Website - http://www.heymonkeyriot.co.uk
Email - edd@rnzine.co.uk
Profile - I started Rancid News in 2001. Initially a website in 2003, along with a group of others, I helped turn it into a print zine. After nine issues of Rancid News everyone realised what a rubbish name it was and the name was changed to Last Hours. Since then I've studied for an MA in Communication Design taking the illustration pathway. I draw comics under the title 'Hey Monkey Riot'.
So, I finally got this published! Year of the Monkey contains all 360 of the daily comics that I did over the course of a year between the summer of 2007 and 2008. It was a fairly insane project. I mean a comic everyday is nuts! But I stuck with it, and they were pretty [...]
This Saturday, 13th February, marks the Alternative Press Fair’s first birthday, and they’re having another small press fair to celebrate. It’s a cool free event that celebrates all things self-published and DIY.
Last Hours presents:
“Excessive Force” – policing in Britain
Wednesday 24th February – 6.30pm to 8.30pm
At Housmans books, 5 Caledonian Road, near King’s Cross
We’re finally having a book launch for our comix anthology, ‘Excessive Force’, that explores the problems of modern policing. At the launch there’ll be talks about the anthology and a discussion about the state [...]
This year Last Hours has a table at the international comics festival in Angoulême, France. We’ll be taking our two new books – Diary of a miscreant and Excessive Force – to the BD Alternative area. If you happen to be going to Angoulême, drop round for some politically inspired comics at our table. Also [...]
If you want to buy that rebel in your life a copy of Excessive Force of Diary of a Miscreant through Last Hours you’ll need to order by midday this Friday 18th August in time for Royal Mail to get it to you before Christmas. Go visit the Last Hours shop to place your order!
If [...]
It’s short notice, but some Londoners are putting on a benefit event in solidarity for people recently arrested at the Resalto social centre in Greece.
The antiauthoritarian centre Resalto in Athens was raided by the police on the evening of December 5th, as part of the ‘preventive’ strategy of the Greek state to repress any form [...]
Some images from a new little book/ zine thing I’ll publish in the new year. It’s part of a series of alternative kids books for adults to read; ‘ACAB (A copper acted badly)’ and ‘The politician who lost his voice’. I’ll have some early images from those up here later in the week I hope.
I’ve been saving putting this up on the blog ’cause I was wanting to do a DIY guide about the process of doing a reduction lino-print. But I don’t think that’ll be happening anytime soon, so I thought I’d put it up. I made it about the Halowe’en Smash EDO demonstration in 2008…
There’s a two-colour [...]
The past week in London has had pretty horrific rain. Wednesday was no exception. Despite cycling for as long as I have I still don’t have any waterproofs and really couldn’t face getting completely drenched. This was my response to the problem; a pretty dumb response. Still, I survived, and didn’t get half as wet [...]
An illustration about Propagandhi coming
