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There's No Time Like The Present is the long
comic strip or 'graphic novel' I have been working on since September
2005. The opening 39 pages can read on-line starting
here Meanwhile, I have been serialising the strip since I began drawing it in 28 paged comics. So far, the first ten parts of this are available for sale. To purchase any of these comics and other items by myself, please visit the shop to order using paypal or email me for details of alternative methods of payment. Each issue costs between £2.50 and £3.00, which includes postage and packing to the UK. For non-UK residents, an extra pound is charged to cover the price of the extra postage.
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Did you know that the character of Cliff is inspired by a real person? Meet The Real Cliff here. Baffled by any of the cultural references that appear in There's No Time Like The Present? Then why not visit and contribute to The Glossary here Interested in sampling There's No Time Like The Present but don't want to spend money on ordering any copies incase it's rubbish? Then read the opening 39 pages online for free here. TNTLTP Part 11 is go, Go, GO! Part 11 of There's No Time Like The Present is back from the printers and now available for you to buy. The price is still £2.50 and, if you buy it from here, that includes post to UK destinations. (International readers, please add a pound). Use the Paypal button below or visit The Shop where all previous parts are also still available to buy or contact me here for details on alternative methods of payment.
Paul B. Rainey 02/02/10 TNTLTP Part 11 Update Part 11 of There's No Time Like The Present is currently on it's way to the printers and should, hopefully, be available in a couple of weeks. As a teaser, here's the coloured back page panel for your perusal.
Paul B. Rainey 20/01/10 TNTLTP End Confirmed For the last few weeks, I've been working on the ending to There's No Time Like The Present. Although I've always had a clear idea of the overall story, I've usually written it a scene at a time. However, because of the way it ends, I decided to write the rest of it up until the very final panel which I finished doing yesterday. It means I can now confirm to you that part 13 will be the last issue of the series. I apologise if you're one of the people I told that part 12 was definitely where it ends. My excuse is that I totally underestimated how much plot I had left to go. Now all I have to do is draw the bastard.
Paul B. Rainey 15/01/10 Best of 2009 The Forbidden Planet blog has been running a series of fun features where personalities from the British comics scene list their picks of 2009. No, I'm not one of the contributors (which I'm fine with, honestly) but I'm delighted to report that in today's entry Martin Spandex Eden includes Book of Lists as one of his three favourite books. Also, writer Rol Hirst recently placed Book of Lists as his second favourite comic of 2009 which is great as I have it on good authority he read a lot of them last year. Of course, as we all know, Book of Lists is ahead of its time and is so this decade.
Paul B. Rainey 07/01/10 Merry Christmas
Paul B. Rainey 23/12/09 TNTLTP 10 Review Richard Bruton writes a review of There's No Time Like The Present part 10 for the Forbidden Planet blog. "To be honest to start reading this mind bending time travel saga at issue 10 would just be foolish. However, to sit down and read the whole thing in one go, all 10 issues is definitely worthwhile – it’s a great, complicated read – mixing equal parts time travel mystery with an emotional, sentimental tale of older folk – completely original stuff – but not something to dip into at this point. You really do need to get all the issues so far to really appreciate the story." The good news for you is that all ten parts so far are still available from The Shop.
Paul B. Rainey 18/12/09 Another Book of Lists Review Many thanks to Noel Curry for pointing me in the direction of this Book of Lists review on The Roomyverse. "The Book of Lists is pbrainey’s voice, and it’s a good ‘un." There is, of course, much more here. Richard Bruton has also reviewed the BASTARDS anthology yesterday on the Forbidden Planet Blog to which I, along with many other from the self-press comics scene, have contributed strips to. "It is, as you might expect from an anthology, a bit of a mixed bag. But, it’s a mixed bag with rather a high ratio of hit to miss." Both Book of Lists and BASTARDS can be purchased from The Shop using Paypal, or contact me here for other methods of payment.
Paul B. Rainey 01/12/09 Book of Lists Review
Richard Bruton
reviews
Book of Lists
on the excellent
Forbidden Planet blog today. "The Book Of Lists is a strange reading
experience, but it works rather well. Rainey’s confident and honest enough
to not hold back the details of his life that others may not want the
world seeing and by doing so he’s created something remarkably interesting
and engrossing. But most importantly, he’s a very funny writer who can
raise a smile on a great many of his pages."
Paul B. Rainey 26/11/09 Thought Bubble This Saturday, I will be be selling copies of Book of Lists and There's No Time Like The Present at my final comic event of the year, Thought Bubble in Leeds. This is my first appearance at Thought Bubble but I have heard very good things about it. I will be sharing the table with Martin Eden, whose all gay superhero comic has been all over the mainstream press this week. If you're in the Leeds area on Saturday then please pop by and say hello. I'll be behind the large crowd of people queuing up to buy copies of Martin's comic, Spandex.
Paul B. Rainey 19/11/09 TNTLTP Hits 250 I recently drew page 250 of my very long comic, or 'graphic novel', There's No Time Like The Present, which will appear in Part 11. Blimey! Normally, when I mention these event pages here I like to reproduce a panel from it as a taster. However, every panel from it is a spoiler. In fact, there are very few panels I've drawn so far for part 11 that don't give events away in some way. So instead, here's a panel from page 242.
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Cover art and pinups are not included in the page count. Paul B. Rainey 13/11/09 Pbrainey on the Radio I'm on on the radio again! This time talking to Dickon Harris mainly about Book of Lists and partly about There's No Time Like The Present. You can listen to the show live on Resonance 104.4 FM in London or streamed here at 8 PM tonight. It will also be podcasted here (I think).
Paul B. Rainey 12/11/09 Comica Comiket As part of this years Comica event at the London ICA there is another Comiket small press show. It's taking place this Sunday November 8th and I will be there trying to sell copies of There's No Time Like The Present and Book of Lists. Comiket will take place in the Theatre on the ground floor between 1 PM and 6 PM. See you there, hopefully.
Paul B. Rainey 05/11/09 BASTARDS is Go The BASTARDS anthology put together by Francesca Cassavetti and Dan Lester made its premier at the MCM Expo and was my biggest selling item of the weekend. BASTARDS is a 76 paged collection of comic strips by some of the best artists on the small press scene including Francesca, Dan, Sean Azzopardi, Philip Spence and many others. It also features my strip Goddard and Prisk in print for the very first time. If you would like a copy then you can order it from me using The Shop or the Paypal button below although be quick as I only have a few left. The price is £5 which includes post to UK destinations.
Paul B. Rainey 29/10/09 GO! I am the cover star of the GO! entertainment section in today’s Citizen, the newspaper Milton Keynes residents have popped through their letterboxes every Thursday. (Although mine often arrives on a Friday evening, sometimes on a Saturday morning and, occasionally, not at all). This is the artwork I did for the cover. Inside, journalist Sammy Jones is writing a piece promoting my Borders signing this Saturday. If you're a MK resident who can't wait until then to get a copy of Book of Lists, then you can buy a copy now from the Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Waterstone's Midsummer Place, Milton Keynes or directly from this website from The Shop.
Paul B. Rainey 08/10/09 Borders Thanks to everyone who made my presence at BICS last weekend a success for me. My next event is this Saturday when I will be be signing copies of Book of Lists in the Milton Keynes Borders store. This is the first non-comic specific venue that I've attended to promote my work so it's an unknown quantity to me. If you're in the area, please drop in and say hello. They've got a good graphic novel section there, anyway. I will be signing my comics between midday and 6 PM.
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