Issue 1 and Issue 2 available now (see 'comics' & 'ordering' pages), Issue 3 in pre-production.
Updated 20th June 2008: The
Bedsit Journal issue 3 goes to print at the end of the month.
It's a 40 page A4 monster!
And be sure to come along to ....
18th April 2008: The Bedsit Journal issue 3 will be out in May!
Meanwhile, we'll be at my favourite non-comics comics event, the London Zine Symposium , next Sunday (27th April).
29th February 2008: Wow!
There won't be another one of these for 4 years... a good day to update. So
here are some art and story details for.... The BEDSIT JOURNAL issue 3.
Featuring :
'How George Herriman Got Me Laid' by Richard Cowdry
'The Writer' by Richard Cowdry & Peter Lally
'Black Dress' by Richard Cowdry
'Skinny Bill' by Hannah Glickstein
'Action Man' by Cowdry/Lally
'Donald Hamilton' by Peter Lally
'There's A Tear In My Beer' by Richard Cowdry
'Chumpo' by Cowdry & Lally.
Also featuring the inimitable Bird!!
... and 'The One I've Waited For' by Cowdry, which is still in progress (so
no art to see yet).
24th January :
Taking a cue from the gang at London
Underground Comics, the Bedsit Journal will be running a stall at Camden
Market this Saturday (26th of January). We did our first table there last weekend,
and it was interesting to see the reactions to this kind of comic and the other
titles we were selling. Some people didn't know what to make of it! I hope the
stall works out, because I love this grass roots way of getting comics out to
a wider audience.
For more information about which days we'll be there, and what comics we're
selling, contact Peter Lally.
19th December : Merry Festivities from your old pals at The Bedsit Journal!
31st November :
On the off chance anyone's actually reading these 'updates', here are some more
details about the new Bedsit Journal...
Stories that are either completed or in progress include :
"Red Dress", "The One I've Waited For", 'There's a Tear
In My Beer', & "How George Herriman Got Me Laid", by Richard Cowdry
(me, that is).
"The Writer", "Chumpo", & "Mission Control",
by Richard Cowdry & Peter Lally.
And... the return of Donald Hamilton in "The Lights Have Gone Out"!
I'll put up some art here soon.
A couple of great new British comics came my way recently...
"Animal Hospital" by Nurse Pussy
and "Skinny Bill" by Hannah Glickstein.
Both are very funny and highly original, created by artists with great potential.
There are a lot of decent comics coming out of the UK these days ... if you
can find them!
27th October :
Nearly Halloween already!
Updates round up :
The Bedsit Journal will be exhibiting at the Comiket expo at the ICA
on Sunday November 4th. It’s happening in the Brandon Room, from 2.00pm
to 7.00pm.
The great cartoonist and Bedsit Journal contributor Bird has a new
website. I just love this guys stuff!
Bedsit Journal issue 3 is turning out to be a very romantic issue, with stories
like 'There's A Tear In My Beer', 'The One I've Waited For' and 'How George
Herriman Got Me Laid'. More info about the new issue to follow.
31st August : Not much new comix action this week, but here's an interesting review of Bedsit Journal issue 1.
12th July : The Bedsit Journal enters North America! Both issues are now available from the Poopsheet shop. Poop Poop!
22nd June : Richard Cowdry is one of many artists being exhibited in the Novas Gallery Summer Show. Everything in the show is for sale, and all profits go to the 'socially excluded' (really!). The Novas Gallery is at 73 Parkway, Camden, London NW1 7PP. The show runs until 29th July 2007, and is open Wed–Sun, 11am- 5pm.
There is a new review of Bedsit Journal issue 1 over at Richard Krauss' Midnight Fiction website.
31st May : Not much
comix action this week, but Bedsit Journalist Peter Lally posts :"I was
in a hippy singer-songwriter bar, watching a friend perform, and I came across 'Trent
Miller & The Skeleton Jive'. I truly recommend Bedsit Journal
readers take a listen.
I've suffered innumerable unknown musical acts over the years, all
of no interest and often considerable irritation, except for this Trent
Miller and one other. Are we witnessing the new King of Country?".
Meanwhile, in other media, here's a great 1933 film by British animator Len Lye.
7th May 2007 : The season of festivals continues! The Bedsit Journal will be sharing a table with Paper Tiger Comix, Dan Locke (Green Comics), and J.Edward Scott (The Gilded Trapezoid) at the Bristol Comics Expo this weekend (12th & 13th May).
20th April 2007 : The Bedsit Journal will be sharing a table with Paper Tiger Comix at the London Zine Symposium tomorrow.
Richard Cowdry has 3 strips in the comics section of the new Forbidden Planet International catalogue.
11th March 2007 : Bedsit Journalists Richard Cowdry, Peter Lally and Trevor Carolan, appear in the new issue of the exquisitely designed cultural artefact that is MEAT Magazine. It should be out by March 24th.
Wouldn't you like to meet a cartoonist? Come and see Richard Cowdry & Peter Lally at the Bedsit Journal table at the Web & Mini Comix Thing in London on Saturday March 17th.
AND : we have MySpace! Please be our friend...
20th February 2007 : Bedsit Journal issue 2 is now available, but may take a few weeks to roll out to the shops. In the meantime you can get it direct from us, with free postage and packing (see our ordering page).
