Sunday 3 March 2024

ACME Comic Con is Glasgow next weekend.


Our first Comic Convention for 2024.

Do pop over and say 'Hello' if you're in the area.

Friday 16 February 2024

New special limited printing of Fastest Man

At TimeBomb Comics have a Subscription service called Quantum Prime.

Every issue of Quantum we produce a special variant cover version which is only available to subscribers and also look to include something a little special and also very limited.

with Quantum 6 Subscribers will also get the collected Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man? and for the first time it also includes the 5 page prequel, also illustrated by the very talented Marleen Lowe.

Andy Bloor has worked his magic on the design and it's no longer under a The Accent fake newspaper title but has moved to Strange Times.

I'm very happy with the result.

...and if you'd like to know more about the comic then pop over to:-The Mighty World of British Comics  for a very humbling review.


Tuesday 6 February 2024

Animal Magic

 I attended a meeting in Paddington today with my day job and came across this.

I love street art in most forms. Graffiti and sculptures being my favourites.
There are a couple of empty seats so that people can join in,
I didn't do that, but I did take a few photos.
On returning home I Googled it and found out that it's call 'The Wild Table of Love' and is by Gillie and Marc. 
Fabulous.

Friday 12 January 2024

Quantum Issue 1 available for Comic shops to order in Jan PREVIEWS

Yep, Issue 1 will be available in your local comic shop, if you'd like a copy you might want to ask them to order one in for you.


The code for Quantum #1 - JAN241994

Sunday 31 December 2023

42nd Post

Looking back at last year's 42nd Post I remember what tough year that had been. This year my feet have continued to recover and my walking looks less and less like a sketch from Monty Python. I think this may be it and I'll take that, it's a long way from where I was.
I've traded my car in for an Automatic, so I can now drive again. You don't know how important it is to be able to just pop into a car and go somewhere. Being able to drive again has had a huge impact. A very positive thing.
The driving has allowed me to have a full year of Comic Conventions, and it's great to get back to those too. Standing up for 3 days at the MCM's doesn't help my poor feet but they are recovering more and more quickly and I think the MCM endurance is helping that.
Speaking of MCMs, this year I picked up the '42' book in October, subtitled 'The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams'. The man had a lot of improbable ideas that are now, or shortly will, become reality. Interesting that he didn't see all of them as a positive thing and I do often wonder if we are creating things because we can and not because we should.

Quantum has been a highlight. It's a lot of work, stress and strain getting something like this ready for publication every 2 months, and financially it's a real challenge too, but we need to try. Things are looking encouraging at the moment and so I think it'll continue for many years yet (I hope I haven't just jinxed it).
A new thing for us is the idea (which came from a friend) to have a subscription to TimeBomb where we produce some very limited edition comics and provide other content. This will help flatten out the ups and downs of print costs and distribution income. The first will go out shortly and features a variant cover version of Quantum 5.
Thanks you all for your support through 2023, and before.
All the best for 2024.


Friday 29 December 2023

Gator Boys Figures.

As far back as WesterNoir Issue 2 Gary and I introduced The Gator Boys, a family haunting the Mississippi swampland.

They were kind of a hidden joke as we called the the Pontipees, to see if my Mum ever actually read my comics as the name comes from one her favourite musicals (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (which I believe is based a pretty horrible story (which may have also been true))). 

Anyway, many years laters and we are pulling together some figures to make the table at conventions look a little more interesting than just a load of comics. 

You'll have seen Josiah Black on a previous post so here are two of the Pontipees.





I started with an easy-ish one. It was quite easy to get to all areas of the figure and he only had a pair of trousers on, so only two textures really.
The second one proved much more challenging.
A torn shirt and he was crouched over himself, making it really difficult to get to some parts without messing up parts already painted. The trick, I remembered from old, is to keep very little paint on the brush at such times. 




Quite happy with the result, I wanted his shirt to look as if it had been dragged through a swamp. I think I achieved that :o)
So, 2 down and 5 to go.


Tuesday 26 December 2023

Quantum 5

Yep, just before Xmas Quantum 5 hit the stores. 

It features the last part of Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man?, who also features on the cover.

And some people have turned it into an ornament for their Christmas Tree (thanks for the photo Shaun).
You'll be able to find it in your local newsagents or W H Smith stores.
We hope you enjoy it, ideally reading it but if you prefer to use it for your Christmas Tree then that's good also.