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Crawl Hole - Waist Deep In SICBA

I'm very happy to say that me and Iain Laurie's 2013 experimental horror comic Crawl Hole has been nominated for Best Comic and Best Cover at this year's Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards!



The SICBAs are part of the Glasgow Comic Con 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!

If you're not at the Con, you can get it in Forbidden Planet GlasgowWaterstones Argyle StreetGeek Retreat UK, or by post at my Big Cartel Shop and digitally at Gumroad

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. Click to embiggen!


Hope to see you there! Some kind words on Crawl Hole of late...
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." Forbidden Planet.
"The breadth of stoires covers the existential angst of modern man, assisted suicide, uncomfortable reunions and childhood nursery rhymes, all filtered through a death metal sensibility.... Collins' warped sensibilities really do hold nothing sacred." Starburst Magazine
"Once again Crawl Hole is material that makes the reader positively delight in the unnerving; if you like your comics riddled with a creepiness that will leave you feeling profoundly uncomfortable after reading then you can’t go far wrong with a Collins-Laurie offering." Broken Frontier


Roachwell nominated for Best Comic and Best Writer.

I'm very pleased to announce that Roachwell has been nominated for the Best Comic Award at the Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards, hosted at the Glasgow Comic Con on June 18th.
On top of that, to my surprise I was also nominated for the Best Writer category! 
Luckily I'll be receiving a short print run of Roachwell just in time to supply to the Comic Con reading room that's set up for the week prior to the event. So now's a good time to reveal the cover, by Iain Laurie and coloured by the very talented Derek Dow. Yeech!
Needless to say it's a huge honour to be in the running, especially in this excellent company. Here's the full list:
Best Writer
Craig Collins - Roachwell / Martin Conaghan - Burke and Hare / Gill Hatcher and Adam Smith - Go Wildlife! / John Lees - The Standard / Curt Sibling - King Evil
Best Artist
James Devlin - Dark Ascension: Confession / Will Pickering - Burke and Hare / Alex Ronald - Vampire Vixens / Curt Sibling - King Evil / Stevie White - Milk+ 
Best Comic Book or Graphic Novel
Burke and Hare / Dougie's War / Ganjaman Presents / Go Wildlife! / King Evil / Milk+ / Roachwell / The Standard / Team Girl Comic / Wasted

Update! Roachwell, printed at last: