The 2nd East London Comics & Art Festival (ELCAF) is happening this Saturday and Great Beast is proud to say that 4 of our artists have been invited to exhibit at this curated event organised by the fine folks behind NoBrow.

Robert M Ball, Adam Cadwell, Warwick-Johnson Cadwell and Marc Ellerby will all be in attendance selling their comics, prints, badges, bits, bobs and doohickeys.

This is the first show we’ll all be at together and your first chance to pick up the brand new Winter’s Knight: Day One by Robert M Ball and Blood Blokes #3 by Adam Cadwell and to get them signed and sketched on.

There’s a great line up of artists going and ton of great events squished into this one day event. It’s going to be good day. Check out the lovely ELCAF website for all the info.

Come by and see us all and say hi, and if we’re not scoffing our faces with these tasty burgers, we’ll say hi back.

Big Cartel is currently under a DDoS attack which sounds kinda gnarly, but probably isn’t. We hope our shop will be back online shortly, so hold tight if you wanna buy a comic!

Great Beast Comics is proud to release of the first issue of Robert M Ball’s extraordinary series Winter’s Knight, in both print and digital editions.

Winter’s Knight: Day One is a wordless tale of an old Knight on a mysterious personal quest through an icy wilderness encountering nightmarish battles with the dark things in the forest and much, much worse. Sublimely depicted by Ball’s sharp and elegant shapes and his deft use of striking colour, each scene drips with emotion and atmosphere. This is feast of rich imagery which draws you in to this icy world and demands multiple readings.

“This is all about the narrative driven by the art, pacing delivered through the beautiful pictures. …A wonderful blanket of a world, icy cold, blood red, all utterly stunning.” 
– Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet International.

48 pages, full colour.

You can purchase the PRINT edition for £5.99 here

and the DIGITAL edition for £1.50 can be found here.

We’ll be releasing Winter’s Knight: Day Two in time for the Thought Bubble festival in November and don’t forget Rob also collaborates with Warwick Johnson Cadwell on the pretty-damn-amazing Dangeritis which sees it’s print release in the summer of this year.

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In a fan-arty continuation from my last post, I gone and done a tribute to @adamcadwell’s supreme comic, Blood Blokes:

This is amazing! Look at Mike and Vince’s expressions! Also top marks for drawing two N64 pads.

Blood Blokes #1-3 available in print and digitally here: http://store.greatbeastcomics.com/

The loooong awaited Blood Blokes #3 is released TODAY after a successful debut at Toronto Comic Arts Festival last weekend.

The latest issue of Adam Cadwell’s slacker vampire comedy is now available in both print and digital editions from the Great Beast store.

Issue 3 features 26 pages of story and back-up illustrations by Tula Lotay, Josceline Fenton, Priscilla Tramontano and Sammy Borras.

Today’s exciting news follows the announcement back in February that the hot new comic Dangeritis by Robert Ball and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (currently updating on Tumblr plus tons of great fan art) will be released by Great Beast. Dangeritis follows the misadventures of poundshop James Bond, Derek Danger. Interestingly, Ball and WJC draw each page in turn.

Today we can reveal the absolutely stunning cover and tell you Dangeritis: A Fistful of Danger will debut at the MCM Comic Con in Manchester on the 20th July. The print and digital edition will have bonus content that won’t appear online.

We are delighted to reveal another superb independent comic is coming to Great Beast. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Hitsville UK by John Riordan and Dan Cox!

Hitsville UK is a pop art, surreal, musical soap opera following the weirdos and wannabes of an indy record company. Issue 1 introduces has-been, record label boss Gerry Corden and drug addled, maniac producer Greg Studio as they audition new acts for their new label. Cue an angel voiced grotesque, a mystery solving teen gang, a schoolboy DJ with a robot fascination, Nazi punk zombies and the rest.

Hitsville UK hits the ground running with barely a 1… 2… 1-2-3-4 to prepare you. Hurtling along like the Clash song it’s named after, each page is a rush of playful artwork shifting styles fast and loose to match each genre of music and the jokes come as quick and sharp as shurikens.

“A bloody great accumulation of inspired madness, musical insanity and general chaos… a pure, unadulterated hit of a comic” – Rich Bruton,Forbidden Planet International

“A perfect three minute chemical-infused rush of a comic” – Comic Heroes magazine

“Hitsville is a hoot!” – David Hine

Hitsville UK #1 is 35 pages of fun and mayhem and will be re-released through Great Beast in July with #2 following in November.

We’re having a Birthday sale for the rest of the week!

Get 20% off any purchase from our store when you use the code BIRTHDAY.

Carrying on our birthday news, we’re proud to announce we’ll be publishing Robert Ball’s WINTER’S KNIGHT in May. Issue 1 drops in May and 2 will be released in time for Thought Bubble in November.

More details = http://www.greatbeastcomics.com/2013/04/new-title-winters-knight/

Great Beast Comics is one year old this week and we’ve got a load of really cool news to announce. To kick things off we can reveal the cover to the long awaited issue 3 of Blood Blokes, Adam Cadwell’s northern slacker vampire comedy. And if that wasn’t enough we’ve also released the fantastic back cover drawn by the magnificent Tula Lotay!

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So hey thanks to comiXology for making my comic CHLOE NOONAN one of their staff picks this week. That was a bit nice of them eh?

It’s £3/$5 at the mo and it’s in HD which stands for HELLA DONUTS or something so check it out.