Fetishman

back from whitby goth weekend. didn’t shift a legion of comics but shifted some. did destroy the english language once again. didn’t combust but it was a close run thing: i love you maffball. met many diverse people and enjoyed many diverse dialogues. you poor bastards.
x

hola!

friday afternoon? bored? access to a printer? may 5th is free comic book day. sadly whilst you’ll still have to part company with an hundred and fifty of your pretty pennies to get fetishman issue 6 “nuns!” you can, instead, have the fetishman issue 6b-minicomic ABSOLUTELY FREE! all you need do is download the pdf linked below, print it and make it! (print onto two sides of a single sheet of a4, fold it in half top to bottom with the cover on the outside and cut along that fold, fold it in half left to right with the cover on the outside and staple that fold, if you noe do not have an 8 page a6 comic please try harder)

www.fetishman.co.uk/out/freecomic20070504a02.pdf

if you make more and leave them everywhere i will love you, but in a non-touching way.
x
geof

mme recently brought this to my attention:

If you believe that the side-effects of accepting the existence of sheesha cafes (fresh mint tea, social place that isn’t a pub, meze etc. etc.) outweigh the damage that they cause to society by allowing tobacco to be ignited indoors (albeit filtered) then you should probably add your name to this petition thing.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Shisha/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5281046.stm

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
well, i supppose that makes up for the “bacon is evil” thing.

yeah, sorry, it’s probably about time i explained my utter lack of comicry over the past month:

basically my current research contract ends within the week so
(a) i had old work to do
(b) i had new work to seek
fortunately (a) is just a matter of putting the hours in but (b) was finally sorted on tuesday and i’m definitely employed for the next 6 months with a good chance further funding after that. to all those people who had to put up with my, hopefully muted, whingeing: cheers, it’s friday so you know the pub i’ll be adorning.

the usual erratic service should resume shortly.

also, jamie’s comic anthology FAT CHUNK is finally out and about and my slender contribution to that mighty tome looks “the nards” to coin a phrase. BUY IT! HE HAS MANY BABY KITTENS AND HE’LL KILL THEM UNLESS YOU DO SO! or you could always just offer the comic shop staff acts of sexual depravity in exchange for a copy. but for fuck’s sake remember to get pictures this time.

finally i’d like to take this opportunity to say “badgers”.

x

while i was noodling about with victoriana the other month i also pulled a wee 3.5 panel strip together for the 2nd steampunk magazine. bottom of p6. turns out i like drawing dirigibles almost as much as i like being indecisive about whether to call them zeppelins.

we have a new excuse. all of us. for anything. try it out today:

“To me it was, as an art piece, exhilarating,”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6703423.stm