A Busy Week

It's been a busy week here in the Ghostwood Press office (well bedroom) as we've been frantically getting all our books together for Handmade & Bound this Sunday. We're nearly there now only 1 book left to print and some trimming and binding to do. Will probably do a post tomorrow showing off all the finished books, but for now here's a couple of snapshots and a little preview of our flyers (above) that you can pick up for absolutely nothing on Sunday, they're made from the many many mistake's that have happened during the printing process, we don't waste anything here.

 Here's Kathryn making our tablecloth with a sexy wood pattern and her morrisey lino print, both of which will be with us on Sunday.

And here's steph numbering her book after a long and confusing printing process.

Two New Contributors

It's really great for us to be able to announce that we have two new contributing artists! They're both doing a book each that should be ready by Handmade & Bound next week so let me introduce you to Ashley Wiltshire & Stephanie Bickford-Smith.

Ashley Wiltshire is a Graphic Design student at Kingston and his book Chimps on Speed is a really energetic book of very great and expressive drawings of chimps.

Stephanie is also a Graphic Design student at Kingston and her book Stains is an obsessive observation of stains, drawn through a magnifying glass with exceptional detail.

Baby by Gemma Green-Hope

We've got a new book on the way (pardon the pun.) It's a lovely little book by our friend Gemma Green-Hope who is in her third year at Kingston University with us and We've just sorted out the mock up and am eagerly awaiting seeing it printed here's a little sneak peak.

Handmade & Bound

Some more really exciting news in the form of another fair that we'll have a table at. It's Handmade & Bound! We've got half a table at the event on November 20th. For more info check out the facebook event and we look forward to hopefully seeing you there.

On a side note we've finally got down to actually starting with printing our first lot of books, so keep an eye out in the next couple of days on the blog for more news about that!

Daily Drawings September 2011

Kathryn Newman has been doing a drawing a day with no particular theme on her blog for about a month now. So far so good. Now every month Ghostwood Press plan to release a book collating each months drawings. Here's some preview pages from the first months book.

Comix Changed my Life

It's an exciting time for us at the moment. We've just been confirmed for out first fair under this new name! Comix Changed My Life is a fair happening in Brighton on the 17th of December, organized by Paul Stapleton from Bedsit Press and we will be there selling our wares.

Solipsistic Pop 4

Check out Kathryn Newman's work in the upcoming Solipsistic Pop 4. Website here. 

Have a look at Kathryn's blog for more details and here's a sneak peak of her comic for the book :

(sorry for the horrible colours. The spot colour is actually a really nice green but blogger has converted the image all wrong)

We're getting there

It's been a while, but we've finally got some news! Books are starting to get finished,they're coming off the screen and working their way onto paper. It's all very exciting seeing and holding almost finished books. They're all still very rough but it's getting there. So we thought we'd share with you some of the rough mock ups that are hot out of the printer.

Firstly, here are two photos of Kathryn Newman's beautiful comic book, 'Nervous Tic'. This is the first issue, there are plans to make a second and hopefully then make a series of them. The comic book is mostly autobiographical with four individual stories on 15 pages. It's coming together quite nicely!

We have also just this second printed out the first rough copy of Adrian Curcher's revised Bums now in colour and on beautiful slate grey card with a fold out poster (pictured above) it's all very exciting!

Twitter

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Coming Soon

We've got some exciting new projects in the works at the moment. Kathryn Newman is currently working on a comics zine (previewed below) which will have four completely new stories inside -this is due to be ready within the next couple of weeks. Adrian Curcher is also making a book of hand rendered facebook rapes (previewed below) - this too is almost complete. 

We are also planning on reworking 'A Gentlemens Guide to Gig Etiquette' (seen here) . We have received some great feedback on this zine in the past (under the name 'this bombardment society') so we're hoping people will like the reworked version as well. Finally, there are some plans in the pipeline to make a possible second edition of 'Gentlemens Guide' which is also very exciting. Previews soon.

Beard Beard You're Weird by Kathryn Newman

This zine celebrates all various varieties of facial hair from the Donegal Beard to the well groomed moustache. Written and Illustrated by Kathryn Newman. Photocopied on card. 12 Pages.  Currently this zine is being stocked at Transition Gallery , London.

Hi there and welcome to our temporary website. We are two art students from Kingston who came together last year to start making zines. We were originally called 'This Bombardment Society' but have now decided to "rebrand" we will be making a proper website soon and there are lots of new books in the pipeline so keep an eye on the blog!