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STRANGERS AND FRIENDS by Rebecca Burgess with Jenny McKeon

Strangers and Friends
When a series of murders haunt the small town of Wootton Bassett, Hemu becomes an easy target. He has his fair share of secrets, but what are the other locals hiding? Strangers and Friends… part thriller part fantasy with a splash of social commentary!
hemu.smackjeeves.com

Writer/Creator: Rebecca Burgess
Rebecca Burgess is a illustrator, comic artist and time traveler living in Bristol.
She has a particular love for history and culture, which she manages to squeeze into all her comics someway or another.

Guest Artist: Jenny McKeon
Jenny McKeon and Alex Chautin like comics almost as much as they like each other. Alex does most of the writing for Eerie PD while Jenny does most of the art, with some overlap between. When not working on their webcomic, they pretty much make more comics, as far as school and work will allow! The two creators live in western MA with their cat, Majora.

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HEADCASE by Rebecca Burgess and Holly Caddick with Evelyn Hewett

Headcase
Devin Beckett is committed to a psychiatric clinic, after being convicted of a murder he swears he didn’t commit. The new patient doesn’t think he’s mentally ill, but that won’t stop anyone else from thinking so- what kind of truths will he uncover about himself and the other patients in his stay at the hospital?
hccomic.smackjeeves.com

Writers/Creators: Rebecca Burgess…
Rebecca Burgess is a illustrator, comic artist and time traveler living in Bristol.
She has a particular love for history and culture, which she manages to squeeze into all her comics someway or another.
Read Rebecca’s webcomic Strangers & Friends here: hemu.smackjeeves.com
…and Holly Caddick
I studied illustration at Bristol UWE, but moved to study in Swindon in the second year. I have made my glorious return to the motherland (Bristol) and am hoping to actually do some creative work. Colourist and co-author for Headcase, I haven’t done much work on comics in the past, The Inbetween being my first attempt although it’s been long in the making!

Guest Artist: Evelyn Hewet
I’m Evelyn Hewett aka Mimi: Arty Student by day and Comicker by night. My work tends to rotate around bright colours, pop culture, comics, fabulous fashion, fine art, youth, beauty, truth, freedom and LOVE! …*ahem*
If you wanna make me happy then please go and check out my beloved webcomic: Fruit Machine. A story of a young man struggling with all of the above.

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FOLKLORE by Sarah Turner with Reed Hawker

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Folklore
Follow the lives of a party of mythical creatures who are in a battle to save the world from evil.
http://www.manga
magazine.net/manga-and-comics/Folklore/detail-page/604

Writer/Creator: Sarah Turner
I’m Sarah, A Social Media Consultant by day/ Crazy Musician Doodler by night. I’m from Oldham, live in Leeds and enjoy a good cup of tea.
http://sarahturner04.me/new/illustration.html

Guest Artist: Reed Hawker
Reed Hawker works as an artist in the video game industry and has maintained the Multi-Aritst eXchange when he’s not working on his comic, Culture Shock.

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HMS CROCK DOCTOR by Paula Albaneze with Rebecca Burgess

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HMS Crock Doctor
It’s kind of like Heart of Darkness meets Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
http://hmscdrcomic.
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Writer/Creator: Paula Albaneze
Paula Albaneze spends most of her time fawning over opera singers and hunting for stories about hunchbacks that aren’t French.

Guest Artist: Rebecca Burgess
Rebecca Burgess is a illustrator, comic artist and time traveler living in Bristol.
She has a particular love for history and culture, which she manages to squeeze into all her comics someway or another.
Read Rebecca’s webcomic Strangers & Friends here: hemu.smackjeeves.com

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TOZO by David O’Connell with Matt Boyer

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Tozo
Tozo is a science-fiction tale set in a retro-futuristic world. Detective Inspector Tozo is asked to investigate a murder, but has little idea that the trail will lead him into a deadly world of political intrigue. The second part of the Tozo saga, The Empire at of the Spider, has recently started.
tozocomic.com

Writer/Creator: David O’Connell
David O’Connell is a children’s writer and illustrator living in London. He is the creator of the webcomic Tozo, and is the editor of the comic anthology ink+PAPER. His children’s book series MONSTER & CHIPS is published by HarperCollins, and he has a picture book collaboration with Sarah McIntyre coming out in October 2014 from David Fickling Books called JAMPIRES.
scribblehound.com

Guest Artist: Matt Boyer
Matt Boyer is a London based visual effects artist and comic creator. His series Running can currently be read online at letsdocomics and in the digital and physical pages of Backwards Burd.

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LUCY THE OCTOPUS by Richy K. Chandler with Rachael Smith

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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
lucytheoctopus.net

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 Lucy the Octopus and co-creator of Rosie and Jacinda.
He is the originator / editor of WASP and teaches comic creation to children and adults.

