Once more we are aboard the Joeystarr for some thrilling under-jetty adventures. This is, officially, issue 13 of Steeple. I am afraid that it could be unlucky for almost everybody.
My Patreon subscribers ($3 and up) can read the whole of Clotted Crime pt 3 now!
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Colours by Sammy Borras
I’m at two conventions in the next three weeks.
QUAI DES BULLES FESTIVAL – St Malo, France – Oct 29-Nov 1 2021
THOUGHT BUBBLE FESTIVAL – Harrogate, UK – Nov 13-14 2021
In St Malo I’ll be signing at the Akileos booth. In Harrogate I’m at table 136 in the Red Shirts Hall. I hope to see a few of you there!
NOTE: I am apparently almost inaudible through a mask in even a quiet shop, so please be… patient with me.
Kelly Vivanco has done the cover for the upcoming Clotted Crime part 3, but that is not all. She has also submitted some archival pictures of Tredregyn’s sole all-merman folk outfit of the 1960s, TENTANGLE.
Kelly notes that “they really did a lot for sea creature outreach. Horribly strumming their guitars in unison, damply singing their briny hymns.” It was a different era and we can only imagine exactly how it was to visit the Victoria in 1962 and see these brave boys telling stories as old as the waves to a truly receptive audience. But as we all know, folk music travelled a long way through the 1960s, and things inevitably got freaky on the Lizard Peninsula…
She adds, “they lost two of their original members when touring Cornwall in 1967. Benny never picked up a guitar again.”
See more of Kelly’s work in fine art and cartoon formats.
As the top of this website has told you for a while now, the second Steeple volume is out next week, collecting the Silvery Moon and Secret Sentai stories from last year, plus a few extras.
Readers in the UK, if you get the book from OK Comics in Leeds (in-shop or online), you’ll get a signed, numbered, exclusive bookplate drawn by me. It is depicted below.
Thank you for your attention! Your support for this series… is appreciated.
[Note: the book is in comic shops next week, and other bookshops on August 17th]
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Rounding out the collection, you can now get the 3rd and 4th New Bobbins books on my Gumroad page. They’re £1 each. Both feature new essays. My work here is, for the time being, done.
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