True Believers Preview - Part 3.

Time for another post about the True Believers Comic Festival coming ‘...at ya like Cleopatra’ on Saturday the 2nd of February (or just all it plain ‘Troobs’ if you are cool and shit).

So dear reader who else is worth looking out for once you get in the front door. 

Have you perhaps heard of the ‘Netflix for Indie Comics’ that is Comichaus? Pals (and sponsors) of The Awesome Comics Pod they supply an app for your tablet that for a small monthly subscription allows you to read bundles of Small Press and Indie titles. These get added to every week and you can post your comic on there for free. You can also sell copies through their website (they only take a penny!)

It’s all explained here https://www.comichaus.com/about.htm

Comichaus are also getting a great name for producing their own original comics series. Look for titles like ‘Close’ or ‘32 Kills’ for some original horror/thrillers and their own Comichaus anthology title.

Pete Genepool is the Publisher/Head Honcho from Comichaus and he’ll have a table at True Believers. Pop by and have a chat and sign up! (The first few weeks are free). I’m a regular user of the Comichaus App and love seeing what gems are on there.

Who else?

Geoff Senior is a name that UK comic fans will recognise from his work on such titles as the Transformers comic in the 1980s, he’s also worked on the UK version of Action Force, the now famous Dragon’s Claws and Judge Dredd. Geoff also created the Death’s Head Mk1 character for Marvel in 1987 with writer Simon Furman. A character tat turns up every so often even now.

Geoff and his longtime cohort, Simon Furman, are now working on the online comic series To the Death which has been critically very well received and presently collaborating with Get My Comics preparing the series for print very soon.

Geoff will be sketching on the day so get your orders in early. You can find out more about this creator at his website here http://www.geoffsenior.com/

And let’s look at the small press tablers. There are loads. Here’s a good one to visit.

Raechel Leigh-Carter has fast become one of my favourite creators this year. She is hilariously obsessed with some of the more out-there actors and directors of recent years and quite a few from before. 

Here is how the True Believers site describes her work...

‘Lowbrow pop culture themed small press books, stickers and badges. From Sean Connery to Steven Seagal, from Morrissey to Miriam Margolyes, from Nic Cage to Neil Breen, it’s all covered . And nothing is taken seriously.’

That kind of encapsulates her approach to zines and comics. They are highly irregular, strangely hypnotic, fever dreams of dialogue and like catnip to me! Those hinterlands of weird Hollywood are explored, exaggerated, fictionalised and quoted with sharp satire yet also a well-meaning familiarity. 

Dip your foot in the freaky, outlandish, peculiar, unnatural and whacko world of Raechel and her dreamy homages! They will put a smile on your face (just don’t tell the owls!)

Find out more about Raechel by visiting her site at https://tinynoggin.wordpress.com/ or follow her on Twitter @tinynoggin

Don’t forget that you can sign up for the True Believers mailer here You can find more about this brilliant festival at their mailer. Here’s a handy link https://tinyletter.com/Troobs/letters/all-tomorrows-parties And buy tickets for the event itself here http://oktruebelievers.com/tickets/

See you soon for another preview.