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Hackney Comic + Zine Fair, coming soon! ✨
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First Hackney Comic + Zine Fair announced for September
First Hackney Comic + Zine Fair announced for September
The first ever Hackney Comic + Zine Fair will be taking over London Fields Arches this September, offering a celebration of all things comics, featuring over 40 artists, writers and publishers with a huge range of styles and genres available to purchase.
Comic creator Joe Stonecame up with the idea for the event, after seeing that the number of purely comic-focused fairs in London was declining.…
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HCZF Round-Up - Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!
HCZF Round-Up – Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!
HCZF MONTH! As Hackney Comic + Zine Fair comes to a close we thought we’d wind up our HCZF Month of coverage with a round-up of some of the books and comics available that we’ve reviewed here at Broken Frontier in the past. We have limited this to work released in 2021 with a couple of exceptions for those whose debut graphic novels were published after the pandemic began and subsequently lost…
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I've been working on this comic, hopefully to finish in time for Hackney comic and zine fair in September. Four pages so far.
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Thursday the 29th of August is Drink and Draw, with our friends at Broken Frontier! To lead our regular pub-based drawing club this month we have a trio of talented artists exhibiting at the up-coming Hackney Comics and Zine Fair: Shangomola Edunjobi, Joe Stone and Olivia Sullivan. The evening starts at 6.30pm at the shop where there will be an opportunity to buy work by the featured artists at a discounted price before heading to The Kings Arms on Poland Street at 7 pm to begin the drinking and drawing. ————————- Drink & Draw is hosted by Gosh’s Clare Wood and Broken Frontier’s Andy Oliver, and provides an opportunity for attendees to find their artistic muse in a relaxed and informal atmosphere in the company of a rotating list of guest creators from across all areas of comics publishing. With such a great group of creators you’ll never be in want of inspiration! The event takes place on the last Thursday of every month and every body is welcome! We hope to see you there.
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Review - The Blame by Jon Aye
Review - The Blame by Jon Aye
I review 'The Blame' from @JonFrancisAye who is currently taking part in @hackneycomics #hczf digital fair
A collection of short stories from Jon Aye.
Jon Is currently taking part in the digital Hackney Comic & Zine Fair.
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I enjoyed this. A quick read that I think I could go back and spend some more time dealing with the bigger ideas it touches upon.
I often see these kinds of comic zines or this style labelled as experimental, but I’m not sure the label fits as well as…
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Comics Jamboree @ the CASS!
Huge thanks to ‘the Doom Factory’ aka the London Met Comic Club for hosting the first of this year’s Tri-Annual Comics Jamborees!
We had a great time making loads of comics jams, riso-printing our wordless non-sequitur comics, printing a collaborative comic of one-inch panels...
...and hearing from loads of interesting speakers - Joe Stone from Work in Progress and the Hackney Comics & Zine Fair, Tari Eguruze from the London Graphic Novel Network, Nicola Streeten (visiting lecturer at KSA) from Laydeez do Comics and the Dalston Comic Club crew!
We came back with loads of ideas from Camberwell and London Met comic clubs and hope everyone from Kingston who came along was similarly inspired!
#UnholyTrinityComicClubs#TriAnnualComicsJamboree#workinprogress#laydeezdocomics#londongraphicnovelnetwork#dalstoncomicclub#doomfactory#comicxjamboree
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May – Aug
In my last reflection, I spoke about doing a mix of larger and smaller pieces of work, Childs Alphabet etc. I think those months set me up nicely for what I've created/been part of between May-August. Over these 4 months, there have been dips in creating work due to doing things other than the drawing which has slowed down my progression of skills/experimentation. These dips haven’t impacted my 3x week posting schedule on social media but more the larger personal projects that needed to be chipped away at... haven’t been started. I hope to change this in October, I would say September but we’re already halfway through it so September will be used as a buffer month to get everything back in order before I get going properly again.
My goals in my last reflection were:
Put the work in to ensure a successful exhibition in July
Spend time working on targets set
Find and talk to some local creatives
Put together a PDF Portfolio
Start putting together a self-promo pack
And I've completed the following:
Put the work in to ensure a successful exhibition in July
Find and talk to some local creatives
Put together a PDF Portfolio
The Land + Sea exhibition took a lot of time and preparation, I spent 7 weeks of evenings on just making the artwork. I ended up with 4 a3 giclee prints and 48 a5 hand-drawn pieces to be displayed along with my mum's paintings. The event was short but well-received. The work I created was purposely made to sell so I drew more common seaside themes (beach huts, fishermen, sea creatures, seaside scenes and boats) to suit the space we were exhibiting and the audience of the village.
The making on the a3 scenes was done using my normal process, the pieces had more elements to them than I usually put in and it was interesting to see how that affected the workflow and timescale of making them. I printed them on Giclee so that the colour vibrancy stayed close to what it looked like on the screen. Photo rag paper feels nice too. I’ll print using Giclee again, the downfall is that every print is individual and there isn't a way of doing multiples without spending out a lot of cash in advance.
