Free Comic from The Temple

On the weekend of Free Comics Day, we're pleased to report Issue #0 of The Temple Comic APA’s Digital Showcase is now available to download as a free PDF at templeapa.ning.com, featuring a motley collection of strips from some great indie talent.

Showcasing the work of 15 members (mostly from around the UK), this 70-page anthology highlights the diverse nature of the Amateur Press Association, containing humour, horror, slice-of-life, superhero, sci-fi and more (including content of a mature nature).

Creators include ROK Comics creators Paul Harrison-Davies, Paul Eldridge, David Hailwood, Toshiro de Smeyter and Simon Mackie and it's a fab free read!

The Temple is the UK’s longest running comic APA, having run for 12 years and 55 issues before going digital. The aim of the Temple is to learn, improve, collaborate and support each other’s comic projects. Everyone from the rawest amateur to the most seasoned professional is welcome to join.

• For more information check out templeapa.ning.com, or contact John Kirkham at sr-republic AT ntlworld.com

Mobile Combat launches on ROK Comics

ROK Comics creator David Hailwood has come up with a novel way of using our comics-to-mobile format to create Mobile Combat, a new card game -- except the cards are electronic and delivered straight to your mobile.

The first game has been released on time for Hallowe'en.

"Think 'Tim Burton does Top Trumps," David who has been working on the game for several months and busily fine tuning this first wave of the game for the last few weeks, explains.

The card designs feature some terrific and scary art by the likes of Stu Smith and Kerry Santo.

"This brand new game is designed to be highly replayable and infinitely flexible, with many more game decks, rules and sets in the making," he says.

To find out more, check out the strips at www.rokcomics.com, or download a free PDF of the extended user guide and first two sets of rules at www.mobilecombat.ning.com.

"Read the rules. Download the deck. Play the game," urges David. "It's that easy."

So, what are you waiting for? Grab yourself a game deck and get killing zombies today!

Drink Like a Fish!

Dave Hailwood, the brains behind Ups and Downs and other strips, is working with artist Toshiro De Smeyter on another strip, Drink Like a Fish, now being published for mobile by ROK Comics.

Toshiro De Smeyter is the 21-year-old creator of another well known strip, Scoff, a dressed-in-black individual with an undying love for cuddly kittens and a sarcastic sense of humour.

Toshiro has been passionate about drawing ever since he was a little boy, and last year finally decided to draw a comic on a regular basis, publishing a new Scoff comic online every Monday.

Toshiro runs his own website and engages in all sorts of other projects, such as Drink like a fish, a comic he designs together with David Hailwood.

Check out the first mobile-formatted episode of Drink Like a Fish for free below:



In daily life, Toshiro works in the pre-press of a screen print company, but one day says he’'d like to start as a graphic designer, because designing is his real passion.

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ROK Creator Profile: Dave Hailwood

We're beginning to get several individiual artists on board ROK Comics. One of the first - a member of our initial test group - to embrace the service was Dave Hailwood, who has given us loads of feedback on site design and offered plenty of suggestions for new features and tweaking of existing ones.

Cartoonist, Comedy writer, and low budget film maker, Dave is uploading "Wormfood" and "Ups and Downs", the latter a series about the weird experiences of a suicidal monkey.

Dave Hailwood has been knocking around the British small press comics scene for 10 years now and has appeared in the likes of indie titles such as Meanwhile, Lost Property, Violent and CAOF.

Check out his website at: www.geocities.com/purecrass