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Psychopia
''Psychopia'' is a small press zine featuring reviews and articles on British comic books and small press comics and interviews with cartoonists. Unusually for comix zines it focussed almost entirely on British comics such as ''The Beano'' and ''The Dandy'' ignoring American superhero comics. History and profile Issue #0 was the first published in 1994. ''Psychopia'' was created by cartoonist/writer B. Patston. The fanzine evolved out of his small press comic ''Oy Mister!!'' published in 1992. Like ''Escape Magazine'' it printed comic strips. Patston drew comics in his bedroom in Linslade typing up articles on his manual typewriter. He pasted up the final pages on his card table. The zine had a very downbeat amateurish look to it due to the underground sensibilities of the editor. The misspelling Psycopia for the magazine originated with the reputation for text mangling, technical typesetting failures and typographical errors, and once misspelled its own name on the cover a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Small Press Comics
British small press comics, once known as stripzines, are comic books self-published by amateur cartoonists and comic book creators, usually in short print runs, in the UK. They're comparable to similar movements internationally, such as American minicomics and Japanese doujinshi. A "small press comic" is essentially a zine composed predominantly of comic strips. The term emerged in the early 1980s to distinguish them from zines ''about'' comics. Notable artists who have had their start in British small press comics include Eddie Campbell, Paul Grist, Rian Hughes, Jamie Hewlett, Alan Martin, Philip Bond and Andi Watson. Small press comics are traditionally sold by mail, using reviews and classified adverts, websites, email lists and word of mouth to reach an audience. There is usually one or more mail order service, commonly known as a "distro", operating in the UK. These will hold a wide range of titles and take a cut of the cover price. The two main active distros are Samu and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Metcalfe
Trevor Metcalfe (born May 1939 in Brotton, Yorkshire) is a British illustrator and comic book artist. Known for his comic strips in IPC Magazines comics such as Sweet Tooth and Junior Rotter in ''Whizzer and Chips''. Influences include Leo Baxendale, Reg Parlett and Walt Disney. Biography Metcalfe became interested in drawing at age eight during a stay in hospital. His main influence being sports cartoonist Tom Webster. He first submitted work to his local newspaper alongside art school mate Robert Nixon. After his National Service he obtained work for DC Thomson drawing his own strip Babes and Bullies for ''The Dandy Annual''. In ''Whizzer and Chips'' he drew for many years his most famous characters Junior Rotter The strip was about a boy called Junior Rotter (or J.R.) who is always scheming up plans which generally fail. The character is loosely based on the character of the same name from the television soap opera ''Dallas''. His sister in the comic strip was call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davy Francis
Davy Francis (born 14 March 1958) is a cartoonist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. As a child he drew comics influenced by ''The Beano'' and sold them to his family for an old penny each. He contributed to various Northern Ireland-based comics, including his own ''Tsst!'' and ''Gripping Tales'', and the anthology ''Ximoc'', for which he created "Loose Chippings", "The Crazy Crew of the Saucy Sue", and "Ciderman". Ciderman also appeared in Francis' own zine ''Funny Ha-Ha'', and a one-off drawn by Seán Doran. He also contributed to the local anthology ''Blast'', which he edited an issue of. IPC head Bob Paynter gave him some pages to draw in ''Monster Fun'', which led to work for '' Oink!'' (1986–88)Comic creator: Davy Francis at Lambiek Comiclopedia for which he drew "Cowpat County" and "Greedy Gorb". Other titles he drew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Pratt
Victor Alfred Cornelius Eustace Beltane Diggory Penrith Prattellewzowskiey, more commonly known as Vic Pratt, is an artist, writer, musician and actor born in Hounslow in 1971. He now currently lives in Muswell Hill, North East London. Pratt printed two issues of his own British small press comics ''Flea Circus'' in the mid-1990s. His comic strips are mostly autobiographical similar to Robert Crumb or Chester Brown. His art influences are David Law and Hergé. He drew a comic strip "Bad Feedback" in which he remembers his time in university having his comics rejected. He wrote reviews in the 1990s small press zine ''Zum!'' He also wrote for '' Story Paper Collectors' Digest'', a magazine about British boys' story paper fiction. He wrote reports on "The Old Boys' Bookclub". Pratt is a historian on British comics and wrote reviews and drew comics in ''Psychopia'' the zine of British comics. He drew many multi artist "jam strips" in the zine including "Martian Jam" and "Stranded on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Loveday
Pete Loveday is a British underground cartoonist. He is best known for his series of comics charting the adventures of hippie character Russell, including ''Big Bang Comics'', ''Big Trip Travel Agency'' and ''Plain Rapper Comix'' printed by AK Press. Since its initial publication in 1981, ''Big Bang Comics'' is Britain's most successful underground comic book series. His style is reminiscent of US underground comic creators Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, with a similar use of cross-hatching. Recurring themes in Loveday's comics are drugs, Rock festivals, and environmentalism. ''Plain Rapper Comix'' #2 is Loveday's pamphlet in comic book form on a history of hemp and why it would be beneficial for the environment to replace tree paper with hemp paper. This was the first publication in modern times to be printed on such paper. The Russell comics have been collected in book form, ''Russell, The Saga of a peaceful man'' published by John Brown Publishing. The character o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ritchie
