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

WASP-WASP’S COMPLETE WEEK by Lauren Murphy and Paul Shinn,

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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

THE MAGIC FLUTE by Paula Albaneze with Jess Milton (part 2 of 2)

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Tamino and the Magic Flute
Tamino and the Magic Flute is a graphic novel adaptation of Mozart’s famous last opera. The mysterious Queen of the Night sends the hapless Prince Tamino on a quest to save her daughter from the evil sorcerer Sarastro, but Tamino soon finds himself questioning who to trust. To aid him on his journey is Papageno the cowardly bird catcher, and together they must face a series of trials, giant serpents, and an angry princess. The Kickstarter for Tamino and the Magic Flute goes up in January 2016..squonkhunter.wordpress.com

Writer/Creator: Paula Albaneze
Paula has illustrated for Professor Elemental and is currently working on her first printed comic titled Tamino and the Magic Flute, a fantasy based off of Mozart’s last opera, with a Kickstarter due out in January 2016.

She was recently the lead tattoo artist/designer for Hawaii Opera Theatre’s production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Paula is slowly working her way up to be an opera director.

As for right now, she teaches comic creation, art, and music to middle school children in Hawaii. When she is not working on comics or plans for dominating the operatic world, she composes on the piano.

Guest artist: Jess Milton
As well as writing Jason, Jess Milton (aka Jezbelizia) is a newcomer to the small press scene and hopes to release a new zine this year, watch this space! You can check out her art at jezbelizia.tumblr.com

PENNY BLACKFEATHER by Francesca Dare with Paula Albaneze

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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.

www.pennyblackfeather.co.uk

Writer/Creator: Francesca Dare
Francesca Dare is a VFX artist from London. In her spare time she writes and draws comics. Her work has appeared in comic anthologies Wu Wei and To Arms! and issue 2 of Richy K Chandler’s Rosie and Jacinta. Her own comic Penny Blackfeather has recently been published by Sloth Comics. She lives underground in a nest made of string, pocky and old issues of Dan Dare (no relation).

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: Paula Albaneze
Paula has illustrated for Professor Elemental and is currently working on her first printed comic titled Tamino and the Magic Flute, a fantasy based off of Mozart’s last opera, with a Kickstarter due out in January 2016.
She was recently the lead tattoo artist/designer for Hawaii Opera Theatre’s production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Paula is slowly working her way up to be an opera director.
As for right now, she teaches comic creation, art, and music to middle school children in Hawaii. When she is not working on comics or plans for dominating the operatic world, she composes on the piano.

WASP-WASP’S WEEK by Lauren Murphy and Paul Shinn #7

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WASP-Wasp’s Week
A super-surpise-bonus-mystery-comic by Lauren Murphy and Paul Shinn!

THE MAGIC FLUTE by Paula Albaneze with Jess Milton (part 1 of 2)

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She was recently the lead tattoo artist/designer for Hawaii Opera Theatre’s production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Paula is slowly working her way up to be an opera director.