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.
Friday, 23 December 2016
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
There's No Time Like The Present update
Item: Staff and customers of OK Comics have voted There's No Time Like The Present one of the best graphic novels of 2016. "Character drama about normal people in a world where time travel exists." You can buy the exclusive and limited signed print edition of There's No Time Like The Present exclusively from OK Comics in Leeds.
Item: We Built This City On Rock And Roll is an exhibition of photographs and paraphernalia on the Milton Keynes music scene curated by Lee Scriven currently taking place in the City Central Library's exhibition space. It includes some work from me including a cased copy of Memory Man from twenty-two years ago (photo below) and a HUGE reproduction of a comics-strip Lee and I did together about Trevor Marshall.
Item: An interview I did with Chris Thompson for the Pop Culture Hound podcast is now available online for you to download and listen to here.
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Tales to Diminish Review
Andy Oliver reviews my comic, Tales To Diminish, on The Broken Frontier website. "With its rhythmic pacing, accessible cartooning clarity and stinging parody, Tales to Diminish is the perfect showcase for an artist who has been consistently producing quality small press comics work for so long that he’s practically the Godfather of the UK small press scene." You can buy a copy from my shop, if you like.
Saturday, 26 November 2016
There's No Time Like The Present update!
I was interviewed by Chris Thompson for the Pop Culture Hound podcast. I talked to Chris about my comic work, including my Graphic Novel, There's No Time Like The Present, during a personal appearance at Orbital Comics. You can listen to the podcast here. You can buy There's No Time Like The Present from Escape Books here.
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Friday, 28 October 2016
On Tour: Nottingham Comic Con
I and fellow cartoonist Peet Clack will be exhibiting at this Saturdays Nottingham Comic Con. I will be selling copies of my comics Tales To Diminish, Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist and more. If you're in the area, please pop by and say hello. You will be able to find us on table L67.
Friday, 9 September 2016
On Tour: ICE in Birmingham
I will be exhibiting with fellow cartoonist Arthur Goodman at this weekend's ICE (International Comic Show) taking place in Birmingham. You can learn all about the show here. I will be selling copies of all of my comics currently available for sale from my shop including Tales To Diminish, Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist and There's No Time Like The Present. You'll be able to find Arthur and me on table 36.
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Thursday, 1 September 2016
On Tour: NICE in Bedford
I will be exhibiting with my friend Peter Clack and this weekend's NICE (Northant's International Comic Expo) taking place in Bedford. You can learn all abut the show here. I will be selling copies of all the comics currently available for sale from my Shop including Tales to Diminish and There's No Time Like The Present. Making it's premier at NICE will be the brand new print of Book of Lists. If you're attending the event or in the area then please pop by and say hello.
Friday, 19 August 2016
Tales to Diminish review
Nottingham's Page 45 comic shop has reviewed Tales To Diminish on their website. "...a master of the visual punchline as well as the satirical stiletto in the ribs." Please read the full review here.
Thursday, 28 July 2016
On Tour
I will be premiering my new comic, Tales To Diminish, at this weekend's London Film and Comic Con on Saturday at Olympia London. I will be on the Escape Books table where I will also be signing, sketching and selling copies of There's No Time Like The Present, Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist and Thunder Brother: Soap Division. If you're in the area, please pop by and say hello.
Tales To Diminish
My brand new comic is now available to buy directly from me here. Tales To Diminish is a 28 pages long, magazine sized comic collection of strips I have drawn over the last two years including Man V Van, Peter The Slow Eater, Tales To Diminish and many, many more. The price is just £4.50, which includes the cost of post and packing in the UK. Please use the Paypal button below to buy a copy. If you don't have a Paypal account or live outside of the UK then please email me here for alternatives.
Thursday, 21 July 2016
Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist review
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist update
Friday, 24 June 2016
There's No Time Like The Present Update
Page 45, one of the planet's most discerning comic-shops, has published a review of There's No Time Like The Present. "If I had to sum this up in a single sentence I would have to say it's like Gilbert Hernandez crossed with VIZ. In other words, utterly brilliant." You can read the whole review written by Jonathan here.
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Thursday, 16 June 2016
On Tour!
I don't attend many comic events anymore but I do try to exhibit
every year at the thoroughly enjoyable Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival. This
years CECAF is taking place on Saturday (June 18, 11 AM to 5 PM) at the usual
location of Earl Haig Hall, 18 Elder
Avenue, Crouch End N8 9TH. Loads of great comic creators will be there,
and myself, sharing a table with the publisher of my graphic novel
There's No Time Like The Present, Escape Books. Entry is FREE! I hope to see
you there.
Tuesday, 7 June 2016
Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist Update
As you may know, I have only produced a modest run of my new comic Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist but I have enough copies to be able to supply a small number to comic shops for sale. So, if you like to try before you buy, then you can get copies from GOSH and Orbital Comics in Central London and OK Comics in Leeds. If you don't have access to these shops, then you can order directly from me here.
