Issue #4 - OUT NOW

Hi Mortals!

Issue #4 out now at Minotaur and at Sticky.
Or if you're an interwebs browser nerd, here it is as

PDF - click HERE
CBR - click HERE

Or just read it right here, right now.
(Btw: reminder - next issue will be a month late as I will be in Japan. For more details, see my post on March 15.)

If you grab a physical copy, you will note some of the pages are in the wrong order - consider it an EXTREMELY RARE edition, a right collectable!

Buy the T-shirt of this HERE

When's the next one out?

I'll be hitting the printing presses this week for Issue #4, so they'll be on the shelves later this week (@ Minotaur and @ Sticky).
Look for this:

Oh dude, you got zapped!

I'm going to Japan in April, so issue #5 will come out in May. After that, the Angel will come out bi-monthly, ie: every second month. This is due to work commitments unfortunately. Making the comic takes a very long time - time I don't have because I'm off toiling to pay the rentbillsfoodfuckngggrrbbllammmmaaahhh, etc. The more comix y'all buy - the less toil I have to do so I can work on this ALL THE TIME. You likey comix or not? Buy buy buy!!!

So our schedule for this year is:

May - issue #5 - I'm planning to do a collected 1-5 book as well.
July - issue #6
Sept - issue #7
Nov - issue #8

I will also be moving the issues to the start of each month (as of #5).
I'm planning to do some other Special Eds as well, and hopefully I'll be able to punch out a bunch of other comix I did earlier - we'll see.
Here's a sneak preview of some upcoming Angel stuff:

But why is she pissing?

Let's get to the nitty-gritty about this comic that seems to kick most people about the teeth:

micturation = pissing.

Ergo, the title of this comic is The Pissing Angel.

BUT WHYYYYYY?!!!

Truth be told the title came to me years ago, when I made the original booklet this series is sort of based on (see blog post HERE ).

It just jumped into my head. I just like the sound of it. I don't even know where I learned the damn word and that's important to mention: English is a second language to me, I learnt it when I came to Australia in 1986. I was 11.

There are words I like in English purely for the sound of it, and I guess "micturating" / "micturation" is one. If you think about it, it's a wonderfully 'hard' word, a lot of consonants for an action involving fluids, ie: softs. The word almost doesn't fit, at least "piss" sounds like the deed.

Next. I grew up around hospitals/ medical equipment, so I dig medical terms.

Next. No I don't get off on chicks pissing.

Next. Pissing Angels are actually quiet common in Europe (where I'm from). You'll see them weeing in fountains, as little statues at home, as soda water dispensers, etc. My grandparents had one and I was very intrigued by the concept of a cherub/ angel (a supposedly holy critter) taking a piss - something seen as "rude"/ vulgar - yet this was supposed to be an object of humour!

" I'ma put muh dik on yo' drinkin' water!"

It's important to realise that this comic is not to be taken seriously, btw, or not TOO seriously.

Lastly, as explained in Issue #1: there's the religious connection with blood, blood-letting, blood-sacrifice, blood of Christ, bleeding Christ (in some depictions he looks like he's pissing from his ribs, hahaha!), and so on. Our Angel uses second-hand blood, ie: piss to baptise or whatever it is she uses it for.

It's important for her to do this as she is The Outsider and therefore must shock. She can not make friends with "nice", but must rock their world in order to open their eyes.

And if I offended you, oh I'm sorry...

But maybe you need to be offended

But here's my apology and one more thing...fuck you!

"Can't Bring Me Down" - Suicidal Tendencies

And so on and so forth.

Any questions?

Stiff competition?

No, not really but I did almost jump out of my skin when I picked this up at a comic store the other day:

"Borement" is a great word, I will use it, Wise Lee!

That feeling of "You bastard!" at the same time as that feeling of "You marvelous bastard!" had me cursing and clutching this baby like you wouldn't believe.

Okay. so what is it?

It's a mainstream comic, it's called PUNKS, it's made of collages (very likely on a computer), which means they sorta beat me to superfame for collage-comic production. Yes the Angel is older, and truth be told, it's better too.

Here's some more images:

actually fuck it, no, you can google them yourself.

I'm shittyhellyeah balls out excited by the fact that a big publisher-backed mainstream collage comic is out there hopefully attracting a new audience to collage and détournement (as much as you could call this comic or mine détournement [huh? what? Know your destruction, click HERE.]).

Sadly(?) for us The Angel is waaaay weirder, so only the brave will find their way to it. But if this be the gateway drug that brings them here, then hooray for this, and I will be waiting with my seductive treasures my pretties...

Now all y'all go forth and tell everyone this is the year of the collage comic! That this is the Year of the Micturating Angel!

ps: some notes on future editions. Issue 4 will be out in about a week or so, issue 5 will be delayed by a month because I will be overseas.

[this post has been edited, big time a day later]