Mark Stafford postcards

Always a pleasure to get a comic-y postcard. 

Always good to catch-up with Mark Stafford. 

It's a win-win to buy his postcards. 

Check him out here or here.

Mark Stafford speaks tonight!

Just a reminder that this is tonight - have fun if you're going

Just a quick shout-out today for this enjoyable looking evening at the Bookery Gallery next month - see you there?

Mark Stafford speaks!

Just a quick shout-out today for this enjoyable looking evening at the Bookery Gallery next month - see you there?

All about the ink!

Cartoonist Mark Stafford has teased this image about an upcoming exhibition of contemporary cartooning and comics art...

As he says...

So next month this is on at the Bookery Gallerie. All About The Ink will be a cavalcade of inky splendour curated by myself and Rosie of the BG Artists so far include Lucy Sullivan, Sean Azzopardi, Ed Pinsent, Krent Able, and Hunt Emerson with many more to be confirmed. Should be good.

Details of the Bookery Gallerie can be found here

I'll add more details about the exhibition as I get them - so bookmark this page!

crisp!

crisp! was a 'celebration for contemporary comic art' that ran 8th-22nd July 1997. It was accompanied by this 60 page booklet/catalogue that features examples of comic art by an array of comics talents (some examples shown below) & features an introduction by Paul Gravett (who was then the Director of the Cartoon Art Trust). It was funded by Arts Council England. 

Anyway, well worth checking out

Art by Carl Flint

Art by Mark Stafford

Art by Steve Marchant

Art by Roger Langridge

Wasted magazine - a primer

I didn't get Wasted when it originally came out, being put off by the drugs-based content, it seems hard to acquire these days and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality in issue #1.

So to celebrate here's what you should be looking out for... 

Wasted, issue 1, September 2008, cover by Frank Quitely

Contributors include Alan Grant, Jon Haward, Mark Stafford, John Wagner, Simon Bisley, Gary Erskine

Wasted, issue 2, 2009, cover by Alan Kerr

Review from Down the Tubes is here

Wasted, issue 3, 2010, cover by Simon Bisley

Review from Down the tubes is https://downthetubes.net/?p=2034

Wasted, issue 4, 2010, cover by Dave Taylor

Review from Down the Tubes is here

Wasted, issue 5, 2010, cover by Neil Beattie

Review from Down the Tubes is here

Wasted, issue 6, 2010, cover by Cam Kennedy

Review from Down the Tubes is here

Wasted, issue 7, ??, cover by Alex Ronald 

Wasted, issue 8, 2011, cover by Gibson Quarter

Review from Down the Tubes is here