Poverty Press is a very small press comics publisher. It all started in 1994 to produce collected editions of my Fred Fortune character, a comic strip that had been appearing in North London Comics anthology 'Mondo' since 1993. A three issue series was produced, now long out of print. It was followed in 1995 with the one-shot 'Daze', also out of print... here though are the covers-
They were reasonably well received at the time and had a few
good write ups in various UK trade press at the time . The Strip itself is a futuristic adventure comedy featuring Fred, his flying car, his friends and the giant city in which he lives.
In late '95 I put Fred's regular strip on hold and headed off to art college, so Poverty Press was put on hold for a bit...
At college Fred switched mediums and was transformed into a short (1 and a half minutes) animation. The city was reworked and given it's own distinctive design. The animation, a first attempt, was all hand drawn and painted on acetate then shot on video... it all took about three months working long into the night, fueled by lots of really strong tea, cheese on toast and the occasional cream cake!
Upon leaving college, Fred's strip returned to 'Mondo's hallowed pages, until it ended with the Xmas 2004 issue. So it was decided that Fred would return in his own brand new Poverty Press title.
Watch out for the Preview issue coming soon...
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