tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48685809214525574582024-03-13T11:14:41.538-07:00Craig-CollinsCraig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-36702210316959366662018-01-12T04:53:00.000-08:002018-01-29T02:08:03.563-08:00Fermented Gags From Pickled Brains<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Who likes beer? <b>We dooooo!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve been a member of Edinburgh’s <a href="https://www.beer52.com/">Beer 52</a> for a couple of years now, receiving all manner of exciting and delicious craft beers from the world over in a big box at the start of the month, along with a copy of the excellent <a href="https://www.fermentmagazine.com/">Ferment Magazine</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last summer me and my good pal and collaborator the excellent <a href="https://muchtoomuchdetail.wordpress.com/">Mark Brady</a> had wrapped up our work on <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/medieval-times-are-here.html">Medieval Times</a>, and it was over a few sunny Sunday beers that I suggested to Mark we make a <span style="font-family: inherit;">quite </span>ambitious and unrealistic punt at submitting some comics to Ferment.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> W</span>e w<span style="font-family: inherit;">orked up a<span style="font-family: inherit;">bout a dozen ideas for gags, picked the four th<span style="font-family: inherit;">at were strongest and that covered a pretty broad range of relev<span style="font-family: inherit;">ant topics<span style="font-family: inherit;">, scripted them up <span style="font-family: inherit;">f<span style="font-family: inherit;">or </span></span>Mark <span style="font-family: inherit;">to w<span style="font-family: inherit;">ork his magic up<span style="font-family: inherit;">on and posted them off...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lo and behold, they only really liked them! Mark and I have had our short “Ales of The Unexpected” strips sitting pretty up front in the editorial pages of the last six editions of Ferment with more to come. It’s been absolutely ace working up ideas for weird beery gags with Mark and scripting them up, and being in the pages of a magazine I really like (and recently <a href="https://twitter.com/PPAScotland/status/933828978485420033">award-winning</a> no less, congratulations Rich and Ashley!) is really exciting. Thanks very much to Ferment for having us on board!</span></span><br />
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While I've been working away on some very exciting stuff with the excellent <a href="https://muchtoomuchdetail.wordpress.com/">Mark Brady</a>, I've been doing a bit of DIY zine action on the side. And here they aaaaare: <br />
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<b>Oubliette:</b> a short story from a deep hole. A 12 page plus card cover comic which debuted at the excellent <a href="http://glasgowzinefest.com/">Glasgow Zine Fest</a> in April this year.<br />
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And new for this year's once again excellent <a href="https://gccon.wordpress.com/">Glasgow Comic Con</a> in July is <b>Hot Trash Dimension</b>, a 12-page plus hawwwt pink cover collection of weirdo illustration and misguided fan art.<br />
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You can get these rascals in my <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/">online shop</a> for a single morgul coin (£1). More illustration and zine-garbage in the works!</div>
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I spent many excruciating GameBoy hours trying to fight this toad to wherever he was trying to fight his way to. The specifics are hazy. Whatever became of you, Giant Arm? Did you ever find the love and acceptance you so clearly needed?<br />
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You can read the full Glasgow Comic Con Awesome! Anthology online for free. <a href="https://issuu.com/bhpcomics/docs/digitalawesomecomic_2">Get to it!</a>Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-67044611333171186412016-08-08T16:48:00.000-07:002016-08-08T16:52:04.127-07:00Glasgow Con and New Work - A Welcome Breeze of Fetid AirNew comics are here, all up in your face and also eyeballs!<br />
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I'd meant to post some details of all the new work I had going on at this year's Glasgow Comic Con before the event, but yer old pal Craig was busy folding and stapling comics into the dead of the night and didn't manage to. So here we are...<br />
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I had an excellent time of Glasgow Comic Con once again, made some new pals and saw some exciting new work both by creators I knew and didn't, and the new venue seems to suit the event really well. I was on a speed-drawing panel, hardly my natural environment but a good time, and I was really pleased to have a strip in the Con's official Awesome! Anthology collaborating with my good pal and national treasure <a href="http://www.neilslorance.com/">Neil Slorance</a>. We did a deeply profound Battletoads comic called "Bufo Proelium, Bufo Paenitet". Here's a page:<br />
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There's loads of cool strips in their including work by <a href="http://www.zyzanna.com/">Zyzanna Dominiak a</a>nd <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nienawidzeludzi666">Łukasz Kowalczuk</a>, and check out that amazing big bear by BHP's<a href="http://storvackerart.tumblr.com/"> Kirsty Hunter</a>. You can even read the whole thing online for free. <a href="https://issuu.com/bhpcomics/docs/digitalawesomecomic_2">Get to it!</a><br />
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My big new effort for 2016 was launched! Medieval Times by me and the excellent <a href="https://muchtoomuchdetail.wordpress.com/">Mark Brady</a> went down great and people seemed to really like them, and we were left with just a handful by the end of the weekend. Some more info on these wee rascals in a <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/medieval-times-are-here.html">previous post</a>. I've now made up a new batch, and they're available in my <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/">online shop</a> now. Make like the medieval English infantry and go forth and pillage!<br />
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I also finally released my Ultimate Ross Geller Fanzine, which for something so profoundly stupid seemed to go down very well indeed, which was lovely because I put a great deal of effort into it considering it's profoundly stupid. It's available online now, eight pages plus covers charting the life experiences of everyone's favourite F.R.I.E.N.D in the context of Occult Armageddon. Get one over at <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/">Central Perk</a>.<br />
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Lastly I released upon this unfortunate world a couple of new microcomics that I give out for free (the last lot are <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/thought-bubble-2014-de-mysteriis-dom.html">here</a>) so if you're picking up anything from my online shop some of these are sure to creep their way into the envelope. If you like hand-folded Space Marine illustration zines then hoooo boy nerds, have I got a treat for you.<br />
