P.R.E.S.S. at Washington Arts Centre

The Paper Jam Comics Collective will be at Washington Arts Centre next Saturday (10th April) for the P.R.E.S.S. Event. Lots to see and do - check out the P.R.E.S.S. website for more details. As well as our usual selection of comics and zines, we'll be featuring the debut of some of our 24 Hour Comics done last month.

The PJCC will be out in force:

• Andy Waugh
• Gary Bainbridge
• Martin Newman
• Oscillating Brow
• Paul Thompson
• Terry Wiley
• Zine-It-Yourself

We'll be looking forward to meeting We Are Words + Pictures.

Stop by if you're in the area!

Next Anthology : History ... and that

Our next anthology is 'History... And That'.

We intend to detail (in chronological order) the most noteable moments in history, from the Big Bang to the End Of The World (which is in a couple of years if you believe the Mayans). You can choose any time period you like, whether that be Ancient Greece, or the lesson you once had on Ancient Greece at school. Be as frivolous with the facts as you like - this isn't a textbook. Your task is to (as Jack has previously noted) take the theme and milk its deliciously open-ended teets like a true time-travelling farmer!

Just let us know (in the comments or by email) which period of history you'll be going for, as we'd like to avoid too much duplication.

The deadline for submissions is 6:30 on Thursday 6th May, bring your work to our regular meeting in Travelling Man Newcastle on Grainger street, drop it off in the shop before then or email it to: tmne_smallpress@yahoo.co.uk

This one will be A4 and black and white, and the usual rules apply - two pages per person (so a writer/artist team could have 4 pages in total). Leave a minimum of a 1cm border to allow for possible cropping when we get this to print.

Have fun!

Hi-Ex Aftermath

Hi-Ex was, as you’re surely aware by now, the place to be last weekend.

Organised by artist Vicky Stonebridge and writer/editor Richmond Clements, Hi-Ex has gained a reputation for being one of the friendliest Comic Conventions in the land.

The Paper Jam Comics Collective had a table there for the first time, donated by Paul Scott of OmniVistaScope and Solar Wind fame. He couldn’t make it, we could. We will give him his table cloth back in the fullness of time.

As well as all five issues of OVS, our table consisted of the following:

• Anthologies: Robots ... and that, SpaceMonkey ... and that.
• Gary Bainbridge: Night Bus, Gainger Town
• Oscillating Brow: Tales of Extraordinariness, Cat
• Ben Clark: Spine Chillers
• Jack Fallows: Big Bang
• Paul Thompson: Tales of the Hollow Earth
• Andy Waugh: Coupledom, Melanchomic
• Terry Wiley: Verity Fair

We sold some of the above. It looked like this:

More importantly, we met some fantastic people, attended some excellent panels, drank some beer and contributed to the various jam comics going round the hotel bar in the evening. I've never seen so many comic fans and professionals in a single Chinese buffet before.

Mad props to everyone we met and all the good people selling their wares, especially to Dave Evans (Bolt01), titan of UK small press science fiction anthologies, who was selling bucketloads of Futurequake and Zarjaz to the 2000 AD-hungry crowd, many of whom had traveled across the Cursed Earth itself to attend.

The panels were all intimate, informal and good fun. Thanks to Stacey Whittle (Small Press Big Mouth) and Terry Martin (Murky Depths) for looking after our wares while the PJCC attended a few of the talks.

The panels we saw covered the Horror Genre in comics, a Charity Auction, the quite, quite mad Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Company, the enduring success of 2000AD and an audience with the Legend Cam Kennedy. There was a lot more, and the PJCC didn't get near the Judge Dredd Role Playing area, which we'd wanted to.

A weekend just wasn't enough to be honest. Thanks again to Vicky and Richmond. The days were just packed.

Hi-Ex 2010

The Paper Jam Comics Collective will be on site at the Hi-Ex Comics Festival in Inverness on 27th and 28th of March.

Manning the stall: Paul Thompson and Oscillating Brow. As well as those fellas, we'll have comics for sale from Gary Bainbridge, Andy Waugh, Jack Fallows, and Martin Newman (whose tireless efforts at the P.R.E.S.S. 24 Hour Comic took sleep deprivation by storm).

Hi-Ex will be awesome! Take a look at the Guest List and Charity Auction.