Monthly Archives: March 2015

OVERGROUND by Alex Brenchley with Anna Dowsland

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Overground
‘Overground’ is a comic strip by Alex Brenchley. Set in London, it follows the lives of a group of pigeons and their day to day experiences in London.

http://www.overgroundcartoon.com

Writer/Creator: Alex Brenchley
Alex Brenchley is an artist and musician based in London. He has designed album artwork for Noah and the Whale, and illustrated for the British Museum’s children’s magazine, ‘Remus’. He has exhibited and performed at Barbican Art Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum and Battersea Arts Centre, and his solo album ‘Only Bad Actors’ will be coming out very soon in 2015.
Guest artist: Anna Dowsland
Anitos is Anna Dowsland, a freelance illustrator based near London.
And with a keen interest in comics, she has also been a marketing assistant for Markosia Publishing since September 2012 and prior to that worked as an intern for IDOL Magazine, creating illustrations and layouts for the print edition.
​Anna’s work can be seen in children’s books, CD covers, t-shirt designs, animations and online comics, and she is a regular at Comic events around the capital.
And she has contributed to comics like TO ARMS, Adventures in Comics by Marine Studios and the Double Dare Ya collective cards. She also exhibits at pop-up nights in the south east of England, that mixes the local talent in music and the visual arts.

GO! GO! METRO! by Chie and Inko, with Richy K. Chandler

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Go! Go! Metro!
Autumn 2010, two Japanese Manga artists, Chie Kutsuwada and Inko decided to start personification of tube stations in London.In  Go! Go! Metro!, you might have a chance to meet your local station in person…?!

Check out who they are and what they’re up to!

http://gogometro.blogspot.co.uk/

Writer/Creator: Chie Kutsuwada & Inko

Chie Kutsuwada and Inko are 2 Japanese manga kamikaze girls. They normally work separately (if you’re interested, here are Chie’s works: http://chitan-garden.blogspot.com/ , and Inko’s: http://dokoteiinko.wix.com/inkoredible).

They both grew up in Japan loving manga, and they are actually a crisps-munching hare & a dancing parakeet!
Guest artist: Richy K. Chandler

Richy is the creative force behind Tempo Lush, producing comics, illustrations and design.

He’s written for the Wallace & Gromit newspaper strip and Almost Naked Animals and Adventure Time comics.

Richy is creator of weekly webcomic Lucy the Octopus and co-creator of Rosie and Jacinda. Both titles saw new printed volumes in 2014, along with children’s comic Bang! Crash! Whizz! (with art by Sally-Anne Hickman) and Tempo Lush Tales: an comics anthology of stories written by Richy and drawn by Matt Boyer, Francesca Cassavetti, Martin Eden, Tim Hassan, Steve Horry, Inko & Chie Kutsuwada, Mike Medaglia, Aaron Murphy, Van Nim, Karen Rubins, Paul Shinn and Keara Stewart.
He is the originator of WASP and teaches comic creation to children and adults.

WASP-WASP’S WEEK by Lauren Murphy and Paul Shinn #1

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WASP-Wasp’s Week
A super-surpise-bonus-mystery-comic by Lauren Murphy and Paul Shinn!
Writer: Lauren Murphy
Lauren L. Murphy is a Writer and singer of growing repute. After growing up in the rain soaked north west of England, Lauren traipsed off to London with her knapsack on her back in 2003 and has not looked back, mixing office based jobs with a range of exciting writing projects. From stat laden rugby reports to writing end editing for Coldplay, she has always tried to infuse her writing with as much heart and humour as the subject allows.Since defecting to comics, Lauren has been (albeit slowly) on a graphic novel set on the comedy circuit and has contributed to the anthology To Arms! She also sings with Côr Llunsain who can be seen on the upcoming Côr Cymru competition on S4C this Easter.
Artist: Paul Shinn
Paul Shinn is a freelance illustrator and comic artist from London. Paul likes to create images which make people smile. He recently drew a 12-page story (written by Richy K. Chandler)for the comic anthology Tempo Lush Tales, as well as self-publishing two comics collections: March Of The Penguins and Look What I Drawed

paulshinndraws.com