Haunted Bowels Ghostly Update

Some spooky news and reviews emanating from the Haunted Bowels...

Ahem. Haunted Bowels has received a couple of pretty warm reviews. First up is the excellent Forbidden Planet Blog, where Richard Bruton calls it  "...funny and surreal, dark, gruesome fun inside with a series of wildly different art styles..." and compares my work to Evan Dorkin, Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson! Read the review over here...

It's also been reviewed over at Comics Anonymous, where Linsay Powell gave it a smashing 8 out of 10 and declared it so enjoyable that it gave her the "kick up the arse" required to drop some more woeful mainstream publisher's titles from her monthly comics haul... but which ones!?

In other news, the Glasgow Comic Com will soon be upon us, and Haunted Bowels has been nominated for a couple of awards at the Scottish Independent Comic Books Awards (SICBAs). I'm up for Best Comic and Best Writer (the same categories as I was nominated in last year for Roachwell), along with the following people and books:

Best Comic:
 ALL YOU CAN EAT 1 & 2
GUTS POWER
HAUNTED BOWELS
JON BOT VS MARTHA
KING EVIL
MAXIMUM ALAN
NO MORE HEROES
RAISING AMY
REALITY WAR
ROSE BLACK DEMON SEED
THE STANDARD
STAR TRUDGE
X 

Best Writer:

COLIN BELL - JON BOT VS MARTHA
CRAIG COLLINS - HAUNTED BOWELS
JOHN LEES - THE STANDARD
ROSS LEONARD - MAXIMUM ALAN
JASON MATHIS - ALL YOU CAN EAT
GORDON MCCLEAN - NO MORE HEROES
PAUL JON MILNE - GUTS POWER
STUART MORRISON - REALITY WAR
STEPHEN WHITE - RAISING AMY
STEPHEN WHITE - X

Needless to say I don't expect my heavy-breathing book of weird and gruesome gags to capture the hearts and minds of the voting public, but it's an honour to be among these talented nominees and good luck to everyone, especially my good pals Curt Sibling, Rob Miller and Colin Bell.

I'll be about at the Con and most likely packing some copies, so please come on over and harass me if you'd like one, or alternatively you can ram-raid my Big Cartel store if you'd like on by post!