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12-page cartoon story, printed on elephant-dung paper
and hand-stitched. £4
and hand-stitched. £4
12-page cartoon story, printed on elephant-dung paper
and hand-stitched. £4
and hand-stitched. £4
Fiction
214 pp
£8
214 pp
£8
Art student Mills screenprints images of TV stars and footballers onto polystyrene. Cursed by mad hair and her boyfriend's bad moods she dresses in PVC and tours shady pubs. Meanwhile Keith, who lives in the same house as Crazy Ed, pins up note about the Moon...
Alice Bell paints affectionate portraits of art students on the 70s - with a kick.
Alice Bell paints affectionate portraits of art students on the 70s - with a kick.
Mad Bad and You May Not Want to Know
by Alice Bell
...there are just so many places where I want to say: “Oh wow! What an astute observation, or, how ironic is that? I simply can’t keep track of what I like the most. Her observations on chauvinistic students waiting for a woman, any arbitrary woman, to turn up and cook before they can eat, is hilarious for example, as of course is the indomitable ‘Mr Of Course You Fucking Can’! We see the seventies art-school scene through the eyes of Mills, a young dynamic woman with somewhat less than revolutionary, but nevertheless radical feminist ideals. We are invited into the mind of a bourgeoning artist; a kaleidoscope of kinetic imagery and conceptual ideas, described with an intimate honesty that challenges one to digest the sheer density (and intensity) of feelings expressed; let alone the intellectual ideas and incisive (sometimes verging on surreal) character vignettes portrayed...It is a bold and unabashed novel, revealing an author who is unafraid to be honest about her own humanity, whilst challenging us to look to our own. Alice Bell’s ‘Mad Bad & You May Not Want to Know’ presents us with a compassionate and vital vision of both our predicament and our potential. (From a review by Robert Vallack)
FROM EARACHE TO ETERNITY
by Mick Kidd
including photos, letters and articles
A droll stroll through Mick Kidd's back pages. 'From Earache To Eternity' begins with the author's birth just before D-Day and ends with a pensioner's lifestyle, post financial crash.
Mick enjoyed what may have turned out to be a blip in history: free education, free healthcare, cheap food, cheap travel. full employment, and latterly, the Freedom Pass.
After university, he worked as a liberal studies teacher, a waiter, a community worker and an avant-garde film distributor, before co-founding and selling the seminal BIFF cartoons in Camden Lock. Later, BIFF became a regular in the Saturday Guardian for over twenty years, which meant Mick never having to get a proper job again.
Somewhere along the way, he served egg and chips to Harold Wilson on the Isles of Scilly.
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