REDEYE MAGAZINE 2.1 (2009) PDF

Published from 2003 to 2006, REDEYE MAGAZINE was a print news, reviews and features magazine focusing on independent, small press and self published comics. It was briefly relaunched as a pdf-only monthly magazine in 2009 as a short lived, a bit ahead of its time experiment. The mag is a snapshot of the era and comes crammed with news, reviews, features and stuff worth talking about.

It includes interviews with Leah Moore and John Reppion on The Complete Dracula and the critically-acclaimed The Trial of Sherlock Holmes and artists Colton Worley and Aaron Campbell; Cartoonist and festival organiser Oliver Smith talks about throwing out the rule book for the British small press and building something better; New York born and raised illustrator Liz Baillie discusses her comics, her love for the Bouncing Souls and her Jabba the Hutt face; Ben Dickson talks to Garen Ewing about Rainbow Orchid blossoming under a new deal with publisher Egmont; Northern Irish illustrator Bridgeen Gillespie talks about curious rabbits, hissy fits and being open to interpretation; and as part of his 100 Days, 100 Cartoonists series, Citizen Badham talks to creators Adam Cadwell and Jim Medway about unconventional narratives, the value of the everyday and deflated balloons.

And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s The Secret History of… Irish Comix, in which Niall Kitson uncovers the growing Irish Comics scene ready for the international stage; a review of the LUC@176 event and a six page preview of Accent UK's Western title among other things.