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Ø is a short 16-page story I created in August/September 2016. Originally created as a submission to kuš! comics š! #27, sadly Ø wasn’t selected to make the final cut. But on the bright side, I got to print it myself!

A story about best friends, here’s what Andy Oliver said about it..

“A wistful and tender tale that fuses the everyday and the ethereal into a magical yet familiar examination of childhood affection and loneliness. Hathaway’s always striking use of colour has seldom been as powerful and evocative as it is here.”

Released on 5th November at Thought Bubble 2016, Ø is now available on my Etsy store for £3 plus shipping.

Catch up on my blog for all the details.

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BCZF and the Sneaky Launch

Good afternoon ladies and gents.

So, another week has zoomed by and this here will be my last blog for a little while. From next week I’ll be making the big move up North to Manchester and starting a new job, so there’s some pretty big life adjustments to get my head around! It’s been a tough few weeks making sure everything is done in time for moving, and also finishing up comics work and launching Sneaky Business vol. 2, so I’m looking forward to having everything put to bed so I can focus all my energy on mine and my handsome northerner’s new home together.

But, regardless of the sheer amount of work, Sneaky Business vol. 2 is go! Despite the very nearly irreversible spelling mistakes bring printed, forgetting to tell people they’re included, and then completely forgetting to put it up for sale online, Sneaky Business vol. 2 has been launched; and, in true style! Bristol Comic and Zine Fair this past Saturday was a wonderfully vibrant day, and between the beaming sunshine and rain showers it made for a consistently high volumes of people having a look around, and spending their hard earned money on comic and zine-like goods! Here are some photos from the day, some by me and some respectfully borrowed from the event photographer Eileen Long and Editor in Chief of Broken Frontier Andy Oliver. Check them out below:

I had SUCH a good time at BCZF, and big thanks to everyone who came by my table to say hello! And also to anyone who happened to make the mistake of asking how things are and ended up hearing my life story about how stressful moving home is (I think the Avery Hill gents, Elizabeth Querstret and Rebecca Bagley took the brunt of it) – please forgive me. Overall it was such a fun day, and I really can’t wait to apply again and hopefully be a part of the fun next year too! Though with how crammed my half table was this year I may have to look into a better way of presenting my comics and goods.. Hang them from the ceiling? Stick them to my clothing? Send your suggestions on a postcard.

But, anyway.. Sneaky Business vol. 2 had it’s grand launch complete with googly eyes, and as of yesterday can now be purchased on my Etsy store for the bargain price of £3! Printed in a limited run of 100, SB2 contains 36 pages from 19 creators, so get your hands on a copy pronto. You can read all about the artists and creators included in Sneaky Business from my previous blog here.

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In other news, I found out that my submission to the Illustrated Women in History zine has been accepted! You may or may not remember, back in July I created a piece on Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, to submit to this zine by Julie Gough of A Pale Landscape, and I’m thrilled to have made it to the final selection. The zine is on sale now for £10 plus shipping, and can be found and ordered here.

So as you can see, it’s been a busy and successful week! I just have a one final piece of work to do before moving which you’ll all be privy to in the coming months, but until then I must love and leave you all for a few weeks. Feel free to send burly moving men my way as I’m not sure how me and a skinny IT guy are going to move all our belongings up and down far too many flights of stairs.. But until next time, see you on the other side!

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Sneaky Business Vol. 2

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Sneaky Business Vol. 2

After the success of last year’s 12-page comics-zine Sneaky Business, October 2016 saw the launch of volume 2! This time, things were a little different. Instead of hand-picking comic buddies to take part like I did in 2015 I opened up submissions to everyone and anyone!

Launched at Bristol Comic & Zine Fair on Saturday 1st October, Sneaky Business Vol. 2 featured work from:

Alan Henderson, Alex Hahn, Alex Tawns, Danny Noble, David Robertson, Elias Bevan, Elizabeth Querstret,Evan Stamps, Jason Song Quinn, Jessy Oddie, K. LY R, Lorne Colt, Martyn B. Lorbiecki, Phu Vuong, Isa Enriquez, Jamie Me, Rica March, Wallis Eates, and myself.

Sneaky Business vol. 2 is available to buy online for the bargain price of £3 from my Etsy store. It’s also available at selected small-press friendly comic shops in the UK, and will be available for sale at future comic festivals (for a full list of upcoming events, please see my About & Contact page). Limited to a print run of 100, SB2 contains 32 pages with work from 19 creators in a small and affordable package, priced as low as possible to open up comics to the casual browser as well as more seasoned comic fans. Sneaky Business is purely a platform to get together some awesome stories and expose each other and existing/new readers to fresh and entertaining work. All rights remain in the hands of the creators – the way it should be!

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Buy Sneaky Business vol. 2 NOW!

“There’s a great charm to this volume’s humour that makes me think of napkin doodles with friends that have been polished into something beautiful, and I think this is the kind of collection you might share with friends, to give them a reason to smile.”

Cassie Parkes, Comic Con Fever – SNEAKY BUSINESS VOL. 2 COMIC REVIEW

Sneaky Business #2 is indeed an extremely eclectic compilation of comics and, given that slightly patchwork array of styles and genres, it’s inevitable that each individual reader will gravitate more towards some sections than others. But that selfsame disparate line-up is also part of its charm. As is often the way with anthologies there’s only room here to cover a selection of those who contributed to this volume but at an almost giveaway price of £3.00 there’s really no excuse for not picking up a copy of a book that acts as a communal platform for so many distinctively different forms of practice all tied together by that one unifying theme.”

Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier – Sneaky Business Volume 2 – Danny Noble and Wallis Eates Steal the Show in the Second Issue of Rozi Hathaway’s Anthology Offering

Sneaky Business Vol. 3 call for submissions will open in early 2017.

You can read all about the first Sneaky Business here