Ed Pinsent
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Ed Pinsent is a British
cartoonist, artist and writer born 1960 in Liverpool
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. It existed in its various forms from 1981 through to 1990 under the stewardship of Paul Gravett
, Phil Elliott
and Ed Pinsent. The name was taken from a Classics Illustrated
knock-off spotted in the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide
. Ed Pinsent, who had been aware of the cassette culture
music trading scene, subsequently took over from Elliott and continued to run things until 1990. Fast Fiction #30 in 1991 was the last issue of the flagship magazine which Pinsent edited. Following the closure of Fast Fiction the mailing list was passed on to Luke Walsh and Mike Kidson who used it to launch the small press comics review zine Zum!.
Ed Pinsent's comic strip work has also appeared in the pages of Escape Magazine, Knockabout Comix, and Fox Comics in Australia. Between 1990 and 1996 he produced a handful of comics, including The Staring Eye, a collaboration with the Cumbria-based artist / painter / poet Denny Derbyshire, which ran to four issues. He also maintained some contact with the small press through Zum! and Caption.
In 1996, Ed Pinsent published the first issue of The Sound Projector Music Magazine, devoted to reviews of experimental music. The self-published small-run magazine is still running today, and in November 2009 published its 18th issue. In 2004, he began making regular weekly broadcasts of The Sound Projector Radio Show for Resonance FM
, the London-based art radio station.
United Kingdom
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cartoonist, artist and writer born 1960 in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
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Biography
Pinsent has written and drawn his own small press comics since 1982, including characters such as Primitif, Henrietta and Windy Wilberforce. Around 1987 he took over Fast Fiction, the market stall, magazine, mail order distributor and news sheet that played a key role in the history of British small press comicsBritish small press comics
British small press comics, once known as stripzines, are comic books self-published by amateur cartoonists and comic book creators, usually in short print runs, in the UK. A "small press comic" is essentially a zine composed predominantly of comic strips. The term emerged in the early 1980s to...
. It existed in its various forms from 1981 through to 1990 under the stewardship of Paul Gravett
Paul Gravett
Paul Gravett is a London-based journalist, curator, writer and broadcaster who has worked in comics publishing and promotion for over 20 years....
, Phil Elliott
Phil Elliott
Phil Elliott is a British comic book creator who was published in Escape Magazine. He was part of the British small press comics scene in the 1980s.-Career:...
and Ed Pinsent. The name was taken from a Classics Illustrated
Classics Illustrated
Classics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. Following the series' demise, various companies...
knock-off spotted in the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide
Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is an annually published comic book price guide widely considered the primary authority on the subject of American comic book grading and pricing in the hobby/industry....
. Ed Pinsent, who had been aware of the cassette culture
Cassette culture
Cassette culture, or the cassette underground , refers to the practices surrounding amateur production and distribution of recorded music that emerged in the late 1970s via home-made audio cassettes...
music trading scene, subsequently took over from Elliott and continued to run things until 1990. Fast Fiction #30 in 1991 was the last issue of the flagship magazine which Pinsent edited. Following the closure of Fast Fiction the mailing list was passed on to Luke Walsh and Mike Kidson who used it to launch the small press comics review zine Zum!.
Ed Pinsent's comic strip work has also appeared in the pages of Escape Magazine, Knockabout Comix, and Fox Comics in Australia. Between 1990 and 1996 he produced a handful of comics, including The Staring Eye, a collaboration with the Cumbria-based artist / painter / poet Denny Derbyshire, which ran to four issues. He also maintained some contact with the small press through Zum! and Caption.
In 1996, Ed Pinsent published the first issue of The Sound Projector Music Magazine, devoted to reviews of experimental music. The self-published small-run magazine is still running today, and in November 2009 published its 18th issue. In 2004, he began making regular weekly broadcasts of The Sound Projector Radio Show for Resonance FM
Resonance FM
Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station run by the London Musicians' Collective .The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff.Until September 2007, ResonanceFM...
, the London-based art radio station.