Thought Bubble Festival 2015

Ahoy!

Just a quick update to let you know that we will be at Thought Bubble again this year so if you want any commissions done, please get in touch with us.  You can let us know what you're after at thewaterclosetpress@gmail.com

We've spent most of the past year working on one huge project.  It's been up and down and has really affected our output over the course of the year. We have been making comics but we've just been keeping them under wraps as we've had our little dalliance with publishers. Alas and a-lack, through to one reason or another none of these dealings has come to bear fruit (so far), so we will be releasing more material at T-Bubz, including a brand-new strip called "Man Will Fly" which will be appearing in the TB Anthology! 

 

Here's the first panel.

 Can't wait to see you all and as always, thanks for the support!

Cheers,

Rik

A VICTORIAN NOIR

Howdy all, it's that time of the month again, here comes your latest Ladies and Gentlemen Short. This one is entitled "A Victorian Noir" and features guest artist Mike Pasquale, whom the eagle eyed amongst you may remember from this post. To give you a little idea of what this story is about, it started as an exercise for myself. I wanted to be able to write a story without dialogue and, luckily, having a mute character came in handy tremendously for this. I also wanted to play around with time and tell a non-linear story. I'm still unsure as to whether or not I pulled it off (let me know what you think guys) but one thing is for certain, Mike really made the characters his own and gave us an alternative of what The Gentry looks like. The Gent in a wife-beater and jacket ready to kick arse down in panel four is my favourite. So here at last "A Victorian Noir". Enjoy.

(As ever simply click on the images to enlarge)

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From the Vaults of The Water Closet

Hey there guys, whilst the wait for issue two is coming to a close ( release date October 7th) and there are a few Ladies and Gentlemen short stories on there way we found this in the dusty vaults of the Water Closet, a small story written by Rik for a now defunct project called Eden Through the Barbwire. The Brief was that the story itself could be about anything so long as it related to the title of the project. Alas the project fell through, but The WCP can now proudly present to you "The Big Push" one of the first stories ever written by Rik featuring the artwork of the brilliant Mr Harold Cupec (which you can see in a hugely blown up size by clicking and zooming on each image) whose work can be seen here. so without further adieu, enjoy.

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For those of you that haven't seen this...

I made this comic about the creative process. Its not true, Jordan and I have a very good working relationship, also note that Jordan's illustrations are a lot better than mine and can be found here whilst my ramblings can be found here . Anyway i hope this makes you laugh.

The first of many....

Hey Folks,

Welcome to the Ladies and Gentlemen blog. This is where we plan to have most of our updates and ramblings about the comic but you can also get information hereand you can follow us on Twitter via @WaterClosetPres .

We've got alot coming up in the next few weeks, namely the launch that will be happening at the fantastic Thought Bubble Festival here in sunny Leeds.

After that i'll be setting up a link to buy the comic on eBay for those of you that missed out on the ground floor.

See y'all in the funny books.

Rik