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I'm thrilled to announce Medieval Times, a set of six new minicomics by me and the extraordinary <a href="https://muchtoomuchdetail.wordpress.com/">Mark Brady</a>!<br />
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<i>....Once upon a time two knaves sat down in Ye Olde Tavern with a big bag of soldiers. These craven peasants selected the six miniatures of greatest fighting spirit, then perused their poses, demeanours and finery searching for the tales of valour and calamity within each."Medieval Times" follows these six brave English souls as they battle across Northern France in the heady days of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) to tell their stories of victory and misadventure. For King and Country!</i><br />
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Or to put it more plainly....! Mark and I were bouncing around a ideas to collaborate on, and one that grabbed us was the idea of using little fighting figurines as a blank canvas to infer stories of valour and misfortune upon, stories which were very specific and personal to the moulded-by-the-thousand figure in hand. We picked some historical soldiers and from these our favourite six, and their attributes and the kinds of ideas we were knocking about fell firmly into the gruelling times of the Hundred Years War between England and France. Looking over each little figure in detail, we considered their poses and countenances, weaponry and clothes, to find the character hidden within and their own tale of glorious victory, ignominious defeat, or somewhere between the two and in doing so hopefully creating something unique from something ordinary. Each comic stands alone, but there's plenty of little links and overlaps in there for the keen battle-watchers. Introducing....!<br />
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Six handmade colour minicomics, eight pages plus covers, including and inspired by a fighting man of days of yore. £3 each or £15 for all six, available at <a href="https://gccon.wordpress.com/">Glasgow Comic Con</a> - Clyde Foyer - on July 2nd and 3rd 2016 and also now in my <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/">online shop</a>. It's been a real pleasure collaborating with Mark and there's hopefully more to come from us in the future. In the meantime - come get your Hundred Years War on!<br />
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<br />Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-30924674386632868482016-01-04T16:53:00.004-08:002016-01-04T16:58:04.351-08:002016: Oozing Wound FascinationHello hello. I've been working continually on a lot of quite in depth projects over the last couple of years, so it's with some excitement that hopefully 2016 is the year when some of these will see the light of day. I'm thinking of also taking a bit of an ill-advised step into the world of lo-fi illustration zines, though feel free to talk me out of this. In the meantime, here's some collected shonky photos of some dubious work that's seeped out on Twitter over the last few months. Onwards and upwards!<br />
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Cavernous and crepuscular opinions on The Apprentice. Serious kvlt shit.
As it is, this benighted young man called it early and backed the <a href="https://twitter.com/mrjosephvalente?lang=en-gb" target="_blank">winner</a>. </div>
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An official Khorne Berzerker Product review for yet another excellent Williams Brothers beer. For <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z5p-DZrLZoQ/Vc5pJujOQeI/AAAAAAAABeI/GSSnXbG-WmI/s1600/Plague%2Breview%2BCCollins%2B2015.jpg%20" target="_blank">completion's sake</a> I should probably do the other Chaos Gods, but I don't know if I want to draw a bunch of Slaaneshi Penis Marines.<br />
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I thought I'd have a go at <a href="https://twitter.com/themooks" target="_blank">The Mooks</a>' Draw Stormtroopers project. There's an abundance of incredible stuff <a href="http://mookiest.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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A reflective self-portrait. I watched <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMXgHfHxKVM">Attack On Titan</a> and it led to some profound thoughts.</div>
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It was National Burger Day back in August. About a week later it was National Cheeseburger Day. <a href="http://cinetropolis.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/indy-plane.jpg">No one's flying the plane.</a> </div>
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Getting in on that "Draw <a href="https://twitter.com/AndyWPOliver">Andy Oliver </a>of Broken Frontier" action. Sorely tempted to write some of those ludicrous comics whirling about him.</div>
<br />Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-36440658066635888052015-08-25T15:37:00.000-07:002016-01-04T16:52:22.271-08:00The Acrid Stink of Burning TrashHello! I've been striving away on some in-depth and lengthy projects for some time now, so I've been doing a wee bit of dumb doodling on the side when on the train and so on. Here's some shonky photographs of the decidedly mixed results...<br />
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Jar Jar Binks ♥s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijGvXHUI07w" target="_blank">Deathspell Omega.</a> Of course he does.</div>
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For someone who's pretty sick of the near-saturation of culture by Star Wars and mash-ups thereof, it's pretty hypocritical to combine the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWO5Ai_a80M" target="_blank">Mos Eisley Cantina Band </a>with berobed drone outfit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIR1KfKXH6s" target="_blank">SunnO)))</a>. But here we are. </div>
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Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-60867990553398090262014-11-12T13:39:00.001-08:002014-11-12T13:40:34.977-08:00Thought Bubble 2014: De Mysteriis Dom Instazines!I'll be exhibiting at this weekend's <a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/" target="_blank">Thought Bubble</a> comics festival once again, you can find me at <a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/new-dock-hall-floor-plan/" target="_blank">Table 139 </a>B where I'll have Roachwell, Crawl Hole, Metrodome and Haunted Bowels available. You can check out a slew of reviews down there on the right, but trust me when I say they're dead good.<br />
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But in addition, I'll have these cool wee Instazines which are hot off the press and I'll be giving them away for FREE this weekend! Contemplate the mysteries of Pophammer! Weep and wail to the sounds of Pophammer: The Ballads! Enter the realm of Black Metal... and who, or what, are the Dance Dudes??<br />
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Pretty small beer compared to some of the cracking looking books that are being launched at this excellent event, but I'm pleased that in the meager time available to me I've been able to complete something I'm pretty happy with and is pretty entertaining. So come on by my table, have a chat, check out some comics and grab some zines!<br />
