Into the Crawl Hole, new indie horror comic released

By John Freeman on August 5, 2013

The cover of the new Crawl Hole by Iain Laurie, coloured by Derek Dow.

Crawl Hole is a new horror comic by Craig Collins and Iain Laurie, and the spiritual cousin of sorts to the pair’s other project, Roachwell.…

“It’s a collection of short surreal comedic horror strips, some of which you may have seen here and others that are completely new,” says Craig, “It includes work featured in New British Comics, Top Shelf Online (which was published in the US), Lazer Art Zine (Belgium) and Yuck! magazine (Australia).”

Craig is a Glasgow based comic writer and occasional cartoonist. His work includes Roachwell, Haunted Bowels and Metrodome, while Iain is an Edinburgh-based cartoonist and illustrator.

• A 16 page A5 colour cover, black and white comic Crawl Hole costs £2.00 plus p&p, and it’s available now from Craig’s web site

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.