Violent! 4, 5 & 6

I've looked at Violent! before...

Issue #1 is here

Issues #2 & #3 are here

and now it's the turn of issues 4, 5 & 6 (the final issue I believe)

Violent! #4, Winter 2001, £1, A4, 24 pages, cover by Frazer Irving, B&W art throughout (apart from the cover)

strips as follows...

Rabid - by Jim Campbell

A mere maid - by Clow

Mitch Molotov - by Phil Nixon & Jim Campbell

Spare parts - by Jay Eales & Peet!

Knuckles - by Jay Eales & Simon Gurr

A killing in suburbia - by Mike Sivier & Shaun Bryan

Violent! #5, Summer 2002, £1.50, A4, 24 pages, cover by Paul Harrison, B&W art throughout

strips as follows...

Flatworm: The French connection - by Jay Eales & Paul Harrison-Davies

Mage works - by Jay Eales & Kelvin Cox

Spare parts - by Jay Eales & Peet! Clack

Rose-tinted spectacles - by Jay Eales & Peet! Clack

The Teksas chainstore massacre - by David Hailwood & Stuart Giddings

Violent! #6, Summer 2004, 28 pages, A5, cover by ???, B&W art throughout

strips as follows...

Flatworm 2069 - by Jay Eales & Paul Harrisom

Mageworks 2: Afterlife - by Jay Eales & Kelvin Cox

Achtung! - by Graeme Neil Reid

Spare parts - by Jay Eales & Peet!

The Teksas chainstore massacre - by David Hailwood & Stuart Giddings

The cut above - by Gary Wilkinson & PJ

Violent #2 & #3

A few months ago (here to be precise) I looked at an issue of small press comic Violent! and its contributors - Simon Fraser, PJ Holden & others. Anyway, more copies of Violent! have now come my way so I'm going to continue my look at Violent! comic and its contributors...

Violent! #2 (2000), A4, 16 pages, B&W art, 90p

cover art by Simon Fraser in tribute to Stanley Kubrick

The Tallyman, art by PJ Holden and script by H Janus

Live Bait - art by PJ Holden and script by Jim Campbell

other strips...

Rahid - by H. Janus & Jim Campbell

Mitch Molotov campus cop - by Phil Nixon & Jim Campbell 

Fashion victims - art by Stuart Giddings; script by David Hailwood

Violent! #3 (2000), 24 pages, B&W art, 90p

cover art by PJ Holden

Live Bait - script by Jim Campbell, pencils by PJ Holden, inks by Patrick O'Connor

Mitch Molotov - Phil Nixon, Jim Campbell & Simon Fraser

The flatworm - script by Jay Eales, art by PJ Holden

other strips...

Rahid - layouts by Mike Siver, script / finished art / letters by Jim Campbell. Created by H. Janus & Jim Campbell.

Ssob - by Alex Smith 

Siege on castle Aldermarsh - art by Mike Donaldson, script by Andrw Lewis

Hell's belles - script by Dave Hailwood, art by Chow

Violent! #1

Thanks to friend of the blog Matthew Bunce I've recently acquired issues 1-6 of Violent! a small press comic from, erm, I'm not precisely sure when as I've not come across any dates on 'em yet. The best I've got is that the Aggro strip has a (c) 1999 on it. So that's the earliest this could date from.

Anyhoo, they were sent to me as they contained some interesting example of artwork by some folks who are now well-known artists.

The total list of credits is as follows...

Cover by Colin MacNeil

The Tallyman - story by H Janus, art by PJ Holden

Rabid - story & art by H Janus, letters by Jim Campbell

Mitch Molotov, campus cop - story & art by Phil Nixon, letters by Jim Campbell

Lowlife - uncredited

Aggro - Simon Fraser 

Anyway, let's have a look at the best of the art...

Cover by Colin MacNeil

List of contributors

Art by Simon Fraser

Art by PJ Holden