Ayden Lamia Manga Webcomic Feature !!

 

 

 'Venefictia is just trying to live her life, it's a shame she has to do the devils work.'

Inspired member Gem Sheldrake has been working hard on a new manga style webcomic called Ayden Lamia! It launched in early October so there's already 2 chapters available to read on mangamagazine.net for free!

Thanks for reading and supporting this group blog!
Sammy

Post London MCM Expo stuff

Hello! A massive thank you to the lovely people who visited our table at MCM Expo last weekend! We had a really great time seeing lots of friends, drawing pictures and eating too much cake! (Sarah is in the photo)

The fox head that was making our comics look cool was created by Grace from The What Not Tree

If you'd like to read about the publications on the table see our pre-mcm post

On Sunday morning we got up early and went on the cable carts before the show opened! Look its the Olympic park! and lots of yellow people jogging round a car park! We got off and had a look - they where people doing Run To The Beat! We could hear their music echoing around near the excel centre before we got on the cable carts.

Thanks everyone for such a fun weekend! Not long till Thought Bubble! :)
Sammy

Monster pre London MCM Expo 2012 post!!

Inspired Comics will be at London MCM Expo for the first time! We'll be in the comics village and you can find our table on row C. We'll be there Friday though till Sunday! The images above are the covers for all the anthologies we've created as a collective that will be available from the event.

Sarah and Lily's What's The Time Mrs Woolf? has been running for a whole year! The latest issue has a spooky theme and I'm very excited that its ready to take to London at the weekend. (I'm not sure which back issues are in stock, but don't worry because you don't need to read in a particular order)

Sarah will be around all weekend so I hope she is bringing plenty of copies of her mini comics The Bad Fairy Bakery and Patience is a Virtue

Sarah and I have also created our first music zine this autumn! It features articles, illustrations and comics featuring Blur, The Kinks, Everything Everything, Peace, Gorillaz, De La Soul, Little Dragon, Helen Arney, Bellatrix, Gil Scott-Heron, Ghostpoet, DANGER DOOM, The Subways, The Clash, Elastica, Phillipa Hannah, The Unthanks and Young Knives

I'll be taking my new comic Jumping The Shark, a sequel to Best Day Ever. The printed version of the webcomic includes an exclusive bonus comic! I'll also have copies of some of my mini comics.

Shaz will also be around for some of the weekend and I'll be taking copies of her comic Thin Ice which was created for her final major project earlier in the year.

And we'll have the usual badges, stickers, plectrums, bookmarks post cards and art cards!

 

We've also photocopied a limited amount of free mini comics and zines to bundle together and hand out at the event

I think thats everything - listing it all feels like a test!

Thanks again for reading and maybe I'll see you at the weekend!
Sammy

AUTUMN 2012 EVENTS

Hello!

The anthology we're working on is going through some changes at the moment. The release has been pushed back to 2013 so I'll let you know more about that over the next couple of months. Sorry about the implication that I would be posting some of our development work in September, but I'm going to be saving that for the months closer to the release.

We're still working hard over the autumn and we have 3 events coming up ...

Birmingham Zine Festival - Independent Publishing Fair - Saturday 13th October 2012

London MCM Expo - Friday 26th - Sunday 28th October 2012

Thought Bubble Festival - Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th November 2012

I'm hoping that next week I can get some photos of some of the new stuff we'll be launching this autumn

Thanks for reading!
Sammy

Thought Bubble 2012 and Music Anthology

We can now confirm Inspired Comics will have a table at Thought Bubble 2012. We're really excited because we had such a good time there last year. We'll be somewhere in the Saviles Hall again. :)

We're currently working on a comics anthology with a music theme and are hopping to release it in the autumn. I'm going to try to start blogging comics development and hopefully get some some music choices from the group to accompany the work. 

I haven't collected anything to post yet, but I went to see Blur with Sarah last week at Wolverhampton Civic Hall. We both drew sketches while we were there and Sarah has touched up some of them after the event. You can see more of Sarah's sketches here. It's interesting seeing how different our location drawings are.

I didn't draw as much as Sarah did, I was too busy singing badly along to my favourite songs ^^; . You can see the sketches I did of the warm up band here.

Blur - End of a Century 

Thanks for reading - hopefully I'll have more comic based blog posts over the next couple of months
Sammy

Bristol Old Vic Farmers Market

Sarah Fogg is going to be at the Farmers Market at the Bristol Old Vic on Saturday 28th July. You can find out more about the event here. Sarah will be taking some copies of Inspired's latest anthologies, What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? zines and her own comics to sell. She has also been making some brilliant sets of miniature paintings like the examples shown above. 