Bill Ritchie (1 August 1931 – 25 January 2010) was a Scottish cartoonist. He is known for work on comics published by D. C. Thomson. Biography Born in Glasgow, Ritchie attended the Glasgow School of Art, where he learnt little about cartoons or comics; instead, he taught himself by practising from local comics artists Jack Lindsay, Bud Neill, Jimmy Malcolm, Harry Smith and Bill Tait. It was Malcolm who suggested he try to draw comics for D. C. Thomson in Dundee. While serving in the army in Korea, he submitted his first cartoons to the publisher, which were printed in ''The Weekly News''. His first comic strip was '' Clumsy Claude'' in ''The Beano'', and for many years he drew ''Baby Crockett'' in the '' Beezer''. Between 1957 and 1964 Ritchie drew the illustrations for "The Glad Mag" an annual magazine produced by students of Queen's College, Dundee as part of their charities campaign. Copies of these magazines are held by University of Dundee Archive Services. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Berger (illustrator)
Joe Berger is an illustrator and cartoonist from Bristol. He has been making films, illustrating and cartooning since 1991. In 1992 he drew his own British small press comics ''Shooba'' heavily influenced by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. These were autobiographical strips and a surreal strip Drift Dream with a tank rolling down the street same as Ingmar Bergman's '' The Silence''. He drew The Slap of Doom in ''Psychopia''. In 1993 he drew ''The Artist'' with writer Mike Von Joel a picture book about how a talentless Neo-conceptual art student makes it big in the art world similar to Young British Artists Damien Hirst. It has recently been republished. He often works with writer/sound magician Pascal Wyse. Every Friday Since 2003, Berger and Wyse have produced The Pitchers comic strip in The Guardian. It is about the madness of Hollywood seen through the eyes of a pair of scriptwriters. He is currently working on his first children's book '' Bridget Fidget''. He al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality, and violence. They were most popular in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s, and in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Barbara "Willy" Mendes, Trina Robbins and numerous other cartoonists created underground titles that were popular with readers within the counterculture scene. Punk had its own comic artists like Gary Panter. Long after their heyday, underground comix gained prominence with films and television shows influenced by the movement and with mainstream comic books, but their legacy is most obvious with alternative comics. History United States The United States underground comics scene emerged in the 1960s, focusing on subjects dear to the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. Crumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, ''Zap Comix'', contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the ''East Village Other'' and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his '' Keep On Truckin''' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Press
A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published. The terms "indie publisher" and "independent press" and others are sometimes used interchangeably. Independent press is generally defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates or multinational corporations. Many small presses rely on specialization in genre fiction, poetry, or limited-edition books or magazines, but there are also thousands that focus on niche non-fiction markets. Definitions In the United States, this has been mentioned as publishers with annual turnover of under $50 million, or those that publish on average 10 or fewer titles per year. Other terms for small press, sometimes distinguished from each other and sometimes used interchangeably, are small publishers, independent publishers, or indie presses. Independent publishers (as defined above) made up about half of the market share of the book publishing industry in the US i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Bave
Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), American shot putter, world record holder in 1976 * Terry Antonis (born 1993), Australian association football player * Terry A. Davis, (1969–2018), American programmer * Terry Baddoo, CNN journalist * Terry Balsamo (born 1972), American lead guitarist for the rock band Evanescence * Terry Beckner (born 1997), American football player * Terry Bollea (born 1953), professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan * Terry Bowden (born 1956), American football coach and former player * Terry Bradshaw (born 1948), American former National Football League quarterback * Terry Branstad (born 1946), American politician * Terry Brooks (born 1944), American fantasy writer * Terry Brooks (basketball) (born c. 1968), American college baske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Ambrus
Victor Ambrus (born László Győző Ambrus, 19 August 1935 – 10 February 2021) was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television archaeology series ''Time Team'', on which he visualised how sites under excavation may have once looked. Ambrus was an Associate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers. He was also a patron of the Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors up until its merger with the Institute for Archaeologists in 2011. Early life and studies Ambrus was born on 19 August 1935 in Budapest, Hungary. He continued to live in the capital, but spent many childhood holidays in the country, where he learnt to draw horses. As he grew older he became an admirer of the illustrators Mihály Zichy, E. H. Shepard, Joyce Lankester Brisley, and the large histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
