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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 Glasgow, Waterstones Argyle Street, Geek 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


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!

Forever Foes!

Everyone seems to be getting in on the children's book market these days... Madonna, Katie Price, Idi Amin and many more. And just as they stretched their respective talents beyond pop music, brutal repression and having big tits, I have done the same and launched my own line of children's novels!

Proudly brought to you by Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury, FOREVER FOES! is available in all good bookshops including Waterstone's as seen below. FOREVER FOES! follows the adventures of a series of different villainous adventurers "...as they run the gamut of negative human experience, smashing and fucking everything in their path!". Wowee!

A close up of those covers so your six to twelve-year old knows what to look for on Amazon, with each character brought to life by a different talented artist from the Scottish comics underground.
 Volume I: Fear, Emptiness, Despair.
 Volume II: To Philosophise With A Hammer
Volume III: Bastards of Ragnarok

Available now in national bookstores!:



A good look at the blurb, to reel in those enthusiatic young minds:

And here are the central characters, soon to be appearing on lunchboxes, stationery and backpacks and that kind of stuff:
Lust Ghost - by Spanky
Spewnicorn - by Robert Thomson
 Gaseous Bastard - by Rob Miller
Meat Nun - by Paul McCann
Plague Chef - by James Corcoran
The Wicker Gran - by Alex Ronald
 
Prison Troll - by Curt Sibling
 
 Gory Tory - by Dave Alexander
Space Racist - by Iain Laurie
Thanks to each of these very skilled gentlemen for lending their talents and tolerating the excruciating Bloomsbury editorial process.


BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

In keeping with the fine tradition of cynical cash-ins and exhaustive merchandising, there's also the FOREVER FOES collectable card game FOE TRUMPS! Simply click to embiggen, print, snip, glue then destroy your opponents without mercy! Check out these cool kids engaged in a deadly match.

 Jim "Destroyer" Devlin is furious as Manglin' Paul McCann smites him with a killer play!
Expand your game - more Foe Trumps to follow! Gotta Catch 'Em All!

 
Gee willikers, sir! My favourite Foe has gotta be...