Christmas sale, T-shirts and the Queer Zine Festival
There’s an enormous 20% off at my web shop: http://cutebutsad.bigcartel.com with the code DECEMBER. If you’re in the UK, final date to get your order to me is the 17th, if you’re abroad, get in much earlier to ensure delivery. If you’re after a t-shirt or anything, head to http://www.redbubble.com/people/hardiman for some cute animal pictures and the...
The Lengths: Complete
“Sexy and seedy dog tales.” – Attitude Magazine. “Beautiful and gritty.” – Out There Magazine. “What stays with you on completing the comic is a sense of having read something raw, powerful and very real.” – Forbidden Planet International. “Gay comics blissfully devoid of rainbow paraphernalia.” – Gay Times. Today, I took delivery of the...
The Lengths: Over
Both Eddie and I have come a long way since the first issue of The Lengths, and I’m pleased to say that the final issue of The Lengths, including chapters 7 and 8 will be available in October. Pre-ordering options are available now. The Lengths started out many years ago when I was in the...
The End of The Lengths
It’s been a long journey along with Eddie, but after issue 6 came out a couple of months ago, I can now announce that issues 7 and 8 will come out together in a double-length (pun painfully intentional) special to bring the story to its conclusion. I’ll put pre-order information online in the next week...
Thoughts on Gay Marriage, Comics and Representation
Marvel and DC are both racing to grab headlines as the original Green Lantern turns out to be gay in the new 52 and Northstar is getting married over in Marvel continuity. It’s wonderful that mainstream comics are having gay characters. I liked the male couple in Young Avengers and the genderqueer couple in Runaways,...
London
Oh, London. Next month, I’m going to be moving away from London, which is going to be a strange change for me – leaving behind the city that’s been home for most of my life, apart from brief sojourns in Norwich and Leeds, and the place that’s been home throughout my adulthood. It’s also the...
Ontario legalises brothels
Eddie makes his case, from The Lengths 3. Just been reading that the state of Ontario in Canada has passed a law making it easier and safer for prostitutes to advertise and to work together in brothels. While the article I’ve linked to is right, and this doesn’t address the issues of poverty and...
Postage costs to go up from 30th April
As you’ve probably seen, the price of a stamp is set to rise by a third from the end of April. At the moment, I’ve been able to under-price a lot of the postage and packaging on my comics by buying envelopes in bulk, but the prices of stamps are set to rise by a...
More Press Coverage for The Lengths and The Peckham Invalids
It’s been a very exciting couple of months for me, particularly in terms of coverage. First off, there was the wonderful piece in Out There magazine, then Attitude and Gay Times both picked up on The Lengths and I’ve had lovely things said about the comic over on Broken Frontier and Forbidden Planet’s blog as...
The Lengths 5: There Is No Hell – Press Release
So, issue five of The Lengths arrived on our doorstep bright and early this morning. For those of you who are new to the story, here’s a copy of the press release Sarah put together a few weeks ago.
The Lengths 5: There Is No Hell.
The Lengths issue 5: There Is No Hell has now been sent off to print after a slight delay. I suppose it’s what people call personal circumstances, but I’m not sure what the polite way of describing it is when your most recent ex-boyfriend suddenly dies over Christmas. Whatever the term is for that, that’s...
The Lengths Issue 5 Preview
Eddie, what are you running from? The last few months have been insane for me. The Lengths has found its way into Out There and Attitude Magazines, it’s now in a load of new shops, I’ve spent some quite healthy time away from London in Sweden and on the Isle of Wight, I’ve met a...