ComiXology

Life’s a party – an ongoing comic project

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I have self-published my own comics for nearly Twenty years. A good portion of these are what is generally termed autobio, short for autobiography, Ten years in the making I have produced eight comics centred around my personal experiences. I had the gauge idea of the BIG BOOK, collecting these comics and working towards 600 pages. This was with one eye on Eddie Campbell – The years have pants and building a legacy work. But drift set in and I was lost as to what direction to lead the project.

Strip for me steps up

It was Douglas Noble that suggested that I should collect them under a working title and he would publish them on Strip For Me/ComiXology. He suggested Life’s a party. I was quite resistant to this title at first. It’s a play on my surname and I’ve heard most versions including ASSPARTY ! After a while I came round to accepting the title as a thing.

Why do you need to know this.

Basically all my back issues are out of print, and I have no intention of reprinting any of them. New comics will be published and if I ever get to the end of this project I will try to get a complete book published. But until then, digital is the way to read the back issues.

So where can I buy these ?

Life’s a party/Strip for me/ComiXology is the place to go for back issues.

For my current print comic, Last Orders click through to the shop.

Phatcomics is now reborn – Rejoice !

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Phatcomics 2021

This is the latest version of the Phatcomics website. There had been a crash and loss of blog and then a website malaise set in. No-one reads blogs or visits websites anymore, right ? 

I couldn’t give this space up. After a couple of weeks I started  a rebuild and here we have the bare bones. I hope to add more content than previous versions have had, and the usual promises of regular content.

So what’s going on with my work ?

I’m currently working on four comics. The large work is Street art and protest – a visual history. This has been funded by The Arts Council, and I am half way through the project. More about this soon.

There are two autobio works in progress. One for the road and The morning after ( The night before) both follow on from Last orders. The fourth comic is a reworking of a comic from 2001 called Flesheater. This is another work with Douglas Noble and will be published as a pocket chiller on ComiXology. There is also a bunch of other works there by me and Douglas, or my autobio under the title of Last Orders.

So quite a bit to be getting on with.

Next post I’ll talk about my Hull creative experience and what’s happening alongside my comics work.

Right, I’m off to drink beer and watch champions league.

Have  a lovely Bank holiday.

Page from Our rebel Skin – Noble/Azzopardi 2021

Life’s a party

(Click on the image to be taken to ComiXology and issues on sale )

A bit of a history lesson

Life’s a party, a collection of self published autobiographical comic books. Written and drawn by Sean Azzopardi and published by Strip for me. It all started in 2010 with a collection of work titled 100 days of Winter.

Ten years later there are now eight issues with a further two in development. The intention was never to make a large work, or to continue beyond the first comic. But I’m inspired by collections such as The years have pants, (Eddie Campbell) or American Splendour ( Harvey Pekar) and have decided to continue. The parts published or in the process of being completed are as follows.

  • 100 days of Winter
  • Nine months of beige
  • Eight tablet dream
  • Same day return
  • Rain on Glass
  • Tracks
  • 50
  • Last Orders
  • One for the road ( Published 2021)
  • The morning after the night before ( Published 2021 )

Strip for me are publishing digital versions via ComiXology. It was Douglas ( Noble) that came up with the title and the idea of collecting everything together into a single volume.