Robot No. 5 by Robin Tarbet

This month we gather the Avery Hill team together to chat about some of our favourite comics, books, TV shows and sculpture from 2020 and look forward to the new books we’ll be bringing out in 2021.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we talk to Katriona Chapman about Follow Me In and Breakwater, the two books she has put together with Avery Hill. We also talk about drawing upon life experience in creating art, Kat’s wonderful use of colour and light in her work and how she gains inspiration from her fellow Avery Hill creators.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we talk to Patrick Wray all about his creative life and the process of putting together The Flood That Did Come, his recent release through Avery Hill Publishing.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we talk to Charlot Kristensen about her life as a creative, the comic scene in Ireland and the process of putting together What We Don’t Talk About, her new book from Avery Hill Publishing .

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we talk to Owen D. Pomery all about Victory Point, his new book from Avery Hill Publishing.
We discuss his appreciation of space on the page, his different narrative styles across different project and how the work he makes has changed as he’s grown older.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we talk to Stephen Holland from Page 45 in Nottingham about the origins and history of the shop and the challenges they faced opening a shop focused on books being served by an industry focused on periodicals.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we talk to Jared Myland from OK Comics in Leeds all about how the shop got started, their strategies as a store in general and how they are bearing up with the demands of lockdown.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we turn our attention to one of our favourite shops, Gosh!, in Soho, London and talk to the manager and co-owner Andrew Salmond all about Gosh’s origins, history and their plans for the future.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission, while the illustration at the top of Gosh! is by David Ziggy Greene.

This month we talk to Lizzy Stewart on the importance of creative hubs, the value in re-examining older work and her book, Walking Distance, a visual essay on society, womanhood and 80’s movies.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This month we convene the first meeting of the Avery Hill Book Club and welcome Rob Clough, a comics critic whose work has appeared at places like The Comics Journal and Publishers Weekly as well as his own blog High-Low, and Kat Chapman, who self-publishes Katzine and has released Follow Me In through Avery Hill Publishing, to discuss Mimi and the Wolves by Alabaster Pizzo.
As well as talking at length about Mimi and the Wolves we also round things off with a celebratory chat about the number of new and exciting publishers and presses that have emerged in recent years, including Shortbox, Diskette Press and a recently announced project that Rob is involved with, Fieldmouse Press.

Our theme tune is an excerpt from 'Against' by Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.