THIS IS HARDLY THE HOG

Writer: Jamie Coward

Artist: Alexander Coward

Producer: Marcus Wray

Contact: jcoward@ukonline.co.uk

Nominated for Best New Independent at the NationalComics Awards 2002, this is the new British comic that readers, critics, and comics professionals are tipping as the next big thing.

Released in September 2002, was the double-length two-in-one issue 5-6. These 44 pages conclude the ‘Enmity Island’ adventure that began in issue 3. ‘Doubled In Enmity’ is a funny, fantastic tale that takes the outward form of a movie pastiche.

Centering on three disparate characters, apparently trapped forever inside the main plot of Jaws, it’s a story about storytelling, and the unpleasant truth about heroism. Hardly The Hog is the enigmatic interloper who might just free Enmity’s culpable police chief Merton Broody from this prison of his own making.


“Jokes so funny, even a colonial like myself gets them.”

– Dave Sim.

“Unfailingly original, and daringly idiosyncratic… a blend of fantasy, movie pastiche, and surreal, markedly English, humour.”

– Bryan Talbot

“Vastly entertaining without compromising its ambitious aims, this is future award winner if ever I saw one.”

- Mike Kidson, Comics International.

"Smart, funny and monstrously odd this is a read unlike any other.”

– Al Stuart, www.savantmag.com


Copies are available from indie- friendly retailers

across the U.K, priced £2.25 per issue, or by mail-

order (£3.70 US) from:

Jam Up Comics

PO Box 1466

Sheffield

S3 9YA

Cheques and money orders are payable to Jam Up Comics

Weblinks:

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