Nice To Have A Friend

By John Freeman on May 26, 2008

Comic artist James Nash has a new comic available called It’s Nice to Have a Friend Such as Yourself, collecting all the diary drawings that he did in 2007.

James started a diary strip “just to explore the idea that the subjective language of comics could communicate something as objective and personal as a person’s diary,” he says. He’s been doing his comics diary fro about four years. “I began putting the drawings together as a collection and, along with some friends similarly interested in comics, began exploring the idea of self publishing our work and distributing it via the small press community.

Copies of It’s Nice to Have a Friend Such as Yourself are available from Gosh! in London, Dave’s Comics in Brighton and Platform Clothing in Birmingham.

Alternatively, if anyone would like to recieve one directly from the artist, then please contact James direct via jamesnash61 AT hotmail.com

James will also be running a diary comics workshop and have copies available at the V&A Museum as part of the Bad Idea exhibition and anthology launch at the end of this month (May 2008).

• Visit James Nash’s MySpace 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.