From Last Hours

Comica, London’s annual international comics festival, is happening again from the 14th - 26th November. The event, organised by Paul Gravett, has always bought together some of the finest talent both from the underground and independent comic scenes, but also more mainstream creators too. 2008 seems to be no exception with some excellent talks and presentations happening over the two weeks at both the ICA and V&A in London. For more details on the festival visit the Comica website.

This year has also seen the small press event that Comica hosts expand with the help of London Underground Comics. The Comiket event is happening on Saturday 22nd November from 1pm – 7pm in the Nash & Brandon rooms in the ICA. There’ll be a number of self-published comics and zines including stuff from people involved with Last Hours (Isy, Edd, Gavin Burrows and Marc Ellerby).

Sorry for being completely crap with updates. This may or may not be sorted soon. Anyhow, in other news…

A comics and zine event is happening in the heart of London on Saturday 19th July. From 11am to 7pm zines and comics are being brought together at The Plough, 27 Museum Street, London. Its right next door to the Cartoon Museum and promises to be a pretty amazing day with some of the confirmed attendees being Hey Monkey Riot, Gavin Burrows, Lizz Lunney, Chris Getliffe, Peter Lally and a whole load more (full list is here)

More details are on the Pens, pencils and photocopiers website - http://comicsandzines.wordpress.com/

So, as I mention too often on here I’m currently doing an MA at Central St Martins. The good news is I’ve had my final hand in, and its just the exhibition left.

Its happening at the Mall Galleries (map)
on the Mall, between Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace (very posh!).

Its happening from Friday 13th June to Thursday 19th June, and open 12pm-5pm each day. Its gonna be pretty cool. There’s a preview of some of the work (including screenprinting stuff of mine) up on the MA Communication Design website. Or specifically just go straight to the illustration section: http://www.macommunicationdesign.com/projects/pathway/Illustration#

The new issue of Last Hours is out now. Its very good, and if you haven’t bought a copy you should! It features a new 2 page Hey Monkey Riot comic. Its 116 pages long with interviews, articles, reviews, comix and artwork celebrating punk rock, radical culture and DIY. Check out http://www.lasthours.org.uk for full details.

[in other unrelated news my FTP server is being weird which is why the site hasn’t had a new comics for a couple of days]

A hand screen printed (3 colour) cover and over 90 pages. Hey Monkey Riot autumn collects all the online comics from September through November in its own zine. I’ve only printed up 50 of these so get them while they’re about because if Hey Monkey Riot #1 is anything to go by 50 copies don’t last long. You can buy a copy through the fancy new Last Hours shop (which has just gone online!) at http://www.lasthours.org.uk/shop/

 The comics are now online!

Hey, just to say that the comics for Thursday (3rd), Friday (4th), Saturday (5th) and Sunday (6th) are all going to have to be posted on Monday as I have to catch a train in ten minutes for Devon, and won’t have a scanner till I get home on Monday.

So I pretty much have this site up and running. It doesn’t really have all the features I want, and it needs to be better integrated into the Last Hours website (www.lasthours.org.uk) but other than that I think its a distinct improvement on the old Hey Monkey Riot website.

Hey Monkey Riot is out now. It’s awesome. It details the shambolic attempts at shutting down the G8 in North Eastern Germany when the leaders of the world’s ‘richest’ countries came together to chat about how to further their interests. Its autobiographical to the extent that it details my visit to Germany and some of the blockades I take part in, and the camp I was staying at!

Hey Monkey Riot #3 available to buy through the website for £1.70.

Also available at GOSH comics, All Ages Records, 56a Infoshop and through Active Distribution.

You can see a Preview of it here. And Hey Monkey Riot #2 can now be downloaded through the website here.