Some books are written through years of hard work and effort; others are written after two pints down the pub. I'll leave it to the readers to deduce which sort of book 'Not A Lot Of People Know That' by myself and the mysterious F.J.Riley is.
There are two vitally important things to remember about this book.
1) Every fact contained within is 100% accurate.
2) It's free.
you can check out a few sample facts contained within at the following link, and also download the PDF
http://www.philistinepress.com/nlpkt_15.html
Here's a few facts from the book, to be going on with:
- Despite being involuntary, spontaneous human combustion is illegal in every country in the world apart from the Republic of Ireland, where ironically, it has never happened.
- Jack the Ripper was killed by a copycat killer who, due to very poor London lighting, mistook his idol for a prostitute.
- At any one time in the UK, there are at least six musicians who have fallen asleep after being hypnotised by metronomes.
- In America it is illegal in seventeen states to have sexual intercourse with a gameshow host.
Writer of comics, children's novels and sitcoms.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Zarjaz 9 Available Now
Issue 9 of 2000ad Fanzine 'Zarjaz' is now available to buy for £4.00 (including postage and packing) from the Futurequake shop - just follow the link.
http://www.futurequake.co.uk/shop.php
As well the Judge Dredd strip 'Death By Misadventure' written by myself and illustrated by Stuart Giddings, there's plenty of other character tributes, including a Sinister Dexter strip, Orlok the assassin and, my personal favourite, Shako the Killer Polarbear by the ever marvellous Richmond Clements and Bryan Coyle.
The comic's black and white, and wrapped in a rather lovely colour cover by Nigel Dobbyn.
Strip previews can be viewed here:
http://thequaequamblog.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Temple Issue 6 - Out Now!
After a slight delay, Temple Issue 6 is now available to download at:
With contributions from Tony Suleri, Simon Mackie, Malcolm Kirk and others, the 97 page showcase also contains a 26 page feature on the work of Easmall press publisher Futurequake Press.
This is John Kirkham's final issue as Central Mailer (damn fine job, dear boy!), though with luck he'll return to the world of comics at some point, re-energised and ready to kick bottom.
The rather marvellous Malcolm Kirk will be taking over the helm from Issue 7 onwards (deadline to be announced).
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
New British Comics 2
The second issue of New British Comics, an anthology published in both English and Polish, is out now to buy.As well as featuring Spare Parts by myself and Tony Suleri (a jolly old romp through the sewers with severed limbs and cannibals aplenty!), there's a whole wealth of other comic strips and cartoons by some rather talented chaps and chapesses, including Dave Thomson, David Robertson, Paul O' Connell and Leonie O' Moore. It's 84 pages in size, comes under a terrificly English colour cover by Nelson Evergreen, and is rather marvellous stuff indeed!
Editor Karol Wisniewski had done a fine job of assembling the issue, and there's very few weak strips and plenty of black comedy which certainly kept me amused.
If you're interested in buying a copy, or learning more about the creators, more details can be located here: http://newbritishcomics.blogspot.com/
Monday, 2 November 2009
Back From The Depths!
What-ho, chaps!
Due to the supreme efforts of Malcolm Kirk, a free Scream influenced Halloween special cunningly titled 'Hallowscream' is now available to download as a 40mb PDF from the main Back From The Depths site.
It's a 72 page whopper of a comic, featuring the likes of Tim West, Mo Ali, Simon Mackie, Andrew Milne, Dave Windett and many more.
There's also a couple of strips from myself in there: Hell's Belles, illustrated by Chow, and Last Orders illustrated by Stuart Giddings.
Just follow this link...
or right click the next link, and choose 'Save as'.
Monday, 5 October 2009
Temple APA Issue 5 - Out Now!
Issue 5 of the Temple APA Digital Showcase is now available to download for free on the main site (http://www.templeapa.ning.com/).
It's quite a sizeable chap, being over 160 pages long and 80 megs, but there's quite a bit of quality comics material in there.
As well as featuring contributions from the likes of Stuart Giddings, Steve Tanner, Malcolm Kirk, Simon Mackie and Tony Suleri, there's also a 68 page feature on Insomnia Publications, showing previews of their upcoming projects, and containing a book list of everything they've got coming out.
You can download the PDF of issue 5 from the front page of the Temple website, or using the following link:
The next issue of the Temple is due out on 12th December, so if you're a comic artist or writer who'd be interested in contributing, just sign up on the main site. Both amateurs and pros are welcome!
Friday, 28 August 2009
No Beard Preview
Just before the DFC folded, I was working on quite a few projects as potential submissions. One of these was a jolly piece of pirate shennanigans that went by the title of 'The Fantabulous Adventures Of No Beard'.
Ian Alexander (or ENO as he's occassionally known) illustrated the first four episodes, all of which are two pages in length, and did a rather marvellous job.
With No Beard being a continuing adventure, we're both at a loss to think of another potential market for the strips. I've recently converted the script into a 22 pager, as part one of a potential mini-series, and might also rewrite the story as a kids novel with Ian providing illustrations.
Although Ian's going to be tied up for a while with some potential work as a Computer Game Concept Artist, we're both keen for the Beard to live again!
In the meantime, here's the first episode.
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