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OK Comics | Nao suffers from violent morbid obsessions and a racing, unruly mind. She works part time in a designer vinyl toy shop, whilst struggling to get her own design and illustration career off the ground. She’s looking for love the perfect love. But in meeting the man of her dreams, she realises that... dreams can be quite weird.

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“Comics and Sequential Art is a masterwork, the distillation of Will Eisner’s genius to a clear and potent elixir.”-Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning autho

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2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the East London Comics & Arts Festival next year and we want to celebrate this! As you know, this past year brought huge changes to all of our lives, and as such, in 2020, we had to rethink the festival's format for the safety of the community. Once again, we'll be changing the way we work for 2021.

We'd like to use the funding we have from Arts Council England to support and commission a number of artists to produce new work.

As such, we are creating a celebratory, 10 year anniversary, limited edition physical pack inspired by the ELCAF Haul (#elcafhaul) - containing printed zines, comics, posters and other goodies created by YOU!
Would you like to be involved? If so please submit a proposal
Your work and proposal will be carefully reviewed by the ELCAF team and if selected, you'll be provided with the following artist fee/budget to create something new:

...and you will also receive a free ELCAF Haul pack!

We will collate, design and print the 10 Year ELCAF Haul in Spring ready for limited edition release in Summer 2021 - it will be available to buy for £10 through the ELCAF website and social media channels as well as at ELCAF's smaller events later in the year!

Your work will hopefully be seen by many in the community and further afield! We will also promote all the work of the artists from the pack on our social media channels and through our small online programme over the next few months.
The timeline for submissions is as follows:
17 Feb - Open Call

08 Mar - Submissions Deadline

24 Mar - We'll be in touch!

12 Apr - Final Artwork Deadline

* Please note : Anyone successful in applying for a comic / zine - please ignore the final artwork deadline above. You will be contacted directly by the ELCAF team to discuss and agree a realistic deadline.

For any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Thanks so much and we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Much love - The ELCAF Team

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2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the East London Comics & Arts Festival next year and we want to celebrate this! As you know, this past year brought huge changes to all of our lives, and as such, in 2020, we had to rethink the festival's format for the safety of the community.

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A humane, moving and often very funny graphic novel about the life of a country doctor and those of his patients, cartoonist and doctor Ian Williams introduces us to Dr Iwan James: cyclist, doctor, would-be lover, former heavy metal fan and, above all, human being. 'The territory of doctor as patient has been visited before, but Dr. Williams's iteration and its resolution are as subtle and thought provoking as the best of them.' New York Times Paperback: 224 pages Size: 170mm x 230mm

Special Price £10.39 Regular Price £12.99

Weighed down by his responsibilities - from diagnosing personality disorders to deciding who can hold a gun licence - Iwan doubts his ability to make decisions about the lives of others when he may need more than a little help himself. Incontinent old ladies, men with eagle tattoos, traumatised widowers - Iwan's patients cause him both empathy and dismay, as he tries to do his best in a world of limited time and budgetary constraints, and in which there are no easy answers. His feelings for his partners also cause him grief: something more than friendship for the sympathetic Dr Lois Pritchard, and not a little frustration at the prankish and obstructive Dr Robert Smith. Iwan's cycling trips with his friend Arthur provide some welcome relief, but even the landscape is imbued with his patients' distress. As we explore the phantoms from Iwan's past, we too begin to feel compassion for The Bad Doctor, and ask what is the dividing line between patient and provider? Wry, comic, graphic, from the humdrum to the tragic, his patients' stories are the spokes that make Iwan's wheels go round, as all humanity, it seems, passes through his surgery door. Ian Williams is the author of Sick Notes, a weekly comic strip in The Guardian about the state of the NHS. The Bad Doctor was highly commended in the Primary Healthcare category of the British Medical Association Medical Books Awards 2015. Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Myriad Editions Language: English ISBN: 978-1-908434-28-9 Size: 170mm x 230mm

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Myriad

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A humane, moving and often very funny graphic novel about the life of a country doctor and those of his patients, cartoonist and doctor Ian Williams introduces us to Dr Iwan James: cyclist, doctor, would-be lover, former heavy metal fan and, above all, human being.

