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INTRODUCTION / BPM / BUCK IN FUDGY / BURP / CHIMPS / CONTESTANTS READY / GIRLFRENZY / HEROZINE / I THINK X / JUST ONE LIFE COLLECTIVE / MELTING VINYL / MR POOHEAD / NEARLY GOT SPRUNG / POP YEAR ZERO / RIGSBY / ROOT DOWN / SCHNEWS / SLAB-O-CONCRETE / SNIFFING BEHIND THE CISTERN / STEPHEN'S LITTLE BOOK OF CHARITY SHOPPING / SUBCULTURE / TADPOLE / URBAN VALUES / VERTIGO /

SLAB - O - CONCRETE PUBLICATIONS/DISTRIBUTION

SOC is Peter Pavement’s baby, a publishing and distribution service for fanzines and comics, most famed for publishing the UK zine directory Bypass and its own comic compilations such as The Slab Collection and the Missive Device series.

The Missive Device series are a roughly A6 collection of two-colour mini-comics you can mail to your pals. A sticky fold over strip enables you to seal the publication to send it to a loved, or hated, one before going back to get a new copy! Artists featured so far are local man Nigel Auchterlounie with Dole Scum, Ed Hillier with Nimby, Craig Conlan with a funny transvestite robot yarn, Hello Pussy (though I’d best make that one clear!), Yugoslavians Medioca and Cicciolina doing We Are Sentenced To A Lifetime Of Shit My Son!, Donald Rooum with Titania's Curse, another by Craig Conlan, Bad Hair Day, Chris Hogg's U-Boat Command and Carl Sullivan's Uri 2. For more comprehensive details check out Slab’s own website on Brighton’s own CartooNet.

Slab's output also includes Lianne Franson’s Lilliane comics, for whom Slab prints and distributes the special Euro double issues. Lilliane is a semi-autobiographical character, involved in tales of love, friendship and thoughts. Lianne Franson publishes much work in the gay/lesbian small press. Issue 11 of the Euro double issue features guest artists doing 'spoof' Lilianes, featuring our own Lee Kennedy, Roberta Gregory, Charles Montpetit and a whole bunch of others.

Check out the Slab-O-Concrete website for full details of their extensive range of titles and ordering information.

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