Yeah, don’t post for over a month and then start the multiball rolling. This is going to be the Shape of Things to Come, I can tell.
Bristol Comic Expo is the 9th – 10th May this year, and I will be there in two venues on two days, doing two different things.
Saturday: I will be at the Small Press Expo at the Mercure hotel, from around 11 am, at the ITCH stall. For those who haven’t yet picked up a copy of Leek and Sushi’s Manga Show, that will be on sale, as well as the new! shiny! Urban Beasts and my previous comic The Witch. Stop by and say hello, even if you aren’t buying… no pressure. NONE at ALL.
Sunday: I will be at the main Comic Expo at the Ramada hotel as a Guest. I’m not officially doing anything in particular, just looking around, talking to people, and promoting the V&A Comic Illustration Residency.
Lol, I really should get a Resident Evil t-shirt for that…
It all started when Anna suggested writing a story about spirit animals, knowing that I had a fascination for them, so that I could draw all manner of interesting beast-people. That was quite a while ago…
But now Urban Beasts is finally here! After being in development hell for around three years, we are finally publishing part 1 of the Urban Beasts story to be out for the Bristol Comic Expo. Urban Beasts is a story set in modern day Oxford, and follows the adventure of Caipora, a Brazilian shaman and Milo, a nerdy student, through various encounters with people’s animal selves. Milo can’t figure out why the Goth club Neil has dragged him to is suddenly filled with moths, and Caipora tracks down the source of trouble in the city to an animal rights demonstration.
Part one is 24 pages, 130×197mm, b&w interior with colour covers, and is published by ITCH.
Written by Daniel Hartwell and Anna Rubins, Art by Karen Rubins.
