Redeye - Accent UK

To call Redeye a 'fanzine' might make you think of something a lot more amateur looking than it was. To call it a 'magazine' might make you think of glossy paper and full colour printing - and it didn't have that either. Instead, it sat someone in between those 2. A4 sized, colour covers, 60-100 pages long, absolutely jam-packed with news, reviews, interviews, retrospectives - with a real focus on British comics. Everything I could love in a magazine really. 

The fact that it was supposed to be quarterly but only came out about twice a year wasn't a problem because it was always full of stuff I wanted to read. It was printed with a really tiny font - thus meaning that it took even longer to get through your 60, 70, 80 pages of content.

Redeye, issue 1, ??, cover art by ??

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Redeye, issue 2, May 2004, cover art by Neill Cameron, 68 pages

Key features...interviews with Jason Cobley, Frazer Irving. Also material on David Lloyd, Dan Dare and Dave Gibbons.

Redeye, issue 3, November 2004, cover art by Grant Springford, 64 pages

Key features...interviews with Alan Grant, Paul Cornell. Also material on Brian Bolland, Dan Dare and Bristol 2004 convention report. 

Redeye, issue 4, May 2005, cover art by David Hitchcock, 80 pages

Key features...interviews with Jock, David Hitchcock, Ian Edgington, D'Israeli, Leah Moore, John Reppion & Shane Oakley. Also material on Action and the 2000AD art of Carlos Ezquerra.

 

Redeye, issue 5, Jan 2006, cover art by David Bircham, 96 pages

Key features...interviews with Tharg, Ian Edgington and D'Israeli. Also material on Starlord, Alan Moore in 2000AD and convention reports.

Redeye, issue 6, January 2007, cover art by Tom Gauld, 98 pages

Key features...interviews with Tom Gauld, Steve Yeowell and Lee Kennedy. Also material on the 2000AD art of Mike McMahon, the story of V for Vendetta and the Judge Dredd story 'Origins'. 

Recent Signings - New Comic Treasures!

The fruits of Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) signings on Saturday...

Isabel Greenberg did this great A4 illustration for my copy of 'The Encyclopaedia of Early Earth'

At the other end of the scale, here's a Tom Gauld sketch in my copy of 'Mooncop'

A host of 2000ad creatives were at Orbital 

This, thanks to Stephen Collins, makes it look as thought it was MY gigantic beard that was evil, not to worry though as it's not a portrait

A blow up of the BirdMan from Isabel...

From the Peter Milligan signing at Forbidden Planet last week...

 ...and this as well...

Guardian cartoonists signing @ Gosh comics

Gosh comics have just announced here that a bevvy of cartoonists from The Guardian will be helping them to celebrate Free Comic Book Day on Saturday 5th May... 

as they say...
From 1-2pm, we have a Guardian Cartoonists Signing, with Tom Gauld, Stephen Collins and Simone Lia!

And what about those free comics? We'll have a massive range of FCBD 2018 titles available on the day, especially ones aimed at a younger audience. Because if comics can't be for kids, we're all doomed to future irrelevance as a cultural curiosity! We'll be opening early to accommodate the day, so get in the queue nice and early. Here are the rules:

Free comics will be available behind the counter downstairs.
Five per person, maximum one copy of each.
First come, first served.
Please respect your fellow comic fans on the day.

So mark it in your diaries and get your butts down here! There are things going on all over town, all day long, so make it a West End comics day (but especially a Gosh! Comics day!)