SLCZF 2022

A quick round of news! I was very excited to participate with printed copies (finally!) of the first issue of Folly Ground at the South London Comic and Zine Fair (SLCZF). The one-day fair took place today at Stanley Arts in South Norwood Hill. Copies of FG were on sale at the Communal Table alongside a variety of other zines and comics, and there were also stalls selling the work of established creators and publishers in the British comics and zine scene. Although it was my first, and rather modest, participation in such a fair, the experience was very exhilarating, and I hope to take part in similar fairs in the not too distant future. The image from the fair is from SLCZF’s Instagram account.

Also, the second issue of Folly Ground is almost complete, and I hope to upload it on this site before the end of the summer. Date to be confirmed. There will also be a limited number of printed copies sometime in autumn.

Watch this space!

HNY 2022

Καλή χρονιά σε όλους κι εύχες για ένα εμφανώς βελτιωμένο 2022.
Happy New Year. Here's hoping that 2022 is an improvement from the year before.

Phantom voltage

A sequel to the last post.

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Local news article from the ‘Folly Daily News’

Saturday, 16 October 198—

Phantom Voltage

Intermittent Electricity recently faced a claim that a shadowy black figure was responsible for Edgar Thrice-Spookʼs 1,236.15 FDr electricity bill. The spectral figure had allegedly turned on the lights and equipment for hours at a time. It also used Mr Thrice-Spookʼs top-of-the-line paper shredder to shred telephone directories, private correspondence and bills at his house in District Y. 

The case is being investigated by the renowned Third Eye Phumblers Detective Agency on behalf of Intermittent Electricity.

Blackmail and extortion

Local news article from the ‘Folly Times’

Thursday, 30 September 198—

Snail terrorises garden for years

A family has taken Dinky, its pet snail, to court accusing it of leaving threatening voicemails and engaging in acts of environmental terrorism in their garden.

Dinky, which was acquired by the Diagram family two years ago, was initially kept in an exclusive and carefully constructed area within their perfectly diagrammatic garden. However, not content in its flawlessly delineated patch, Dinky hatched grandiose ideas to extend its dominion over the entire garden. It began waging a systematic campaign of terror not only on the Diagrams but also on the rest of the plant and animal life of the garden. Blackmail, intimidation and extortion were used in order to subdue and oppress the various resident worms, caterpillars, and mice as well as passing guests such as robins, bees, butterflies and grasshoppers. Extensive modifications of the statistical graphics, maps and technical illustrations within the garden as well as sabotage of equipment, such as saturating the garden shears with foul-smelling mucus, were undertaken in order to confuse the Diagram family, and render the garden inaccessible to them. Finally, Dinky resorted to leaving threatening messages on the Diagrams’ voicemail. ‘We got particularly scared when Dinky began threatening us with the destruction of our arbor trellis if we didn’t get out of the house’, said Mr. Herbert Diagram.

The local court is currently investigating the case. If charged, Dinky faces 10 counts of psychological warfare against nature and 17 counts of garden terrorism.

Trouble in dreams

Complicated matters of love and filial separation are brewing in far-away constellations. Yet another page of the currently in-progress second issue of Folly Ground, whose theme revolves around a cult scifi tv series (aka ‘Apparent Magnitude’) based on the myth of Pollux and Castor and a lucid dream of sorts that Luci has. The panels here relate to the two posts from 13 and 18 April this year that can be seen below. Progress is slow on this issue, but more will be forthcoming on this blog. Constructive comments always welcome.

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