One Neck got a Black Cape

One Neck is Iain Laurie and he’s got a new comic strip rolling that you, cherished indyish reader, might be interested to check out. Iain laurie is the artist who designed both main indyish logos (top and bottom) as well as a slew of comics for Open Journal and Worn (my other habit) and posters for different shows in the early days of Indyish.. last year.

My two favorites from his indyish work are the one he did for the launch weekend, and the one for the Holla-Days. Oh man and the one for POP was beautiful. That’s probably all of them actually, and here there are if you’re interested.

(These are up on the corkboard by my desk.. alongside 2 different pictures of shoes.. Hmm.)

As you’ll see, for us, One Neck (Iain Laurie) is bunny-like - bright, sweet, and bubbly - compared to the slimy yet (sym)pathetic worlds he schemes up for his own art addiction. And now he’s teamed with friend and collaborator from Edinburgh sketch comedy troupe You Owe Me Glue, Fraser Campbell to produce Black Cape so what I’m saying is the humour is dark, seriously Scottish hard drinkin dark, ok? But it’s also shake your head funny, and in Iain Laurie’s super distinctive visuals there is a slapping satire of life. Out of work super heros… ‘nough said? Nah doesn’t cover it.

Here’s what he sent me on it, and below is the latest from the series so far… check into it and let me know if you find it turns your stomach and/or makes you smile. heh. cheers!

Me and a friend started doing a wee comic strip and I
thought I’d throw it your way.The humours a bit off
colour and evil and some of the stories are pretty
bleak..but heres the blurb:

Blackcape by Fraser Campbell and Iain Laurie
How do a group of unemployed Scottish superheroes fill
their days.Come and see.
http://getsomeblackcape.blogspot.com/
http://iainlauriedrawsstuff.blogspot.com/

A more cynical man might describe it as “Trainspotting
Meets Watchmen directed by Mike Leigh..but as a
newspaper comic strip.” We wouldn’t dream of such
claims.