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<br />Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-26778834251485141242014-09-04T05:39:00.000-07:002014-09-04T05:41:16.727-07:00Reviews and Events Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism!While <strong>Metrodome</strong> and <strong>Crawl Hole</strong> came out a little over a year ago, I was delighted to see the excellent Rob Clough of TCJ.com and High Low Comics has recently taken a <a href="http://highlowcomics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/brit-comics-collinslaurie-lunney-cowdry.html" target="_blank">very favourable look</a> at both comic. Rob said of <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metrodome</a>:<br />
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Thanks to Rob for his time and enthusiasm for me and Iain's work. Also recently was Craig Neilson's <a href="http://bigcomicpage.com/2014/07/03/ceej-says-crawl-hole-review-glasgow-comic-con-14/" target="_blank">review of Crawl Hole</a> as part of an in-depth look at the Scottish Independent Comic Book Award nominees. <br />
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Thanks to Ceej for his kind words! Now, crawling from the wreckage of reviewing to gravitate to the inordinate density of some upcoming events. I'm very happy to be returning to <a href="http://www.mcmcomiccon.com/scotland/" target="_blank">Scotland's MCM Comic Comic</a> con this weekend on the 5th and 6th of September. Come by and see me at table B6 and get your fill of experimental weirdo comics!<br />
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Last year was a hugely enjoyable time of comics, banter and extraordinary cosplay. I even met this foppish young dandy.<br />
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Then come November 15th I'll be back at the prestigious, invigorating and terrifying comics singularity that it <a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/" target="_blank">Thought Bubble!</a> Much like 50 Cent, you will find me in da club, the club being <a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/exhibitors/new-dock-hal/" target="_blank">New Dock Hall</a>. <br />
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So what exactly is going on in the dank comics writing oubliette at Fort Collins? Where I can find the time I've been working pretty successfully on some substantial longer form comics and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming along. There's won't be much to say or show for some time, but to scratch that itch of getting fun weird stuff out there, I'm working on a few wee things that may or may not make it to my Thought Bubble table. We'll see. I bought a sketch pad. It can only end in catastrophe.Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-39873576220489480782014-06-24T11:09:00.001-07:002014-06-24T11:12:57.469-07:00Crawl Hole - Waist Deep In SICBAI'm very happy to say that me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>'s 2013 experimental horror comic <b>Crawl Hole</b> has been nominated for <b>Best Comic </b>and <b>Best Cover</b> at this year's <a href="http://sicba.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards</a>!<br />
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The SICBAs are part of the <a href="http://gccon.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Glasgow Comic Con</a> on the 5th and 6th of July. I'll be exhibiting in the Art School venue both days, so please do come by and check out some comics and have a chat! Voting for the SICBAs is on the 5th of July with the winners announced at the Ceremony that evening at the CCA. Do check out the full nominations shortlist, some excellent work therein, and all books will be available to read in the voting area. No expectation of snatching a gong in the name of weirdo comics, but a good night is sure to be had!<br />
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If you're not at the Con, you can get it in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FPGlasgow/about" target="_blank">Forbidden Planet Glasgow</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Waterstones-Glasgow-Argyle-Street/192765657458846#%21/waterstones.argylest/about">Waterstones Argyle Street</a>, <a href="http://www.geek-retreat.com/about-us-2/" target="_blank">Geek Retreat UK</a>, or by post at my <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Big Cartel Shop</a> and digitally at <a href="https://gumroad.com/craigcollins">Gumroad</a> <br />
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Glasgow Comic Con is popular with the Cosplay Contingent, who are always a pleasure to talk to and bring a huge amount of colour and fun to the comic con scene. So should any of Scotland's cosplayers have the nerve, the steeeeel required to commit to Crawl Hole Cosplay.... here's a handy guide. <b>Click to embiggen!</b><br />
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<i>As usual with these gents, gore, violence and a twisted sense of
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man, assisted suicide, uncomfortable reunions and childhood nursery
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after reading then you can’t go far wrong with a Collins-Laurie
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<a href="http://www.rhymeswithgeek.com/grossly-incandescent-craig-collins/" target="_blank">See here</a> for some extended chat on the mysteries and secrets of <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metrodome</a>, collaboration, reviewing and much much more. Thanks to Kyle for his time and some very interesting questions.Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-24210814604448514972014-04-04T06:10:00.002-07:002014-04-04T06:10:47.304-07:00Panel Show Recurring Talking Head ExtravaganzaHey! Well it's been very quiet on here recently, with not a great deal going on and no new comics to show... but there's plenty happening, as I'm quietly working away on some longer form projects and broader undertakings. But here's some goings-ons of late...<br />
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I was recently asked by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThingsThatIveDone" target="_blank">John Wilson</a>, a filmaking student and independent director at Glasgow City College, to be interviewed for a short documentary he was making on Glasgow's indie comics scene. You'll see me and also <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMysteriousMJ" target="_blank">Marjory Wallace</a> of the famous <a href="http://teamgirlcomic.co.uk/" target="_blank">Team Girl Comics</a> collective and the colourful environs of Glasgow's<a href="http://www.geek-retreat.com/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank"> Geek Retreat</a>:<br />
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This Saturday 5th of April I'll be heading to the Dread Realm of Dundee to exhibit at the annual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dundee-Comics-Expo/300792306691116?ref=ts&fref=ts" target="_blank">Dundee Comics Expo</a>, which is running in conjunction with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DeeCon2k14/" target="_blank">DeeCon</a>, Scotland's largest Anime convention. Both events are <b>free!</b> There looks to be all sorts of cool events, talks and displays to be had at both, including a Kendo display which is safe to assume will be great. So I'm looking forward to meeting the comic readers and cosplaying anime-mad fans and fiends of Dundee, Tayside and The Kingdom Of Fife!<br />