At the start of preparing for the exhibition, I was conscious that I hadn't drawn anything just by hand for quite a while and I felt that it was something I needed to get my confidence back up with so I decided for the a5 images that they would all be hand-drawn. I used rag paper, ink and gouache paint to keep the colours as bright as they would have been digital. I made 12 pieces in each of the 4 topics (beach huts, fishermen, sea creatures & boats). I gave myself a week to complete 12 drawings and repeated that until all 48 were done. It was a quick turnaround which meant I didn’t overthink it but I also would say that they’re not my best work – having 12 of each gave room for variety within the area and it was interesting to see which ones different people liked the most. It’s funny my favourite ones to do were the sea creatures yet the people that came preferred the beach huts and fishermen. Some feedback during the show was that the set looked most impactful when they were shown together, it could be that I create a print with all individual’s on – this would only really work for the beach huts and fishermen as the size of each person/hut is similar. This is something I'm not in a rush to do during the winter months, but I will return to this for the start of spring.
I think it was a good thing to have done as it helped me to see a physical audience and test what people like and dislike. The process of making for it kept my focus and showed that if I want to, I can chip away at larger pieces/projects rather than always making small fast work.
In August I started putting together a portfolio and website which made me take stock of what I'd created during the year. It was good to do this, but I quickly realised that I'd made a lot of images and not many of them had been shaped into projects/outcomes, so it looked sparse compared to my social media accounts. Also, that pretty much everything I've done has been personal projects and competitions as I haven’t reached out and contacted anyone about doing work for them. This needs to change. I need to start putting myself out there. I’m happy with how my portfolio is currently looking in terms of flow/work - I would like to add some basic animation into the pdf document to make it more engaging, once this is done, I will send be sending it out. I need to put the time into researching who and where I could get work - I know that it’s best to start with editorials so in the coming months I will research into art directors. I’m still under the impression that it is best to send out physical things to spark interest rather than be just another email. This is something that I also want to work on, this will take more time as I would expect that the physical work needs to be more specific and personally addressed to them. I know I'm going around in circles and I need to cut the crap and just email people. If that doesn’t work, then try something new rather than thinking I need to do everything at the same time, and it needs to be perfect. I need to see it as a process as currently, I'm getting nowhere. This 'business’ side doesn’t come naturally to me I'd quite happily be in a cave and draw for the rest of time if I could but that’s just not how it works.
In some parts of May-Aug, my inspiration levels were running dry, so I started looking further afield for inspiration. I realised when drawing an Egyptian god for work that all the documentation of ancient Egypt was people drawn sideways – which is also my favourite angle to draw people. so I took a trip to the British Museum to draw lots of wall carvings. I focussed more on Assyria’s carvings, copying the poses but modernising them with sliders and socks and trying to think about what they’d be saying to each other. I hadn’t mixed in much speech in my drawings for a long while, and.. I think to do it well takes a practice that I haven’t been doing – I don’t make much in terms of comics/narrative pieces. I would like to stretch this muscle a bit more as after going to Hackney Comic and Zine fair I got hyped about comics again so I'm trying not to let the inspiration for it fizzle out before I start doing something. I think the images were successful, but the text/speech was too fragmented for a narrative. This is something I want to work on as zines/comics are great things and I need to start making them so that I can take them to stalls.
During these 4 months, my process has continued to naturally refine for digital work (adding in illustrator as part of making). I have started to realise a reliance on compositing the images digitally. For example, when I draw by hand, I draw separate elements to then digitally fit together. This has both benefits and disadvantages; it makes pieces more editable and saves the time of me trying to draw it perfect all in one. The downside is that I'm over-relying on this and barely ever now drawing something fully for fear of messing up. I’m going to start combatting this again by making sure I add more work into my flash book. (My flash book is a photo album that I use to hold and store fully drawn pieces of work so that someday I can tattoo them on people).
I think since January my work and confidence overall have grown a lot. I’ve found a variety of colours I like using and I'm surer in the work I'm producing. I have seemed to stay very close to my Berol pen, but I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing. I have been finding it easier to define my work/ approach:
I’m an Essex based Illustrator raised on a steady diet of cartoons and loud music; both of those things have influenced my approach to illustration. I like to communicate using block colour and bold lines to express what is being said with confidence.
In my practice, I try to articulate the workings of my mind in relation to the ‘real’ world with the hope to examine and display my presence. I’ve always been intrigued with different ways of communicating, stories, morals and ideas. I get a lot of inspiration from songs, books and the mundane around me and use this information to help formulate an idea for a piece of work.
I’ve grown to realise that I learn best by doing, so throughout the process of idea to the final piece, it can be revised, shaped and moulded until it looks and feels right. Projects are worked out methodically in terms of the steps that need to be done to create the outcome, what it is I’m trying to achieve and how best to communicate that through the medium used. A lot of the time, projects give me a chance to find new inspirations through researching an area that I’m not familiar with, this along with my existing interests feed into the outcome.
I would say in my most recent work the overarching theme is a positive retaliation to the current socio/political climate that we’re living in. Within that, there are sub-strands of my work focusing on mental health, politics and societal intangible needs; using what’s around me and trying to draw out something hopeful so that the final pieces communicate positive messages.
