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AHPodcast Spring 2013 Edition

admin — Sun, 12 May 2013 19:43:03 +0000

Come join us for another chat around the proverbial campfire. In this episode we bring you the cutting edge of hot, cool and sexy small-press news, views and hastily edited out libel. We PLUG Close-up Masterchef 2, Reads 3 and Grey Area 2! We SPILL THE BEANS on what really goes on at the Sheffield Zine Fest, DIY Cultures and Comica Comiket, including the tale of “Table 8″ (and believe me, it’s not for the faint-hearted)! We REVEAL the winner of the competition to be “Sexiest Man in Sidcup”! There’s also a lot of stuff about Iggy Pop for some reason.

Dive in now and then fuel your new obsession by subscribing to us for free on iTunes!

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- Ricky

Grey Area 2 Out Now!

admin — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:47:49 +0000

Avery Hill Publishing are delighted to present Grey Area Issue 2, by artist and writer Tim Bird.

“Much has been written of travel, far less of the road.” – Edward Thomas, The Icknield Way

Titled ‘The Old Straight Track’, Grey Area Issue 2 is a tribute to the Great British Motorway System. A narrative created by constantly moving across tarmac. A biography on roads. A spiritual journey through the sacred service stations of the country. A meditation of traffic jams.

Following on from the best-selling Grey Area Issue 1 (although unrelated narratively), Tim’s second issue further establishes a unique voice and vision in British comics, as he explores the mysterious connection between electricity pylons and standing stones. Lines painted on roads. Roads drawn on maps.

Grey Area Issue 2 is printed in A4 size, and consists of 28 black and white pages, with a silver [...]

AHP @ Comica Comiket on Saturday 20th April

admin — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:57:17 +0000

Having had such a great time at the Sheffield Zine Fair and DIY Cultures, we decided we wanted more, and that more would be the Spring Comica Comiket. The Autumn Comiket was fantastic with lots of cool artists drawing live and being projected on a big screen and soundtracked by some excellent music. We met some great people, sold a lot of “stuff” and launched issue one of Grey Area to an adoring public, complete with a signing by Tim Bird! For this Spring Comiket we’re ecstatic to tell you that Tim has completed issue two of Grey Area and so we’ll be launching that here, again with a Tim Bird signing! I’ve been lucky enough to see an advance copy and can tell you that it’s possibly even better than issue one, which, if you’ve seen it (and if not why not, hmmm?) you’ll know [...]

Reads Vol.3 Out Now!

admin — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:47:20 +0000

And lo they did deliver the next issue of their comics anthology, Reads. Perfect bound and glossy to the max, with more content than you can shake a particularly large stick at and room enough within to swing a cat in each hand if you’re so inclined. We’re calling this the best issue yet and by some distance. Marvel at the stunning cover by Coleen Campbell! Take pause for a moment of melancholic nostalgia from Tim Bird! Thrill to the penultimate action-packed edition of Hilary Harper from Steven Horry and I! Be scared out of your tenuous wits by the Wallace siblings! Get moist with anticipation at our preview of a new comic by Owen Pomery coming from AHP soon! Become even more confused by my epically mysterious life work, Metroland! Freak out as Luke Halsall and Staticgirl prove they can read your mind! And [...]

AHP at DIY Cultures Zines & Artists Books Fair on 07/04/2013

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:02:02 +0000

We’ve got a table at the marvellous DIY Cultures fair on Sunday 7th April. We’ll be premiering Reads Vol.3 along with all the other usual wonders such as Tim Bird’s Grey Area, Tiny Dancing and Close Up Masterchef! It’s at the Rich Mix in London’s “authentically unspoilt” Shoreditch and it all kicks off at lunch time (please bring me a sandwich). Even if the thought of getting a copy of Reads 3 straight from our sweaty, shaking hands doesn’t do it, there’s a whole heap of other stuff going on as well as outlined by the good people themselves below. And it’s free! Hope to see you there!

- Ricky

Sun 7 April 12pm – 7pm Free / Main Space Rich Mix hosting the first DIY Cultures fair on Saturday 7th April! It will be a day long festival of zines, artist books, comics and distros. There will be films, animation and [...]

