Mindless Ones

A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin

Andrew and Steven in

KNIGHTS OF THE REALM

Part 2

The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.

Of course, neither myself nor anyone writing inside the walls of this blog are going to have a problem with nonsense, be it outright nonsense, stupid nonsense, or nonsense for nonsense’s sake. It’s a Marvel comic, nonsense is what it does best, and it is the best there is at what it does. But what about nonsense mad enough to think it’s Important? Or nonsense sane and brittle enough to knows it’s nonsense but try to pass itself off as Important? Are both of those things not high art crimes?

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A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin

Andrew and Steven in

KNIGHTS OF THE REALM

Part 1

The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.

Gary Lactus and myself recently went along to the Hypercomics exhibition being held at the Pump House gallery in Battersea Park. It’s part of the excellent Comica festival a truly diverse celebration of comics culture, which has been running since 2003. It featured the work of four very different comics creators: Warren Pleece, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Dave McKean and Adam Dant. But what exactly is ‘Hypercomics’? Well, why not allow the exhibition’s curator, erstwhile British comics legend, creator of the legendary Escape magazine and all round decent bloke, Paul Gravett fill us in…

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TERMINUS BOOK 3: ONE LAST WILD WALTZ

16 more full colour strips. The latest volume in the popular series.

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It’s this season’s most essential item. It’s on Oprah’s reading list*

Oh yeah, and you can still get copies of Book 1: Rabbit Season, Duck Season and Book 2: How Did I get here? while you’re there.

(*Oprah Dumpton, the crazy lady who sits in the park yelling at clouds)

A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin (sorry).

The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.

Zom and Bobsy are away this week and so mindless activity this week has been scarce.  That Amusing Brothers strip with the drawing of a penis must not stay at the top of the page any longer.  Here’s some links which will  get that childish and off-putting member off the top of the screen whilst providing you with some stimuli.

• Graham Linehan tweeted a link the other day to 75 Action Comics covers that are worth their weight in gold. I was diverted for a good twenty minutes.

• Here’s a treat from The Comics Journal.  It’s a video visit to Hope Street Studios in Glasgow where we get to see Frank Quitely work on his fancy shmancy computer doing some lovely drawing.  All Star Superman colourist Jamie Grant is also featured. Probably worth mentioning while we’re here that Mindless cohort iamus is part of the Hope Street gang, and I’m sort of sorry that time he went up to see them at Jamie’s invitation and I never, I kind of regret, but also, I think they maybe expected you to have a talent of some sort and I’d only have brought a bottle of wine, so maybe some relief there too.
• Lastly, courtesy archaeologist of the half-remembered Joe McCulloch, in his must-always-read This Week in Comics column, some amazing Italo-beats with Neil Gaiman, shyly perving on some devil girl. Oh, Neil.

A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin

The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.

A, B, Cs part 1, Cs part 2

Clayface

Me: so why do you like Clayface so much then?
The Boy: He’s scary
Me: But what’s scary about him
The Boy: He’s got goop
Me: But what’s scary about goop?
The Boy: Carnage and Venom have got goop, and there’s no man.
Me: No man inside Clayface, you mean?
The Boy: Yes. He hasn’t got a man.

Me: What’s good about Clayface?
Amy: I’m thinking of a story where you could have a dead body buried inside him. Maybe even in a coffin.

I struggled long and hard with this one until I realised that Clayface isn’t a character, he’s something that happens to you. I can’t imagine a Clayface story arc being up to much, the obvious and done to death route is to go all snoretragic, loss of humanity, etc… but personally I think I’d aim for a few panels where someone (perhaps the little girl in the panel above) is dragged screaming into its earthy darkness and play out the consequences. Clayface isn’t a monster that I want to understand, I don’t want a POV shot or interiority, you don’t identify with walking graves, you have people get buried alive in them, and you make sure that you make the getting buried alive sequence is suitably terrifying and distressing.

Clayface is a one or two issue, all horror bat-foe, and that’s that. He’s a horrible inevitable event like death. There is no man.

Cluemaster

Fuck Cluemaster

Next: finally the Ds