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- Pandora May
Last week the HoH life drawing team drew burlesque performer Pandora May and her feather fans at Love2Sketch.
Here’s three enlarged thumbnail-sized portraits of Pandora…
A selection of 3-minute pencil sketches…
Finally, three short studies of a difficult-to-draw 15 minute pose…
You can follow Pandora May on Instagram.
Love2Sketch takes place at The Selkirk in Tooting at 7.30pm every Tuesday. For further information, see their website.
Original House of Harley life drawings are available for sale in our Etsy shop. And while you’re there, you might want to pick up our bumper print collection, The Big Reveal.
- Plug the holes in your Ugly Mug (part 3)
The next earth-shaking issue of Ugly Mug, the House of Harley’s anthology of ‘comics to amuse and confuse’, will hit the stores in early Autumn. The original 1980s run of Ugly Mug is long out of print, so why not act now to fill the gaps in your collection of 21st century Mugs while they’re still available?
Ugly Mug 7 is a mammoth 120-page perfect-bound collection of comics to amuse and confuse, inside a wraparound colour cover by iestyn pettigrew. The finest pens of the British small press join forces with a gaggle of international guests for an exhilarating exploration of karma and chaos…
Amongst the highlights by our guest contributors are…
Otherweirdly – epic notions of another world by Denny Derbyshire
How a Comic is Made – John Bagnall goes inside the factory
The Imbalance of Nature – weird and wonderful extremes of life documented by Ed Pinsent
I Fucking Hate Steroids – iestyn demonstrates the drawbacks of prescription medication
Duk U Sucka – Tom Baxter Tiffin‘s tale of Ned Kelly lost in The Dreamtime
Respecto! – how do you get it, asks Hal Weaver
RSD Lang – Ed Pinsent‘s record detective discovers Noise Music
King Kong Memories – Jason Atomic shaves the beast
Cafe society scenes – captured by our on-the-spot reporter Patricia Gaignat
Advisory Bureau – John Bagnall explains how to deal with modern living
Batlight – Chris Reynolds takes a ride in an elevator
Windy Wilberforce – Harry Excess tangles with Dr Fengele in chapter 7 of Ed Pinsent‘s The Saga of the Scroll
Dogbreath – Savage Pencil‘s misanthropic mutt dreams of world destruction
Plus bonus slices of British life served up by John Bagnall
And eye popping graphix by Alberto Monteiro, Masaman, Jim Barker and Oxideguy
As if that’s not enough to unsettle your equilibrium, there’s all this and more from the artists of the House of Harley studio…
Start Your Day the Ugly Mug Way – 100% sound lifestyle advice from our resident expert
Take the Children Out of Town – a crisis of adulthood played out in Seussian rhyme
Seb, Surrounded – our hardy heroine battles an enemy she cannot see
Mark E Smith Music Teacher – The Fall singer’s secret side hustle
PCSO Dan – fur baby bulletins from your local community copper
Try Harder – Mister Tut Tut sets the world to rights
Voodoo Master Selfies – Instagram highlights
No Kisses Before Christmas – be patient, Busy Lizzie has a lot on her plate
“As jammed-packed with beguiling thrilling stuff as any British X-mas Annual of yore, these curated creations brim with surreal narrative force and come overloaded with wry and witty visual oomph…” – Win Wiacek, Now Read This!
“Adults only… they weren’t kidding.” – Talking Small Press Comics
Get your copy now – 120 pages for £19.99+postage from our Etsy store. (Readers outside the UK may find it cheaper to order via Lulu).
Or check out the Comics section of our store for other 21st Century issues of Ugly Mug, along with gift bundles, and our innovative Naked Knowledge puzzle-comic (tagline – “you might learn something”).
Ugly Mug 9 is due out this autumn. To sign up for notifications about that or other House of Harley news, look for the ‘Join for Free’ button on this page.