Mark Stafford’s Speech at the Salmonella Smorgasbord Launch in London

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Mark Stafford’s Salmonella Smorgasbord is a e book arising from Soaring Penguin Press, launched at the London Cartoon Museum.

Mark Stafford’s Salmonella Smorgasbord is a e book arising from Soaring Penguin Press that gathers work from throughout his diversified profession in creating fascinatingly grotesque artwork. This week he launched the e book at the London Cartoon Museum, with all kinds of folks in attendance, Garth Ennis, Roger Langridge, Oscar Zarate, Jason Atomic, Lucy Sullivan, Tim Pilcher, Ed Ilya, Paul Gravett, Tony Bennett, Jess Kemp, Zoom Rockman, David Hine, Rian Hughes and extra, to rejoice Martl’s glossy-papered achievement.  Here is his three-minute speech from the occasion.

Soaring Penguin Press Co-Publisher John Anderson and former neighbour of mine spoke about the assortment, saying: “Mark’s work deserves to be seen, and has to be seen to be believed. Believe me when I say that once you start on Salmonella Smorgasbord it’s, well, unkeepdownable.” Co-Publisher Tim Pilcher added, “I’ve been a fan of Mark’s work for over 30 years and I’m full to bursting to be able to serve all these rarities in one literary repast. This collection is what his work has long deserved and is perfect for existing gourmands and a mind-blowing entrée for those yet to discover the twisted world of Stafford. Bon Appetit!”

Best often called the co-creator of the graphic novels Cherubs! (with Bryan Talbot), The Man who Laughs, Lip Hook, and The Bad Bad Place (with David Hine), together with in depth work on different initiatives, Mark has twice been chosen by the British Council to collaborate on initiatives in South Korea. He can be the present artist-in-residence at The Cartoon Museum in London, UK. This new assortment presents tales and items in a hefty 200+ full-colour pages, celebrating the grotesque creativeness of one in every of Britain’s most ingenious comedic/horror artists. Salmonella Smorgasbord brings collectively a lot of Stafford’s hardly ever seen brief comedian strips, alongside restored older comics, and much more current design work for theatre posters, file covers, beer labels, and T-shirt designs—which means there’s a lot to find, even for the most ardent followers.

Salmonella Smorgasbord is a 200-page paperback assortment, UK £16.99/US $25.99.  Here’s a little bit gallery of what went down.

I’ve known as Mark Stafford one in every of the best cartoonists you’ve got by no means heard of, although I’ve finished my finest to rectify that.  I printed him in my Dirtbag and X-Flies comics again in 1995, gave him promoting work on the online game KKND, he did covers for my Avengefuls comedian books and for Civil Wardrobe. I all the time consider that at some level a serious writer will highlight him and he’ll grow to be one in every of the greatest creators round. Despite working with Bryan Talbot and David Hine on massive initiatives, printed by Dark Horse and Boom Studios, being made an artist in residence at the London Cartoon Museum, being despatched on worldwide diplomatic cartooning missions, and curating galleries throughout it hasn’t occurred in thirty years but.  But possibly this could be the second? I did discover a variant cowl for Weird Work #3 by Jordan Thomas and Shaky Kane from Image Comics in September…

Maybe that can assist tee off Salmonella Smogasbord?

Mark Stafford tells me “I spent a fair chunk of my life under lockdown digging out old files and scanning art, restoring some stories and completing others and putting them all into some kind of order that makes sense to me. So it contains my small press comics, contributions to anthologies, unpublished gems, beer labels and posters, two stories and a foreword by Mr David Hine, an afterword by Dr Bryan Talbot, a collaboration with a Korean poet, two adaptations of olde folk sings, a library mural, a bittersweet Busan love story, much creepy business and an interview conducted by Mr Jason Atomic at the end to vaguely explain why you’re reading what you’ve read. I’m pretty happy with it, and it’s all done bar a few cover wrangles and the printing.”

People apart from me who’ve backed his crowdfunding marketing campaign embrace Gene Ha, Mike Mignola, Kieron Gillen, Hunt Emerson, Rian Hughes, Shelly Bond, D’Israeli, Joseph Cavalieri, Bob Fingerman, Dave Elliott, Gary Spencer Millidge, David Hine, Bryan Talbot, Mike Collins, Jamie Smart, Roger Langridge, Alan Cowsill, Rufus Dayglo and lots of extra

Or possibly learn the begin of this Kaiju story from the e book… one in every of the many tales in the 200+ web page quantity, his Godzilla story, Clash Of The Behemoths, which displays Japanese tradition in each the actions of kaiju and likewise the social embarrassment of society…

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