Category: Print Comics

Each week we’ll be turning the spotlight on one of the many quality books from our extensive back catalogue.

This week it’s the turn of AloneNotLonely.

The only way to be truly safe is to be alone.

“About six months or so ago, the world ended. Or, to be precise, we ended. The world is doing just fine.”

After most of the earth’s population is apparently wiped out, Alex is left alone, but that suits her just fine. Having never been able to trust people anyway, she is perfectly suited for survival in this desolate new world; one in which everyone is potentially a monster, both figuratively and literally.

From Luke Cooper, creator of Hollow Girl, Figments and A Glimpse of Hell, and artist on the award winning GoodCopBadCop, Wolf Country and Burlap: Death Waits for No One, AloneNotLonely is part post-apocalyptic sci-fi and part psychological drama (psy-fi?), a dreamlike (and often downright nightmarish) fairytale for courageous introverts.

Written and illustrated by Luke Cooper, click the link below to order AloneNotLonely now!

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Each week we’ll be turning the spotlight on one of the many quality books from our extensive back catalogue.

This week it’s the turn of Aleister Crowley: Wandering the Waste.

The life and times of Britain’s most infamous son. Occultist, genius, poet, prophet, black magician, mountaineer, drug and free-love pioneer, spy, scholar, and all-round bad egg. Hero of weirdos everywhere. Idol of Jimmy Page, The Beatles, Grant Morrison, and Alan Moore. A man who inherited many millions of pounds and died virtually penniless in a musty suit several sizes too large for him. Summoner of demons and loser of friends.

A prophet who wanted to save mankind but ended his days known as “The Wickedest Man in the World.” Aleister Crowley, a man who never missed a chance to do the wrong thing.

Written by Martin Hayes with art by R.H Stewart, click the link below to order Aleister Crowley: Wandering the Waste now!

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Each week we’ll be turning the spotlight on one of the many quality books from our extensive back catalogue.

This week it’s the turn of Abominable Glory.

WWII, the Himalayas.

The British Commandos knew that extracting the Japanese spy would be difficult, but they thought the German Paratroopers would be the most monstrous thing they’d have to face.

Find out how wrong they were in this tale of blood and bullets, monsters and madmen, and bravery beyond belief.

Written by Martin Hayes with art by Chris Askham, click the link below to order Abominable Glory now!

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Each week we’ll be turning the spotlight on one of the many quality books from our extensive back catalogue.

This week it’s the turn of Undressed.

Debbie’s hand-me-down clothes stand out for all the wrong reasons. She dreams of being up-to-date like other girls. Growing older, Debbie is inspired y teenage magazines and begins to express her ideas and personality through the way she dresses.

Undressed is the story of how we both mask and reveal ourselves through our clothes and how Debbie finally develops the confidence to dress as herself.

Written and illustrated by Susan Sainsbury, click the link below to order Undressed now!

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Each week we’ll be turning the spotlight on one of the many quality books from our extensive back catalogue.

This week it’s the turn of Two Stories.

Two Stories is a memoir about faith and mental illness by Xeric Award winning cartoonist Joshua Kemble.

Josh thought he was living the artist’s dream. The young, ambitious comic book creator had a hip Portland apartment, an affectionate fiancée, and his whole life ahead of him.

Until the night he finds himself on Burnside Bridge, willing himself to jump.

How did he get here? Two Stories is a confessional graphic memoir that grapples with questions of faith, mental illness, depravity, and, ultimately, redemption in a fallen world.

Written and illustrated by Joshua Kemble, click the link below to order Two Stories now!

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Each week we’ll be turning the spotlight on one of the many quality books from our extensive back catalogue.

This week it’s the turn of Stuff That Happened.

This book is a collection of comic strips created between 2013 and 2014 by artist Vicky Stonebridge, who lives and works in the Scottish Highlands. At the time this series of unrelated anecdotes were originally created as occasional blog posts. They were designed to be drawing exercises, to entertain friends and later they became therapeutic, capturing funny or poignant “Stuff that Happened” as she went about her business as a fire-fighter, art tutor and community worker.

Vicky was travelling between her home in the wild, rural, West coast to Inverness for work and then to the sandy beaches of the East coast to spend time with the new man in her life, Andrew. Her constant companion was her dog Bruno. Both dog and mother of three were coming to terms with an empty nest and dealing with a range of anxieties and PTSD. For Bruno the answer was simple, to never leave Vicky’s side. Vicky had to worry about how to carve out a new life and new identity without other people to look after. But she didn’t have time to really come to terms with these changes, before a much bigger, more dramatic change forced itself into the narrative. She became seriously ill. This story covers the period of time when she became symptomatic with her illness, and was in and out of hospital for tests and emergency treatment.

Would she be able to work again? How would she survive financially? How ill was she? Would she be able to go back to fire fighting? It seems a person’s body can only undergo so much physical work and stress before something has to change, and this period in Vicky’s life was where change was forced upon her. It has taken her three years since this time to be able to finish the original pencilled roughs. When we are living in the moment, it is difficult to see the thread which binds events as they happen – we are too close to it. But with hindsight, this book is an honest and personal tale of a life changing illness, stress, worry and more importantly, the little moments in life that make it worth living no matter what stuff happens.

Written and illustrated by Vicky Stonebridge, click the link below to order Stuff That Happened now!

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