I GOTTA SHOP!

Following on from Mark Pearce's lead, I went and got myself a Folksy account and chucked some comics on it! So if you wanna buy a comic and have me scribble in it (and probably all over the envelope too), check it out! I haven't had any orders yet, be the first! :D It's UK only at the moment I'm afraid 'cos the only way I can set it up for international orders is to charge a fortune, so I'm holding off on that until I find a way to charge what it actually costs to ship. BUT! UK is all good, and pretty cheap! :D
www.folksy.com/shops/greatvagueness

ALSO! I've read some amazing comics lately, and I wanna share 'em with you.

First and foremost is Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore; it's been knocking around for a long while now, about as long as Bone I think, but for some reason I'd never heard of it until I got into his current series Echo, and delved into his old stuff. And it's awesome! Why have I not heard of it before? I thought I was into my indie comics, it's like knowing the Alps reasonable well and not noticing one of the tallest mountains. ANYWAY. It's about Katchoo, and her best friend Francine, who Katchoo is secretly in love with, despite her being in love with a male fleabag. They then meet David, who falls for Kachoo, and then they get hunted by the mob and have lots of fights, it's great. :D Terry Moore's artwork is stunning, the characters are written and drawn like real people with all the imperfections that entails and it's made it the best book I've read in YEARS. And the best thing is, there's 6 massive volumes of it and I have 4 more to go! :D Man, so excited. So yeah! If you haven't read it, check it out!
http://www.strangersinparadise.com/

Second! Saturn Apartments! It's a story about Mitsu, a kid who wants to find out what happened to his dad who disappeared CLEANING THE WINDOWS ON THE OUTSIDE OF A GIANT SPACE STATION RING THAT ENCIRCLES AN UNINHABITED EARTH. And it's beautiful, real laid back and just lounges around in its futuristic setting, which is my favourite way for scifi stories to be. It's more about Mitsu fitting in, cats in spacesuits, and just...work, really. There is some mystery, and potentially some romance I guess, but I really liked the muddling through life feeling. There's no grand opera, just Mitsu and the things that happen to him. I wanna visit him and give him a perk up sandwich or something. But yeah, the art is great, way cuter than I expected for this kind of story. Highly recommended, again! :D

I also picked up Sky Doll! And I really like that too! Ok, so I'm a sucker for amnesiac robot girls trying to work out what their purpose in life is (Battle Angel Alita kinda left an indelible mark on my brain, like a barcode), but man that book's beautiful. Such a mash of styles, it's like western layouts with eastern art and disney expressions. Chuck in some religious totalitarian government conspiracies, boobs and a manic sense of humour and yeah, you got a pretty good book! mmm, euro-book :D

Finally I got Ryan Armand's Great! book this week! Man I hope it ends well, going through that whole rollercoaster again was tough XD but yeah, wicked book. :D

Yeah! That's whay I've been doing then. Stuff! :D Tomorrow I'm gonna do MORE stuff, probably put more books up for sale, do some comics, laze arouuuunnnnnnnd :D Oh and watch Spain win the World Cup of course. C'mon, Spain! I've got a fiver on ya! I'm playing in defence, #3, see if you can spot me! Cheer me on! :D

Yeah! Rock awwwn!

- pf!

New DIG IT, and BROOMSQUAD pt1 in print!

Yeah!

Nick's done the next page of Dig It!, our collaborative archaeology comic, so the ball's in my court now. Sweet! :D I have so many comics to draw these days XD

Also I just got my copy of Non-Repro (which Broomsquad is in!) and it's looking pretty sweet! We'll have some copies at the Japanese Art Festival :)

Also also (and I'm a bit late on this, sorry!) I've got a page in the nu-earth 2000Ad fanzine run by Will, it's a future shock thing I though of in the park getting heatstroke. There's stuff about the fanzine here, scroll down!

Thassit? yep!

Eeeeeeeemaaaaaaaaiiiiillllll

It's been brought to my attention that I'm nigh-on impossible to get hold of. I'm scared of robots, so putting contact details on the internet kinda scares me a bit. BUT! If you are a human, and you want to say hello, my email address is now on the About Me page bit. It's designed to be invisible to robots! Humans (like, hopefully, yourself!) should be able to decipher it without too much difficulty, as us humans have something robots can never have!

"NOUNCE"!

So! Use your nounce and send me an email! But don't tell any robots what you know. Viva la resistance!