{"id":30614,"date":"2024-09-28T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=30614"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:38:13","slug":"ugly-mug-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2024\/09\/28\/ugly-mug-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Mug #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy many and various aligned to The House of Harley<\/strong>, including Denny Derbyshire<\/strong>, Ed Pinsent<\/strong>, Julian Geek<\/strong>, Alberto Monteiro<\/strong>, John Bagnall<\/strong>, & various (House of Harley)
\nISBN: N\/A (A4 softcover)<\/p>\n

Comics may be a billion dollar business these days, but thankfully it remains at its heart and soul all about doing something creative and waiting for people to react. Hopefully, they\u2019ll be appreciative and give you lots of money… or at least try to swindle you out of your rights. That latter one\u2019s not actually that bad, as it does mean you\u2019re doing something others want…<\/p>\n

What I want – and at last have – is the latest annual extravaganza from artistic iconoclasterers The House of Harley; one more supercharged in your face-area assemblage of stories, thoughts and even continued serials from people who don\u2019t care if pastors complain, social workers worry or the Telegraph<\/strong> pitches a disingenuous, profit-seeking hissy-fit….<\/p>\n

At this fertile, dynamic pictorial coalface are folk who would draw strips and cartoons even if the act carried the threat of exile or death penalty: concocting and unleashing the kind of word-wedded images the industry and art form continually renews and reinvents itself with.<\/p>\n

Every year The House of Harley unleashes an annual (well duh!) anthology of short stories, posterworks, tableaux, diagrammatic diatribes – even further continued characters and serials, and also invites international guests to get what\u2019s needful off their artistic chests, and it\u2019s well past time you indulged their splendid efforts.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s industrial strength model proudly lurks behind a wraparound cover from\u00a0 John Bagnall and boasts much \u201cmodern machinery <\/strong>invented by returning Ugly Mug contributors<\/strong>\u201d beginning with a polemical parade through hidden depths in \u2018Sound of the Underground\u2019<\/em>, before Jack of all Trades<\/em> helpfully shares the way to handle wasps nests and Ed Pinsent details the repercussions upon R.S.D. Laing, Record Collector<\/em> after \u2018He travels back in time to get a rare LP!\u2019<\/em>…
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\nHalf page hilarity ensues as \u2018Mark E. Smith: Music Teacher\u2019<\/em> goes that extra mile for a young violinist whilst nudist larks abound in \u2018Life with Freda Nipple\u2019<\/em> with a second outing for each at the far end of surreal and epic historical fable \u2018Bearskin\u2019<\/em> by Denny Derbyshire, whereafter apish anarchy is astoundingly unleashed in Julian Geeks \u2018Jungle Ruck\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The savage outbursts are followed by the eighth arcane instalment of Pinsent\u2019s beguiling \u2018Windy Wilberforce\u2019<\/em> serial The Saga of the Scroll<\/strong> (fear not, back issues of Ugly Mug<\/strong> are available to all with the wherewithal), and we conclude with some more brief bits featuring Mark E. and Freda, before being escorted off the premises by an assortment of \u2018Big backsides\u2019 <\/em>as depicted by Brazilian guest creator Alberto Monteiro.
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\nProudly proffering \u201cvinyl mania, whirling microphones, stuffed tigers, cable inspections, terrible mistakes, old mining railways, time travel on the cheap, floating ziggurats, tree portals, strange clouds, hand-cranked cars, mating season orgies, smoking spoil-heaps and a Tunnock\u2019s shortage\u201d here is more racy fare than any British X-mas Annual of yore. These cunning creations teem with turbulent narrative force and visual clout, and come packed to the gills with wry and witty visual oomph, an ideal example of the compulsion to leave our marks wherever we can.<\/p>\n

Buy one. Read one. Do one yourself.<\/p>\n

You know you want to…
\nAll contents \u00a9 their respective creators.<\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Wild Fun and the Epitome of Sheer Creativity Perfection\u2026 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

For all this and much more please check out houseofharley.net\/shop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By many and various aligned to The House of Harley, including Denny Derbyshire, Ed Pinsent, Julian Geek, Alberto Monteiro, John Bagnall, & various (House of Harley) ISBN: N\/A (A4 softcover) Comics may be a billion dollar business these days, but thankfully it remains at its heart and soul all about doing something creative and waiting … <\/p>\n

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