Blog Posts Across Manchester Comix Collective

Love The Way You Love 6

Volume 6 of Love The Way You Love is out this week. So what? Well, I did the majority of the tones for this book to help out artist (and I suppose friend) Marc Ellerby who hurt his arm pretty badly. I also have a little back-up comic making fun of Marc and his injury. I'm a good person. The book sh

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 4 July 2008 at 12:12pm — No Comments

New York and MoCCA

THE FIRST WEEK

Turtle Lake

I'll start with some nice photos of Central Park. Here is Turtle Park, with actual Turtles (not pictured).

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 27 June 2008 at 2:58pm — 2 Comments

Mickey Rourke

Hello everyone. Dan Lester's new anthology 'Who Gives a **** About Mickey Rourke' is finally out so I thought i'd mention it here. I've got 2 pages in it and the back cover. It's also got Matthew Craig, Dan Lester (obviously), Banal Pig, Douglas Noble and lots of other people in it. I thought it was a really good anthology this time, way better than the 'Crap Your Pants' anthology. You can get it here- http://www.monkeysmightpuke.com/mi… Continue

Posted by rob jackson on 21 June 2008 at 10:17am — No Comments

Proper Go Well High

Helloooo, I've set up a teaser site to preview my new book 'Proper Go Well High'. There's some sneaky peaks at some images and the 100th page. Hopefully it'll be out before the end of the year. Have a look Continue

Posted by Trains Are...Mint on 13 June 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Light Night Anthology?

Hello Got this e mail from OK Comics today and I was wondering if anyone would be up for being in an anthology for their Night Light event. I’ve done a 11 page story recently, an oddly whimsical story called ‘the city that fell in love with its own reflection’ and was wondering if a few people would like to do something about cities or light and then we could stick ‘em together… I think if people have longer stories it would be better as my story is quite a long one at 11 pages. Could split cost… Continue

Posted by rob jackson on 6 June 2008 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Mephistos book 1!!!

After working on this pretty much through february until a couple of days ago- including everything from drawing, writing designing and wrangling with printers, it's finally out, in all it's glossy covered red perfect bound glory!!!!

They are- full glossy he… Continue

Posted by naniiebim on 31 May 2008 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Dr Sketchy's Anti-art school session 3

I suck! I arrived at 10:30 at the Font for Drink and Draw 7, harassed and Rushed, I hammered it over from Southport in order to bring hot off the press latest My Dr Sketchy poster. Needless to say everything is late this month, but I am desperately trying to stick to the last wednesday of the month thing, to be as consistent as possible. Any way we have a venue change so no longer at Bluu we are now in Cafe Melba which is part of the Upperspace gallery. see the Dr Sketchy's myspace or face book… Continue

Posted by Ruari on 23 May 2008 at 8:45pm — No Comments

Your new favourite book

The new hardback Trains Are...Mint collection, collecting the first three, is out now and you can get yours at Forbidden Planet on Oldham Street for £12.99. Hopefully Travelling Man and Cornerhouse soon n'all. Go on, give a book a home. x Continue

Posted by Trains Are...Mint on 21 May 2008 at 2:11pm — 2 Comments

My New Blog

Hello I have recently started a new comic blog, 'so what? thats just what the internet needs' you might say, but I have put up reviews of the comics I bought and liked the most at Bristol Comics Expo 2008. Also I am putting up sketchbook pages and news about my own comics. I'm going to do lots more reviews of small press stuff too. cheers rob jackson the blog is at - http://robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/ www.robjacksoncomics.com Continue

Posted by rob jackson on 18 May 2008 at 3:31pm — No Comments

Comic Cons, Flat Tyres and Chest Colds...

