Dave Bulmer's Page

Website 1:

http://davebulmer.com

Website 2:

http://buml0r.deviantart.com

Website 3:

http://demontomato.blogspot.com

Real name:

Dave Bulmer

Where do you live?

Manchester

What comics do you create?

The Demon Tomato, which is an autobiographical account of the time the human race was wiped-out in the 90s. You can get that in Travelling Man Manchester or Newcastle, or here: http://snipurl.com/3fm2h

Nemesis Fleet - an actual proper comic, with me on keyboard and Abby on pencils, which you can read about here: http://nemesisfleet.blogspot.com

Which comic creators do you admire?

Jeff Smith, Chris Ware, Richard Elson, Nigel Kitching, Dan Abnett, Robert Kirkman, Brian K Vaughn, Stuart Immonen, Brian Bendis, and lots of "that bloke who did"s.

About Me:

I invented comics when I was very young. Of course in those days we called them "picture-stories," and the word "comics" only took over when I found out other people had already thought of it and named it without having the courtesy to consult me first.

I still make picture-stories. If you ever read my comic "The Demon Tomato," you might see evidence for the fact that I didn't know about American comics until I was about eighteen. I only had UK comics like the Beano to go by, so you'll find a puzzling mashup of sensibilities: single-page characters and gags, with storylines only lasting five to seven pages before moving on to something else, but all of it attempting to add-up to a longer storyline - which was something else I thought I'd invented.

So my comic doesn't really know about the rules of comics, which makes it a bit of a muddle and I'll be impressed if you can follow it at all. But it's friendly, and some people seem to like it, and at least it gets better after issue two, promise.