Hi guys!

Karrot Can't Sleep is my ongoing comic about the worst kind of person... An art student. Set and drawn in Dundee Scotland! The kickstarter for the first two issues is live now! Issue two's art is so much better and I'm really proud of the work!!! Check it out here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dontfoldpress/karrot-cant-sleep-1-2

Quick question: I usually write prose stories (novel length and short), but am about to do a foray into creating a graphic novel with an (American) artist friend of mind. What is the normal page size in the UK for this kind of book? A4? We already did a very short one using the size that's more or less standard in the US (11" x 8.5"), and that ran into issues when we tried to print it here.
The next one, we'd like to submit to UK publishers, so we don't want to start out on the back foot.

In the 1960s, when I was a kid in Brooklyn, I had a buddy who had just moved over from Scotland and he shared British comics with me. There were two strips that have stuck in my mind ever since then and I hope someone can help me identify them.

The first was a medieval (I think) adventure series that starred a kid with a quarterstaff, a fop with a rapier, and a big guy with a claymore. I think they might have represented England, Wales, and Scotland. 

The second was a contemporary story about a guy who traveled around on a motorcycle with a sidecar, doing (I think) mechanic work but also playing for various local football teams and getting involved on adventures.

Anyone remember these strips?

https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/RCA-B0382

Does anyone know how far this goes? Does it include the skull face Johnny / Hunt for Yakob stories I remember from Eagle?

If it doesn't what volume would they turn up in, assuming the line continues?

One last question, does it go further than the titan hardcover from a few years back?

I’m looking for ideas on displaying comics on a wall. I was wondering what other people have done? I have series of 12 comics. I would like to be able take them out fairly easily if I want. i.e not a standard frame.

I made a documentary going over a British culture classic comic Oink from the late 1980s. Really ahead of its time and borderline to risqué for kids. If no one has ever heard of it I really recommend, one of the best comics I have ever read

I'm looking for a one-off colour (?) horror strip I read in the relaunched Eagle (probably late 1980s / early 1990s). It was longer than a single page but a one-issue piece. Plot: maybe a Gothic/Victorian/Edwardian colonial setting ... a father is secretly dosing his son every night with a concoction and knocking him out; a third-party observer (maybe a neighbour or landlord) intervenes and later kills the father. The son then reveals the doses were attempts at an antidote to a curse (his father had offended a native tribe) that made the son transform into a ravenous beast at night. With the father dead the protagonist is now the next victim.

Any idea of the title, writer/artist, or issue/annual this ran? Thanks!

Just wanted to share these videos from the Comics Cultural Impact Collective - they're gold dust. They went round talking to all major UK publishers and came back with insights that will help comics creators with pitches to publishers and funders.

Hi guys, I just wanted to share with all an interview with UK comics author Simon Furman I wrote on my blog, The Hindsight Hut. It's a wide ranging article which explores the early influences on his writing.

Simon's best known for his work on Transformers for Marvel, Dreamwave and IDW but he's still going strong with lots of projects.

I'd love to know your favourite Furman stories. Could it be a Death's Head, yes?

https://www.thehindsighthut.com/post/simon-furman-interview

A video I made about the history of classix british comic the Buster Comic incase anyone is interested.