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Thought Bubble is the Yorkshire Comic Art Festival! A week long celebration of comics, illustration and more spread across the whole of Yorkshire, finishing in a huge two day comic convention in Harrogate. We use our festival week to promote the power of comics! We believe they can inspire, educate and bring people together like no other medium, so whether you're a long-time fan of comic art or have never picked up a graphic novel before, you'll find something for you.

Thought Bubble is not for profit with our chosen charity being Barnardo's!

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Thought Bubble is the Yorkshire Comic Art Festival! A week long celebration of comics, illustration and more spread across the whole of Yorkshire, finishing in a huge two day comic convention in Harrogate. We use our festival week to promote the power of comics!

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A Wilder Tomorrow

In a couple of months I'll be joining some great writers and illustrators as part of the Children's Book Creators for Conservation @cbcc_wild on a trip to South Africa to learn about wildlife conservation in the area, from the perspective of book creators.

I'm planning to spend every free moment sketching with a view to using the visual research for some forthcoming projects.

We've started a fundraising effort on behalf of the trip's organizers at Wild Tomorrow Fund @wildtomorrow to contribute to their ongoing conservation work.
Read our press release in Publishers Weekly.
The writers and artists are all funding the trip ourselves, so all donations go directly to to conservation, and donors will receive news, updates, and postcards from the trip.
Donate at the Wild Tomorrow website!

My Antarctica: The Proof of the Pudding

My Antarctica is coming soon from Candlewick Press!
" What's a proof? "

Glad you asked.

A proof is a printed copy of a book that's about to be published soon. The author/illustrator takes a look through it and makes sure that the colours look correct, and checks for visual glitches or design misunderstandings. Then, if there's time, the publisher can change these things at the last minute before the book goes to press.

It's the best way to make sure an error isn't printed and bound thousands of times!

I work with proofs a lot in my day job editing images for photo books, and it's surprising how easy it is for oversights to remain in a book right up until press day. When you're immersed in a book every day, you become blind to things that might be obvious to someone else.

That's why it's so useful to get fresh pairs of eyes on a book at the proof stage.

Pre-order My Antarctica in the USA from Amazon, Target, or ThriftBooks.

Pre-orders in the UK currently only from Amazon, but watch this space.

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The First Graphic Novel Award offers creators a unique opportunity to see their debut graphic novel published.

The shortlist is announced here. The winner will be revealed on 11th December at Waterstones Piccadilly.

The First Graphic Novel Award 2023 is a partnership between The Cartoon Museum, publisher SelfMadeHero and independent graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman, with generous support from the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the bks Agency, sponsors of the £500 prize. The winner will be announced on 11 December 2023. A limited number of tickets are available for sale, so book now on eventbrite.

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The First Graphic Novel Award 2023 is a partnership between The Cartoon Museum, publisher SelfMadeHero and independent graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman, with generous support from the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the bks Agency, sponsors of the £500 prize. The winner will be announced on 11 December 2023.

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An exquisitely drawn exploration of three lost souls' emotional terrain As night falls in the City of Belgium, three strangers in their late twenties-a most dangerous age-arrive at a popular restaurant. Jona is about to move away; he calls his wife, who's already settled in Berlin, before trying to make plans with friends for one last night on the town.

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"Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-sik Hong tells the story of its author's decision to leave 21st-century Seoul and move with his wife to a small house on top of a mountain...

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(AUTHOR NOTE: My publisher told me I could post a chapter from the new book. There were 25 chapters to choose from, but I chose this one. Because I wanted to give you a love letter. And it seemed like the most appropriate love letter to give you would be an extremely indirect one that screams, "DO NOT FEEL SCARED-I AM JUST INTERACTING WITH YOU!!")
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For the first few years of my life, the only people I knew how to find lived in my house.

We had a neighbor, Richard. But Richard was quiet and rarely outside for long, so I didn't know about him.

One afternoon, though, Richard went outside.

That's how I found out about him.