'Chumpo' is a new comic strip by Richard Cowdry and Peter Lally, which will (hopefully) appear in Paper Tiger Comix issue 4.
10th January 2007 : Trimming down and reorganizing this website!
December 2006 : Happy New Year and all that!
3rd December 2006 : Issue 2!
25th October 2006 : A 'new' strip by Richard Cowdry.
5th October 2006 : The Bedsit Journal is now available from the ICA bookstore to coincide with the Comica festival month.
2nd October 2006 : The Bedsit Journal is now stocked by the Forbidden Planet chain of shops in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Croydon, Liverpool, Newcastle and Southampton.
Richard
Cowdry has drawn a strip called 'There's A Tear In My Beer" for The
Oxford American (see panels below).
I'm not sure if the magazine is available in Britain, except maybe from larger
branches of Borders.
Here is a cover sketch for an earlier comic.
26th
September 2006 : The Bedsit Journal is now stocked by the
Travelling
Man chain of shops in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham
and York.
Full issue 2 details coming soon!
16th
August 2006 : The Bedsit Journal Issue 2 will be out in October!!!
ALSO, the Bedsit Journal reaches Scotland and Wales! See our updated shops
page.
AND here's a picture of me, Richard
Cowdry, in Peter Lally's bedsit!!!
31st
July 2006 : The Bedsit Journal Hate Virus continues to infect the comic
shops of England.
Big
ol' shops update on our 'stockists' page.
19th
June 2006 : The Bedsit Journal is now available from Foyles
Books in Charing Cross Road, London.
Foyles
has the best comic and graphic novel section of any bookshop I've ever seen!
8th
June 2006 : There are new reviews of the Bedsit Journal and
Kartoon Cuts (plus lot's of other UK comics) at
Bypass Review Zine.
The
latest issue of Vice Magazine is the Comics Issue and Richard
Cowdry has a page
featured on their website.
There are also new strips by Pete Bagge, Mary Fleener, Rick Altergott, Sophie
Crumb, Johnny Ryan, etc, etc. Plus some Robert Crumb placemat drawings.
1st
June 2006 : The Bedsit Journal is now available from The
Cartoon Museum at 35 Little Russell Street, a stone's throw from The British
Museum and Gosh! Comics.
There is a new sketchbook page in the Peter
Lally archive and a new photograph of Aline Kominsky in the Richard
Cowdry archive (scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it).
28th
May 2006 : The
Bedsit Journal reaches Holland! The Bedsit Journal and
Kartoon Cuts are now available
from the Lambiek
shop at Kerkstraat 132 (just off Leidsestraat).
On a recent trip to Amsterdam, Peter Lally described Lambiek as follows:
“Per the guide book it is ‘Amsterdam's largest, oldest and best comic
shop’. It had a gallery, and it was stocked A-Z, with loads of books,
nearly all of which appeared to be quality comics - I presume European.
Almost no (if any) Manga stuff, very little superhero stuff of any sort, and
the guys there seemed cool.”
Lambiek sounds like comic book heaven!
25th April 2006 : Richard Cowdry and Dan Locke have organized a Comic Art exhibition in Brighton :
Update : the
exhibition had a positive write up in the Monday May 1st edition of The Guardian.
31st March 2006 : Richard Cowdry has a new website.
15th February 2006 : NEWS ITEM!
‘Grave’ Graham
Bettany, the author of such mini comix as Hong Kong Pussy and Hump Comix has
been sacked from his job because of the offensive nature of his artwork.
Graham, who has been working as a cinema projectionist in North Manchester since
1997 was suspended from work and then sacked due to a complaint made by a co-worker
who discovered an issue of Hong Kong Pussy on the artists desk.
On seeking advice from his union representative, Bettany was advised to destroy
all copies of the comic and burn the original artwork.
If anyone has ever wondered if an ‘underground’ comic still has the
power to shock, this should answer your question.
18th January 2006 : There is a new strip over in the Peter Lally archives.
16th December 2005 : Here are some badge designs.
22nd November 2005 :
Kartoon Cuts,
Richard Cowdry's comic from last year is now back in print and available here.
Also : see some details and images from Bedsit Journal issue
2.
4th November 2005 : The Bedsit Journal will be exhibiting at the Brighton Comics Expo on the weekend of November 19 & 20th. I'll be the unapproachable looking guy, hunched defensively behind his table, with a “Why did I come here...?” expression on his face. But I'm nice really! Come along and say hello.
Dem Ol' Bedsit Blues
I got no woman
I got no place of my own
I got no luck
I got no hope
Only one thing I got
I got dem ol' bedsit blues
Rain leaking thru my roof like blues
Cupboards falling down like yesterdays
On my bed, I don't sleep so good
Winters setting in
Lord knows I need some warmth again
Bedsit Blues
Dey fuck you up
- Traditional
3rd August 2005 : A Bedsit Journal review has appeared in the blog section of Suicide Notes, a site devoted to book reviews, interviews and cultural criticism.
21st July 2005 : New strip 'The Fool' in the Peter Lally archive. Art Brut Comix!
18th July 2005 : We have a links page!
12th July 2005 : The Bedsit Journal reaches Bristol and Paris.
5th July : New strip from Kartoon Cuts here.
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