Guest Artist: Rachael Smith
Rachael Smith began creating comics a few years ago, starting with weekly comic strip Vicky Park for the Leicester Mercury (which still runs today). She also keeps a diary comic One Good Thing. Her first two story comics The Way We Write and I Am Fire were both released to critical acclaim. Her third, House Party, is set to be even bigger.
“She has the style, the line, the skill to slowly build up an audience and be the next big thing.” – Richard Burton, Forbidden Planet International

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CAFE SUADA by Jade Sarson with Francesca Dare

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Cafe Suada
Down by the riverside there is a quaint little teahouse run by our heroine, Geraldine, who’s 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? Guess you’d better read and find out, huh?”
Tea leaves, coffee beans and a dash of romance, what’s not to like? A quaint, slightly eccentric twist on the slice of life genre with teastained visuals.
Cafe Suada

Writer/Creator: Jade Sarson
Jade Sarson is a Bletchley based illustrator, writer and comic artist who likes tea and old books. She graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2011 with a first class honours degree in Illustration. Her work is a fusion of British and Japanese influences, and combines digital and traditional techniques – it has been featured in Neo Magazine, Kerrang! Magazine, and anthologies such as Ink+Paper and Parallel Lives. In 2013 she was nominated for Best Emerging Talent in the British Comic Awards. Her current projects include the popular tea-inspired webcomic Cafe Suada, and her graphic novel Siddown!

Guest Artist: Francesca Dare
Francesca Dare is a VFX artist from London. In her spare time she writes and draws comics, when she is not fighting giant lizards with a big stick. She likes tea and dogs.

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RUNNING by Matt Boyer with Louise Wei

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Running
Running follows a boy, his grandma, and their gigantic robot as they flee from something unknown in a tired old world.
letsdocomics.
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Writer/Creator: Matt Boyer
Matt Boyer is a London based visual effects artist and comic creator. His series Running can currently be read online at letsdocomics and in the digital and physical pages of Backwards Burd.

Guest Artist: Louise Wei
Louise considered herself a very lucky housewife/artist, she studied art and has worked in many professions through out the years, but drawing is the one passion she kept coming back to, now happily living and creating in London.

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OVERGROUND by Alex Brenchley with Nicola Streeten

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Overground
Overground is a comic strip, seeing London through the eyes of a group of pigeons and their day-to-day experiences.
www.overgroundcartoon.com

Writer/Creator: Alex Brenchley
Alex Brenchley (born 1983, London) is an artist, living and working in London. He has participated in exhibitions at the Barbican, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Battersea Arts Centre. He has designed artwork for the band Noah and the Whale, and illustrated for the British Museum children’s magazine, Remus.

Guest Artist: Nicola Streeten
Nicola is an anthropologist-turned-illustrator and comics scholar. Her graphic memoir, Billy, Me & You, about bereavement following the death of her two-year old son was published by Myriad Editions in 2011. It is the first published long form graphic memoir by a British woman and received a British Medical Association Award in 2012. Her second graphic novel, Hymn, a fiction exploring issues around abortion, will be published in 2015.
Currently Nicola is working on a PhD at the University of Sussex on British feminist comics for which she has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship.
She is co-founder of Laydeez do Comics, a unique graphic novel salon with national and international branches.
www.streetenillustration.com
Blog: http://nicolastreeten.
wordpress.com/
Contact:
nicola@streetenillustration.com

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ONE GOOD THING by Rachael Smith with Paul Shinn 1of 3

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One Good Thing
One Good Thing is a diary comic drawn by Rachael Smith.
Rachael started this comic in 2011 in an effort to beat depression and look at the good things around her. As well as being therapeutic for Rachael herself, One Good Thing has also inspired many of it’s readers to be more positive as well.
“If One Good Thing is Rachael Smith’s attempt to deliver something good into the world, and make the reader’s day a little better by sharing life’s ups and downs, then this smile on my face says she’s done the job.”
– Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International
http://rachaelsonegoodthing
.blogspot.co.uk/

Writer/Creator: Rachael Smith
Rachael Smith began creating comics a few years ago, starting with weekly comic strip Vicky Park for the Leicester Mercury (which still runs today). She also keeps a diary comic One Good Thing. Her first two story comics The Way We Write and I Am Fire were both released to critical acclaim. Her third, House Party, is set to be even bigger.
“She has the style, the line, the skill to slowly build up an audience and be the next big thing.”
– Richard Burton, Forbidden Planet International

Guest Artist: Paul Shinn
Paul Shinn is a freelance illustrator and comic artist who likes to create images which make people smile. Paul has produced comics for the bands Emmy The Great and Emperor Yes, as well as uploading various comic strips on his blog: lookwhatidrawed.blogspot.com. Paul is aiming to release his first self-published work later this year!
paulshinndraws.com

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