So... I decided to take my work back underground... to stop it falling into the wrong hands... Well, actually, that's bollocks. Not just because my work has never actually been Underground, but that even if it had, it's about to get more over-ground than it's ever before. This year foul year of our Lord two-thousand and eight, the evil, throbbing, art-promoting phallus that is Nick Dismas is going to be rammed down the figurative throat of publishers everywhere, causing a gag-refl… Continue

Posted by Gav Heryng on 16 May 2008 at 10:18am — 1 Comment

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Posted by Ed Syder on 14 May 2008 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Bristol Report

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 14 May 2008 at 5:00pm — 7 Comments

Manchester is scary, stay away!

This was Piccadilly Gardens at 10am, footie fans are everywhere. Apparently 100,000 fans are expected with only 17,000 actually having tickets for the game. I'm fortunate enough to work right near central library so have the pleasure of chants, beeps, police sirens and those stu… Continue

Posted by Jaime Molloy on 14 May 2008 at 2:30pm — 17 Comments

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Posted by Ed Syder on 9 May 2008 at 1:39pm — No Comments

Mallard #4 (July '08)

Hello! Well, I'm now accepting contributions for Mallard #4, and will be til June 10th. It's looking to be a good step up from the first three, and will be: a) snazzier and more lovely looking b) bigger, better, etc. c) getting a higher print run SO - if you fancy contributing any work, you are more than welcome to get in touch. There's no theme, no genre, no nothing - just you and whatever you'd like printed. Oh, but submissions should be a5 size, in black & white, and no longer than 6 p… Continue

Posted by Tom England on 8 May 2008 at 10:57pm — No Comments

free comic

if you want a free copy of my almost ready mini-comic "ghost galaxy" then send a stamped self addressed envelope to: Ghost Galaxy 5 Croton Street Stockport SK4 3BX Continue

Posted by Ed Syder on 8 May 2008 at 3:37pm — 1 Comment

Little Nothings

Hello, I'd just like to recommend to everyone the new Lewis Trondheim book - "Little Nothings - The Curse of the Umbrella" (NBM). I've just finished reading it yesterday and its really great. It's one of them comics that are trying to show daily life by all the little things that happen to him as he wanders about (some of the things are actually quite big such as winning the grand prize at Angouleme but arent shown as more important than getting a cat or seeing some starlings or a rainbow). Ther… Continue

Posted by rob jackson on 2 May 2008 at 7:44pm — 3 Comments

DFC preview

The DFC is a new weekly comic for children, mailed directly to your door. It hasn't launched yet but there's definitely an excitement growing for it. They've got some great talent involved that will garner a much wider interest than most chi… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 2 May 2008 at 2:55pm — 2 Comments

Dr. Sketchy's 2

The second Dr. Sketchy's was last night and it was good to see some MCC members down there. It wasn't as busy as the first night which in a way bodes well for next month as they'll be space to invite more people along. The theme was Willy Wonka, which added a nice twist to the bur… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 1 May 2008 at 11:25am — 4 Comments

Never Been

Manchester based Stuart Kolakovic's 9metre long mural comic, Never Been, is now online at Stuart's site. Read it immed… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 1 May 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Free Comic Book Day

Hi all, In case you didn't know this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day and if you need to ask what that is then you can't come. I'll be down at Travelling Man after my lie in on Saturday. Here are some of the books on offer that I'm looking forward to:

HELLBOY/B.P.R.D.—FCBD 2008 EDITION by Mike Mignola & Various To celebrate the release of Hellboy II: The Golden A… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 30 April 2008 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Outline #3

Outline #3 is now out! Buy your copies from that lovely Travelling Man store! Without blowing my own horn this is without doubt our best. issue. ever. Stories included; Nearest & Dearest - Greg Carruthers and Monty Borrors The Ark - Jonathan Sidle and Dan Barrit (look not blowing any horns, honest) Payat - Tom Cassady and Tom Extition Gorgon - Hellen Grunesfeld There's also a couple of smaller stories and 2 essays. And it's only £2.50! I love you all. x Continue

Posted by Jonathan Sidle on 29 April 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Mmmm

