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Lobsters (1936)

noreply@blogger.com (milo) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:06:00 +0000

Lobster Club screening 13/03/10

noreply@blogger.com (milo) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:36:00 +0000

Screen South Digital Shorts + Q&A at Minghella film festival, Isle of Wight.
3:00pm, Saturday 13 March, Cineworld, Screen 2. Ticket: Free. Reserve your place on 01983 822490

Lobster Club screening 13/02/10

noreply@blogger.com (milo) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:47:00 +0000

There is a screening of Lobster Club in the Screen Out Loud competition at Animated Exeter on Saturday 13th February, 1.45 - 2.45pm at Exeter Phoenix.

Lobster Club

noreply@blogger.com (milo) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:34:00 +0000

If you're an animation or short film festival, the chances are you've received one of these lately; a screener DVD of Lobster Club. Chances are, too, that you've decided not to select it for your festival. Some have, however (bravo!) and I'll be posting information about any upcoming screenings here.

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noreply@blogger.com (milo) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:05:00 +0000

You caught me in the middle of updating the site. I'll be tidying things up over the next couple of days. Check back again for updates.

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Milo

It was a magazine in a bag.

noreply@blogger.com (milo) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:04:00 +0000

cover for half-baked magazine #2 (1995)

Speaking of lobsters. Back in 1994 I spent the summer getting intimately acquainted with all things fishy working in the kitchen of The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow; meanwhile getting reports from friends back in London of wild art parties and riots on the streets. I couldn't take the small town life any longer and hotfooted it back to the big city where I teamed up with some like-minded artists to make half-baked magazine, a photocopied A3 magazine-in-a-bag. To coincide with each issue we had a launch party called... the Lobster Club. These legendary (?) booze-and-ska-fuelled parties were usually held in pub function rooms around the Brixton and Camberwell area including a lovely Jamaican pub The Denmark (now sadly converted into flats). Jerry Dammers was a regular face, Peter Davison (yes - Dr Who!) came along to one and, at the last ever Lobster Club, rocksteady legend Alton Ellis performed - the crappy PA cutting out every time he hit the high note in Sitting In The Park.

Scrape the Trouble Off Your Boots is a comic strip I drew while I was working down in Cornwall, shortly before moving back to London. I have scanned it in from the photocopy that appeared in Issue #1 of half-baked, so it is pleasantly wonky and faded. Looking back at it today I realised how important it has been for my work: the name Lobster Club makes its first appearance here, as do the ubiquitous moths (see Moron), I adapted or 'reimagined' the strip ten years on in 2004 as Payé, Balayé, Oublié for Mococo magazine and the main character crops up again in Second Class Smoker. Basically, I have been remaking it over and over again in one form or another for the last 15 years. Maybe I'll have a new idea one of these days...

cover for half-baked magazine #1 (1994)