Sarah will have some of the free mini comic sets to hand out too, but stock will be limited again - its worth getting to the table early if you can. 

Thanks!

Sammy

Manchester MCM Expo 2012

Thank you to anyone who came to the table or bought something on Saturday! I was totally overwhelmed with how busy it was! I hope everyone liked the free mini comics we made to hand out - sorry they had all gone by midday. Sorry if I seemed a bit sleepy too, it was a long day at the end of a busy week.

This photo was in focus the best (sorry its just my phone camera). We'd sold out of some of the zines by this point in the day too. Hopefully we can go to the event next year and I will take more stock.

Thanks again!
Sammy 

FREE MINIATURE ZINE LIBRARY

Hello! We're going to be at Manchester MCM Expo tomorrow and these photos are of the free stuff that will be available from the table (while stocks last). The bundles have rotating covers and all include 3 A7 hand folded mini zines and a fold out poster.

The What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? Free Mini Zine contains tiny articles by Lily and Sarah, illustrations by Clem and a new Stale Symphony comic by Sammy. Patience is a Virtue: The Mystery of the Nightboy is a free 6 page mini mystery comic by Sarah Fogg. The Crossroads is the latest free mini comic by Sammy Borras and folds out into a A4 poster.

We will also have copies of What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? Issue 5: The Hairy Issue which was released this week!

I also printed some full colour versions of the mini comic which fold out into a A3 poster. Visit www.giantrhinos.co.uk for more information on the Giant Rhinos project. (Sorry about the photo quality)

I'm hoping that I will be able to offer inked portraits and personal commissions while at the event (as long as I don't catch the head cold that's going around work). For more information on prices click here.

Thanks! See you there!
Sammy

Table News!

I'm happy to announce that we will be at Manchester MCM Expo in the Comics Village on Saturday 21st July 2012!

We'll have copies of all the anthologies that are still in stock plus some of the self published projects by individuals from the group. We'll have a couple of new free mini comics to hand out too, so make sure to stop by the table and say hello :)

We're hoping to be at a couple of other events later in the year and I'll let you know the details once they've been confirmed

Thanks again!
Sammy 

Petitecreme Sale!

Gem Sheldrake is having a massive clear out sale on her Etsy site. There are comics, posters and charms all being sold between 50p-£2! Get them quick before they go!

Gem is also available for commission at the moment, her price guide and contact is all on this page of her website. 

Inspired are currently working out what we would like to do next as a group and arranging which events we'll be at. I'll be back occasionally to keep you up to date with projects we're working on outside of the collective.

Thanks!
Sammy 

Buy Eat Me! Online!!

Eat Me!

£3

Post and Package: £1.50

Sugary sweet bunnies, a deliciously grim detective tale, turf wars of fiendish butchers and food wars on national TV! Just some of the stories to be found in Eat Me! a food-themed anthology from Inspired Comics. Sit down and feed your brain with six original comics, from light snacks to juicy steaks, there’s something for every taste.

Released: May 2011

Pages: 52 (Black & White)

Size: A5

Comics Creators: Sarah Fogg, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Sammy Borras, Catherine Reda, Luke Bayliss, Harry Griffin-Hayes and Jack Davies 

Cover Art: Sarah Fogg

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Bristol Comic Expo 2012

Hello! Thank you very much to anyone who stopped by to say hello and/or buy a comic at Bristol Expo! Sarah, Shaz and I all had a lot of fun behind the table and catching up with friends. 

Before we went to expo I didn't manage to get a photo of Sarah's new original art cards but I want to show you because they're lovely. (on the left) 

Thanks again!

Sammy 

Bristol Expo Extras!

Inspired comics have fun compiling anthologies together once or twice a year but at Bristol Expo this weekend we will have some new comics created by a couple of individuals from the collective. I have got some comics previews for you now! 

Shazia Jubeen is just finishing the last year of her illustration degree. This short story comic Thin Ice is the result of the hard work put into her final major project. You can find more of Shazia's comics and illustration on her blog. 

This weekend Sarah Fogg will be releasing a new mini comic called The Bad Fairy Bakery. Click the images to enlarge to read the blurb and preview page. Sarah will also be bringing a collection of What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? zines and new hand drawn art cards and mini prints. 

I've decided to touch up and print Smoothie Wars, a mini comic from my webcomic short story site. It features characters Ted and Tim who have recently appeared again in my Eat Me! anthology submission. I will have copies of  Best Day Ever and some new sticker designs. 

We will also have some bookmarks and handmade trinkets created by Catherine Reda 

Thanks again for reading the blog and I hope you come along and say hi this weekend

Sammy