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I'm missing a <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/under-sign-of-nestle.html" target="_blank">Gorgoroth </a>show to be there, so you guys better show me a nice time!<br />
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Later in the month I'll be at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/238908616296552/" target="_blank">Graphic Stories</a> event in the Glasgow's Waterstones in Argyle Street. A section section of local comics talent has been carefully curated in Waterstones, and a small event is on for people to meet the creators and buy their wares. It's a real honour to be in Waterstones and to be invited to come along, and I'm sure it'll be a fun and interesting day and perhaps an opportunity to meet some new readers who are less familiar with indie comics, or comics altogether.<br />
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Well look here if it isn't me and Iain Laurie's books, genuinely and legitimately available in Waterstones of Argyl Street Glasgow, and the Graphic Novels of the Month at that!<br />
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A sincere thanks to Waterstones for having our work in store, and for the generous feature spot!<br />
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<br />Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-67993505604970894422013-12-19T05:41:00.003-08:002013-12-19T05:41:29.351-08:002013 Round UpNow that 2013 is winding up it's time for a wee retrospective. Something to look over what I've done and failed to do, something to appreciate some of the unexpected opportunities that have come my way and consolidate some plans for the year ahead. <br />
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This year I brought out two new comics, both in collaboration with the mighty <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/enter-crawl-hole.html" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>, and rather unusual beasts they were.<br />
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First up was <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Metrodome</b></a>. Metrodome was a long and involved process at every stage, partly due to the unconventional nature of our collaboration on it and partly due to the extremely detailed task it proved to be to collate and finalise, and it seemed to take forever to bring to completion. So it was a challenge to complete and a relief to finally put it out into the world! I'm pleased to say it's been very well received, broadly speaking the reviews have been great and I've had all sorts of excited feedback from friends and other small press colleagues, so I reckon in the end me we be pretty pleased with this unruly book. There's a little something extra for Metrodome to come, so look out in early 2014.<br />
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About a month later I released <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/enter-crawl-hole.html" target="_blank"><b>Crawl Hole</b></a>, the spiritual cousin to Roachwell and a collection of various experimental surreal horror strips from across the years. These strips in this collected format had been my plan for a few years, and while it's a strip or two slimmer than I'd planned, it's great to have this out there and finally feel that this part of my work is brought to a kind of conclusion. It seems to have gone down very well, and I'm particularly proud of this book. While I expect I'll do work of a similar sort in future, this feels like the Roachwell / Crawl Hole axis of evil brought to a solid close.<br />
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This year was also a bit of an achievement in that I finally got into the frenetic world of selling my comics at conventions and events. I had a little warm up in selling Metrodome at the Glasgow Comic Con, where John Lees kindly invited me to perch on his table. But the first major event on my own was the excellent <b><a href="http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/minicomicsfair" target="_blank">Stripped Fest</a> </b>as part of the Edinburgh Book Festival.<br />
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Something unexpected that came alongside Stripped, and I've no idea how this came about, is that I was invited to take part in a special 'comics edition' of the famed <a href="http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/journal/edinburgh-ep-7.html" target="_blank">Literary Death Match,</a> with none other than Neil Gaiman as a judge. I've <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/literary-death-match-and-stripped-comic.html" target="_blank">written about it in detail here</a>, but needless to say it was a nerve-wracking and extraordinary experience that was hugely enjoyable and just great to be involved in. Certainly the coolest thing that happened to me, comics wise, for the year.<br />
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Stripped itself was a really enjoyable show in a truly lovely set of halls. We were all ridiculously well looked after by the Book Festival and its staff, and it was a great first foray into the world of selling at conventions.<br />
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Following that - <b>MCM Glasgow.</b> None of us really knew what to expect of it, but we did not expect the astounding attendance that resulted. I had an excellent day, selling comics and chatting with cool folks and admiring the brilliant costumes going on. I have to say that I was hugely impressed by the crowd, despite a three-odd hour wait in intermittent rain the positivity and good humour on show was really something. Plus I met this guy:<br />
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Lastly the mighty <b>Thought Bubble</b>. It was quite an experience, as was my Sunday hangover. All in all I had a great time, I sold better than I expected to, and had the opportunity to finally meet in person lots of friends I know from being in anthologies with, Twitter, Facebook and all. And the huge variety and quality of work on offer was simply fantastic. I suppose the scale of the event is, for an exhibitor, both a positive and a negative. In that there's very little time to get away from your table and in that time, there's so many people's work to look into and events and talks on, it's impossible to make much of a dent in what you'd like to see. Similarly I wonder, with the number of exhibitors, can it be possible that enough punters come in the door with enough money to not send many an exhibitor home short of breaking even? But all that's for wider discussion, and it was a great weekend.<br />
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Rounding out the yea<span style="font-family: inherit;">r nicely, I was asked to do a reading for the recent inaugural event for a new Scottish outfit the <a href="http://thespeculativebookshop.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b>Speculative Bookshop</b></a>. Myself and four other local writers discussed our work and did readings, for my part I discussed Roachwell, it's conception and some of the ideas therein, and the wider freedoms and limitations of small press comics, then finished with a spoken word version of a Roachwell strip that never was. The highlight of the night was Stephen Goodall's excellent and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx1H74WExPI" target="_blank">dread-inducing reading</a> that linked to his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imrcomic" target="_blank">Institute for Marine Research Comic.</a> Do check that out! Kudos to Jen and Dale for running a great event with enthusiasm and professionalism, keep an eye on those guys.</span><br />
