Three House of Harley gift bundles

Treat yourself or treat a loved one to these limited availability packages of House of Harley comics and art books, available now in our Etsy shop

Ugly Mugs 5, 6, 7 and 8

All four 21st century editions of our comix-art anthology.

Over 340 pages of comics to amuse and confuse with contributions from the krispy kreme of the British independent comics scene – Ed Pinsent, John Bagnall, Denny Derbyshire, Tom Baxter Tiffin, Chris Reynolds (RIP), Marc Baines, Savage Pencil, iestyn Pettigrew, Jim Barker, and Jason Atomic alongside all new strips and drawings from the House of Harley studio. And there’s a gaggle of graphics and stories by international guests.

Featuring unforgetting one-off gags and stories, plus recurring features including: Windy Wilberforce’s Saga of the Scroll, Mark E Smith Music Teacher, the mysterious adventuries of Seb, Marc Baine’s The Rightful King of the North Riding, PCSO Dan, Voodoo Master and Dora the Art Restorer.

“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!

With bonus 12 page comic Naked Knowledge 1.

£50+p&p from our Etsy shop.

Mesdames of the Marker Pen 1, 2 and 3

120 A5 pages of eye-popping pin-ups from the House of Harley archive, all drawn in bold and bodacious style with nothing but a marker pen.

This gift bundle collects all three issues of Mesdames of the Marker Pen, with a bonus 12 page art booklet, Go Figure 1. For adult readers only.

All the original drawings are available for purchase for very reasonable prices.

£12+p&p from our Etsy shop.

Art booklet bonanza

Five pocket-sized limited edition art booklets in a red ribbon, totalling 164 pages of highlights from the House of Harley sketchbooks. Featuring expressive figure drawings of women and men, portraits of London Underground commuters and wildly coloured fashion illustrations. In this bundle: Go Figure 1, Go Figure 2, Dwellers of the Deep 1, Hands Up 1 and Flying Away 1.

£12+p&p from our Etsy shop.

Mesdames of the Marker Pen 3

Another collection of attention grabbing pin-ups from the pen of Harley R. LIMITED EDITION OF 25.

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

The third in this collectable series of art books is packed with marker pen pin-ups from the House of Harley archives.

Published January 2025. Limited edition of 25. A5 perfect bound paperback. 40 pages.

Own a House of Harley marker pen pinup

All the original drawings featured in Mesdames of the Marker Pen are available for purchase for very reasonable prices. See the growing range of pinups in our Etsy shop or enquire here about a specific drawing you’re interested in.

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Pestrepeller’s Isle of Dark Magick

Free improvised noise from the deep UK Underground, enriched with dark pagan folky vibe and horror/supernatural elements. Dedicated to HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare.

For this 2001 recording, the core Pesterepeller trio of Savage Pencil, Ed Pinsent and Harley R were joined by vocal artiste Rob Brown and Peter Hope-Evans of Medicine Head.

“…an oppressively dark slab of freestyle Improv recorded in a single session… the epic sprawl and sustained impact of the music retain an undiluted potency.”
– Tom Ridge, The Wire

About Pestrepeller

Pestrepeller (or Attack Wave Pestepeller, to give them their full moniker) specialise in a unique brand of detailed and noisy improvised music inspired by the occult.

The core of the band is a trio of Ed Pinsentcartoonist (Illegal Batman, Windy Wilberforce, Drake Ullingsworth), Sound Projector radio show and magazine – Harley R – publisher and editor of Ugly Mug comic – and Savage Pencil – punk cartoonist (Sounds, NME, The Wire) and designer of album covers and t-shirts for bands such as Sonic Youth, The Fall, Sunn O))) and Rocket from the Crypt. The core trio are sometimes joined by honorary pests such as Sharon Gal, Peter Hope Evans, Rob Brown and Gary Ramon.

Pestrepeller have performed at the ICA and the Equinox ‘Festival of Scientific Illumination’. Recordings include Insect and Rodent Eliminator (Sympathy for the Devil records), Nug Yar (Prescription), The Cruel Sea (a collaboration with the Chelsea Magrigal Group), Isle of Dark Magic (Important Records), As Wolf (a split release picture disc with My Cat Is An Alien), Noises for the Leg, Alphabet of Daggers and Rough on Rats.

About this release

Track listing
1. Mold With a Mind (15:13)
2. No Screeches and Snakes And Deep Dark Menaces (07:15)
3. My Gun Scatters, My Gun Kills (20:18)
4. Dismembered Dead Things (14:54)
5. The Smell of Wet Fur in the Rain (06:05)
6. Teaching the Clouds to be Inverted Flames (12:35)

Recorded at LMC Sound. Released in 2005 on Important Records.

Engineered by Xentos and Lepke B, former members of cult bands The Homosexuals and Milk from Cheltenham. Cover image was supplied by Martin Stone, guitarist with Mighty Baby and Chili Willi and the Red Hot Peppers.

Listen to this excerpt…

Celophrane-wrapped jewel case CD. Long out of print, but the House of Harley has a very small number of copies on sale for £15+ p&p each from our Etsy shop. While stocks last!

Some 21st century pop classics

This list was compiled while I was preparing to speak at the Battle of Ideas discussion, Is Modern Music Rubbish? Although I was critical about the modern pop industry, I wanted to acknolwedge some songs which prove, to my ears at least, that commercial pop can still come up with the goods now and then.

Click on the links to listen to the songs or immerse yourself in the whole set on this YouTube playlist.