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Cafe Suada – drawn by Foxhat

Cafe Suada
Down by the riverside there is a quaint little teahouse run by our heroine, Geraldine, whose only desire is to spread her love of the golden beverage – But what’s going to happen to her business when a new coffee house springs up right next door?! And what is the meaning of Cafe Suada? Find out in the weekly webcomic with tea leaves, coffee beans, and a dash of romance!

Writer/Creator: Jade Sarson
Jade Sarson is a comic artist and illustrator, winner of the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2014 (with an extract from her book For the Love of God, Marie!), and nominated for Best Emerging Talent in the 2013 British Comic Awards. She graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2011 with a first class honours degree in Illustration, and published the first Cup of Cafe Suada shortly after. Her work is a fusion of British and Japanese influences, and combines digital and traditional techniques; it has been featured in Neo Magazine, Electric Bloom Webzine, and in anthologies such as Leek and Sushi and Parallel Lives. She lives in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. For the Love of God, Marie! will be published by Myriad Editions in April 2016.

Guest artist: Foxhat
Foxhat is a final year university student studying cartoon and comic arts. Soon to be set free on to the world as a graduate, she’s ready to share her slightly strange worlds in comic form.

Lucy the Octopus – drawn by Petitecreme

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Lucy the Octopus
Lucy the Octopus is a weekly webcomic about a teenage girl who happens to be an octopus. Lucy is staggeringly unpopular both at home and school. Still our heroine soldiers on, armed with a guitar, a pufferfish and the occasional Chunky Muffin shake. “Inventive and witty, with a colourful cast of characters, Lucy the Octopus remains one of the most engaging UK originated webcomics out there.” Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier

Writer/Creator: 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.

Guest artist: Gemma Nicole Dawn Sheldrake (Petitecreme)
Petitecreme is an illustrator and comic artist that lives in the woods with her two black cats. Loves cute things and gory videogames, she creates feminine works with a slightly dark tinge.

Sapphire Days – drawn by Francesca Dare

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Sapphire Days
Sapphire Days follow the lives of six Hoenn Pokemon as they deal with their everyday lives. After the completion of the Pokemon League of Sapphire the Pokemon spend their days resting and training hoping to one day continue on their Pokemon Journey.

Writer/Creator: Mewa Chu
Mewa-Chu is a creator who does things on the internet. She loves drawing and creating manga styled stories and illustrations and have been doing so since 2007. Mewa creates a variety of different stories all with different and unquie characters in the fun setting of Mew-Ville and Ruby City. Many of her stories can be found at http://www.mew-ville.com/

Guest artist: Francesca Dare
Francesca Dare is a VFX artist who also writes and draws comics. Her work has appeared in comic anthologies including Tempolush Tales of the Tanoox, Alidade and Wu Wei. The first volume of her comic Penny Blackfeather has been published by Sloth Comics. She lives in a small badger set in north London. She is one of the WASP organisers so if you want to get involved all you have to do is wait until midnight on a full moon, knock three times on the ground and offer her a wheel of cheese on a stick. Or just message her on twitter.

Penny Blackfeather – drawn by Richy K Chandler

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Penny Blackfeather
Penny Blackfeather is a Regencypunk webcomic about a young lady who wishes to go on an adventure. Currently is is updating it’s 2nd volume, with the first now in print. It features spirits, thieves, regency baths, magic and a parrot.

Writer/Creator: Francesca Dare
Francesca Dare is a VFX artist who also writes and draws comics. Her work has appeared in comic anthologies including Tempolush Tales of the Tanoox, Alidade and Wu Wei. The first volume of her comic Penny Blackfeather has been published by Sloth Comics. She lives in a small badger set in north London. She is one of the WASP organisers so if you want to get involved all you have to do is wait until midnight on a full moon, knock three times on the ground and offer her a wheel of cheese on a stick. Or just message her on twitter.

Guest artist: Richy K Chandler
Richy produces comics and illustrations. He is the creator of weekly webcomic Lucy the Octopus and WASP (Webcomic Artist Swap Project) as well as co-creator of fairytale Manga Rosie and Jacinda and bedtime story comic Bang! Crash! Whizz!
He has recently released a second volume of his Tempo Lush Tales comics anthology and a 2-day 5-person collaboration comic Alidade.
Richy works as a freelancer for Titan Comics both writing (Almost Naked Animals, Wallace & Gromit, Adventure Time) and drawing (Dreamworks’ Home).
He also runs comic workshops.
tempolush.com
lucytheoctopus.net

Chrysanthemum alley – drawn by Kate Hayward

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Chrysanthemum Alley
Chrysanthemum Alley is a sparkly new supernatural slice of life manga of a tale following Shea, a rabbit girl from an ancient clan, who lost their ability to transform. She moves to Tokyo with her brother, June, in hope to find more of her kind after finding an Internet idol with a very convincing tail… Chrysanthemum Alley

Writer/Creator: Midori Harako
Midori (aka Himmi) is a full time potato who sometimes works on children’s books and game designs in Leeds. When she’s not drawing, she is wailing over fictional characters whilst drinking tea by the pint. http://moongarage.co.uk/

Guest artist: Kate Hayward
Kate is an illustrator, tea drinker, nature lover, movie fanatic, horror fan, amateur photographer and bug enthusiast living near Cambridge, UK. She has far too many ideas for comics that she should be drawing. At the moment she draws the odd little webcomic, Legion of Kats.