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So despite not feeling so, it's been a pretty productive year and I've been able to do some pretty cool things. And with those two long-gestating comics out now, the cupboards are bare. So I'm looking forward to the year ahead, and hoping between my young family and compressed working week I can find a little more time a little more regularly. I've got two (or maybe three, if there's an appetite for <i>Haunted Bowels: Volume II</i>) projects at various stages, all of which will be longer and more substantial undertakings. You may even see me flirt with crazy notions such as character and plot...!<br />
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Lastly I'd like to thank my collaborators over the years, in particular Iain, and the various reviewers for the time and effort they put into critical assessment of small press work, and the various friends and colleagues who've read and been supportive of my comics. Thanks all!<br />
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I'll be doing something of a talk on me and <span id="goog_1395346786"></span><a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie<span id="goog_1395346787"></span></a>'s <a href="http://roachwell.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Roachwell</a>, followed by an attempt at a prose reading adapted from the mysterious script for a Roachwell that never was.... <br />
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There's also the undoubtedly excellent talents of Douglas Thompson, Alexander Abraham and Hal Duncan, and fellow comic maker <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imrcomic" target="_blank">Stephen Goodall</a> of the fantastic Institute For Marine Research (that's me pictured on the left, and Stephen on the right) as well as a range of local distros and bookmakers.<br />
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A massive thanks to Jen and Dale for inviting me to be involved. Come along to see me crash and burn then enjoy the lovely beers available in the Old Hairdressers!<br />
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Meanwhile, behind the facade of this innocent-looking blogpost, comic reviews have been creeping about the place unchecked and it's time to round them up in one place and exterminate them! Here we go...!<br />
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Both <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metrodome </a>and Crawl Hole, by me and the excellent <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>, have both received a powerfully good review in the latest issue of <a href="http://www.starburstmagazine.com/" target="_blank">Starburst Magazine</a>. Our<i> "work together is instantly recognisable and like nothing else you've ever read... often hilarious, occasionally incomprehensible and always, always disturbing". </i>Yeah!<br />
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On Metrodome, <i>"...this ultraviolent, sickeningly offensive midnspew is utterly brilliant"</i>, while on Crawl Hole reviewer Phillip Buchan is impressed with our breadth of stories <i>"all filtered through a very Death Metal sensibility"</i>. Iain's work is complimented as <i>"grotesque as ever, improving in consistency and confidence with every comic that he releases"</i> and for my part my <i>"warped sensibilites really do hold nothing sacred".</i> Hey man, <b>click to embiggen</b> and read it for yourself!<br />
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Over on the Forbidden Planet Blog, Metrodome takes a bit of a battering from the ever-astute Richard Bruton. Unsurprising for an unconventional comic, but he does find some qualities therein, saying "It’s well written and Laurie is obviously having a great, great time doing his vilest, most grotesque characters...". <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/reviews-metrodome-5/" target="_blank">Read it over here</a>...!<br />
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In the following weeks, Richard takes a look at Crawl Hole and finds it very good indeed. Yeah! He states Iain's work "<i>has his very best Kev O’Neill on in a couple of the final stories. And
it suits him, the angular, scratchy style, the explosion of bodily
fluids, guts, and gore picked out in every detail</i>" and describes the writing as<i> </i>having <i>"...something more about them, a heft not in keeping with their short length"</i>. He concludes<i> "All in all, this one is slight, but manages to do the important thing;
it’s satisfying, with ideas that make the sum of the experience far
greater than the page-count." </i>Man, Craig, shut up. It's <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/reviews-crawl-hole/" target="_blank">over here!</a><br />
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And following that I was delighted to see the complimentary covers for Roachwell and Crawl Hole <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/comics-sometimes-its-the-fun-little-things/" target="_blank">featured on the Forbidden Plant blog!</a> A little trick that I was pretty pleased with myself on and Iain and Derek Dow executed perfectly, so it was excellent to see it appreciated in this way.<br />
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And finally Andy Oliver of Broken Fronteir looks at Metrodome <a href="http://www.brokenfrontier.com/metrodome/" target="_blank">over here</a>, with plenty good to say! On Metrodome "<i>the characters emerge fully formed
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He concludes <i>" If you like your comics unsettling, in-yer-face and gratuitously
grotesque then you can’t go wrong with the wicked and wily wit of these
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So here ends the gratuitous splurge of frothing reviewage! All in all I'm really pleased to see our weirdo experimental comics being received so well in some very esteemed quarters. Thanks to the reviewers above for their time and efforts in writing these, and their continued support of the UK small press.Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-70989397330545447872013-09-02T06:05:00.000-07:002013-09-09T01:20:11.050-07:00Scottish MCM Comic Con: Beyond The WallI'm very excited to be at this weekend's first ever <a href="http://www.mcmcomiccon.com/scotland/" target="_blank">Scottish MCM Comic Con</a> (7th September) in the frozen wasteland of the SECC, tabling my comics in the Comics Village along with a massive but undisciplined warband of talented indie creators! It looks to be a very busy exhibition with a great deal going on, and for a pretty cheap entry too...<br />
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Here's a wee round up of the books I'll be selling - do drop <b>Table C11</b> by and check them out, say hello and have a chat. Note that <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metrodome</a> cosplay is actively encouraged! <br />
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<b>Metrodome</b>: by me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>.
