TREEHOUSE #12

Cover by Craig Murray White.

The latest Treehouse comic is out now! New work from Jon Adam, Thomas Heitler, David Peter Kerr, Neil Scott, and Mike Sedakat.

I have three stories in there. Some excerpts:

The launch event was held at Forbidden Planet in Edinburgh, featuring Jon Adam, Neil Scott, Mike Sedakat and myself. It was a triple-header with Treehouse 12, Jon's Terror from the Other Side, and Wow! Retracted.

TREEHOUSE #11

Cover by David Peter Kerr.

The latest Treehouse comic is out now! New work from Jon Adam, Miguel Black, Kathryn Briggs, Asuna Ikeshima, David Peter Kerr, Ross Purdie, Neil Scott and Surian Soosay.

I have three stories in there. Some excerpts:

In Concert

I Live with a Killer 3

The launch event included a recording of the latest Treehouse podcast in front of a live audience, featuring hosts Neil Scott and Stuart McAdam with guests David Lumsden and Paul Jon Milne. They discussed their own comics Boat and Guts Power, and also Wolverine and The Crow. It was a fun discussion, so look out for the podcast when it goes online.

TREEHOUSE COMICS PODCAST

Logo by Neil Scott.

The inaugural episode of the Treehouse Comics Podcast is now available to listen to here.

The show features Jon Adam, Stuart McAdam, Neil Scott and me.

We talked about Trashed by Derf; The Fiction by Curt Pires and David Rubin; Image Comics including Nowhere Men by Eric Stephenson and Dave Taylor; Zap Comix #16; Slow Comics including Hubert by Ben Gijsemans; Richard McGuire's Here; Island Comics; and Brian Chippendale's Puke Force.

Other topics include bands with more than one drummer!

It was great fun to take part in and I hope you enjoy listening to it.

TREEHOUSE COMICS EXHIBITION PREVIEW - PART ONE

The Treehouse Comics exhibition opens 2pm this coming Saturday at Arbroath Library. Here is a preview of what's on show...

Jon Adam

Kathryn Briggs

Andy Herd

Balázs Lőrinczi

Stuart McAdam

More tomorrow!

THOUGHT BUBBLE 2014

I went to my first Thought Bubble Comics Festival in Leeds last weekend. It was a fun experience. I attended as an exhibitor with cartooning comrades from the Treehouse Comics anthology.

As there were a few of us in attendance, we were able to take turns manning the table. Here are Anna Rathband and Neil Scott…

Anna again, with Nina Sharp...

I particularly wanted to go see Robin McConnell do both of his Inkstuds panels. I listen to that show a lot and was excited to get to see the show live. If you haven’t listened, it’s a Canadian series of interviews with comics creators. Recently McConnell did a Kickstarter and is now taking the show on the road. Here he is with Emma Rios, Dave Taylor and Scott Snyder…

The costumes and make-up people wore were amazing. Very creative, and they added to the fun of the event. This trio came to our table. The one in the middle had black contact lenses in, and when she looked into my eyes I felt like I was being hypnotised…

There was another Treehouser in Leeds. Norrie Millar, who was officially with the Universe team. Norrie also contributes to this anthology which comes out of The University of Dundee as part of Chris Murray and Phil Vaughan’s course. Here he is non-stop drawing at their table, alongside the Cosmic crew…

One of the nice things about cons is touching base with other folk in the world of comics. I spoke with a few people I hadn’t seen for a while, and also met some in person for the first time such as Andy Oliver of Broken Frontier. 

Here’s Stuart McAdam catching up with Alex Tobin of Yuck n Yum:

As well as enjoying this tabling experience, I also put on my comics buying hat quite a few times over the weekend. So, here’s my haul photo:

I’ll finish with this photo of Anna, Jon Adam, Nina and Neil. It sums up the fun we had taking Treehouse to Leeds. Hopefully we’ll be getting out on the road to other events soon...