Wellity wellity. Just found this place. Kinda cool that it exists, I must say. Now I've said it. For some reason, I've posted my first blog entry whilst nursing a massive hangover, so it's gonna be pretty brief. I feel like somebody just stuffed a pair of old socks in my mouth. Anyhoo, I suppose there's not a lot to say other than hello to all the Manchester comics people. Maybe an introduction? Alright. I'm very much chugging along with the freelance art stuff, but not earning a great deal.… Continue

Posted by Jamie Roberts on 26 April 2008 at 11:37am — 3 Comments

Session 2 new posters

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Posted by Ruari on 20 April 2008 at 12:43pm — No Comments

I'm a dot com!

Hey everyone, get this:

My new portfolio website is now live and all (hopefully) working ticketyboo. It's now www.adamcadwell.COM, the old .co.uk won't work anymore. I did try and get the old url pointing to the new one but there's not a way for me to do that at this time. So update your bookmarks people! This also means that The Everyday is located at http://theeveryday.adamca… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 19 April 2008 at 9:17pm — No Comments

Free mini comics PDFs!

Before there was Trains Are...Mint there was The House Of Fire To Black Hill trilogy of black and whi… Continue

Posted by Trains Are...Mint on 8 April 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Exhaust Exhibition in Salford

I went to this exhibition in Salford a while ago, and while I… Continue

Posted by Trains Are...Mint on 5 April 2008 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Bog Wizards

Hello everyone My new comic 'Bog Wizards' is out now. I will be selling it at Bristol but if anyone would like a copy its £1.50 plus 30p postage. Bog Wizards is a fantasy story starring anthropomorphic ducks in a tale of magic and intrigue. It comes with a tiny mini mini comic 'How To Read Bog Wizards' which explains the complicated semantics of this weighty tome. 24 pages, black and white A5, plus 14 page mini mini comic I'll put a picture on my website soon www.robjacksoncomics.com cheers r… Continue

Posted by rob jackson on 1 April 2008 at 12:44pm — 2 Comments

Dr. Sketchy's sketches

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 27 March 2008 at 3:00pm — 6 Comments

BORDERLINERS - Pilot Issue on sale imminently!

Well, "BORDERLINERS: Ceremony Of Innocence" is now on sale through Unico Publishing at www.unicocomics.co.uk. The 18 page 'pilot' issue is getting excellent reviews from some top industry professionals including BRYAN TALBOT, LIAM SHARP, TIM PERKINS, GARY SPENCER MILLIDGE, and MIKE COLLINS!! Continue

Posted by Brian Gorman on 25 March 2008 at 6:13pm — No Comments

ghost galaxy

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Posted by Ed Syder on 17 March 2008 at 6:30pm — 2 Comments

Trains Are...Mint 5 is go!

I've just dropped some copies of my new book off at… Continue

Posted by Trains Are...Mint on 17 March 2008 at 11:17am — 1 Comment

The UK Thing

This coming Saturday I will be exhibiting alongside Marc Ellerby at The UK Web & Mini Comix Thing 2008 in London! I’ll be finally releasing The Everyday: Collection 1 containing the first 50 comic strips plus a covers gallery. If they arrive back from the printers in time that is! This will be available from The Everyday… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 16 March 2008 at 6:41pm — 2 Comments

Mallard #3!

Going down the photocopying shop tomorrow to: 1) print off 100 copies of Mallard#3 2) give the guy in the shop £80 (ARGH!!!) 3) spend all night folding, stapling, etc. Grim as this sounds, I'm actually pretty excited - there's not a lot that adds up to the satisf… Continue

Posted by Tom England on 12 March 2008 at 6:45pm — 5 Comments

How Manga Took Over The World @ The Urbis

I keep forgetting to post this but now I've remembered :o) Go see the Manga exhibition at the Urbis from 13th March! Now, back to my super interesting accounts work. Continue

Posted by Jaime Molloy on 7 March 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Street Fighter Tribute

