Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to everyone who's gotten involved in the future of Whores of Mensa and backed our Kickstarter project to fund our next issue. You RULE! We've funded our project to 140% of our requested sum.


Here's some more good news - you still have TWELVE DAYS to pre-order Whores of Mensa through Kickstarter!


Interested? Please check out our fundraising page, and watch our lovingly crafted preview video. For only $10/£6.50, you get a personalized copy of WoM 5, and a lovely handmade badge, and both will be mailed to you anywhere in the world. For $25/£16 you get all that plus a Gocco print designed and made by Whores of Mensa.


52 pages of comics, a crazy cover, work by 12 amazing cartoonists - what's not to like?


Those artists one more time:
Patrice Aggs ****A NEW ADDITION!*** (more on her in our next post!)
Howard John Arey
Francesca Cassavetti
Richard Cowdry
Jeremy Day
Peter Lally
Ellen Lindner
Cliodhna Lyons
Sarah McIntyre
Tanya Meditzky
Emily Ryan Lerner
Maartje Schalkx


PS If you're having trouble with Amazon Payments or Kickstarter please leave a message below and we can talk about alternative ways of pre-ordering. We've only received one report of problems, but we don't want to turn anyone away!


THANK YOU!!!

Whores of Mensa is now on Kickstarter! If our funding goal of $750/£450 is met, everyone who gives above $10/£6.50 will get a copy of the new issue of Whores of Mensa, posted to them anywhere in the world! Plus goodies...so, give it a go!


What you need to do:
- watch our video, and learn all about Whores of Mensa and our fab new issue!
- visit our Kickstarter page where you will sign up to Amazon Payments and read all about the benefits of being a WoM 5 supporter.
- Give before 25th August. This is the biggest thing - if we don't reach our goal, we receive NADA. ZILCH. RIEN DE TOUT!


One cool thing about Kickstarter is that you can receive MORE than your stated goal. If we receive more than we requested, we may just make this issue even fatter and more awesome than the 42 pages of comics promised.
A little surprise, and an eventual reward for donors.


Thanks so much for reading! And please, help make Whores of Mensa 5 a reality.

Cover portrait: Ellen Lindner

Last but not least, Ellen Lindner, our co-editor in chief.  


Ellen's a cartoonist and illustrator best known for her Undertow graphic novel and for her association with the lovely Fleece Station.  


Lately she's been very busy putting Issue 5 together, and laying the foundations for fundraising. So much news to report, so very soon! Whores of Mensa 5 is on the way....


One very important note: Whores of Mensa founder Jeremy Day (née Dennis) will be presenting a comics workshop at this weekend's Caption Festival, located in very civilised and edifying Oxford. Jeremy will be kicking the Festival off on the Saturday morning, so get there bright and early!

Happy Birthday, Mardou!

Happy happy birthday, to a fantastic founding Whore of Mensa, Mardou! That's to you.





The perfect occasion to post Mardou's lovely drawing of herself with her amazing daughter, Veronica.


MARDOU. So chic. So graceful! So talented!!!!! MARDOU.


And Mardou will be a cover star for our next issue! So exciting.


More excitment: I can finally announce some of our story contributors.

Drum roll please....the interior artists for Whores 5 (as of now!) are....

Cliodhna Lyons

Howard John Arey

Emily Ryan Lerner

Francesca Cassavetti

Maartje Schalkx

Sarah McIntyre

Richard Cowdry

Tanya Meditzky

Peter Lally

Ellen Lindner

Jeremy Day

SO EXCITING!

Happy birthday, MARDOU! You rule. Whores of Mensa....salutes you.

Cocktails and Cigarettes: Dave and James

Yay! Dave and James are here. And they've brought the essential props for a memorable get-together: ciggies and booze.





Dave O'Connell does a smashing strip called Tozo - in fact, he may be well-known to you as . Lately he's shown some amazing range, launching a line of minicomics detailing (mostly fictional) comic episodes in the life of the late, great Queen Mother; and drawing tears with a stylish French romance he started as part of Josie Long's 100 Days project.

James Petrie, Dave's husband, looks on in bemusement at this blur of activity (not to mention Dave's affection for oddly coloured drinks!)


Dave and James are wonderful hosts in their own right, and we're glad to have them at the Whores 5 party!


We'll let you guess the outcome of Dave's rendez-vous with that cocktail - it does look deadly! In the meantime, why not check out his work at his website?


The deadline for submitting work to Whores of Mensa 5 is this coming MONDAY, 1st June...how are you doing? If you'd still like to submit a drawing, but would prefer to spend the Bank Holiday in the sun, just comment and let us know, or drop Ellen a line at ellen (at symbol) littlewhitebird dawt calm We're prepared to be lenient!


Thanks, Dave, for a smashing drawing! Hope your better half will get you home all right!

Tammy Taylor In Full Flow

Here at Whores HQ we're swooning over Tammy Taylor.





She's here, she's dancing, and she's got her trademark goggles perched oh-so-delicately on her elegant 'do. Triple swoon!


Check out Tammy's neo-manga delights on her website. And catch Tammy - not to mention Whores of Mensa co-editrix Ellen - at the MCM Expo, coming up on 29-30 May at ye olde Excel Centre.


Thanks a lot, Tammy!


Now that the dance floor's been, urm, activated (any better word for it? we're not sure), are there any other potential WoM shape-throwers out there? Remember, the deadline approacheth - 1st June.


Come dancing!

Boys are Here! Shug and Al Come to the Party

Hugh "Shug" Raine and his friend Al Maceachern are here! Hello gentlemen!





We had the pleasure of making these gents' acquaintance at the recent UK Web and Minicomics Thing.
Hugh lives in Dewsbury and keeps the world up to date on his excellent work via http://reetcomic.co.uk Al distributes his thought-provoking comics and dance-provoking posters at http://www.amdrawing.co.uk


Thanks for the drawings, dudes!


We're behind on documenting the attendees but the party is in full swing! The 1st June deadline approacheth - if you're coming down, get your skates on! (Note to U.S. readers - this is a U.K. colloquialism meaning 'hurry up' - no actual skates are required to gain ingress.)


More drawings very very soon - and keep 'em coming!