I did not interact with Richard. I just saw him. He probably didn't even know. He stood in his driveway for a minute or two and then went back into his house. But I saw him. I think that was the main thing.

It was very exciting. A person lives next to us!A person! He lives right there! And I SAW him! When will he go outside again? What else does he do? Does he know about dad? Who is his friend? Does he like whales? Is his house the same as ours? Which room does his grandma live in?

Desperate to catch another glimpse of him, I'd lurk near the windows all day just staring at his house.

I think I expected it go somewhere. You can't find out there's a person living right next to you and then never get any answers. Maybe if you're 100 and you know everybody, but not if you're 3. Not when it's the first stranger you know how to find. I just wanted to know more. Anything.

And this is as far as it would have been able to go if it wasn't for the dog door.

My grandma usually supervised me while my parents were at work. She'd drink screwdrivers and do the crossword, I'd run around the house and do whatever. If she hadn't seen me in a while, she'd check to make sure I still had all my fingers, but escaping wasn't a big concern. The doors were locked. Just in case, there were jingle bells on the handles.

The dog door was the single weak point in the fortress.

The revolutionary impact the dog door had on my ability to observe Richard was second only to the discovery of Richard himself.

I just wanted to get a little closer. Just a little. I'd sneak out through the dog door and go stare at his house from the edge of our driveway, hoping this would summon him. When it didn't, I'd sneak a little closer. Maybe it'll work if I stand in Richard's driveway.... or, actually, maybe I'll just go over to this little window here and see what I can see...

I started sneaking out more frequently. I started sneaking out at night. And the fact that I was sneaking seems to suggest I might've been at least partially aware that this type of behavior should be a secret, but I don't think I'd reached that crucial developmental turning point where you're capable of recognizing how creepy you're being.

However, on the night I found the cat door in Richard's garage, even my undeveloped, fish-level brain could sense that a boundary was about to be crossed. A tiny, instinctual trace of doubt-the wisdom of my ancestors whispering through the ages: This might be too weird of a thing to do...

Of course, one of the main features of undeveloped, fish-level brains is poor impulse control, and before I could complete the thought, I was in Richard's living room.

I hadn't prepared for this possibility. I'd dreamed of it, sure. But I wasn't expecting it to HAPPEN. So I just stood there for a little while and then retreated to regroup.

A concrete objective never emerged, but the missions became bolder and more frequent. I started bringing things back with me. Richard's things.

They seemed valuable, somehow. Richard likes these things.... perhaps they contain the secret to Richard....

A nonsensical collection of Richard's possessions slowly accumulated at the back of my toy drawer.

This would prove to be my downfall.

Long before that, though, my mom noticed that I'd mysteriously disappear sometimes. She wasn't worried yet because she didn't think I knew how to get out of the house, but one day she asked me where I'd been.
And I said:
"Hanging out with Richard."

"Hanging out" was a misnomer-Richard had been hanging out by himself and I had been standing in his hallway just out of view-but this was concerning news for my parents. They didn't even know that I knew Richard, let alone that we'd been "hanging out." They went over and knocked on Richard's door and asked him about it, probably with thinly-veiled suspicion regarding Richard being a child predator. And Richard, who was still somehow unaware of all the hanging out we'd been doing, told them he didn't know anything about that.

I imagine things were tense for a bit. The suggestion that I'd been hanging out with Richard was disturbing for both my parents and Richard. But the clues piled up. I couldn't control myself. I took more things, bigger things. I also branched over into hiding things for Richard to find. Pretty rocks, pieces of string, letters I'd tried to write. At that age, I didn't know how to spell very many words, so the messages were fairly cryptic: the entire alphabet, followed by the word Mom and a drawing of the sun. Rampant scribbling, hundreds of tiny circles, and... is this a spider??
The spider was supposed to be Richard. I hadn't figured out how many arms and legs people are supposed to have yet, so I just put a whole bunch on there and hoped it was enough. I didn't want him to feel offended because I shortchanged him on legs.

It must've come off like being haunted by a defective but well-meaning ghost.

