Forever Foes!

Everyone seems to be getting in on the children's book market these days... Madonna, Katie Price, Idi Amin and many more. And just as they stretched their respective talents beyond pop music, brutal repression and having big tits, I have done the same and launched my own line of children's novels!

Proudly brought to you by Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury, FOREVER FOES! is available in all good bookshops including Waterstone's as seen below. FOREVER FOES! follows the adventures of a series of different villainous adventurers "...as they run the gamut of negative human experience, smashing and fucking everything in their path!". Wowee!

A close up of those covers so your six to twelve-year old knows what to look for on Amazon, with each character brought to life by a different talented artist from the Scottish comics underground.

 Volume I: Fear, Emptiness, Despair.

 Volume II: To Philosophise With A Hammer

Volume III: Bastards of Ragnarok

Available now in national bookstores!:

A good look at the blurb, to reel in those enthusiatic young minds:

And here are the central characters, soon to be appearing on lunchboxes, stationery and backpacks and that kind of stuff:

Lust Ghost - by Spanky

Spewnicorn - by Robert Thomson

 Gaseous Bastard - by Rob Miller

Meat Nun - by Paul McCann

Plague Chef - by James Corcoran

The Wicker Gran - by Alex Ronald

 

Prison Troll - by Curt Sibling

 

 Gory Tory - by Dave Alexander

Space Racist - by Iain Laurie

Thanks to each of these very skilled gentlemen for lending their talents and tolerating the excruciating Bloomsbury editorial process.


BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

In keeping with the fine tradition of cynical cash-ins and exhaustive merchandising, there's also the FOREVER FOES collectable card game FOE TRUMPS! Simply click to embiggen, print, snip, glue then destroy your opponents without mercy! Check out these cool kids engaged in a deadly match.

 Jim "Destroyer" Devlin is furious as Manglin' Paul McCann smites him with a killer play!

Expand your game - more Foe Trumps to follow! Gotta Catch 'Em All!

 
Gee willikers, sir! My favourite Foe has gotta be...

Your Heart's Desire...

Our strip from Issue 10 of Scream Magazine, with art by the very talented "Stabbin'" Curt Sibling.

Everyone likes Twilight.

Zorgo: Revelations

Presumably to the tune of...

Though for actually lowering the coffin into the ground, this would probably work too...

Who knew Whitesnake had so many songs approppriate for laying the dead to rest??

With art by sky-watching space-scribbler James Corcoran. Cheers James!

Scream Bloody Gore Once More!

Issue 11 of  SCREAM Magazine is out now,  featuring a comic strip by me and "Stabbin" Curt Sibling. Here's a wee sneaky peek:

Scream is the UK's number one Horror Entertainment magazine, available online and in all good magazine stores and fetid catacombs now!

Scary stuff!

Haunted Bowels!

Prepare to be haunted....!

I'm very pleased to say that after some years now of producing comics, I've finally printed my first collected volume - Haunted Bowels: Craig Collins Collected Comics Volume 1.

 Cover art by Iain Laurie

A collection of small press comedy comics - gruesome gags and oddball humour, surreal comedy and morbid light entertainment. Omniscient beings, strange cowboys, troubled poets and unruly spectres and much more await within...!

28 A5 black and white pages with colour cover. Some adult humour. Chocked to the gills with comics and featuring art by:

Dave Alexander, James Corcoran, Iain Laurie, Paul McCann, Rob Miller, Nulsh, Curt Sibling, Robert Thomson and Jacek Zabawa.

And you can buy it here in my Big Cartel for a mere £3 plus postage.

Needless to say it's been a huge pleasure collaborating with these exceptionally talented gentlemen, without whom I wouldn't have made any comics at all. Thanks guys, my hat's off to you! Thanks also to Stuart Gould of UK Comics, printer extraordinaire and all-round good guy.

Scream Bloody Gore!

Some news for horror fiends and flesh-eating maniacs!

