Newstime! Summer 2016.

Greetings out there!

Got some news and reviews to pass your way so I'll do a long rambling post that could well get updated lots before the next wave of comics are ready!

First off- Small Press Day was a blast. Myself and NanoBolt attended at both 'The Comic Shop' in Macclesfield and Nostalgia & Comics back in the wastes of Brum on the day.

Macc was a grand trip. It was great meet Dan, catch up with Chris and see a proper nice comic shop. We sold a few comics, talked some nonsense and left the shop with stock of both the Zarjaz summer special and the latest issue of FutureQuake. 

Since taking on the initial stock, Dan of TCS Macc, has been back in touch to have  more stock! They have had a whopping 10 copies overall. It seems that folk just shy of the Wall really do have better taste in comics than folks further south. Of course if anyone out there wants to dispute that, then let me know how many copies of FQ are stocked in shops in London...

Nostalgia & Comics is the closest thing FQP have to a 'home' shop so it was a treat to be able to sit and actually chat to the staff and other SP dayers there. We met up with Steve of TimeBomb Comics, who was selling copies of Flintlock, which has some lovely lettering if I do say so myself and got to have a nice long chat with long time collaborator Roland Bird, who provided NanoBolt with a sketch of the Legion of Superheroes 'Lightning Lass.' Roland was knocking it out of the park with his sketches that day.

We've had a couple of reviews out there so far:

PIPEDREAM COMICS have some nice things to say, as does COMIC TIME.

New on 27/07/2016 is the review from John Freeman of Down The Tubes. John is perhaps the person in comics whose opinion I respect most. So a positive review from him is a total pleasure. 

What else is going on? Well work has begun on the second volume of Neroy Sphinx, with the first new stories set to appear sometime next year. 

Of course if anything else turns up I'll do my best to mention it on here!

Neroy Sphinx- Back in the game MEGA-POST

As usual with things like this I want to have some place where I can store all the various little bits we get in regarding the Sphinx collection.

First up is this amazing post from Johnny McMonagle after his discovery of the pencils for the original first episode!

Next is a review by Win Wiacek at the 'Now Read This' Blog. In my opinion this gets top marks for bombast and should be read aloud to achieve the right style! Thanks folks!

Over on Bleeding Cool, Olly Macnamee posts his review of the book, and possibly falls foul of the spellchecker...

We've also been promoted over on Irish Comic News. Thanks to David Ferguson for the post and to Johnny McMonagle for bringing it to our attention!

If any of you out there visit Bath, make sure you drop into The Oldfield Park Bookshop as there is a rather familiar looking title available on their shelves

Thanks to the ever resourceful Dan Whiston for making this happen.

Also in Bath- American Dream Comics are stocking copies of the book, 

Don't it look great on the shelf?

Next up we have a review by Steve Hargett, a prolific reviewer and sometime contributor to Dogbreath. Thanks for the kind words, Steve

Over at The Arcade, the reviewer passes on an amusing comment, That 'The set-up is pleasingly reminiscent of the Karma Sutra'!

Thanks to Jack Dempsey over at the Arcade for the review!

Over at Geek Syndicate- Neroy makes an appearance in the "Elevator Pitch" slot, while at the legendary Starburst, Neroy gets a full review courtesy of Andrew Marshall.

Over at Review Fix, the lads take time to interview Dan regarding the origin of the book and where it may be going next...

Many thanks to the good folk over at Shelf Abuse, and in particular Carl Doherty for this excellent review.

Many thanks to Helena Nelson over at Sphinx- All About Poetry Pamphlets for the lovely review

'Ain't It Cool' cover Neroy Sphinx courtesy of reviewer Lyzard. A more serious review but still a successful one. Thanks!

have given writer Dan a guest post. Read it here! Warning it includes teaser pics for the next volume including work by new to the team artist George Coleman.