Ready to Launch

Our shiny new anthology, Making ... and that, arrived on Monday. It's got comics by Al Summerscales, Oscillating Brow, Britt Coxon, Brett Halliwell, Michael Duckett, Jamie Wilkinson, Cuttlefish, Paul Thompson, Sigmund Reimann, Anton Brand and Terry Wiley. It's proper exciting, we have photographic proof.

 

This anthology will be available for the very first time at the Maker Faire this weekend at the Centre for Life. The Maker Faire is a celebration of makers who make things, to get into the spirit of things we thought we'd have a go of making our own display for the comics.

It might need a little tidying up but it looks smart with the comics in it. Cardboard speech bubbles next.



So, where can you find us at the Maker Faire? We're in zone D, which is up the stairs, overlooking the Life Cafe. Come and learn how to make a mini comic and add to our giant Maker Comic!

The Maker Faire runs from 10-6 on Saturday the 23rd and 10-5 Sunday the 24th April in the Centre for Life, it's always full of amazing, fun and interesting things. Highly recommended by the Paper Jam Comics Collective.

Maker Faire, Making and that.

We're going to the Maker Faire!
We'll be making mini comics and giant comics and probably some monsters too because monsters are fun.

This is a grand excuse for another anthology, working title: Making and that.

If you've been to one of our meetings then you should draw a comic for it. The theme is making things. This can be instructional, fictional, daft, about your making a thing, how to make a thing, about your failure to make a thing, etc... as wide an interpretation as our usual anthologies.

One rule: no "How to make the comics" - or else everyone would do that. Your comic can be about your own personal trials and journey while making comics, it can be about how to draw something specific, it can be about making muffins using comics making principles. A comic entirely about making comics will get a bit repetitive.

Two rule: let's make this anthology all ages.

The comic will be printed A5 size. Up to two pages per a person, if you collaborate you get to combine page numbers for mighty comics.

Our anthologies are primarily for our members, to be a member come to our meetings.

Deadline is 1st April. Comics can be sent to paperjamcc@gmail.com or handed over to Britt on paper.

We'll be talking about this at our next Paper Jam meeting which is the 10th March, or for a more informal chat you can find folks at the Mile Castle on the 25th Feb.

The Paperjammening

Oh what's this then?

Yes! It is a free micro comic con happening on 21st November, downstairs at Travelling Man, featuring the fine works of the Paper Jam Comics Collective!

And it will see the release of the twelfth PJCC 'And That' anthology - Happy ...And That, a lo-fi A6 papery lump of joy about things that Paperjammers like.

Twenty four pages for just £1 - what a bargain!


UPDATE!

Awesome people selling stuff confirmed so far...

Applied Comics Etc.

Britt Coxon

Cuttlefish

Emily Rose Lambert

Oscillating Brow

Paul Thompson

Snapsaplenty & Al Summerscales

Terry Wiley

Lydia Wysocki

As well as their stalls, there'll be a bunch of collaborative doodling games running - no artistic skill required, just turn up and get stuck in! Plus comic-themed 'just a minute' blathering and who knows what else.

Food ...And That

<trumpet!> The eleventh (ELEVENTH!) Paper Jam Comics Collective anthology, Food ...And That, has landed!

Oh yeah! Thirty-two pages of food-themed comics goodness. Featuring work by...

 



Anton ‘Biltong’ Brand
 ‘#’ Brown
refried Britt Coxon
Cuttlefish ‘Calamari’ Cuttlefish
Lucy 'Deep Dish Doughball' Dorothy
mouldy Michael Duckett
cruelty-free Jack Falafels
frost-free Michael Gonson
Emily ‘Porridge Oats’ Lambert
‘Piri Piri’ Maughn
Ian Mayor (boned and rolled)
lightly pickled Oscillating Brow
sprouted Sigmund Reimann
Paella X. Thompson
Dunkin ‘Gluten-Free’ Biscuits
family-sized Terry ‘Jolly Rancher’ Wiley
juicy James Wilkinson
Lydia ‘Allergic To Pumpkin’ Wysocki

It'll be launched at this fine event, happening on Saturday:

Where PJCC will be in full effect, along with all that other super exciting comics/zines/talks/film screening/bands/vegan cake action!

Subsequently, Food ...And That will be available from Travelling Man Newcastle's small press section.