Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, November 4th featuring guest artist Jade King. Not only do our online D&Ds keep all those who would meet at The King’s Arms in Soho, London every month (in those fondly remembered pre-March 2020 days) in regular contact, they also allow us to expand our reach for the event to a more global audience.
(Poster art, above, by Joe Stone)
We’ll be starting this week at 7.15pm to give everyone taking part on Twitter the opportunity to introduce themselves to each other as we look to continue fostering an even stronger sense of community. Drawing rounds begin at 7.30pm UK time as usual.
So, once again if you’re joining us online, here are the “rules”…
We’re using our regular pub format, adapted for a digital platform. So if you’ve never attended one of our monthly sessions this is how it will work. Our guest artists will each choose a drawing theme for three sessions across the evening. We’ll post each of these prompts with the hashtag #GoshBFDD in three batches at 7.30pm (UK time), 8.15pm and 9.00pm from both the Gosh! Comics Twitter account and the Broken Frontier Twitter account. You have 30 minutes to draw something fitting that theme, after which we’ll spend 15 minutes picking a winner before the next round begins. Don’t forget to post your drawings with the #GoshBFDD hashtag so everyone can see and join in. And also so we can easily retweet!
Let’s meet our guest artist…
When I interviewed Jade King about her self-published output a couple of years back she described it as “Mostly short A5 comics. Themes are wonky faces, gross food, bodies, aliens, strange British phenomena (like meat raffles). I’ve mostly worked on a series about Tina and Britney, mermaid sisters who have a lot of teen drama. Britney is the pretty one, and Tina has the head of a fish.”
I recently reviewed the latest Tina and Britney comic Tiny & Britney & The Visitor here at BF saying of it: “If you like your comedy bleak, brutal and full of beguiling body horror then Tina & Britney & The Visitor will have a definite ostentatious appeal.”
You can also find Jade K’s online store here.
Whether you’re a regular or a newbie all are welcome so please do join in and be part of our international Drink and Draw fun! And if you enjoy this event why not check out the Gosh! Comics webstore here?