AHP at the Sheffield Zine Fest on 16/03/13

admin — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:53:50 +0000

While Michael and I drew the short straw and have to jet off to Hong Kong and Thailand to spread the word of Avery Hill Publishing in sunnier climes, that lucky Dave gets to go to the Sheffield Zine Fest in, well, my old uni stomping ground of Sheffield! Accompanying him is Tim ‘Grey Area’ Bird who shall be signing copies of Reads and Grey Area (plus anything else that comes anywhere near him) for all and sundry.

Intrigued and a bit excited? I know I am. All the details you could possibly need are HERE .

- Ricky

Close Up Masterchef Volume 2 – Twice as big. Twice as Close.

admin — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:32:02 +0000

Avery Hill Publishing are in a veritable stew of aromatic emotion as they announce the publication of David White’s Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2, a magnified photographic documentation of MasterChef: The Professionals series five.

Just as the fifth exploration of televisually tough cooking on a professional level made history by resulting in joint winners for the first time, so Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2 also marks its place in the annals of time by being printed in A4 size. Twice as big. Twice as close.

AND AS A SUPER SPECIAL LIMITED SPECIAL LAUNCH OFFER, THERE’S FREE SHIPPING WHEN BOUGHT WITH SOMETHING ELSE FROM THE AVERY HILL SHOP! IT’S A PROPER BARGAIN!

Close-Up MasterChef Volume 2 is limited to a first print of 50 copies, with each copy individually numbered, and features 24 black and white A4 pages – get it here:

CLOSE-UP MASTERCHEF VOLUME 2

- Dave

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Avery Hill Publishing Christmas 2012 Podcast

admin — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:33:34 +0000

Turn your festivey Christmas spirit up to eleven and beyond with the new Avery Hill Publishing Christmas 2012 Podcast! Join your favourite three publishers Dave, Michael and Ricky as they bring more jingly, yuletidey, non-denominational joy to your winterville festival than Dickens riding a red-nosed reindeer around the set of the video to Wham’s Last Christmas whilst Mariah cheers on from the sidelines in THAT red outfit. Yes, you know the one I mean.

Herein you shall find our three not very wise men musing on the past! Thoughts turning to the bleak future! Unwanted gifts! Marc Bolan’s ghost! Men too drunk to remember they need to give the podcast an ending leading to me spending hours editing it trying to work out how to fit it all together! The C-Bomb (and no, that doesn’t stand for Christmas)!

You’re going to listen to this and you don’t [...]

Grey Area by Tim Bird Out Now!

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:54:27 +0000

Avery Hill Publishing are over the moon to announce the publication of Grey Area Issue 1 by British comics writer and artist Tim Bird.

Titled ‘While The City Sleeps’, Tim’s first full length comic is a paean to London and the culmination of an obsession that started when he moved to Golders Green in 2005.

“I took the tube to places across town. Places with familiar names, unusual names, places where friends lived, places where there were good comic book shops, or second hand record shops. Tottenham Court Road, Mudchute, Kilburn, Camden Town, Finchley. I wore comfortable shoes and carried my camera everywhere. I photographed graffiti, bus stops, abandoned supermarket trolleys, tower blocks, barbed wire and construction sites. I would walk along the Regent’s Canal from the Thames up to Little Italy, or along the Lea Valley from Tottenham Marshes out past the M25 [...]

Tiny Dancing Issue 8 Out Now!

admin — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:08:55 +0000

If I were to list the reasons why it’s taken a loooong while for Tiny Dancing Issue 8 to appear, it would be boring. Real life, job related, boring. So please forgive me if I do not do that. Instead, I will tell you about the things that are not boring. These are the things that are in Tiny Dancing Issue 8.

Kicking off the massively unboring, we have a trio of illustrative debuts from a trio of gentlemen whose work I absolutely love. To say I’m delighted to have them all grace this issue would be a true thing.

The first of the heady trio is Rob Jones. I got in touch with Rob ages ago to see if he wanted to do something for issue 8, and he sent me his contribution back almost straight away. I’ve had it for ages, and it got to [...]