Accent UK Closes, Dave West Joins Time Bomb Comics Publishing Team

Accent UK was a collective small press comics writer collective headed by Dave West of Deva Comics and Colin Mathieson of M56 Comics, and Barry Renshaw‘s Engine Comics, fashioned in 2002 to supply themed US format anthologies that includes contributions from dozens of UK impartial creators, together with the likes of Andy Bloor, Jon H. Ayre, David Hitchcock, John Reppion and Leah Moore, Bridgeen Gillespie, Garry Brown, Kieron Gillen, Frazer Irving, and David Baillie. Renshaw left in 2006, leaving West and Methieson operating the operation.

But will probably be all change forward of conference season. The collaboration has come to an finish and the writer might be no extra. It can also have one thing to do with Dave West selecting to depart Accent UK to hitch the publishing group of Time Bomb Comics, a Birmingham-based writer based in 2007 that largely publishes one-shots and graphic novels, however launched its first ongoing title Flintlock in 2016, and now publishing Spectrum, licensed from Gerry Anderson’s Anderson Entertainment, and being offered in newsagents in addition to comedian e book outlets and exhibits.

Colin Mathieson said “we’ve always kept things informal so that our shared objectives shouldn’t prevent us individually pursuing other opportunities and so it is now that Dave and I recently found ourselves at a creative crossroads. Realising that Accent UK couldn’t fairly continue without the both of us, we’ve decided it best to gracefully retire the brand.  We can both be justly proud of what modestly we’ve achieved in our small part of the independent comics landscape and give thanks to everyone out there who has been part of our journey, whether it be a contributor, reader, supporter, retailer or reviewer. Dave and I both plan to remain active in the comics community so please watch this space and our social media channels for news of forthcoming events and projects.”

Indeed Dave West will now be a part of Time Bomb Comics as a part of their core publishing group alongside enterprise supervisor David Morris and writer Steve Tanner. West states “It’s a very amicable split, we’ll still be seen chatting at Cons and at social gatherings, but from here on I’ll be printing my comics under TimeBomb Comics Ltd as I join Steve Tanner and David Morris on their board.”

West might be bringing a few of his personal titles from Accent UK to Time Bomb Comics, together with supernatural western collection Westernoir, Kia Wordsmith and Stephenson’s Robot, which is able to now be revealed below the Time Bomb Comics banner. Dave may also be growing additional titles for Time Bomb. Steve Tanner states “Dave, Colin and Accent UK were a key inspiration in the formation of Time Bomb Comics fifteen years ago. I’m delighted that Dave will now be part of our editorial team and brings his brilliant range of creator owned titles with him.”

West said “I’ve enjoyed the past 21 years working with Colin as part of Accent UK but as time has passed we’ve realized that we’re both looking for different things from the company. A lot of the things I’m looking for are either being achieved by Time Bomb already or are on their Roadmap and so it makes a lot of sense for me to bring my experience and books to the Time Bomb brand to hopefully make it an even stronger presence in the Independent UK comic scene than it already is”.

This information has been timed to coincide with the latest quantity of Westernoir (written by West, artwork by Gary Crutchley, colors by Matt Soffe) hitting Kickstarter. Time Bomb Comics state that that is “a good example of the sort of exciting cross-genre comics West is well known for, and the expert storytelling he will bring to Time Bomb.”

Accent UK’s web site and social media channels will stay open till additional discover to permit excellent orders and distribution obligations be fulfilled.