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We’d like to thank the Academy…

June 9th, 2009 | by Admin
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Well, blimey! What can we say? On Sunday afternoon, we received an email notifying us that The Girly Comic Book Volume 1 has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Comic/ Graphic Novel.

Nominated and voted on by members of the British Fantasy Society. If you’re a member of the BFS, and helped us to make the shortlist, then thank you so much. It was quite a surprise, as we hadn’t checked the longlist, so didn’t realise we were on that either! Wish us luck for the final vote, which closes on August 1st, and the result will be announced over the weekend of September 18th-20th at the FantasyCon convention in Nottingham. For more information on FantasyCon, check out:
http://www.fantasycon.org.uk

Voting is open to current members of the British Fantasy Society, attendees of FantasyCon 2008 and those who have already registered for FantasyCon 2009. If you’re eligible to vote, we’d really appreciate it if you considered supporting us again. Competition for the award is fierce, so we can do with all the help we can muster!

Our esteemed opposition are:

All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely (DC)
30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow by Steve Niles/Bill Sienkiewicz (IDW)
Comic Book Tattoo by Rantz Hoseley/Tori Amos/various (Image)
The New Avengers: Illuminati by Brian Bendis/Brian Reed/Jim Cheung (Marvel)
Hellblazer: Fear Machine by Jamie Delano/Richard Piers Rayner/Mark Buckingham/various (Vertigo)
Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician by Andy Diggle/Leonardo Manco/Daniel Zezelj (Vertigo)
Locke & Key by Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
Buffy Season 8 Vol 3: Wolves At The Gate by Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard/Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse)

Win or lose, it’s great being invited to the party, and being able to say that we’ve been shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award, but just dreaming for a little while. How great would it be to actually win? :)

Jay and Selina

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The Girly Comic: Update

January 14th, 2009 | by Admin
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Just wanted to let you know what’s happening with The Girly Comic. After eight years of editing and publishing Girly I need to take a break to recharge. I am not happy with my own performance as an editor and need time to refine my editorial vision. In 2009 I will be concentrating on marketing the webcomic and Girly Book, instead of producing new issues of the comic.

This means I am closing down submissions, in order to allow me to have a clean slate when I start working on new issues again (probably in late 2009/early 2010).

Factor Fiction will still have stalls at The Thing in London in Feb, the Bristol Expo in May and BICS in October.

Jay will be continuing with Violent! as usual, and we are both still active members of the Caption Committee.

We also forsee a great year for The Girly webcomic, including a new ongoing strip by Terry Wiley.

Thanks for all your support,

Selina

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Thought Bubble Report

November 19th, 2008 | by Admin
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Come say Hi @ Thought Bubble & Comiket

November 14th, 2008 | by Admin
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So, we’re launching The Girly Comic Book Vol 1 tomorrow at the Thought Bubble convention in Leeds.

Hope to see lots of you there. The convention is being held at Saviles Hall opposite the Royal Amouries. For more info see http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/

I’ve just done a short interview with BBC Radio Leeds about The Girly Comic Book, which those in the area will be able to hear as part of their news bulletins.

We’ll also be at Comiket in London next weekend (Sat 22nd November), so if you can’t make it to Thought Bubble hopefully we’ll see you at Comiket instead. Comiket is being held at the ICA, for more info see http://www.ica.org.uk/Comica%20Comiket+18413.twl

We’re really looking forward to finding out what you all think of the book!

–
luv & jellybabies
Selina

P.S. There will be free jellybabies at our table…

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Buy The Girly Comic Book 1

October 27th, 2008 | by Admin
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The Girly Comic Book 1 (280p, hardback) is now available to buy from our shop:

UK: £15 plus £3 p&p.

By cheque: http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/shop.html#uk

By PayPal: http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/shop.html#ukpaypal

USA: £15 plus £8 p&p (airmail): http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/shopusa.html

Or you can get it for a special launch price at the Leeds Thought Bubble Festival on the 15th November, where you will be able to get it signed by a number of the creators, including by Mike Carey who wrote the Introduction.

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The Girly Comic Book Vol 1 has arrived!

October 27th, 2008 | by Admin
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The 280 page, hardcover Girly Comic collection has arrived from the printers and looks fab.

We’ll put ordering information up on the site ASAP, and you’ll also be able to pick up copies from the Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds on the 15th November.

Girly Comic Books

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Factor Fiction @ BICS & Thought Bubble

September 25th, 2008 | by Admin
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Factor Fiction will have a stall at the upcoming Birmigham International Comics Show (4-5th Oct) http://www.thecomicsshow.co.uk/

We’ll have new comics in the form of The Girly Comic #18, Violent! #14 plus a few copies of the MCR comic: The Fiend in Five Dimensions!

We were also hoping to launch The Girly Comic Book Vol 1, but printing delays mean we will now be launching that at Thought Bubble in Leeds on 15th Nov http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/08home.asp

The Girly Comic Book will be a 280 page hardback edition.

Hope to see lots of you at the events.

luv & jellybabies
Selina & Jay

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Congrats to Girly Creators

June 28th, 2008 | by Admin
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Congratulations to Girly Comic Contributors Karrie Fransman and Kate Brown.

Karrie has her “My secret life” humour strip running every Friday in the G2 section of the Guardian. While Kate has a lovely strip “The Spider Moon” running in the DFC, and provided the cover to this week’s DFC.

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No Barcodes Photos

June 10th, 2008 | by Admin
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Some photos from our visit to the No Barcodes event at Camden Market in May ca be found over at Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlycomic/tags/nobarcodes/

Oli Smith and London Underground Comics did a great job of organising the event.

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Garen Ewing Biog

June 4th, 2008 | by Admin
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Garen’s love of drawing and writing goes back to when he was very young, and had to spend a lot of time in hospital – so his mum supplied him with plenty of comics to read, and pencils and blank paper to draw with – and he’s been making comics ever since! He’s been the editor of a local entertainments guide (5D) and a comic strip anthology (Cosmorama). He’s adapted Shakespeare’s The Tempest into a comic and is the creator of The Rainbow Orchid, an adventure-mystery set in the 1920s. He’s an expert on the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-1880, he’s half Scottish, one-sixteenth Romany Gypsy and plays bass guitar and does karate (though not at the same time!).

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