Sheriff Dawg has had a quiet word with Mr Bezos and now the new issue of Ugly Mug is available in your local Amazon shop.

This print-on-demand edition offers cheaper postage for readers outside the UK, with Prime delivery available where offered by Amazon.

You can also buy Ugly Mug 9 from our Etsy shop and at Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick St, London W1F 0DR.

Esteemed comics reviewer Win Wiacek has given his stamp of approval to Ugly Mug 9 for ‘Wild Fun and the Latest Last Word in Sheer Creativity Perfection’…

“What I crave… is the latest extravaganza from unchecked artistic iconoclasterers The House of Harley; who have completed one more supercharged, in-your-facial-area assemblage of stories, cartoons, thoughts and even characters from people who don’t care if pastors complain, Mumsnet worries or The Telegraph pitches a disingenuous, profit-seeking hissy-fit… it’s now well past time you indulged their splendid efforts.”

Read the full review at Now Read This!

Ugly Mug 9 is available for £9.99+postage from our Etsy Shop and at Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick St, London W1F 0DR.

Hot diggity dawg! Ugly Mug 9 is now available in London’s Gosh! Comics.

Head to their excellent Soho store at 1 Berwick St, London W1F 0DR to get your copies, or buy direct from their online store.

LAW AND ORDER are at stake in the House of Harley’s latest BOOBY-TRAPPED BLISTER PACK of CONTENTIOUS COMICS and IMPROPER ART.

ADULTS ONLY. Order your copy now from our Etsy shop.

Julian Geek‘s glorious colour cover tribute to 1950s Gold Key comics let’s us know there’s a new sheriff in town and he’s here to make things right for law-abiding citizens. But it may be too late, because someone has thrown open the jails…

IN THIS ISSUE: robot dogs – radioactive popcorn – broken glass – canoodling couples – different kinds of dealers – stale beer and chips – ADHD – a black-and-white rainbow – pavement potholes – symbolic sheep – naked giants – shopping receipts – miracle cures – crime scene cakes – savage cabbage – two birds with one stone

Ready yourself for the big showdown with these insights into the causes of social collapse shared by our guest contributors:

• Hex Patterns – foam spells, glass visions and empty curses invoked by Ed Pinsent

• The Pit Pool – John Bagnall investigates a forgotten mining town tradition

• The Art of Complaining – a surreal infographic devised by Miranda Smart

• 321 with Mean Bean and Da Bug – Julian Geek‘s disgraceful duo argue about TV snacks, with apocalyptic consequences

• The Horrible Story of Monster Pig – how he became so fat, revealed by Ed Pinsent

• Beware! the Claws of The Cat and Project Final X – posters designed to scare the pants off the public by Jason Atomic

• The Shillelagh of Temptation – Dave Kilburn‘s Leps and their misadventures with alcohol

• Seven Sisters Road – colliding city faces depicted by Adam Falp

• RSD Lang Record Collector – jewel case troubles with Ed Pinsent

• Twin Peeks – words become pictures in the hands of Denny Derbyshire

• Several intense scenes – witnessed by Brazilian visitor Alberto Monteiro

• Windy Wilberforce – Harry Excess gets delirious in the desert, in chapter 9 of Ed Pinsent‘s Saga of the Scroll

Meanwhile, the artists of the House of Harley studio strive to keep things from spinning out of control:

• The Cancer Detection Dogs – are prowling the streets in search of the Big C

• Mark E Smith Music Teacher – talks about Taylor Swift and the importance of plastic bags

• Life with Freda Nipple – jail-broken rental bikes, rag’n’bone men and post office arguments

• Let’s Bake Up a Batch of Ugly Mugs – when all else fails, there’s always the oven

• Seb, Superimposed – our desperate heroine searches for something to drink

• PCSO Dan – answers your questions about two-tier policing

• While the City Slumbers – a giant-sized generation clash

• Busy Lizzie – takes issue with Woody Allen

• Scatter – abandoned rental bikes in suburbia

• Dr Anandi – grapples with everyday illness

Published Sept 2026. A4, 88 pages.

£9.99 + postage. ADULTS ONLY.
Order now direct from our Etsy shop.

What people say about Ugly Mug…

“You want something different in cartooning and storytelling? Get this! Wild, unhindered creativity on display.” – Talking Small Press Comics

Some rapid pencil studies based on the lively Instagram feed of German joke teller Susann Alicia…

Here’s the full A4 page… if you’re interested in purchasing it, make us an offer.

Last week the House of Harley’s life drawing team drew the bundle of energy that is burlesque performer Scarlett Starlett at Love2Sketch.

Here’s some 3 minute warmup sketches from the evening…

Here’s a couple of studies of a longer pose…

And another…

And another…

Finally, from a 10 minute pose…

You can follow Scarlett 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.

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?

The HOUSE OF HARLEY presents UGLY MUG 8, its latest INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH comics compendium.

Featuring modern machinery invented by returning Ugly Mug contributors:

• Bearskin – travel the worlds and pass through the portals with Denny Derbyshire

• RSD Lang – Ed Pinsent‘s record collecting hero travels back in time to get a rare LP

• Jungle Ruck – cross(species)-dressing, courtesy mayhem-maker Julian Geek

• Big backsides – depicted with relish by Brazilian guest Alberto Monteiro

• Windy Wilberforce – our hero imperilled under the scalpel of Dr Fengele, in chapter 8 of Ed Pinsent‘s The Saga of the Scroll

And precision-engineered parts supplied by the House of Harley:

• Jack of All Trades – explains how to deal with a wasp nest in your bedroom

• Life with Freda Nipple – onesies, hybrid working and urban birding

• Mark E Smith Music Teacher – more life lessons from The Fall’s late lead singer

• Sound of the Underground – an earth-shaking collision of politics and music

Alll wrapped in injection-molded covers designed by Northern powerhouse John Bagnall.

“Ugly Mug is a really, really interesting anthology out of the UK… doesn’t seem to be engaged in anything ‘on trend’, instead we have stark black and white cartooning with blunt, human stories. Magnetic stuff, not like the rest!”
– Austin English, Domino Books

Get your copy now – 60 pages for £8.95+postage from our Etsy store.

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”).

“A British ZAP-esque feel to it… nothing in this comic is normal, in a brilliant way.” – Tony Esmond, Awesome Comics Podcast

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.

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.

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.