Drawn from The Metro like poison from a wound, Eight Contenders in The
Fight for Survival, The Battle for Ultimate Victory! An experimental
production in creation, destruction and survival, in a
comic created from a single edition of the free UK newspaper <i>The Metro</i>. Sized A5, 24 pages Black and White with colour cover, released July 2013 (£3.00).<br />
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<i>"The characters emerge fully formed from the deepest, darkest
depths of the magnificently poisonous headspaces of Collins and
Laurie... If you like your comics unsettling, in-yer-face and
gratuitously grotesque then you can’t go wrong with the wicked and wily
wit of these guys."</i> <a href="http://www.brokenfrontier.com/metrodome/">Broken Frontier.</a><br />
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<b>Haunted Bowels</b>: A collection of small press comedy comics - gruesome gags and oddball
humour, surreal comedy and morbid light entertainment. Omniscient
beings, strange cowboys, troubled poets and unruly spectres and much
more await within...!<br />
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Nominated for Best Comic and Best Writer at the
2012 Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards.<br />
Sized A5, 24 pages Black and White with colour cover, released June 2012
(£3.00).Chocked to the gills with comics and featuring art by a
multiuide of fine comics artists from Scotland and beyond.<br />
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<i>"Yep, funny and surreal, dark, gruesome fun inside with a series of wildly different art styles..."</i> <a href="http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/haunted-bowels/">Forbidden Planet.</a><br />
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<i>"In the strips that make up Haunted Bowels, Collins combines
clever bad taste humour with perceptive pop cultural parody... ruthless
satirical swagger"</i> <a href="http://old.brokenfrontier.com/columns/p/detail/weird-worlds-department-of-the-peculiar-haunted-bowels-and-roachwell">Broken Frontier.</a><br />
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<i>"That dichotomy between wry observational humour and outright bad
taste lies at the heart of Collins’ best work... Collins’ love of horror
elevates his comics to the extent that I suspect we’re only getting a
glimpse of what he’s be capable of on a more sustained project" </i> <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/haunted-bowels-phantom-newsround.html">Starburst Magazine.</a><br />
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<b>Roachwell</b>: A surreal horror comedy comic by me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>.
Sized A5, 28 pages Black and White with colour cover, collected June
2011 (£3.00). Featured in Indie anthologies Hive 4 and 5 and New British
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Nominated for Best Comic and Best Writer at the 2011 Scottish
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"<i>This is exquisitely macabre material drenched in a flawless
cynicism; wonderfully and self-indulgently morbid in its delivery, it is
gruesomely entertaining fare"</i> <a href="http://old.brokenfrontier.com/columns/p/detail/weird-worlds-department-of-the-peculiar-haunted-bowels-and-roachwell" target="_blank">Broken Frontier.</a><br />
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<i>"...refreshingly weird, effortlessly funny and at times just plain psychotic... Funny, frightening and a world unto itself..." </i>- <a href="http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/02/22/small-press-comics-review/" target="_blank">Comic Heroes</a>.<br />
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<i>"...an interesting meld between Collins' absurd blackout gags and Laurie's intensely hatched and grotesque character work". </i><a href="http://highlowcomics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/nightmare-logic-minis-from-eamon-espey.html" target="_blank">Rob Clough's The High-Low</a>.<br />
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<b>Crawl Hole</b>: A collection of surreal horror comedy comic by me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a><b>. </b>Trilingual comics, relationships past and the terrors of
the Vengabus await...<b> </b>Sized A5, 16 pages Black and White with
colour cover, released August 2013 (£2.50). Includes work featured in
Indie anthologies New British Comics (UK),
Top Shelf Online (USA), Lazer Art-Zine (Belgium) and Yuck (Australia).<br />
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<i>"As usual with these gents, gore, violence and a twisted sense of
humour is real high in the mix... All in all, this one is slight, but
manages to do the important thing; it’s satisfying, with ideas that make
the sum of the experience far greater than the page-count".</i> <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/reviews-crawl-hole/">Forbidden Planet.</a><br />
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Of course, if you fancy any of these but are nowhere near Glasgow you can head over to my <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Big Cartel Shop</a>. You, yes YOU, could be the guy who <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eREiQhBDIk" target="_blank">pulls a gun </a>because we're no longer serving the breakfast menu! Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-69087088572385312152013-08-26T14:02:00.000-07:002013-10-21T03:06:38.575-07:00Literary Death Match and The Stripped Comic FairDuring the the last week, I was asked by the <a href="https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/" target="_blank">Edinburgh International Book Festival</a> if I'd like to take part in <a href="https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/themes/jura-unbound" target="_blank">Jura Unbound</a>'s special "comics edition" of the infamous <a href="http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/" target="_blank">Literary Death Match</a>, a literary death bout with three other competitors and judged by <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCraig_Silvey&ei=YMUcUpfmNeHF0QXTk4GQDg&usg=AFQjCNHGDRx9Cclg3o7rk_VKTJuzFKY-EQ&sig2=PF81J_CisMcH13Cdt9oOzw&bvm=bv.51156542,d.d2k" target="_blank">Craig Silvey</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hotpatooties" target="_blank">Dawn O'Porter</a> and none other than <a href="http://www.neilgaiman.com/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">Neil Gaiman</a>...<br />
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Too good an opportunity to pass up, I spent the next two days in a flapping state of dread and terror attempting to pull together something decent, and come Friday night I attempted "spoken word" performances of some of my comics to a packed out Spiegeltent....<br />
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To my great surprise it went down really well with the crowd, who gave me such a great reception. I performed "The Landlocked Sea Shanty" from <a href="http://roachwell.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Roachwell</a>, followed by the trilingual English / French / Dutch strip <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/house-of-mercy-trilingual-comic.html" target="_blank">"House of Mercy"</a>, and ultimately finished with the appropriately literary <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/seamus-heaneys-heinous-penis.html" target="_blank">"Seamus Heaney's Heinous Penis"</a>.<br />
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When you write a strip like that, you don't really expect to be performing a few years later, grinding on stage to crowd of 200 or so while your mobile plays "I Like To Move It"... but there you go.<br />
