Winter and Shalvey: Lewd, Rude But Very Funny

By John Freeman on April 8, 2009

We’ve missed this title from the combined talents of award-winners Andy Winter and Declan Shalvey via Moonface Press, so we’ll make up for it now. Check out Tim Skinner, Total Scumbag, described over on the Forbidden Planet International blog as “jumping between often vulgar pastiches of well loved comics characters and recent trends this is sick, perverted, twisted filth full of violence and sex.”

It’s also very funny.

“It’s the first time Declan and I have worked together since the Eagle Award-winning Hero Killers and we’re both delighted with the results,” says Andy.

Soon after Tim Skinner inherited his grandfather’s old comic book collection he discovered something extraordinary – it was magic and by making a simple wish he could step into the pages of any of the fabulous four-colour fantasies his heart desired. He could hang out with cowboys, futuristic robots or whiny adolescent mutants.

Unfortunately, Tim is a loathsome piece of garbage and instead of enjoying fun and frolics in a universe of action and adventure he brutalizes and exploits his comic-book chums for his own nefarious ends… Truly, Tim Skinner is a total scumbag!

Crammed to the gills with pokes at modern comics and modern comics types, parodying many a popular character, including Judge Dredd, and creators like Alan Moore, the one shot comic, which will be on sale at next month’s Comic Expo doesn’t spare comics readers either. “Winter and Shalvey are happy to bite the hand that feeds and they smile as they do so,” notes FPI’s Joe Gordon.

Tim Skinner has also been reviewed on Comic Book Resources by Rich Johnson and on Comic Related, by Dave O’Leary.

Also on their way from Moonface Press are two more titles: superhero title Brit Force #1, with a cover by Glenn Fabry, and Brothers, both drawn by Andrew Radbourne.

“I’m really pleased with Brothers – it’s the big, crazy, 1000mph story I set out to write in the first place with splashes of triumph, tragedy, romance and loads of completely over-the-top violence,” says Andy.

“Andy R has done some terrific work – there are several sequences from the script that he’s just picked up and run with, transforming good, solid scenes into genuinely excellent ones.”

• Buy Tim Skinner direct from Moonface Press (NB: Adult Content)

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as 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.