It's with considerable pleasure that I tell you that myself and the cadaverous Curt Sibling have a strip featured in SCREAM, the UK's number one Horror Entertainment magazine. In fact, all being well it looks like we will be their comic making guys for the forseeable future. Way to go to jinx yourself, Craig. Here's a wee sneaky peek!

 Issue 10 of SCREAM is available in all good magazine stores on March 22nd 2012.

Needless to say it's an honour to have our work featured in Scream, and a special thanks goes to Phillip Buchan for recommending me to the Editor to take up the torch as he moves elsewhere. Cheers Bucky!

Zorgo: Bundles Of Joy!

Intruding on those special moments in life... with the sensational Robert Thomson!

If you too are unable to conceive, perhaps you can console yourself with this awesome Omniscient Zorgo theme tune:

Omniscient Zorgo Theme Tune - CCollins / GLees by CraigCollins

METRODOME

A short teaser trailer for a new comic project by me and Iain Laurie. You'll want the sound on...

I'm pretty excited about this one and to be collaborating with the mighty Iain Laurie once again. Look out for METRODOME in Summer 2012.

A Fabulous Voyage Through Time...

Time Travel is a dangerous business, and should only be used for the most serious of purposes.

With the temporally troubled talents of Paul McCann, a man who would most certainly like to be living in the world 100 years from now.

Annotated Weekender 3rd Birthday Jam!

In celebration of the Annotated Weekender's third birthday, talented humourist and all round good egg Joe List has invited all and sundry to contribute with some Guardian-mangling of their own..

Clickee here to see contributions by the powerfully talented likes of Craig Conlan and John Allison!

And once again, here's one of my efforts stinking up the place. I attempted a theme this time, blackened dooming it up while attempting to ape this classic cover.

Bat Hulk Recommends...

With 2011 finally being battered into submission by the hungry young fighter that is 2012, I've been asked for some picks of the year by Graphic Eye. Here they be!

Among them you'll find the excellent Calamity of Challenge by Matthew Allison, who upon request for "one of your weird Batmans" produced this brutal little treat for me:

SMAAAAASH!

Zorgo Returns!

After a long hiatus spent hiding in a nebula... Omniscient Zorgo returns! And this time with the comedic strong arm talents of artist Curt Sibling!

And while we're here, let's bust out that 80's Saturday Morning Cartoon Theme Tune again!

Omniscient Zorgo Theme Tune - CCollins / GLees by CraigCollins

And while we're burning state fairs to the ground... what of that theme tune and its mysterious genesis? Little is known beyond it being the result of a one-off collaboration with weepy noisenik LAN Formatique, but here we can see a rare and truly Kvlt glimpse of the recording session, retrieved from the very bowels of the archives!

Fenriz and Nocturno Culto at work in the world famous Livingstone Lounge Recording Studios, Spring 2008.

"The Quiet Burden" on Top Shelf 2.0!

I'm very pleased to say me and Iain Laurie's "The Quiet Burden" has been featured on Top Shelf's online comics hub Top Shelf 2.0.

Hot dang, there we are right there! Needless to say it's fantastic to be up there amongst such excellent and talented company such as Jeff Lemire, Box Brown, Noah Van Sciver and too many more to mention...

 Thanks indeed to Leigh Walton for having us over!

Roachwell in Comic Heroes

If Roachwell in a magazine with Spider-Man on the cover suggests you're finally getting the crossover you dreamed of, well you'll just have to placate yourself with this next best thing...

However, Roachwell did get a rather good wee review as part of a small press round-up in Comic Heroes #9, which is a real life tangible magazine you can find on the actual shelves of Tesco and such. According to the good folks at Comic Heroes Roachwell is "...refreshingly weird, effortlessly funny and at times just plain psychotic..." and "Funny, frightening and a world unto itself..."

It's not online, so you'll just have to take my goddamn word for it. Thanks indeed to Rob Power for both the review and extending support to small press comic creators at wide!

February 2012 Update Excitement : Screw my "goddamn word for it", here it is online now!

