Cartoonist Paul Rainey is the creator of There's No Time Like The Present, Thunder Brother: Soap Division and Book of Lists and is an occasional contributor to Viz. His current big project, Why Don't You Love Me, appears regularly in ACES Weekly. He is the winner of the Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize 2020. His latest comic is Journey Into Indignity. My online shop is www.pbrainey.bigcartel.com.
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Merry Christmas
Usually, I like to make and send my own Christmas cards but this year I've not been bothered. Instead, in recognition of the publication of the There's No Time Like The Present graphic novel, here are a couple of cards from the past that I sent while I self published the 'singles'.
From Christmas 2005! From at least a year after I started work on There's No Time Like The Present.
From 2006
You can buy There's No Time Like The Present from...
And, of course, the Escape Books website
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Personal Appearance in Orbital Comics
This Thursday I will be in conversation about my graphic novel, There’s
No Time Like The Present, at Orbital Comics in London.
The definitive collection of my long running comic has recently
been published by Escape Books. During the 1980s, Escape Books published the
earliest comic work of Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean and Eddie Campbell. More
recently, they’ve returned to the publishing game starting with a collection of
Pleece Brothers comics called The Great Unwashed. So, as you can imagine,
having my work published by them is an honour.
For the collection, I have grey-toned the art, added some
additional artwork, tweaked the appearance of some of the characters for
consistency and corrected the spelling and grammatical mistakes. The result is
a beautifully produced 350 paged hardback that has exceeded my expectations.
Currently, the book is going through what I refer to as a ‘soft release’. Distributors and shops will not have the graphic novel made available to them to order until next year for a Spring release but because we are eager for people who might want the book for Christmas to be able to buy copies it is currently available via limited outlets. They are…
GOSH Comics in London
The Escape Books website
And, of course, Orbital Comics.
Monday, 8 December 2014
Corporate Gig
On Friday, I did a 'corporate gig'. My brief was to attend a Christmas party and draw what I observed. The party was held in the art gallery which is why many of the guests were in fancy dress (or, as we refer to it these days, "cosplay").
Anyway, it's occurred to me that there might be other people or organisations that may like me to provide this type of service from them. If you're running an event and are interested in me live-drawing what I observe, then please contact me via email in the first instance.
Photos of some of the drawings that I did during the event.
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