If anyone has any bad-ass Street Fighter art hidden away then I think NOW might be a good time to send it to the guys at UDON. Click the link for more info: http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/?page_id=86 Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 5 March 2008 at 5:33pm — No Comments

Dr. Sketchy's

Set up in New York by Molly Crabapple, the Dr. Sketchy's name now includes "anti-art school" classes all over the world and finally the idea of mixing burlesque and life drawing has arrived in Manchester. I'll be there for sure. More info at their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/drsketchysmanchester Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 1 March 2008 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Cult Fiction - The Fine Art Of Comics

If anyone is wandering over to Carlisle in the next 10 days The Tullie House Museum & Art gallery has an exhibition on that you might find interesting. Continue

Posted by Jaime Molloy on 27 February 2008 at 4:47pm — 1 Comment

A little bit of press...

Hi, Just a quick blog post to let everyone know we've got some nice coverage today over at the Forbidden Planet International blog: http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=6600 Thanks to new MCC member Kenny Penman for pulling a string or two. Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 26 February 2008 at 2:50pm — 1 Comment

Beaver & Steve

I haven't read Beaver & Steve in an age but as I'm quite bored at work and it got past the new and improved web sense I shall dive back in immediately. (Yes, this place gets past web sense too, t'is why I am blogging here but least I'm staying relevant, right?) Continue

Posted by Jaime Molloy on 26 February 2008 at 11:23am — No Comments

Girls with slingshots.

I quite like this webcomicit has a talking cactus and I'm easily pleased. Continue

Posted by Jaime Molloy on 26 February 2008 at 11:15am — No Comments

Done!

Well, that's the last page uploaded - sorted. Got a couple of deadlines for magazines this friday coming, so I'll see if I can pull my finger out and draw some comics for them this week. It's nice to have a couple of projects ticking over. Also, I'm finalising layout design for Mallard #3 - most of the material's in, so it should be ready for printing by March. Hooray! Continue

Posted by Tom England on 25 February 2008 at 5:54pm — No Comments

Birthdayness!!

It's my birthday on Sunday and I've just realised that I've planned awesomeness for myself and The Tom but forgot to ask if peeps would like to join in the fun. Sooooooo........There's a gig at TV21 featuring The Suzan (see here http://www.rebelliousjukebox.org/) I'm going and all are welcome, even the unwelcome as it's a public event so I couldn't stop you if I wanted to! :op Continue

Posted by Jaime Molloy on 22 February 2008 at 4:01pm — 1 Comment

Hello!

Well, as I've joined this 'Manchester Comix Collective', I thought I might as well keep a blog - though I never have done before. Then again, I've never been given the opportunity to keep a blog strictly related to comics - so there's the difference. As you might have noticed, I've uploaded the first two pages (there are five altogether, though the other three aren't complete yet) of a comic I've been inking called 'Dialogue #2', which is named so because that's basically all it is - a dialogue… Continue

Posted by Tom England on 20 February 2008 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments

Andy does a thing!

Would you look at this? Not a week after our first flyer design, Andrew Tunney goes and creates this riff on the classic 'Yo! MTV Raps' logo (from 1989 I'm told). I'll be sure to print up some of these and litter them around comic shop counters soon. I'll definitely make some of these, along with the other flyer design, in time for the UK… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 20 February 2008 at 10:09am — No Comments

MCC web banner and flyer design

Spread the word!

More info about artwork in this forum post.

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 11 February 2008 at 4:38pm — No Comments

FANTAGRAPHICS WANT YOUR MONSTER!

This must surely be of interest to anyone who never grew out of drawing monsters.

Basically, Fantagraphics' editor Jacob Covey is looking for one more creature for their next Beasts! book because one of the guys who created the Turtles hates him*. The deadline is March 1st and you can't draw any of the monsters that have been drawn already.

