Interview with Em Cartoons creator.

Since 2006 thelondonpaper (sic) has published Em, the semi-autobiographical comic strip of a twenty something woman growing up in London by Maria Smedstad. The paper is shutting down now, and Friday will be the final issue.

I'm not a regular reader of the free evening papers (generally I take a book with me for the evening commute), but occasionally picked it, and always turn to Em first (followed by the columns, stopping before I get to the "news" and celebrities).

When I first saw Em, I must admit I wasn't hugely impressed with the cut'n'paste art, or punchlines. But after running across an early strip in the Cartoon Museum in with the Young Cartoonist of the Year entries IIRC), I decided to look again, and remember that this is more like a blog/column, than a daily humour strip. While I'm not the biggest fan of Em, I have to say that the art has got more expressive, and I was enjoying the ones I saw.

If you're quick you can catch the double page spread on pages 12 and 13 of yesteday's e-edition, which is devoted to an interview with the creator.

UK Small Press Comics Community

scratch_uk is a proto British comics and small press publications fanzine, created by stevegreen. I'm going to try to post stuff there on a semi regular basis (and probably CC: much of it here, under a cut tag).

In that respect, I've just posted a couple of creators recent planned events lists, and which of them I think I'll make it to.