Collaborative Minicomics in the Pub, May 2012

We sat around a table, some of us drank beer, some of us ate food.

We talked above the noise of the bar.

We folded some paper, did a little tear in it and turned it into 8 page mini comics.

We put words into a hat, and the combinations drawn out were 'super/desperado shirts' and 'homeopathy bean'.

For 2 minutes we each drew a cover (see above), and then we passed the paper to our left. Some of the things then drawn on paper were frankly obscene (see snippets below).

And we're not sorry, WE SHALL DO IT AGAIN!

More images here.

THE COOLEST MONKEY IN TOWN (MIKE THOMPSON)

More monkeys, more bottoms.

Mike Thompson is one part of the two-headed beast that first spawned the Paper Jam Comics Collective. He claims to be a comics reader not a comics doer, but almost every meeting produces a 24-minute comic that makes me laugh.

This be one of them.

- Andy

ADVENTURES OF A SMOOTH MONKEY'S BOTTOM (MARTIN NEWMAN)

Here's a strip from Paper Jam member and all-round lovely bloke Martin Newman. It was part of the same pool of strips as the last posting, so I'm thinking the words were "smooth" and "monkey's bottom".

Martin is a regular face at the meetings and always does something great during the 24-minute comic sessions, but hasn't posted anything he's done yet. Martin - get to it!

- Andy

SMOOTH AS A MONKEY'S BOTTOM (BEN CLARK)

Another beauty of a 24-minute comic from Ben Clark, rescued from behind the counter at Travelling Man. This one was so long ago that I don't remember the themes that were drawn out of the hat. I think they were "smooth" and "monkey's bottom", but I can't be sure.

Anyone?

- Andy

I WILL PISS IN YOUR DISHWASHER, GENIE (ANDREW WAUGH)

This second posting from me is the last 24 minute comic I did.

As you can see from comparing them, I haven't improved much! FACT: they both also include the word "douche" - which is not a word I use in general conversation. Spooky.

The words/phrases this time were, as you can probably guess, "I will piss in your dishwasher" and "genie". Why the former was suggested, I don't know. I worry about these people.

- Andy