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 11 February 2008 at 9:45am — 4 Comments

Hourly Comic Day 2008

Did any other Mancunian take part in Hourly Comic Day? Here's mine:

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 4 February 2008 at 5:15pm — No Comments

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threadless sillyness

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Posted by Ed Syder on 27 January 2008 at 12:12pm — No Comments

Trains Are...Mint collection cover

This here image is the front cover of a hardback collection of the first three Trains Are...Mint which is being published by a lovely bloke at Forbidden Planet International. Should be out in March. Go on then, here's the back as well.

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Posted by Trains Are...Mint on 25 January 2008 at 11:13am — 4 Comments

The New Yorker Contest

Hey all,
I just read about this contest on the Fantagraphics Blog (FLOG). The Deadline is the Januray 24th though, ~~so get cracking~~ or don't bother as I just found out its only open to U.S. Citizens. Ah well, its still an interesting contest.

The New Yorker Eustace Tilly Contest

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 11 January 2008 at 9:48am — No Comments

Free Trains Are...Mint download

Because we're all a bit skint after Christmas and that, I thought I'd give you something for free until you can afford something decent. So if you go to the Rolling Stock Press site you can download my 24hr comic, Station, for free.…

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Posted by Trains Are...Mint on 9 January 2008 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment

Liz Greenfield at it again

Hey all,

Happy New Years! How was your Christmas? Same as Usual? Yeah. Anyway...

I wish Liz would upload more of her comics to this site because you guys are missing out on superb work like this, check it out and click for more:

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 3 January 2008 at 10:19am — 1 Comment

Communty Comics Newsletter 16/12/07

This is the current Community Comics newsletter which includes all kinds of useful information. :)

Hello (and a merry Christmas) from all at Community Comics Ltd. Already Community Comics is seeing the rewards of presenting its creative efforts and values to those who have a desire to involve themselves in the industry. The Thought Bubble comic festival attracted not only new readers but so…

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Posted by Jonathan Sidle on 17 December 2007 at 10:51am — No Comments

PIRATES!!!

The Pirates of Coney Island #6 is finally here! It was out yesterday in the US and out today in the UK and Europe. Head to a comic shop right now and brighten your cold, dark December day with a vibrant drenching of awesome comic. This… Continue

Posted by Adam Cadwell on 13 December 2007 at 2:27pm — 4 Comments

Community Comics

Hello people of the MCC!

At the behest of Adam I'm putting up a few things about the publishing label I run with my mates (who all live in wildly different places - some even as far as Portsmouth!)

Community Comics is a non-profit business created with the intent to diplay and promote high quality, mainstream appeal indie comics. There are no guidelines to the kinds of thing we accept however to create a finer degree of control and professionalism we operate a submissions policy…

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Posted by Jonathan Sidle on 11 December 2007 at 1:31pm — No Comments

An Introduction/Artist Wanted

Hello! I'm Matthew Craig. I'm a writer and small press comico from the West Midlands. You might remember me from Brumacon, Thought Bubble, Caption, or even the late, lamented Ninth Art. I'm only a former/honourary Mancuinan: I hope you won't hold that against me.

I've published comics about my dear old dog Hondle,…

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Posted by Matthew Craig on 4 December 2007 at 12:54am — No Comments

Buffalo Roots

Just a quick note to say I have a new self published comic out!

It's called Buffalo Roots and it's about, well, here's the little blurb from the back:
"A curious relationship between a young painter, Riley, and an aspiring writer named Emmé soon begins after a chance meeting in their hometown of Buffalo.

What follows is a a fragmented recollection of the… Continue

Posted by John Cei Douglas on 27 November 2007 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Stuart Kolakovic Exhibition

MCCer Stuart Kolakovic has an exhibition of his illustration work and of his "little comic books" at Projekts MCR on Edge St in the Northern Quarter. The opening night is on 7th Dec and it runs from the 8th…

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Posted by Adam Cadwell on 18 November 2007 at 10:20pm — No Comments

Blog Posts Across Manchester Comix Collective

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