Friday, 27 May 2016
There's No Time Like The Present Update
Item: A special signed book plate edition of my graphic novel, There's No Time Like The Present, is now available to buy exclusively from OK Comics in Leeds for the same price as the regular version of the book. It feature exclusive artwork drawn and signed by me. You can buy a copy from the actual shop right now and from their on-line store sometime over the next fortnight.
Item: I have a comic-strip appearing in the Broken Frontier Small Press Yearbook. The collection focuses on six newer creators backed up with work by old veterans like myself. It really is a strong collection and great value for money. You should buy a copy.
Thursday, 19 May 2016
Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist Update
My new comic, Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist, appears on the Broken Frontier website as one of their staff picks this week. "A wonderful collection of running jokes and bizarre gags". You can order a copy for just £2.60 from here.
Friday, 13 May 2016
There's No Time Like The Present Update
If you're in London on Saturday, please drop by the Comica Comiket event taking place beneath the West Handyside Canopy, adjacent to the House Of Illustration and Central Saint Martins, not far from Kings Cross and St. Pancras train stations. Along with many talented cartoonists and comic creators, I will be there, signing and sketching in copies of my graphic novel, There's No Time Like The Present, at the Escape Books table and live drawing on the big screen at 1 PM as part of the fabulous Drawing Parade. Entrance is free.
Also for sale from the Escape Books table will be copies of my new self-published comic, Pope Francis Goes to The Dentist, of which I have produced a very limited print run. The comic features Pope Francis Goes To The Dentist, 14 Year Old Stand-Up Comedian and many other strips that I have drawn over the last two years as well as exclusive art. If you're unable to attend Comiket then please don't worry as copies will be for sale from this website soon.
Wednesday, 27 April 2016
There's No Time Like The Present Update
I've been interviewed by Tom Mortimer for the Dirty Rotten Comics website. In it I talk about There's No Time Like The Present, Why Don't You Love Me and my despondency with the current comic convention scene. You can read the entire interview here.
Monday, 18 April 2016
There's No Time Like The Present Update
I understand that There's No Time Like The Present is listed in Diamond Distributors current Previews catalogue in the UK section. If you haven't got a copy of my graphic novel yet, it would be brilliant if you ordered it through your local comic or book shop. Perhaps they'll order one or more copies for the shelves if you do.
Saturday, 9 April 2016
Hasty Comics
You probably noticed that over recent weeks, I have been posting daily updates to my website called Hasty Comics. I've been feeling particularly fertile creatively this year so far and eager to share some of these swiftly drawn comic-strips from my sketchbook with you here. I've not been entirely sure that this is the best place to share them given that, often, Hasty Comics are quickly drawn ideas that may, at a later date, be used as fodder for something I make that's more substantial. Also, part of the point of this website is for it to be a more definitive repository of my work that people can refer to if necessary. So, I've decided to reign in the experiment which saw me posting a new cartoon or comic-strip everyday.
This doesn't mean that this is the end of you seeing Hasty Comics. Often I draw something that feels particularly in tune with the Zeitgeist and so keeping it hidden away in my sketchbook seems a waste. However, on these occasions, I will post these strips to my Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook pages (links below) and not to here.
My Hasty Comics are drawn in a notebook I bought for £3 from The Works. It is not a proper sketchbook, the paper is porous, but I'm really enjoying drawing in it, just the same. When the book is filled up, I'm considering how to make it available for people to read in one go. Perhaps I'll dump it on-line somewhere or self-publish it. I'll let you know what I decide.
Monday, 25 January 2016
Saturday, 2 January 2016
There's No Time Like The Present Update
Item: My publisher, Paul Gravett, is also a respected comic-critic of over thirty years. So him including There's No Time Like The Present in his Best-graphic-novels-of-2015 list still counts.
I cannot be the first publisher-critic ever to put one of their own books at the top as their Best of the Year. I can say with all honesty, that even if I were not this graphic novel’s co-publisher, I would still have picked There’s No Time Like The Present as my favourite British graphic novel of 2015. Thirteen issues and seven years in the making, Rainey’s growing skills at cartooning, characterisation, plot and truly lived dialogue, and his sheer determination to get his ideas and vision down on paper and into print, pulse through this substantial, far-from-slight work. The first graphic novel set in Milton Keynes, it’s a very humorous and humane slice of suburban science-fiction romantic ‘dramedy’ that repays close and repeated readings. In short, There’s No Comic Like There’s No Time Like The Present. That’s why I liked it so much as Paul was self-serialising it, and why Peter Stanbury and I co-published the whole magnum opus, edited, revised and toned with greys, from Escape Books. It also contains by far the most outrageous and hilarious line about Green Kryptonite you will ever read.
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