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Aaaand it’s out. Follow the links from Corporate Watch to read online or buy a hard copy that you can lend to friends, spill tea on, etc. Hopefully it will be in your local radical bookshop soon too.

Very excited to be involved in this project with Corporate Watch:

https://corporatewatch.org/coming-soon-worlds-end/ 

More info to follow very soon...

One problem with making things is that you then need space to put them.

Two years ago, I was involved in making a monster – the puppet Cuadzilla, which has been taken on protests against Cuadrilla, Igas and other climate menaces. It was a lot of fun to make and attracted attention wherever it went. It also took up an incredible amount of space, needed its own van, roadies and escort crew, and was generally a pain in the arse.

Last week Cuadzilla lost the place where it had been living for the last year, and yesterday Emma and I deconstructed it, keeping the head and feet for use in a future incarnation.

I don't have pictures of the deconstruction process, but here is a work in progress shot of the head.

Most of the materials for Cuadzilla came from the Bristol scrapstore (probably my favourite shop), which rescues and repurposes materials that might otherwise be in landfill. Some of these parts we were able to salvage for reuse in another project, but some were too worn out or cut into small weird shapes to be used again. So we ended up sending a fair bit to landfill – which felt ironic given my other main recent project.

Everything Goes Somewhere – my comic about waste incineration and zero waste – has now been printed in mass quantities, by the UK Without Incineration Network to use as a campaign resource. More info at http://ukwin.org.uk/2016/09/27/zero-waste-pamphlet-now-available-from-ukwin/

This is a project I have been working on as part of my final MA project, with activists from the UK Without Incineration Network, Zero Waste Europe and others. It’s a foldout comic about the impacts of waste incineration, starting on A4 and finishing on A1. I’ll be uploading some more complete images here very soon, but in the meantime here are a few work in progress images.

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-06-01/beast-of-didcot-rears-its-ugly-head-to-join-protests/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/126933393@N02/

My comic in Overland magazine is here. 

I still haven't seen a hard copy, but this version has the panels laid out differently for viewing on screen... teaching me that I should think about where things are going to end up before I draw them :)

There were some good puppeteering activities this summer.

First, our giant scapegoat (made by me and Emma from Otherstory Puppetry) walked all the way from Bristol to Cardiff.

It had to have some temporary mends en route.

You can read more about the trip, and the Bristol Dignity for Asylum Seekers Campaign that prompted it, here and see more pictures here.

Then in a windy field near Blackpool, my puppeteering companer@s (Trevor and Emma from Otherstory Puppetry) and I finished our giant Cuadzilla puppet, just in time to take it out walking in gale force winds with the local anti-fracking campaigners, as part of the Reclaim the Power action camp.

It also went on a trip to Cuadrilla's northern HQ the next day, in more clement weather.

More pics here.

Word on the street is that it has been seen rampaging around in central Bristol and Kingswood recently.

I drew this comic in collaboration with Frack Free Somerset. It took a very long time and I learnt quite a lot about how not to work. I think it's OK though and am looking forward to the sequel when I've recovered.

You can read the whole thing here.