Thanks for Partying with the Strumpets, New York!

Thanks to everyone who came out on a very dark and stormy night to party with the Strumpets at 

Bergen Street Comics this Friday!

We owe a lot to the amazing staff at Bergen Street, who were so welcoming!  This is Casey, a writer and zinester who works in the shop - Tucker, Tom and Amy, thanks to you guys too!

A look at the fine folks who made our event fizz...

Editrix Ellen Lindner signing for a fan...

                         

Thanks so much to Bergen Street for letting us do an art show!  Here, Army of God illustrator Tim Hamilton, Jean Lee-Hamilton, and Strumpets Robin Ha and Kat Roberts hang out in front of some of Robin and Kat's original work from Strumpet 2.  

The Voyeurs author and amazing all-around cartoonist Gabrielle Bell, with up-and-comer Dre Grigoropol.

Eisner Award-winner Nick Abadzis.

Hypothetical Islander James Smith gets cuddly with Zegas' Michel Fiffe.

Woo hoo!  Thanks again to all the Kickstarters....and if you'd like to buy the Strumpet, check out our Etsy or visit Bergen Street Comics, 470 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY.

NYC Launch December 7th at Bergen Street Comics!

So excited to be formally announcing our NYC launch for Strumpet 2, Friday Dec. 7th at Brooklyn's truly quite fabulous Bergen Street Comics. 

Three Strumpets, Ellen Lindner, Robin Ha and Kat Roberts will be present - come along and get your copy of the brand-new Strumpet!

Bergen Street Comics is located right by one of Brooklyn's biggest train stations, Atlantic Avenue/Barclays Center, so you can take an express Q, N, 2, 3, 4, 5 or a slow-as-molasses-but-quite-lovely R train to your destination.  It's walkable to some of Brooklyn's best restaurants and bars - we're partial to Bark, right next door, as well as cute luncheonette Bonnie's.

This is Editrix Ellen's birthday party, too!  There will be a raging afterparty in honor of our leader's special day.

See you on December 7th!

Strumpet 2: Our London Launch at Orbital Comics

Wow! What a bash! Our London launch at Orbital Comics was a great success, bringing together The Strumpet, the artists who make it possible, and those who love them - plus some awe-inducing celebrity guests! Sharing with our friends at ink+PAPER made the night even better - not to mention that it was a great privilege!

Our NYC launch will take place at Bergen Street Comics on 7th December, after which The Strumpet - and ink+PAPER 3! - will be available in our Etsy shop.

This weekend (17-18th November) you can catch up with a limited supply of Strumpets at Thought Bubble, located in Leeds and ranking very high up the list of must-visit UK comix festivals.


Comix stars Gary Northfield (Derek The Sheep), Darryl Cunningham (Psychiatric Tales, Activate!) and newly minted Strumpet Myfanwy Nixon talk ink+PAPER.

Many, many thanks to Orbital Comics, located in London's high-drama West End, for their hospitality and generosity with the booze. Karl, Camila, Chris, James, Liz, and all the other staff were phenomenal (and it's Camila's lovely photos we have to remember the night by - check out her Flickr set here.

Thanks again to all of our Kickstarter pre-order folks - some of whom we were lucky enough to meet at the launch - we couldn't have done it without you!

Some fun photos...courtesy of Camila Barboza! Look for her by her full name on Flickr...


A Strumpet and her pals: Issue 2 contributor Karrie Fransman (The House That Groaned, Guardian, Times of London) and two fine gents - Andy Poyiadgi (Teapot Therapy), and Gareth Brookes (The Black Project).


Issues 1+2 Strumpet Maartje Schalkx joins forces with the prodigiously talented Tobias Tak and Comics Gosh!p (London's premier comics reading group) leader Mike Medaglia.


A Strumpet in Motion: Issues 1+2 contributor Tanya Meditzky (The Man Who Clapped, Two Sentences).

Head Strumpet Ellen Lindner prepares for the first purchase of the evening.

Head Strumpet Jeremy Day, two-time Strumpet Patrice Aggs (The Boss, Count Karlstein), and Myriad Editions boss Corinne Pearlman share a laugh at our launch.


The ever-helpful - and ever-cheerful! - Stephen Betts, head of Comix Influx.



Honorary Strumpets Dr. Mary Talbot (Dotter of Her Father's Eyes), Sarah McIntyre (Vern and Lettuce, You Can't Eat a Princess) and Comica organiser Megan Donnolley, assembled into a lovely pyramid of Lady Comix Power.


A happy customer...


Internationally renowned critic, curator, festival organizer and Comica godfather Paul Gravett (1001 Comics, Great British Comics).


The very fetching David O'Connell (Tozo, Monster and Chips), editor of ink+PAPER. Flanking him are John Aggs (The Boss, John Blake, Robot Girl) and comics professor-in-training John Miers.

Thanks so much for coming, London! See you in New York!

Thanks so much to all of our Kickstarter folks!

The book just got back from the printer, and we will be sending this brand new issue

out to you as soon as possible!  It looks fabulous, and we couldn't have done it without you.

Very soon the Strumpet will be headed off on her European tour...but she didn't want to leave without saying thanks....

Sneak peek the next : Kat's squirrel

Just time before bed to offer one last sneak peek from The Strumpet -- this strip by Kat Roberts blew me away when it first dropped into our submissions box, and it's improved on every re-reading. Who are the folk riding the squirrel? What does the squirrel make of all this? You'll have to wait for The Strumpet 2 : Going Places to find out where they are headed. Not reserved your copy yet? Pre-order on Kickstarter.

Joint Launch Party with ink+paper

Joint launch party for The Strumpet and ink + paper anthologies at London's loveliest comic shop Orbital Comics (right by Leicester Square tube station) Friday 9th November 2012 7-9.30pm. We hope to see you there!!! Part of London's Comica festival.

Not ordered your copy yet? There's still time to pre-order on The Kickstarter!

sneak peek the next : Rachael's crows

Back in the 1990s, Rachael Ball ran a women's comic class in the (now long gone) London Comics Centre*, a colourful London venue which at the time offered the only courses in comics in the country. I remember attending occasionally, scraping my way up into the big smoke on a cut-price bus ticket and the promise of a floor to crash on. I met astonishing people there -- Lee Kennedy, artist of life and dreams, and the amazing Cinders McLeod, author of Why are there no Women Cartoonists? (still the definitive work on the subject), many others. Rachael drew comics for Deadline, broadsheet newspapers, trendy magazines, and of course Fanny. I remember her as very glamorous, kind of intimidating, my sketches of her always turned into a mass of curly, scripply lines. And here she is now, in 2012, pen still on paper and facing down a mass of angry crows -- whatever could be happening in her story? You'll have to buy The Strumpet to find out. Pre-order your copy on Kickstarter to be sure of a copy.

*I realise suddenly that I'm not sure if that's it name. Was it the London Cartoon Centre?