Manchester is shit

Back in early March, I perusing the flyer shelf at Fuel in Withington when I came across three issues of a mini-comic called Every Life I've Ever Lived by a local artist named Robin Scott. Each is an A4 page folded into fourths so that there's eight panels, four on each side. The first panel is the cover, always based on a famous comic. The other seven chronicle his week - one per day. I was immediately fascinated. Here's a guy going about his normal life, and I found that he was doing some of the same stuff I was: attending Barney's screening of Favela Rising at the Contact theatre, watching the premiere of The IT Crowd on Channel 4, etc. It reminded me of Jeffrey Brown's Clumsy comic in that it was subtle and somewhat mundane, but also very sweet especially when he's writing about his girlfriend Eileen and his cat Pillman.




I've been emailing him and encouraging him to keep at it and widen his distribution. I've also been showing them to everyone who will take the time to read it. So far, everyone's loving it: Byron at Contacts' The Lounge, Lord Mongo, Ben from Robin Nature-Bold & Band(ism), filmmaker Sarah Franzen, writer Max Dunbar, etc - just to shamelessly name-drop to give it some credibility.

Click on these links to see enlarged versions.

Burnt Mouth Blues

The Bestest Day

I hope in the future we can get him posting here regularly.