But I am still struggling to understand where and how I fit into illustration work. I hope this will come with time and perseverance.
Overall, these last few months have been productive. I’ve done work that I wouldn’t usually do and I'm slowly creeping out from under my rock. I think it’s hard to reflect on such a large amount of time properly, so I'll try not to leave so much time between each time, next time. I think a shorter one every month will be more beneficial for me going forward to recap and set my focus for the coming month.
Going forward my plans for October are:
To complete Inktober and make it into a zine
Go to 2 Drink and Draw sessions
Find 10 suitable art directors/contacts
Start working on a comic
Spend time working on targets set
Plan out Christmas merch plan and start making
Apply to guardian competition
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@WIP_Comics second anthology “Progress” has been reviewed by @brokenfrontier! Check it out and hear about the wonderful people who worked on this book (plus yours truly)! http://www.brokenfrontier.com/progress-wip-comics-hackney-comic-zine-fair/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B18ZIyTFRHc/?igshid=y4hcsqbm51ma
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Big Brown Eyes visit ELCAF!
We really enjoyed hitting the stalls at the East London Comic Arts Festival last Saturday and taking in the lovely vibrant atmosphere that usually accompanies these kind of comic events! The fair took place in the lovely Round Chapel in Hackney, which was an intimate and bright venue perfect for exploring the various comics, zines, prints and other merch on offer.
I have to say that although we unfortunately missed having a stall this year, we were not jealous of the dedicated stall holders who were manning their stations all day at 31 degrees! Our hats, scarves and jumpers off to you guys.
It was absolutely delightful to see in the crowd our illustrators the lovely Peony Gent (www.peonygent.com) and Emma Raby (www.emmaraby-illustrator.co.uk) who both have some stunning work in our next anthology titled Habitat, which will be launched in autumn this year.
The festival was well-organised, had a very chilled atmosphere and featured a breadth of interesting talks and workshops throughout the day, including a puppet making workshop. There was also an outside bar, cafe and a couple of food stalls serving a range of mouth-watering meat and vegan options.
We were really impressed by the quality of the artwork for sale during the event, and pleased to discover some new illustrators and collectives which we hadn't seen before. Hopefully next year we will be on the other side of the stall selling our own comic books! Either way though, we will be visiting the festival as a trio and enjoying a lovely day out in ELCAF 2018.
Freya, Karis and Emily Lambert
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HCZF Round-Up - Comics and Graphic Novels You May Have Missed from Alxndra Cook, Danny Noble, Dominique Duong, Gareth Brookes, Sabba Khan and More!
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! As Hackney Comic + Zine Fair comes to a close we thought we’d wind up our HCZF Month of coverage with a round-up of some of the books…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/hall-one-hczf-round-up-2021/
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Akio Vol.1: Suigin Valley - Martial Arts Fantasy with a Topical Twist from Dreambaked Studios
Akio Vol.1: Suigin Valley – Martial Arts Fantasy with a Topical Twist from Dreambaked Studios
HCZF MONTH! There are times you pick up a small press project and realise that the term “labour of love” isn’t even remotely adequate to express the obvious thought and care that has gone into it. Akio Volume 1 (subtitled Suigin Valley) is one such book. Published by Dreambaked, this manga fantasy saga is the work of Curtly Ferguson and C.H. Barnett and is the first collection in a projected…
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Akio Vol.1: Suigin Valley - Martial Arts Fantasy with a Topical Twist from Dreambaked Studios
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! There are times you pick up a small press project and realise that the term “labour of love” isn’t even remotely adequate to express the obvious thought and…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/akio-dreambaked-ferguson-barnett-hczf/
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The Blame #1 - Jon Aye Embraces a Truly Playful and Experimental Approach to Both Storytelling and Subject Matter.
The Blame #1 – Jon Aye Embraces a Truly Playful and Experimental Approach to Both Storytelling and Subject Matter.
HCZF MONTH! The territory where cute meets cynical can be a dangerous one. In The Blame Jon Aye plays in that territory and stakes a claim to versions of bleakness that are by turns beautiful, banal and bizarre. It’s a pleasure to see this kind of collection, where the artist has been able to make the work that speaks to them, and try out different approaches to both the visuals and the subject…
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Conniptions - Stephen Morton's Meditation on Mortality and Oblivion Has a Strangely Morbid Appeal
Conniptions – Stephen Morton’s Meditation on Mortality and Oblivion Has a Strangely Morbid Appeal
HCZF MONTH! Irish artist Stephen Morton’s Conniptions takes a distinctively dark approach to (assumed) autobio comics. If creators like Joe Decie and Matthew Dooley can be said to be combining autobiographical work with surreal flights of fancy then Morton is perhaps doing something similar but with soberingly strange dives of despondency instead. Conniptions is a 40-ish page collection of short…
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Conniptions - Stephen Morton's Meditation on Mortality and Oblivion Has a Strangely Morbid Appeal
by Andy Oliver
HCZF MONTH! Irish artist Stephen Morton’s Conniptions takes a distinctively dark approach to (assumed) autobio comics. If creators like Joe Decie and Matthew Dooley can be said to be combining…
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/conniptions-stephen-morton-hczf/
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