Comics Around The Clock

Hello me hearties, and thanks for leaving behind Facebook for my blog, which was once in the Top Trillion websites but is now a speck of salt. Beezer time to us all.

Spide: The Lost Tribes is available for Kindle pre-order today, National Indie Author Day, October 13th.

Dan and Ape must make community films with religious fundamentalists or risk losing their dole. Before they can do a bunk, they’re implicated in a three thousand year old conspiracy and a cross-border rail trip they’ll nat forget.

Spide: The Lost Tribes is a wild west quest through the pages of the Old Testament and Irish mythology. From Andy Luke, award winning author of Gran, Absence, and Axel America and the U.S. Election.

Fiction/Comedy

I’ve been taking some shots of my bed hair alongside the cover by Marc Savage. Maybe this’ll catch on…

You know, with you posting photos of your comical bed-hair…

…thus launching a meme whereby Spide enters the Top 100 and pays rent?

Priced 99p, October 13th pre-order; November 1st release.

I wanted to say something about Carlos Ezquerra but I imagine I’ve little to say that hasn’t been felt. I met him a couple of years back at Enniskillen for all of five minutes When he passed it seemed sudden, because though an age, he was full of hope and life. Anyone who read 2000 AD or IPC casually, most over 40s in the UK I’d think, knew Carlos’s work. That clotted ink style seemed to bleed through to all the other pages. His inventiveness with Mega City One ensured he was on a par with Jack Kirby, before we get to Stontium Dog, Al’s Baby and Third World War, one of the greatest influences on my own life.

24 Hour Comics Day #24HCD was last weekend. Eleven people showed up at Farset Labs to create around eighty pages of work. I was one of two who made the full 24, despite falling six hours behind. Silas Rallings made the count by 1am and his effort will show up on his poetry and cooking blog in the future. I’ll be sharing mine exclusively on patreon.com/andyluke as well as the unseen 2014 effort. I’m quite happy with the quality. Feast your eyes on the contributions, starting with our sponsors, the wonderful Comic Book Guys.

Aaron of ComicBookGuys with the prize bags for our winners.

@comicbookguysni prize bags were very generous.

And the art tools rounded up by co-organiser Glenn Davidson.

By ‘Loud’ author David Davies

Pants: by Tracey Chan

Hour 8: L-R Mini, Darren Beattie and Ross McGrath (Instagram: Randydandog)

Hour 10a: Eileen Tom Thumb (of https://www.facebook.com/pg/togetherinpieces), and Mini.

If you turn the image sideways you can make out some Transformers art brought to me by one of my younger fans. Thanks Alex and Jawine! I’m still tickled about that.