- Ed Pinsent
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website = http://www.soundprojector.demon.co.ukEd Pinsent is a British cartoonist, artist and writer born 1960 in
Liverpool .Biography
Pinsent has written and drawn his own small press comics since 1982, including characters such as Primitif, Henrietta and Windy Wilberforce. Around 1987 he took over "Fast Fiction", the market stall, magazine, mail order distributor and news sheet that played a key role in the history of
British small press comics . It existed in its various forms from 1981 through to 1990 under the stewardship ofPaul Gravett ,Phil Elliott and Ed Pinsent. The name was taken from a "Classics Illustrated " knock-off spotted in the "Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide ". Ed Pinsent, who had been aware of thecassette culture music trading scene, subsequently took over from Elliott and continued to run things until 1990. "Fast Fiction" #30 in 1991 was the last issue of the flagship magazine which Pinsent edited. Following the closure of "Fast Fiction" the mailing list was passed on to Luke Walsh and Mike Kidson who used it to launch the small press comics review zine "Zum!".Ed Pinsent's comic strip work has also appeared in the pages of "Escape Magazine", "Knockabout Comix", and "Fox Comics" in Australia. Between 1990 and 1996 he produced a handful of comics, including "The Staring Eye", a collaboration with the Cumbria-based artist / painter / poet Denny Derbyshire, which ran to four issues. He also maintained some contact with the small press through Zum! and Caption.
In 1996, Ed Pinsent published the first issue of "The Sound Projector Music Magazine", devoted to reviews of experimental music. The self-published small-run magazine is still running today, and in early 2007 published its 15th issue. In 2004, he began making regular weekly broadcasts of The Sound Projector Radio Show for
Resonance FM , the London-based art radio station.Bibliography
Published work includes:
*"Primitif in Sting of the Arrow / Land of the Dead" Kingly Books 2006 ISBN 0953163970
*"Desperate Failure Comics" self published 1992
*"Henrietta La Folle" self published 1992
*"Windy Wilberforce in Voice of The Wilberforce" Kingly Books 2003 ISBN 0 9531639 3 8
*"Windy Wilberforce in The Saga of the Scroll" Slab-O-Concrete Publications 1995 ISBN 1 899866 00 0* [http://www.soundprojector.demon.co.uk/cat2.html Full catalogue of self published comics]
ee also
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Escape Magazine
*British small press comics
*Davy Francis External links
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* [http://www.thesoundprojector.com/ The Sound Projector website]
* [http://www.zumcomics.info/Archive/ArchiveZUM!1.html Zum! reviews of Ed's comics]
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