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If you want to exchange currency in order to own a copy of a comic made by me, now you can. Click on the picture across on the sidebar, peruse what's on offer and in a few clicks and a day or so, you can have your own folded and stapled wonder. Make haste!

In other news, I'll be making an appearance at the Friendship Festival in Sunderland on 4th and 5th of July. I'll be joined by other representatives of the Paper Jam Comics Collective and Mallard Small Press. Do come along and say hello.

Success and Failure

Last week saw a number of events in the small press calendar. The Launch Party for "You will have to Wait... And That" was a rip-roaring success. We had a story specially written for the night, by Mark Pembrey, and the music provided by Echo Ave and the Stillwells was top notch. The small press table was positioned right up next to the bands and translated into a shedload of sales.

The weekend took myself, Jack Fallows and Mallard Small Press, north of the border for the second small press fair at the Forest Cafe in Edinburgh. There's a photo of the table. Because obviously, you've never seen me post anything like that before. Last year's event was really good. Honestly, it wasn't the most well organised, but it had a charm, a fair few decent artists and a refreshingly open atmosphere.

This year's was a huge disappointment. We were in the tiny cafe itself rather than the event-friendly hall upstairs. Essentially feeling in the way and unwelcome. I don;t want to go on and on about the negatives, more articulate folk have done that elsewhere.

But, the lack of involvement from the original organisers meant that the event felt like it was fumbling around in the dark. As a way of recompense, every North East comics creator is now duty bound to join us in hosting a small press fair in Newcastle.

Comics creators of the world, unite!

Thought Bubble and Stuff of Grave Importance

We'll be at Thought Bubble tomorrow. Yeah, I know, it's short notice, but you can cancel dinner with your parents, right? Nightbus #1 and #2 will be on the Travelling Man table, along with me new artist's book, Objet Perdu, which is about losing things. It's one of those things that you probably won't like, but I've done it anyway. Some writing. Some photography. Something else.

Jack Fallows is a man who's so clever he knows all of the words in the English language, and all of the English words in other languages too. In between living a life devoted to being aloof and wishing it were 1920, he's gone and made a rather mint new comic and a website, no less. It's here.

I've got stuff in the new Mallard anthology. Go buy it here. Mallard is a quarterly anthology of comics, literature and such, manned by the sterling gentleman that is Tom England. Buy his comic so he can make more.

Magda Boreysza is one of the most wonderful artists I have had the pleasure of meeting/stalking (delete as appropriate). Her Toasty Cats series is one of the genuine highlights of the Small Press world, and you should buy them all. At the Edinburgh Zine Fair, we had a bit of a comics jam, and Magda's compiled the best of it into a cautionary tale in the new Toasty Cats. Tremendous stuff.

Anyway, here's a photo of some fire.