The latest issue of Comix Reader (Issue 6) is on sale now in comic shops and other outlets, featuring a cover by Richard Cowdry and strips by a huge assortment of artists and writers, including Lord Hurk, Ralph Kidson, Paul O’Connell, Bernadette Bentley and many more.
The Comix Reader, which made the 2015 Selection for best Alternative Comic at the Festival de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême, is a British comics newspaper inspired by the free spirit of 1960’s underground comix and early comics newspapers like Comic Cuts and Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday. It presents a unique blend of established talent, new discoveries, outsider art and unsung heroes of the art form. It’s contributors are a rogues’ gallery of the Britain’s funniest, edgiest and weirdest cartoonists.
The A3, 24-page tabloid costs £1 per issue and is sold at music festivals, comedy gigs, in pubs, bookshops, comic and record shops, on the beach and on the street.
Comix Reader 6 Contents Page by Lord Hurk
Comics this issue are the work of Bernadette Bentley and Julia Homersham, Paul Ashley Brown, Craig Burston, Richard Cowdry, Sina Evil, Brenda Henderson, Lord Hurk, Saban Kazim and Kat Kon, David Peter Kerr, Ralph Kidson and Martin Meeks, Peter Lally, Ellen Linder, Mike Medaglia, Paul O’Connell and Daniel Locke, Alex Potts, Maartje Schalkx and Alex Widdowson.
Information on how to order the Comix Reader follows these samples…
Art from Craig Burston’s contribution to Comix Reader Issue 6
“Pink Rude Boy” by Saban Kazim and Kat Kon
Art by Peter Lally for Comix Reader Issue 6
This issue sponsored by Knockabout Comics.
• For more information or to buy back issues visit: www.thecomixreader.com
• Comix Reader issues 1 to 5 available from: www.comicsy.co.uk/comixreader
• North American orders available from: www.etsy.com/shop/littlewhitebird?ref=search_shop_redirect
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. Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek 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.
Categories: British Comics, downthetubes Comics News
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