The connection should have been obvious. But, when faced with a mystery like, "Where did my remote control go? Why is there a piece of paper with a child's handwriting on it hiding in the VCR? And how do these rocks keep getting in here?" almost no rational adult would jump to the conclusion "because a child has been sneaking in through my cat door and leaving these for me to discover." Not even with clues. I don't know what theory Richard came up with to explain it, but it almost certainly wasn't that one.

Similarly, when faced with a mystery like "why does our child keep disappearing? And why has our child been "hanging out" with our 40-year-old neighbor?" almost no rational adult would jump to the conclusion: "because our child has become obsessed with our 40-year-old neighbor, and 'hanging out' is a loose term to describe the activity of spying."

The thing that finally blew my cover was stealing Richard's cat.

Stealing it wasn't the original plan. The opportunity presented itself, I seized it.

It was a strong animal. Getting it into the drawer was difficult. I didn't have a plan for what to do with it, but I knew I had something valuable, and I think the thought process was that I should save it for later. For when I figured out how to capitalize on the probably unlimited potential of this.

It lived in the drawer for a while. I don't know how long. Hours, probably.

And now it is time for a quick fact about cats: cats aren't good secrets, because, under extreme duress, they have the ability to make a sound like:
YAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAO
My parents eventually realized the sound was coming from inside the house and located the source of it.

They weren't expecting to find quite so many of Richard's things.

I don't know if they put the pieces together immediately, or processed them individually as they came up-"first of all, there's a cat in this drawer; How about that. Next up: there appear to be a considerable number of objects under the cat. This one is a shoe. This one is a piece of bread. This one is a credit card bill. Huh...it's addressed to 'Richard The Neighbor....'" -inching closer to the truth with every clue until the ultimate answer to "What does 'hanging out with Richard' mean?" was revealed.

There was more than enough evidence to answer the question.

That's got to be a strange moment for a parent. There's this omnipresent fear of predators and monsters, and you just... you never quite expect to find out the monster is your kid.

They confronted me after a strategy meeting about how the fuck to handle this. That's not something the books prepare you for. There's no chapter on what to do if you suspect your child is a predator. There's no Hallmark card for "Sorry we accused you of being a molester; we didn't realize our kid was sneaking into your house and stealing your spoons and animals and watching you while you sleep. We're really, really sorry."

That primal instinct I'd felt in Richard's garage flickered back online a little bit. Looking at the objects, and the freaked out cat, and my parents' confused faces, I realized that yeah, maybe this had been a weird thing to do....

I felt like I should explain why I had done this, but I didn't know either.

So we all just stood there, feeling weird about ourselves and each other.

The cat was stoked to be free, though.

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45 YEARS OF 2000 AD
To celebrate forty-five years of bringing Thrill-Power to Earthlets everywhere, Tharg the Mighty has tasked forty-five of Earth's most popular comic book artists and illustrators to interpret some of the galaxy of characters featured in the pages of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic, 2000 AD, over the last four and a half decades.

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﻿﻿A strange new philosophy is gaining popularity amongst the Roman soldiers. When its enchanting influence reaches the Gauls, everything they once held dear is turned upside down.

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Asterix and the White Iris Hardcover by Fabcaro and Didier Conrad

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In a climate crisis-ravaged future metropolis, an old, grumpy, obsolete, smoke-belching, cigar-chomping, HOTROD-RACING ROBOT is one 12-year-old girl's only hope. Together, can they outrace the chasing Robo-Cops with an invention that might just save humanity? "PETROL HEAD is unreal. This must be one of the most exciting comics, both visually and story, I've seen in ages. Get this ordered!" - Mark Millar (Kingsman, Marvel's Civil War) Collects PETROL HEAD #1-5

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Graphic Novel Station brings carefully curated graphic novels to you without extra hassle. Every month you will receive a differently themed box filled with graphic novels from known and indie authors accompanied with sweet or savoury snacks to munch on while immersing yourself in to your new favourite novel.

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Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr.

Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born.

Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?

A powerful new graphic novel from award-winning writer Ram V (These Savage Shores, Swamp Thing) and artist Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel) that explores the fine line between living and dying through the lens of magical realism.

Collects The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1-5.
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The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade

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Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality.