WJC has joined Hundred Days Project and he's drawing at least one illustration per day. It's quite crazy from our lazy point of view, but we fully support him! Check out WJC's blog for updates!
NBC #2 got its first UK review! The lucky reviewer was Terry from ComicBitsOnline.com. Click here to read it.
Read more...Leonie O'Moore, Tony Hitchman and WJC will be present at Thought Bubble convention (Saturday, November 21st) in Leeds and they will be happy to sign your NBC copies. Signing will be available throughout pretty much whole day - you can leave a book on Leonie's Moore stall and pick it up later when it will be signed for you. Also, both issues of NBC should be available for purchase at Smallzone stall during the convention.
NBC #2 is now available through www.smallzone-shop.co.uk and Smallzone distribution. Also, the first issue of our anthology is back in the Smallzone stock. Click here to order NBC #1 and here to order NBC #2.
Nelson just did a huge update of his website. A lot of new stuff is now available there, including a new version of 'Damienne Hobbs Reflects', which a 'demo' version (if that was just a demo, then you're a maniac Nelson...) appeared in NBC #1. Check out new version of the strip here!
Another two polish reviews of NBC #2. First one is at komiks.polter.pl and second is in the newest issue of Aktivist magazine.
Yes, the time has come! Second issue of NBC is now available through BadPressLtd.com. You can buy there both issues and both edition of New British Comics. Enjoy!
Another two reviews of NBC #2 have appeared in polish web. One is here here and another one here. Have fun!
NBC #2 has a new website(s), please check them out at www.polygobooks.com/newbritishcomics/. Second issue has two versions, one is 'low-tech' and second is more 'crazy-idea-high-tech', but they both carry pretty the same information. Enjoy!
One polish website has made an interview with me. Yes, it's in Polish.
Meanwhile NBC #2 UK premiere is almost ready!
First review of the second NBC has appeared. You can read it at Ziniol blog. Knowledge of polish language might be useful. By the way: the British premiere is very close!
Here it is. Cover made by Nelson Evergreen.
84 pages, 15 strips, 19 authors. Dan White, Dave Thomson, Paweł Gierczak, David Hailwood, Tony Suleri, Maddku, Jacek Zabawa, David Robertson, Frank Lamour, Rob Miller, WJC, Jon Edwards, Tony Hitchman, Lawrence Elwick, Paul O'Connell, Leonie O'Moore, Iain Laurie, Craig Collins, Nelson Evergreen.
Coming October 2009.
Who the hell is Paweł Gierczak, you might ask. Well, in Poland we ask ourselves, where the hell have he been.
Find all the differences between these two pictures...
Thanks to Rob Miller's friend we heard a stunning news: NBC #1 was 'Fanzine of the Month" in SFX magazine. Unfortunately, the review, which has praised 'Brownehayes', 'No word of a lie', 'Inner City' and 'Waving and Drowning' strips, isn't available online. But still, it's another small step on our way to global domination.
Leonie O'Moore has sent me this lovely picutre. Thank you very much Leonie!
My favourite Terminus strips. Look out! They might change your life.
Strip 61
Strip 56
Strip 52
Strip 41
Strip 34
Strip 29
Strip 26
Strip 23
Strip 20
Strip 2
In the latest issue of Ziniol (a Polish comic magazine), you can find an interview with Rob Miller and Frank Quitely talking about the condition of British comics. Also, one of Rob's strips was published online on Aleja Komiksu website.
Two more reviews. In Polish only, but if you want to check them out click on the links below.
You want to see something quite impressive? Look at Leonie O'Moore's collection of comicbooks that she made or contributed to, over the last 15 years. We really should stop slacking around and start working...
Leonie had also contributed a short story "Andromeda and the Sea Serpent" to NBC #1 and we hope that she'll return in NBC #2.
Since today you can buy the very first issue of "New British Comics" on badpressltd.com shop. NBC is among other great titles such as "Wasted"- new UK adult humour magazine, "Khaki Shorts" - Scotland's longest running underground comic ever, and and many more titles. Bad Press shop ships to anywhere in the world, so you can easily and cheap buy comics.
Another British strip has been published today on Aleja Komiksu: three pages of 'Terminus', a weekly strip, created by Dan White. More of insane funny 'Terminus' can be also found at www.mindlessones.com.
Another NBC #1 review, this time it's Scottish magazine 'The List'. You can check it out here.
For a few weeks now Aleja Komiksu, a comics dedicated Polish website, is publishing online some British strips. On this week menu we have 'Winter Fountain', a British-Spanish post-apocalyptic co-production made by Ruben Sanchez (art) and Daniel Cox (story), who had guided me trough the world of UK comics at the beginning of the NBC project. You can read Winter Fountain here.
Tim Rees, the author of NBC #1 cover, has drawn and co-produced the prequel comic, included in the special edition DVD package of 'Ten Dead Men'. It's a independent British revenge movie made by the same team who shot incredibly successful 'Left for Dead'. Click for official movie site.
Looks like Malcy Duff, a noble contributor to NBC #1, is going to conquer the USA. Check it out at Forbidden Planet blog.
Some info about an international drawing competition organized in Poland. Nice theme and prizes - definitely wort a try.
DRAW YOUR FREEDOM. DRAW YOUR SOLIDARITY.
Solidarity Festival 2009
Take part in the competition and Draw your freedom.
European Solidarity Centre would like to invite you to take part in the comics competition Draw your Freedom. Draw your solidarity. We are waiting for the comics concerning the two motifs: Freedom and Solidarity. This two terms are supposed to be meant in a very wide context: philosophical, social, political or economical, but also in it's basic meaning. It doesn't have to be connected with big ideas or history. Our aim is to inspire you to draw a comics, that could be a medium of your free expression. So let's draw your freedom!
Two competition categories:
- comic story of 4 boards maximum content
- cartoon
Prizes:
- First prize for a comic: 8 000 PLN gross (approx. 1724 Euro*)
- Second prize for a comic: 5 000 PLN gross ( approx. 1077 Euro*)
- Eight awards for comic: 500 PLN gross (approx. 107 Euro*)
- First prize for satirical cartoon: 2 000 PLN gross (approx. 431 Euro*)
* according to rate 1 Euro=4,64 PLN (so it can chage...).
Works are to be sent until 30th June 2009 on the address of European Solidarity Centre
Project called Draw your freedom. Draw your solidarity is a part of Festival of Solidarity 2009.
The Festival takes place between 14th and 31st August and is organized by European Solidarity Center. The main idea behind the event is to present the comic art as a different way to show interpretation of freedom: from freedom of art, freedom of speech to political freedom. It is the example of history of polish pop culture where one can easily observe the “freedom” aspect of so called sequential art.
Full statute of contest and additional information:
here |
www.ecs.gda.pl/comix | www.myspace.com/drawfreedom | comix@ecs.gda.pl
Contact:
European Solidarity Center
ul. Doki 1
80-958 Gdańsk
tel. (+48 58) 767-79-71
fax: (+48 58) 767 79 78
e-mail:comix@ecs.gda.pl
mobile: (+48) 501 833 143
Organizer:
European Solidarity Center
Partners:
Kulturalny Kolektyw Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Pracownia komiksowa przy Bibliotece Wojewódzkiej
Pracownia sitodruku UG
Kultura Gniewu
Timof i cisi wspólnicy
Media patronage:
gildia.pl
Aleja Komiksu
Nelson Evergreen. Remember this name - it will be huge. Most people who read "New British Comics #1" said that Nelson's art is the best of the best of the best... Well, it's definitely better than good.
During this weekend Bristol Comic Expo 2009 (9-10 May) is about to happen. "New British Comics" will be available on Small Zone stand. I'm afraid I won't be able to attend it (tickets are probably sold out anyway), but currently I resident in Poland. By a coincidence on Saturday as well, a small Polish comicon will be held in Lublin. I will be present there with the "New British Comics" stand.
Dan White, the author of "Jackie goes to Hell" from NBC #1, got a new blog. He promised he'll "be updating it every few days with new and unpublished work". Check it out: milkthecat.wordpress.com.
Dan's great strip 'Terminus' is still being published at www.mindlessones.com. Gives me a lot to think about Dan's mental state.
Here are links to first two NBC #1 reviews. The very first one appeared on Downthetubes and the second one on ComicbitsOnline. Both are very kind - it seems that we pleased the gods somehow.
Also, we have got two reviews in Polish so far: Ziniol.blogspot.com and Komiks.Polter.pl.
Hello
Welcome to the blog of "New British Comics" project. This site will be an extension of the official project website (www.polygobooks.com/newbritishcomics) where you can find general info about NBC. Here you will find news about everything connected to NBC projects: current and next issues, reviews, information about distrubutions. Also we'll be updating it with any interesting info about artist who are connected to the NBC anthology. So stay tuned.
To clear things up: I'll be writing posts in two languages: English and Polish (yep, the grey ones). However some post can be published only in Polish or English, because they will contain information important only for Polish or English native speakers. I don't want to bore you with every single detail. Contents of bilingual posts also may vary, but don't worry - it isn't a conspiracy. At least that's what the officials say.
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