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Word on Army of Pygmies! A band of many aspects: mostly punk and ROCK! Sometimes it's a little more laid back... featuring Preacher John!

PREACHER JOHN'S HOMEPAGES: Go there!
Everything you never needed to know about this bluepunkrock acoustic artist... We got free songs on mp3 here at garageband and here on myspace, - plus - biog, poems and lyrics, photos & an order page for records & books by Preacher John & cool T-shirts with Preacher John slogans (woo!) or go direct to Preacher John's cafepress shop.

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Photo courtesy of BBC Berkshire.
Photographer: Linda Serck

COMICS BY JON OVERTON:
TOSEININ

-WARNING! Recommended for mature readers! So if you're under 18, go look at something else. Prudes can naff off too. NOT that it's porn, for crying out loud, but some people are easily disturbed...

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Daughter of an American/Japanese yakuza and his Tongan wife, Toseinin has grown up as a fourth generation gangster - working alongside her father - to become a skilled enforcer... Consistently distrusted and underestimated by the head of the House of Yamata - due to her sex and gaijin bloodlines, Toseinin has been increasingly sidelined from the core of the yakuza business, but circumstances sometimes force the gang to employ her in "more sensitive" operations... Unluckily for the House of Yamata there are some lines she will not cross and some things she will not allow to pass - even if it runs counter to the gang's interests... Ultimately, Toseinin and her father bring the House of Yamata's fury down on them...

Issue 1 - Last Tango in Tokyo ...one of Toseinin's ongoing duties is running a sex shop - whose revenues go in the gang's coffers - today her working day is interrupted...

NEW! Issue 2 - Mile High Karaoke ...Toseinin has to deal with her cantankerous great-grandfather - before she sets out on a long journey - inevitably, just starting her travels proves... interesting... in more ways than one...

NEW! Issue 3 - Some of Them Want to ...Toseinin arrives in London to seek out an old lover... and helps a new acquaintance haul out some trash...
Beautiful and terrible.
Cunning like a fox.
Strong like a sumo.

Bigger than Buffy.
Badder than Jackie Brown.
Curvy, kinky and kickass.
Each mini-comic issue is 8 pages long in A5 format. There will be 8 issues a year, published here on Channel Idris and also available in paper form by mailing an A5 SASE (stamped self addressed envelope) to:

Preacher John
30, Silver Street
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 2ST
England, UK

If you're in the UK please put a 20p piece in to help me cover photocopying, it'll still only cost you 74p in total - bargain!
If you are outside the UK it's gonna cost you more than that anyway so just an SASE will do - but if you'd like to help me out:- please include a photo of any location in your locality that you know well (doesn't have to be famous or anything) you can take the pic yourself or cut it out from somewhere, just write the location (name of place, town, state, country) and a sentence on the back telling me about it. So when I have characters go all around the world I'll have some inside knowledge of places I haven't been...



A FEW ODD COMICS
- Created during a brief period of trying to sell comic art to a variety of businesses in '97, before I got tired of "customers" failing to come up with cash and chucked it in favour of doing stuff I actually believed in - featuring:
a few one-off funnies
and 2 short running characters:
Jonny DeadHead - the dropout loser guitarist originally featured in Reading University's paper SPARK, and later in the BADDAZINE.
Plus! the girl who suffers 9to5 - Angel - 21st Century Office Girl!

And here's two new pics I pencilled for an educational module - with colours and photoshop by Bob Guinn: 'Wigshop' & 'Carsales'

Want to commision a 'toon? email: preacher@preacherjohn
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"FROM FATHER TO SON" AN UNFINISHED GRAPHIC NOVEL BY JON OVERTON, ART BY BEN GILBERT:
This was planned as the 4 issue story of a man who finds himself trapped in the shadow of his violent, vicious father. This story was begun in 1990 and was never finished, partly due to the "disappearance" of Ben Gilbert - artist on the first 2 issues...
If you're looking for a "live" project then read Toseinin!
For some time I had planned to finish FFTS, I even went so far as to round off the 2nd issue with text... Three years after I first archived it, I still could not motivate myself to complete it and finally figured out why... the story I'd mapped out 11 years before wasn't really telling the tale I was after, there was a lot of "peripheral" stuff obscuring the main issue and truth be told I didn't think the peripheral stuff was worth the candle... The script I wrote pinched bits from my life to that point (family, northern blokes, crap clubs, getting off your face, falling over etc.) put them through some smoke and mirrors, which weakened them, and cobbled them together with a 'murder on the moors' side-plot... Plus, 'cos we were just 18 and 19 respectively - the portrayal of pub fights and girlfriends lacked the kind of... immediacy (to be kind)... that I'd write now, so I'd have felt compelled to re-work the entire thing from scratch...
In the end I settled on archiving this here just to showcase Ben's art - some great pages here, here (left page) and here (right page) - and to point you at this poem which says everything worth saying in FFTS in just a few lines... If you're still curious then GO! Read! Issue 1, Issue 2


ANDY RAVEN'S HOMEPAGES:
Tunes from the sometimes melancholy, sometimes quirky, but always original, excellent and idiosyncratic Andy Raven!


DESDEMONA'S HOMEPAGES:
The band that provides gorgeous guitar rifforama AND ultra cool lyricism! We got free! songs on mp3: Desdemona live here! (regularly updated) and here are their free mp3s - at peoplesound! Plus a gig review in the BADDAZINE


AFHARROLD'S HOMEPAGES:
A poet both rare and strange.... A master of the cheap laugh and costly ennui, weltschmerz and existential doubt.... Imagine the bastard love child of Mr Bean and Frank Zappa and you're getting there... And here he is!


MATT WESTWOOD'S HOMEPAGE:
A poet posessed of and by both hair and leather.... A hard drinking, hard core poet who is not afraid to offend the weak of heart, spleen or mind. Top geezer and fellow survivor.... Many are his poems... So go and read his poems!


JON'S RECOMMENDED BOOK:
An exceeding strange book, powerfully evocative of a human who perceives the world almost entirely by smell but has no scent of his own - and the hatred he feels for a world which has rejected him as a freak. Complex, rich & beautiful, this book came to my attention again recently, years after i first read it and it's still fantastic! Some of the imagery will stay with you forever!
To order, or just check out Patrick Suskinds's Perfume click here!


BROKEN BROW'S HOMEPAGES: Go there!
The now defunct jazzpunkweirdcore band's old tour diary is online for your amusement, together with a photo and artwork. Plus you can still order their old 7" single VAGRANT from this page! Some of their other music can be heard via their garageband.com site - streaming free mp3 tracks!...

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This underground freezine has a short print run in realspace, but here, everybloodybody can read it!
The Baddazine covers new, original and extraordinary music, which has been cold shouldered by the mainstream press. The focus is mainly on Reading and London, but with some national, international and cyberspace coverage. Go on then, get stuck in!






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