A Strange Kids Halloween!

I was delighted to receive my contributor copy of the Strange Kids Club Halloween Special, as you can see by beaming grin pictured below!

 

It was fantastic to collaborate with the powerfully talented German Orozco! It's a great anthology full of raucous Halloween fun, with some fantastic contributions by the likes of Aaron Klopp, Christine Larsen and Glen Brogan with an amazing cover by David Hartman. It's also had a salvo of positive reviewage, and you can get it here! 

Get on it, you flesh-eating ghouls!

The Magic Of The Serengeti

Me and my wee girl were playing around with her set of stamps, and this resulted:

If you were really pedantic you would point out that there's an obvious mistake here, as Lionesses do the majority of the hunting. Well I don't have a Lioness stamp, do I? WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING MAKE ME ONE THEN!?

Food Glorious Food

There's been far to much gorging on the empty calories self-promotion around here of late. So let's fill out bellies with some nutritious comics, with art duties by fat-spattered masterchef Iain Laurie. Click to embiggen!

A tasty and satisfying meal or a boak-inducing bowl of slurry? You decide!

A Bloodbath of Hideous Self-Promotion

It's a fearsome feast of raw reviewage here of late, with a cool wee review from The List coming in that declares Roachwell "...does run the gamut from laugh-out loud funny to quite disturbing to totally incomprehensible, which may just be an achievement in itself". Thanks!

Here's us stinking up the place next to 'The Wire' writer George Pelecanos. Sorry George!

Strange Kids Halloween Special

The awesome Strange Kids Club is preparing to set loose a second anthology from its rowdy and  raucous Club House, and this time a Halloween Edition!

I'm honoured to have a three page strip in it and be collaborating with the extremely talented Mr. German Orozco, who as you can see from the page below, has a superb skill for comedic mayhem. Go check him out!

Pre-order information and all that to follow. It'll be well worth checking out going by first anthology, which was chocked full of excellent art and wacky stories with the likes of Matthew Allison, Jimmy Giegerich, Albino Raven and many more. Just look at this fabulous stuff that's going to be in by Christine Larsen. Arm the PayPal!

Interview with Creative Spotlights

I  did an interview with the good folks at Creative Spotlights a few months back, talking about writing comics in the small press. And here it be!

Creative Spotlights is a very cool site interviewing creative people from a vast range of different arts and musical styles and disciplines, with a great set-up that allows you to look at all the answers provided to the same question by different people.

Hopefully I give out some reasonable sounding advice and don't come across as too much of a dick. Thanks to Henry Gomez for the invitation!

Rambunctious Roachwell Reviews

The train-wreck that is Roachwell comes to a shuddering halt with an agonised scream of twisting metal and a conflagration of good reviews!

Over on the Forbidden Planet Blog  "It’s a clever, solid, surreal and funny comic – and at its end, it manages all four in one strip". While over at Rob Clough's High-Low, Roachwell "...is an interesting meld between Collins' absurd blackout gags and Laurie's intensely hatched and grotesque character work".

Thanks very much to FP and Rob! Now I should probably post some comics next, rather than this gratuitous self-promotional mudbath.

Don't Make Me Run - I'm Full of Geek Chocolate!

Over at Geek Chocolate, Roachwell has received a beamingly positive review. It's "a body of work that will challenge you, that asks you to actively participate and, God forbid, think for yourself" and thanks to us "the comic world is a slightly scarier, weirder, stranger, but above all, better, place".

I'm flattered indeed - thanks Geeks! Read the full review here.

Meanwhile, behind the façade of this innocent-looking comics-blog... we've also had a kindly nod from the industrious Colin Bell in his 30 days of Comics over on Bloggerin' Time.

Colin describes Roachwell as "uncompromisingly surreal horror comic, which alternates between the terrifying and the hilarious" and erroneously calls us "amiable chaps". Thanks very much - though I think you meant to say "contemptible shit-heads". Read more here...