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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 1d

This jolly cut-out puppet just back from the printer's yesterday. I assembled one tonight! He's held together with brass paper fasteners.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 1d

Man, that's good design! The way the stripe on the cover extends around to the spine. Bold use of black and red. Small, restrained illo. And those lovely fonts! The whole thing just makes you ache to pick up the book and hold it in your hands.

Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 5d

Another Burra snap from the Tate Britain show, this one for all the cat lovers. From one of his letters - this sketch captures the discerning taste of the feline. "Milko" was I think a common expression once, a cry often heard when the milkman came to deliver. (It's in Passport to Pimlico)

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 5d

Some details from the #EdwardBurra show @tate.bsky.social

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 11d

It's a pretty sick story...violent, depraved, perverted even.

Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 11d

More Tims in that list than I expected

Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 12d

I think reading Dora Suarez might have fed into my horrific, X-rated Drake & Dog story (unpublished).

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 17d

There was also our 24-page collaborative Fast Fiction epic, "The Elephant of Surprise" from 1985. The reason it took several months was partly due to it being done through the Royal Mail. We each did two successive pages.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 17d

These A5 "Sisterson" comics abounded in the 1990s. I associate them with Mooncat and Caption. They did successive panels rather than pages.
Apparently Barry Sisterson was a comics tutor who suggested the format, simply to encourage collaborations. His students went a bit overboard!

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 18d

Ever since Record Store Day, this tremendous glut of vinyl "reissues" seems to have set a new benchmark for what constitutes an original pressing. For some dealers, "first pressing" seems to mean anything before 2008.

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Comic Book News UK @comicbooknews.co.uk · 19d

Review: Windy Wilberforce - Jackanapes Regained by Ed Pinsent
www.comicbooknews.co.uk/article/revi...

Windy Wilberforce - Jackanapes Regained review

Small press comic blending surreal dreams and nostalgic artistry

www.comicbooknews.co.uk

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 19d

Today's show on @resonancefm.bsky.social is "jazz + orchestrations", with great records by Alice Coltrane, Bird with Strings, Lee Konitz, Gil Evans, Kenyon Hopkins, Stan Kenton and more. Tune in 4pm today!
Image: "Penthouse View" by cogdogblog is marked with CC0 1.0.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 21d

I am delighted by this insightful and considered review of the new Wilberforce comic. Many thanks to Ben Williams of Comic Book news UK. He has correctly recognised the importance of dreams in my work.
www.comicbooknews.co.uk/article/revi...

Windy Wilberforce - Jackanapes Regained review

Small press comic blending surreal dreams and nostalgic artistry

www.comicbooknews.co.uk

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 22d

Soon after this scene, terrified citizens panic-buying in supermarkets. "Get the batteries!!" they scream desperately. That part always upset me.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 23d

Tonight's spin, disc one of "The Alchemist of Pop". Very strong comp by Bob Stanley and Roger Dopson. Some songs reminded me of Morricone's "western" pop songs that got remade into Leone soundtracks. Maybe it's the "operatic" backing vocals and bright orchestras.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 23d

Just a reminder that the new Wilberforce comic was published last week. Don't like to blow my own trombone, but I'm very pleased with this panel. Multiple picture planes!
comics.edpinsent.com/2025/09/19/w...

Windy Wilberforce leaves his Hotel in the Land of the Jackanapes. He feels small and alone. Around him the strange Jackanapes animals regard him strangely.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 25d

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 26d

Happy to say I'll be tabling at Winchester Comics Fair again this year. Saturday 1st November 2025. #WCF25
winchestercomicsfair.blogspot.com

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 27d

Windy Wilberforce in "Jackanapes Regained" - a poignant revisiting of an early 1983 theme. New comic by Ed Pinsent available now, £6 plus post.
comics.edpinsent.com/2025/09/19/w...

Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 28d

Why, I've devoted my life to opening that box.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 28d

"Open the scary box of truth" - right on!

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · 29d

A brand-new Windy Wilberforce 32pp comic from me is imminent...been working on it since May this year...should be back from the printers very soon! Watch this space:
comics.edpinsent.com

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · Sep 15

Followers who enjoy post-punk noise (and you know who you are), hear this murderous disc if you can! Short CD of insane French improv-noise-rock! Available from Fou Records!
www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/09/14/m...

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · Sep 15

That looks fabboo! I heard about it on the Hello Goodbye radio show a while back.

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Ed Pinsent @soundprojector.bsky.social · Sep 13

Well, not quite a solo record, but it's still tremendous. Guro Skumsnes Moe just absolutely rocks the octabass!
www.thesoundprojector.com/2020/01/20/e...

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