I was looking at Instagram, (which I haven't posted to since 2021) to keep up with what my friends at Uni of Brighton (I like to see what Philippa Lyon is up to ) and noticed my account still pointed at an old url.
So I changed it to https://strangebiros.blogspot.com/ rather than www.strangebiros.co.uk which I had as a domain for years, till I realised I didn't give a fig if people actually read any of this guff or not.
Then I started thinking about where Strange Biros came from.
It was a small press comic launched at the 1991 UK Comic Art Convention by me and my friend Paul Putner.
Indie comics were having a revival then, and we made a comic, printed off a batch and drove to the convention in London in a vintage Mercedes, Paul dressed as Judge Death, Adrian dressed as a purple man from 2000AD.
That Merc is probably worth a million pounds now, then it wasn't.
They dressed up to take part in what would eventually evolve into a cosplay competition, but they didn't get round to that bit, and just looked a bit weird all day.
We had an interesting time, attended the 2000AD session, and the artists alley, and left the stash of 'Strange Biros' comics with a bloke from the Small Press collective... and never heard from him again.
At the time we started an application to the Prince's Youth Business Trust to ramp up the production, but Paul became a smash hit actor starring in Run for Your Wife in London's West End, and I got married.
I'll see if I can dig out a copy of issue #1 and post some pictures here.
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