 10:55am

Events

MCC Shop Window

Here are the latest comix available to buy on-line from the Manchester comic scene. Click a cover for more info.

Freak Leap Ste-rictly Commercial: The Ste-Regular Volume 1

Great Deeds Against The Dead #1 Garden Funnies 2 Coil

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Forum

rob jackson

New Anthology 26 Replies

Hello... i'm thinking of doing a new anthology, I think it'll come out twice yearly (in time for the UK Web Comix thing and Leeds...) anybody interested? I'm thinking no theme this time just good stu…

Started by rob jackson in Sample Title. Last reply by Steve Henderson Jan 11.

Christopher Robert Lockwood

Which shops are interested in selling our comics? 2 Replies

It would be useful to have a list of any shops that are keen to stock self-published comics, so this discussion is really an appeal for you to give examples of shops that do (in your experience) come…

Started by Christopher Robert Lockwood in Sample Title. Last reply by Adam Cadwell Jan 9.

Dominic Harbot

Sandbar Comic Shop UPDATE! 3 Replies

Hey all you MCC-ers. Dom from Sandbar here. Just a quick update about the Sandbar comic book stall. The make over is half complete and we’ll have a BIG sign in place soon. In the future anyone wanti…

Tagged: Drink N Draw, Comic Shop, Sandbar

Started by Dominic Harbot in Sample Title. Last reply by Moronoid Dec. 30, 2009.

AndrewTunney

Introduce yourself! 14 Replies

So I just checked how many members this place has now and it's up to A Whole Bunch* and I realised I don't actually know half of you. So, I'm christening this new discussion so basically people can c…

Tagged: year, what, remember, is, this

Started by AndrewTunney in Sample Title. Last reply by Moronoid Dec. 30, 2009.

 
 

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