Futurepast Zine

On Thursday last week I had the opportunity to attend a workshop at Rope Press . Rope Press is a book shop located in the Jubilee Centre in Birmingham. On my first visit I was blown away by what they had there. And they also specialise in risograph printing which is something I’m interested in. Sometime last year I purchased a comic from there entitled ‘Neon Noir’ which also contained a comic called ‘Dirt – The Debate’ which was written by Michael Kennedy. I thought that Dirt was unreal for a lot of different reasons, it felt fresh. It was Michael that was running this workshop on Thursday so I was pretty excited, but I can’t draw to save my life and I’ve never written a story since I was at school! Reece, that runs Rope Press with his partner Elyse, assured me that I didn’t need to have either of these skills. 2nd trash comics workshop went amazingly! Cider, hobnobs and crazy stories @trashcomics @memoryboy14 @futurepastzine pic.twitter.com/QBdMXyf3aQ — Rope Press (@RopePress...

Last blog post was in September…. it's kinda strange this blog thing, constantly want to write stuff for it, and also the zine… it happens when it happens! So this time round there's a couple of books I really wanted to mention, so here goes! First up is '25 Years of Techno Art' by Abdul Qadim Haqq (You'll have to forgive the crude photo's). I became a fan of Abdul's work from when I first got into Underground Resistance and saw the artwork that he contributed. I was really into the way the visuals worked with the music. A few years after that I stumbled upon a compilation album that he put together, Technanomicron (it was an influence for the 'Light of Day' cdr that was released last year). I was exposed to more of his artwork: He's created visuals for Model 500 (Juan Atkins): From reading the book, it's clear that those he has worked with hold him in high regards. His art has a very futuristic feel to it, it...