Demontail – drawn by Anna Dowsland

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Demontail
After being used as lab rats and locked away from the world, the children decide they’ve had enough and try to break free, but can they manage it?

Writer/Creator: Foxhat
Foxhat is a final year university student studying cartoon and comic arts. Soon to be set free on to the world as a graduate, she’s ready to share her slightly strange worlds in comic form.

Guest artist: Anna Dowsland
Anna Dowsland (Anitos.) is a freelancing illustrator and comic artist. Her work can be seen in children’s books, CD covers, Animations, Exhibitions and online comics. Previous comic projects she has taken part in are One Beat Zines – “Double Dare ya”, Marine Studios – “Adventures in Comics”, “To Arms” – A WWI centenary anthology, Dirty Rotten Comics – issue 5&6. Anna’s main comic is called Don’t Feed The Pigeons, which is updated on her wordpress every Wednesday.

Nobody kisses me like that – drawn by Midori Harako

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Nobody Kissed Me Like That
‘Nobody Kissed Me Like That’ is a newly started YAOI comic (well, mild YAOI, I would say). Since it has just started I cannot give much away, but it involves two decent human beings and one strange intruder. We’ll find out who he is and all the other mysteries we’ve yet to explore…!

Writer/Creator: Chie Kutsuwada
Chie Kutsuwada is a crisps-munching hare in the daytime and a Japanese manga fanatic at night. She grew up in Japan loving manga and later moved to England then found the fascination of drawing beautiful boys. Her other work can be found here. http://chitangarden.wix.com/chiekutsuwada

Guest artist: Midori Harako
Midori (aka Himmi) is a full time potato who sometimes works on children’s books and game designs in Leeds. When she’s not drawing, she is wailing over fictional characters whilst drinking tea by the pint. http://moongarage.co.uk/

Go! Go! Metro! – drawn by Mewa Chu

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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. Here 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!

Writer/Creator: Inko
Inko is an UK based Japanese manga artist. Her works often imply cross overs of traditional Eastern and Western cultures. She graduated Kyoto Zokei university of Art & Design in Japan, and Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in UK, then she kicked off her career in late 2008. She frequently joins various conventions, art projects such as Art on Underground, gives talks at museums, and deliver manga workshops in and outside UK. Her webcomic co-writed with Chie Kutsuwada ‘Go! Go! Metro!’, an action manga ‘Ketsueki’ story by Richmond Clements, and an art book‘Uniform Girls I’ are available.

Guest artist: Mewa Chu
Mewa-Chu is a creator who does things on the internet. She loves drawing and creating manga styled stories and illustrations and have been doing so since 2007. Mewa creates a variety of different stories all with different and unquie characters in the fun setting of Mew-Ville and Ruby City. Many of her stories can be found at http://www.mew-ville.com/

Tamino and The Magic Flute – drawn by Jade Sarson

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Tamino and the Magic Flute
Tamino and the Magic Flute is a comic based on Mozart’s final opera The Magic Flute. The comic is due to launch this year, where it will be serialized, updating once a week on Mondays. Because Mondays are horrible and we have to fight them together.

Writer/Creator: Paula Albaneze
Paula Albaneze is a small orange..

Guest artist: Jade Sarson
Jade Sarson is a comic artist and illustrator, winner of the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition 2014 (with an extract from her book For the Love of God, Marie!), and nominated for Best Emerging Talent in the 2013 British Comic Awards. She graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2011 with a first class honours degree in Illustration, and published the first Cup of Cafe Suada shortly after. Her work is a fusion of British and Japanese influences, and combines digital and traditional techniques; it has been featured in Neo Magazine, Electric Bloom Webzine, and in anthologies such as Leek and Sushi and Parallel Lives. She lives in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. For the Love of God, Marie! will be published by Myriad Editions in April 2016.

See you next year!

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Wow, that’s all for this week, folks – WASP 2015 is complete!

We hope you’ve enjoyed working on and reading the super collaborations as much as we’ve enjoyed sharing them!

All that’s left to do is thank all of our amazing artists and writers for their hard work and excellent cooperation skills. There were barely any murders this time around!

Also, a big thank you to everyone who promoted WASP this year. Extra special mentions go to: Forbidden Planet, Laydeez do Comics, Alex Fitch and Broken Frontier!
Not to mention all our other new supportive friends from Facebook, Twitter and so on and you guys, thanks for your shares/ likes and all the rest of it!

And an even bigger thank you to you, yes you, the reader. All of you lovely readers. And of course, to everyone who took the time to read all of these smashing webcomics!

WASP will return next year, bigger, faster, stronger, comickier! Until then, have a great year and if you want to get involved, drop us a line!

Sarah Turner
WASP Editor / Queen of promotion and keeper of the mystic book of face

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Francesca Dare
WASP Editor / Chart-goblin who occasionally poked people with a stick