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In any case while I didn't win, the crowd's reception was fantastic and the judges comments were so exciting to hear, which included Neil Gaiman saying my performance was "shocking, astonishing and delightful". Which was oh, pretty nice, and Dawn O'Porter severely embarrassed me. The other competitors were all lovely people, and congratulations to <a href="https://twitter.com/AmyCMason" target="_blank">Amy Mason </a>who struck down all her opponents and drank from our skulls as a true victor! <br />
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So it was a really exciting and pretty astonishing experience. I had a great wee chat with Neil afterwards, and gave him my books for the bus home. It was really cool to speak to people in the following days who saw the show and complimented me on it, and to show them the strips I performed. I have to thank the Edinburgh International Book Festival for asking me to take part, pals who made it along to watch and also the astonishing <a href="https://twitter.com/atzuniga" target="_blank">Adrian Todd Zuniga</a> who was the most electrifying and hilarious host. If you get chance to see a Literary Death Match, go for it!<br />
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Onward to the <a href="http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/minicomicsfair" target="_blank">Stripped Mini Comic Fair!</a> My first shot at tabling my own comics and in the lovely environs of 5 Charlotte Square, a National Trust for Scotland building and surely one of the nicest places a comic fair has been held. <br />
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There was a really impressive and diverse range of talent on show, and I had a really nice time chatting with some new pals. All in I had an excellent weekend of it, with great sales and plenty of interesting chat with people who were in to check out the comics on show. Here's hoping Stripped as part of the Book Festival goes on to even greater success in future years!<br />
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<br />Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-13936218234522894852013-08-19T04:50:00.000-07:002013-09-09T01:20:35.326-07:00Stripped to the bone...I'm very excited to be exhibiting at this weekend's <a href="http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/minicomicsfair" target="_blank">Stripped Mini Comic Fair</a>, part of the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival, and here's a wee roundup of the books available at my table... <br />
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<b>Metrodome</b>: by me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>. Drawn from The Metro like poison from a wound, Eight Contenders in The Fight for Survival, The Battle for Ultimate Victory! An experimental production in creation, destruction and survival, in a
comic created from a single edition of the free UK newspaper <i>The Metro</i>. Sized A5, 24 pages Black and White with colour cover, released July 2013 (£3.00).<br />
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<i>"The characters emerge fully formed from the deepest, darkest
depths of the magnificently poisonous headspaces of Collins and
Laurie... If you like your comics unsettling, in-yer-face and
gratuitously grotesque then you can’t go wrong with the wicked and wily
wit of these guys."</i> <a href="http://www.brokenfrontier.com/metrodome/">Broken Frontier.</a><br />
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<b>Haunted Bowels</b>: A collection of small press comedy comics - gruesome gags and oddball
humour, surreal comedy and morbid light entertainment. Omniscient
beings, strange cowboys, troubled poets and unruly spectres and much
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Nominated for Best Comic and Best Writer at the
2012 Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards.<br />
Sized A5, 24 pages Black and White with colour cover, released June 2012 (£3.00).Chocked to the gills with comics and featuring art by a multiuide of fine comics artists from Scotland and beyond.<br />
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<i>"Yep, funny and surreal, dark, gruesome fun inside with a series of wildly different art styles..."</i> <a href="http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/haunted-bowels/">Forbidden Planet.</a><br />
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<i>"In the strips that make up Haunted Bowels, Collins combines
clever bad taste humour with perceptive pop cultural parody... ruthless
satirical swagger"</i> <a href="http://old.brokenfrontier.com/columns/p/detail/weird-worlds-department-of-the-peculiar-haunted-bowels-and-roachwell">Broken Frontier.</a><br />
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<i>"That dichotomy between wry observational humour and outright bad
taste lies at the heart of Collins’ best work... Collins’ love of horror
elevates his comics to the extent that I suspect we’re only getting a
glimpse of what he’s be capable of on a more sustained project" </i> <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/haunted-bowels-phantom-newsround.html">Starburst Magazine.</a><br />
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<b>Roachwell</b>: A surreal horror comedy comic by me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>. Sized A5, 28 pages Black and White with colour cover, collected June 2011 (£3.00). Featured in Indie anthologies Hive 4 and 5 and New British Comics #2.
Nominated for Best Comic and Best Writer at the 2011 Scottish Independent
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<i>"It’s a clever, solid, surreal and funny comic – and at its end, it manages all four in one strip."</i> - <a href="http://Image of ROACHWELL - surreal horror comedy comic £2.50 - On Sale Roachwell - a surreal horror comedy comic. A surreal horror comedy comic by Craig Collins and Iain Laurie. 32 pgs A5 Black and white, colour cover. Featured in Indie anthologies Hive 4 and 5 and New British Comics #2. Shorlisted for Best Comic and Best Writer at the Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards. "It’s a clever, solid, surreal and funny comic – and at its end, it manages all four in one strip." - Forbidden Planet. "...refreshingly weird, effortlessly funny and at times just plain psychotic... Funny, frightening and a world unto itself..." - Comic Heroes. "...does run the gamut from laugh-out loud funny to quite disturbing to totally incomprehensible, which may just be an achievement in itself." - The List. "...an interesting meld between Collins' absurd blackout gags and Laurie's intensely hatched and grotesque character work". Rob Clough's The High-Low." target="_blank">Forbidden Planet.</a><br />
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"<i>This is exquisitely macabre material drenched in a flawless
cynicism; wonderfully and self-indulgently morbid in its delivery, it is
gruesomely entertaining fare"</i> <a href="http://old.brokenfrontier.com/columns/p/detail/weird-worlds-department-of-the-peculiar-haunted-bowels-and-roachwell" target="_blank">Broken Frontier.</a><br />
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<i>"...refreshingly weird, effortlessly funny and at times just plain psychotic... Funny, frightening and a world unto itself..." </i>- <a href="http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/02/22/small-press-comics-review/" target="_blank">Comic Heroes</a>.<br />
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<i>"...an interesting meld between Collins' absurd blackout gags and Laurie's intensely hatched and grotesque character work". </i><a href="http://highlowcomics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/nightmare-logic-minis-from-eamon-espey.html" target="_blank">Rob Clough's The High-Low</a>.<br />
