Dirty Rotten Comics #5
Dirty Rotten Comics is an alternative comics anthology, published three times a year.
Edited by Gary Clap and Kirk Campbell
Contributions by Amy Smith, Andy Barron, Anna Dowsland, Barney Farmer & Lee Healey, David Meadows & Andrew Potts, David Robertson, David Thomas & Rosa Devine, David Ziggy Greene, Des Buckley, Gary Clap, Ioan Morris, James Gifford, James Wragg, Jess Milton, Jessie Huckin, Jey Levang, Joe Callanan, John Dredge & Joseph Champniss, Kevin Loftus, Kirk Campbell, Matthew Dooley, Olivia Sullivan, Rozi Hathaway, Sarah Crosby, Scott Wrigg, Teal Barnes, Todd Oliver and Tom Mortimer.
On sale now at the Dirty Rotten Comics webstore, Gosh! Comics (London) and Orbital Comics (London).
Review by Andy Oliver at Broken Frontier;
“Rozi Hathaway – another of that now legendary six – also goes the slice-of-life route with her account of a long-distance relationship. It’s a beautifully personal piece that has a haunting, almost lyrical quality to it – the weary passage of time and the inhospitable nature of public transport fading into insignificance in a heartwarming, joyous final panel.”
Review by Richard Bruton at Forbidden Planet;
“And finally, last but certainly not least, Rozi Hathaway. Her ‘Rejsen‘ tells a simple 2-page tale of meeting up, of waiting, of longing, of counting the days. It’s a fragment thing, each panel disconnected from the text that recounts the reason the woman is dragging a case around a railway station, but the interaction of text and Hathaway’s lovely artwork is spot on…”