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Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbord is a book coming up from Soaring Penguin Press that gathers work from across his varied career in creating fascinatingly grotesque art This week he launched the book at the London Cartoon Museum, with all sorts of folk in attendance, Garth Ennis, Roger Langridge, Oscar Zarate, Jason Atomic, Lucy Sullivan, Tim[...]

Alice Oseman describes the book as candid writing, with playful artwork, and a riotous and a fearlessly real story of figuring out that you're trans – this book will bring hope and comfort to so many. Thursday , 7th of July Troopers, Central London, inquire here. Friday, 8th of July London Film & Comic Con, Hammersmith Olympia, London, From[...]

Black is a new graphic novel by Tobias Taitt and Anthony Smith from publisher Soaring Penguin Press, adapting Taitt's autobiographical story as a second-generation British Windrush immigrant- something that's increasingly in the news given the recent UK government policies in action The original title of the book and the adaptation "Black Bastard" appears to have[...]

But maybe this might be the moment? Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbord Comes To Soaring Penguin Mark Stafford's Salmonella Smorgasbord is a book coming up from Soaring Penguin Press that gathers work from across his varied career in creating fascinatingly grotesque art. Soaring Penguin Press is as much a fan of Mark Stafford's work as I am, with a story by[...]

The anthology Meanwhile, now in its third issue from Soaring Penguin Press (in the UK, with #2 having just reached the USA) is mightily impressive and contains a wide range of innovative comics Among those comics being serialized is David Hine and Mark Stafford's story The Bad, Bad Place Because they are generous folks, they[...]

By John Anderson. Closing date May 14th 2015 This is a big year for Soaring Penguin Press.  Six new titles plus two comic series But the nature of publishing is that the creators get paid last. We wanted to change that We wanted to say, "Okay, these books won't be out for another few months, but if you[...]

A colour anthology features the return of Strangehaven (with a special introduction to bring new readers nicely up to speed) by Gary Spencer Millidge, a far more disturbing take on The Addams Family by David Hine and Mark Stafford. I wrote a piece about it here. Here are the new solicits… MEANWHILE #1 SOARING PENGUIN (W/A) Gary Spencer Millidge &[...]