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<b>Crawl Hole</b>: A collection of surreal horror comedy comic by me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a><b>. </b>Trilingual comics, relationships past and the terrors of
the Vengabus await...<b> </b>Sized A5, 16 pages Black and White with colour cover, released August 2013 (£2.50). Includes work featured in Indie anthologies New British Comics (UK),
Top Shelf Online (USA), Lazer Art-Zine (Belgium) and Yuck (Australia).<br />
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<i>"As usual with these gents, gore, violence and a twisted sense of
humour is real high in the mix... All in all, this one is slight, but
manages to do the important thing; it’s satisfying, with ideas that make
the sum of the experience far greater than the page-count".</i> <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/reviews-crawl-hole/">Forbidden Planet.</a><br />
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Forbidden Planet - <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/comics-sometimes-its-the-fun-little-things/" target="_blank">Roachwell / Crawl Hole cover spotlight. </a><br />
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Of course, if you fancy any of these but are nowhere near Edinburgh you can head over to my <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Big Cartel Shop</a>. You, yes YOU, could be that little kid who shoots Omar when he's in for a packet of smokes!<br />
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<b>Exhaustive Self-Promotional G<span class="st">ö</span>tterdammerung over! </b>It's an honour to be a part of this and the inaugural Stripped festival, and I hope both Stripped and the fair have many healthy years to come. If you're seeing other events at Stripped this weekend or in Edinburgh, come by and say hello and check out the wealth and diversity of talent that will be on show at the Mini Comic Fair.<span class="st"> </span><br />
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<b>Crawl Hole:</b> a new comic by me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>, and the spiritual cousin of sorts to <a href="http://roachwell.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Roachwell</a>....<br />
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Crawl Hole is a collection of short surreal comedic horror strips, some of which you may have seen here and others that are completely new. Includes work featured in <a href="http://newbritishcomics.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">New British Comics</a> (UK), <a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/ts2.0/" target="_blank">Top Shelf Online</a> (USA), <a href="http://www.lazerartzine.com/" target="_blank">Lazer Art Zine</a> (Belgium) and <a href="http://milkshadowbooks.com/" target="_blank">Yuck!</a> magazine (Australia).<br />
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A 16pg A5 comic, colour cover black and white comic. £2.50 plus p&p. <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Available now! </a><br />
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Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-22271985460076819712013-07-30T01:22:00.000-07:002013-07-30T01:22:29.825-07:00Circling in the depths...<br />
By me and <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a>. Out August 5th....<br />
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Way back in 2011 I was asked to provide an header image for <a href="http://www.creativespotlights.com/" target="_blank">Creative Spotlights,</a> to be used on the site and email newsletters and the like. Here's what me and the mighty <a href="http://powwkipsie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Iain Laurie</a> cooked up for it...<br />
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For whatever internal reasons it won't be used, so here's the toothy bastard for you to have a look at anyway. Click the image to <b>embiggen </b>for the full dental examination!<br />
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Thanks to Henry Gomez for the invitation. Henry interviewed me on my comics work back in 2011, which <a href="http://creativespotlights.com/2011/08/22/craig-collins-comic-writer-interview/" target="_blank">you can read here</a>. Marvel at my <span class="st">naïveté or how I've subsequently failed to take my own advice!</span><br />
<br />Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-33968504791377878112013-07-18T01:09:00.000-07:002013-07-18T01:11:51.745-07:00Summer to Autumn 2013: Campaign of Terror!This year I'm finally diving headlong into the abyss, and starting to table my comics at events. Exciting times!<br />
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Later this suummer I'll be at the <a href="https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">Edinburgh International Book Festival</a>'s <a href="http://strippedbookfest.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stripped Comic Book Fest</a>, taking part in the Mini Comic Fair on the 24th-25th of August in Edinburgh's Charlotte Square:<br />
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There's a wealth of Scottish comics talent exhibiting and entry is free, so do drop by...<br />
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Next up, I'll be exhibiting at the first ever <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcmcomiccon.com%2Fscotland%2F&ei=OrrmUfW1GoOphAe0_YH4Dw&usg=AFQjCNFp3SXNfeItgEkd5qy9Q_VE60r67Q&sig2=CqoN7j1T87kUdmsxBcHVKw&bvm=bv.49405654,d.ZG4" target="_blank">Scottish MCM Expo</a>, on the 7th of September in the Comics Village. I'd like to take this opportunity to say that <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metrodome</a> Cosplay is actively encouraged...<br />
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And finally, the largest and frankly most intimidating of them all: <b>Thought Bubble!</b><br />
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You can find me in exhibiting in the New Dock Hall on the 23-24th of November, along with <a href="http://thoughtbubblefestival.com/exhibitors/new-dock-hal/" target="_blank">this vast horde</a> of slavering ravenous comicsters...<b> </b>Look for the my exhibitor icon!:<b></b><br />
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I'll be selling <a href="http://roachwell.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Roachwell</a>, <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Metrodome </a>and <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/haunted-bowels.html" target="_blank">Haunted Bowels</a> at all of these events, and possibly a sneaky something else... Or alternatively, Glasgow pals can get all of these comics at <a href="http://craig-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/haunted-bowels.html" target="_blank">Plan B Books</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FPGlasgow?fref=ts" target="_blank">Forbidden Planet Glasgow</a> and <a href="http://www.geek-retreat.com/" target="_blank">Geek Retreat,</a> or anyone in the whole goddamn world can stop by my <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Big Cartel Shop</a>.<br />
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Hope to see you there! Craig Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785742869064518380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4868580921452557458.post-48073293210461703732013-07-11T07:41:00.000-07:002013-07-11T07:41:26.961-07:00Enter The Metrodome!<br />
At long last, Metrodome has arrived!<br />
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More information at <a href="http://metrodomebattle.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">MetrodomeBattle</a>. <a href="http://craigcollinscomics.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Available now!</a><br />
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