The British Fantasy Society Forum

[allybird]

Very happy to have Selina Lock join us 


THE GIRLY COMIC BOOK 1




Edited by Selina Lock – Book Design by Jay Eales – Cover Image by Des Taylor

The first collection of stories culled from the pages of The Girly Comic, featuring the talents of industry professionals such as John Stokes, Mike Collins, Simon Fraser, mpMann and Martin Millar, veteran indy creators such as Lee “Inner City Pagan” Kennedy, Terry “Sleaze Castle” Wiley and Jeremy Dennis, alongside exciting new talents from the British Small Press scene and beyond.

“Make them rich, and hopefully they'll keep on doing what they do for a long, long time.” - Mike Carey (from his introduction)

“An absolute gem of a publication” - Comic Creators Guild

“One of the undisputed stars of the small press” - Savantmag

“Basically, you have to read this” - Regie Rigby, Fool Britannia

The Girly Comic features self-contained comic strips across all genres with female protagonists. From the autobiographical tales of Lee Kennedy to the Two Fat Ladies meets Ghostbusters of Oddcases by Alistair Pulling and Bevis Musson; From Terry Wiley's Surreal School Stories to Martin Millar's Good Fairies of New York with Simon Fraser. This collection is mainly comprised of strips selected from the first nine issues of The Girly Comic.

Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Comic/ Graphic Novel 2009.


http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/girly/girlybook.html

And Mike Carey introducing Selina here....
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/tag/selina-lock/

[Selina]

Thanks Ally, nice to be here and representing a slightly different area of creativity 

I've spent most of my creative time in the last eight years editing and co-publishing The Girly Comic, but sometimes find time to do some writing of my own. Mostly Girly Comic strips such as Anglea D'eath (with Dave Windett) http://www.davewindett.com/creator/angela.html, graphic novel reviews for Prism and my personal zine Brain Scrapings http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/othertitles.html

I'm also on the organising committee for the Caption comic convention, the longest running small press comic event in the UK. This year it will be on Sat 31st July & Sunday 1st Aug at the East Oxford COmmunity Centre, and the theme is Mad Science!

[Mark West]

Good to see you here, Selina!

[Selina]

Good to see you here, Selina!

Thanks Mark, good to be here 

[Selina]

Delighted to see that The Girly Comic has made it on to the long list for the BFS Award for Best Comic/Graphic Novel 

I've also got The Girly Comic webcomic and blog back up and running today : http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/03/19/where-have-we-been/ so I'll post some of the strips from the 2009 issues up in the coming weeks.

Looking forward to seeing some of you at States of Independence in Leicester tomorrow: http://www.statesofindependence.co.uk/

[Selina]

Thought those of you who haven't rushed off to WHC, might be interested in reading about The States of Independence event some of us went to last weekend http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/03/26/states-of-independence-event/

[Selina]

Welcome back to all those that were off at WHC. We were down in London at the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing on Saturday & dropped some Girly Comic books off at Gosh comics (opposite the British Musuem).

From today we're running the comic strip adaptation of Allen Ahsley's Pumpkin Coach story. It will be a page a day over ten days at http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic

Here's today's opening page:

[Selina]

We've been busy bees over at Factor Fiction, but keep forgetting to say so! Here's what we've been up to (in a rather spammy manner!):

BRAND NEW ISSUE OF VIOLENT!  - free to download at
http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/Violent17.pdf

Jay also has a prose story in the new issue of Murky Depths (#12). 

A few comic strips from The Girly Comic that might appeal:
Pumpkin Coach by Allen Ashley, Selina Lock & Mayko Fry
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/03/29/pumpkin-coach/
God's Gift by Jay Eales & mpMann
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/04/12/gods-gift/
Rhubarb! by Briony Coote & Terry Wiley
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/04/19/rhubarb/
Do Not Feed the Bear by Caroline Parkinson
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/05/10/do-not-feed-the-bear/

I've also been busy reviewing comics and blogging over at The Girly Comic http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/category/blog/
On a more personal note I also blogged about my experiences of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for ME/CFS Awareness Day http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/05/12/raising-awareness-of-mecfs/

As well as releasing the new issue of Violent!, Jay's also been putting up strips from the archive:
I'll Steal Your Teeth by Ben Roman
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/03/22/ill-steal-your-teeth-6/
Knuckles - Chapter 4 by Jay Eales & Chris Askham
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/03/29/knuckles-chapter-4/
Hard-Boiled Hitler - Episode Drei by Mike Sivier & Stephen
Prestwood http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/04/02/hard-boiled-hitler-episode-drei-13/
Purgatorio by Paulo Rivas
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/04/12/purgatorio/
MageWorks- Ripples by Jay Eales & Allan Harvey
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/04/21/mageworks-ripples/
Weapons of Mass Destruction by Garen Ewing
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/05/07/weapons-of-mass-destruction-2/
Spare Parts - Episode 5 by Jay Eales & Peet!
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/05/10/spare-parts-chapter-5/
Silent Service by Jay Eales & Paul McCaffrey
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/05/14/the-silent-service-3/

Plus some blog posts, including articles from the Borderline Comics
Magazine archive:
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/category/blog/

Hopefully we haven't overwhelmed you with links there! Will try to do individual posts in future...

[Selina]

Having been laptopless for a few months I haven't had much chance to check the forums. Now I have a new netbook hopefully I'll be a bit more active!

To start with here's some photos from today's Terror Scribes Gathering http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlycomic/tags/terrorscribes/

Blog post to follow.

Also it's an honour to be short listed for the BFS Award for Best Comic again.

[Selina]

Blog post about the Terror Scribes event http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/07/19/terror-scribes-gathering/

[Selina]

Blog post about our recent trip to Sunderland and meet-up with Bryan Talbot (who's one of the Special Guests at Fantasycon this year!). Includes some photos of the sculpture trail that Chaz Brenchley was involved with.
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/2010/07/29/on-the-trail-of-alice-in-sunderland/
 

[Selina]

Conversations about zines at Caption last weekend, and online, reminded me that I hadn’t made the second issue of my personal zine available online. (Released Aug 2009)

So here it is… This issue includes an interview with me about being nominated for a British Fantasy Award for The Girly Comic: the small press comic I edit and co-publish, an edited and expanded article about my experiences of coming off anti-depressants, a comic strip reflecting on my relationship with science, and pieces about John Hughes films, things I’ve been digging and a gig mini-review.

Download pdf: http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/BrainScrapings2_small.pdf   (Right click and "save target as" to download)

I’m hoping to have a third issue ready for the Birmingham Zine Festival in September.

[Selina]

If you fancy your comics a little more action orientated than The Girly Comic, then Jay has just released the latest issue of Violent! which is free to download:
http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2010/09/01/violent-18-still-free-and-still-kicking/

We only have a handful of The Girly Comic Book Vol. 1 left, so if you want us to bring a copy along to FantasyCon for you let us know. £15.