Carl & Will Black Crown comics signing

Carl and Will will be joining fellow Black Crown comics creators for the first signing of Black Crown Quarterly #1, which features the part one of the ongoing CUD saga ‘Rich & Strange: The Return of the CUD Band.

The signing panel includes Carl, Will, plus 2000AD/Vertigo legend Peter Milligan (who’s writing Kid Lobotomy for Black Crown) and Punks Not Dead’s David Barnett and Martin Simmonds.

The signing is from 1-2pm at London’s Forbidden Planet Megastore on Shaftesbury Ave.
Full details here.

Plans are to bring and sign a few copies of BCQ #1 on the CUD Singles tour too, for those who can’t make the London signing. Black Crown Quarterly #1 can be ordered through all good comic shops.

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30 years of Mind the Gap

 

Yes indeedy, it’s 30 years to the day (September 28) since the release of CUD’s first single, the 12″ Mind the Gap/You’re the Boss, in that striking magenta sleeve bearing an image of Leeds’ Merrion Centre.

Here’s the video recorded about the same time in and around Leeds Poly. For various technical reasons, it plays faster than it’s meant to, meaning Carl sounds like a chipmunk.

Of course, with the Singles Tour starting soon, you’ll have plenty of time to hear this song played at a more sensible speed.

Rich & Strange in Black Crown panel

Carl and Will spent the weekend in Leeds for the Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival, appearing on stage for Saturday’s Black Crown publishing panel, with Shelly Bond and fellow creators, above.
Watch the video below, care of Bleeding Cool, for a glimpse of two pages from the CUD: Rich & Strange strip by Carl and Will, with art by Philip Bond, and hear the CUD boys talk about what to expect.

CUD: Rich & Strange, the Return of the CUD Band features in Black Crown Quarterly. Issue #1 is out on October 25. Copies can be pre-ordered now from all good comic shops.

As for Sunday, it was back to regular duties, rehearsing several brand-new songs with the other half of CUD…

Carl and Will comic panel

Carl and Will are joining the Black Crown comics panel at this year’s Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival in Leeds to help launch the exciting new comic book imprint. This will be the first opportunity to see pages from their strip ‘Rich and Strange: The Return of the CUD Band’ illustrated by Philip Bond.

The panel will take place on Saturday 23 September at 2pm in the Carriageworks Main Auditorium. The band members will be interviewed, along with fellow Black Crown contributors Rob Davis, David Barnett, Martin Simmonds and Aditya Bidikar in a panel led by editor/curator Shelly Bond.

For tickets and info, visit Thought Bubble, here.

CUD: The comic strip

Out on October 25, the CUD Band are starring in a new regular comic book, Black Crown Quarterly (front cover by Rob Davis, above). Written by Will and Carl from the band, and drawn by the immensely talented Philip Bond (Deadline/Kill Your Boyfriend), ‘Rich & Strange’ follows Carl and Will in their aged and confused years, hoping to escape from the Dying Embers High-Security Retirement Home and get the band back together, while recounting past trials and tribulations.

The 48-page title comes out every three months. Issue #1 includes a two-sided pullout poster and a wraparound cover, a 10-page regular lead feature, Tales From the Black Crown Pub by award-winner Rob Davis (The Motherless Oven), the regular 5-page CUD strip by Potter/Puttnam/Bond, Swell Maps: A guide to Leeds’ music scene by journalist/novelist Cathi Unsworth. Plus: Special previews, creator interviews and behind the panel border secrets from Kid Lobotomy, Assassinistas, Punks Not Dead and much more!

Black Crown Quarterly is available to pre-order from comic book stores now.
Visit Black Crown for updates and peeks at upcoming issues.

 

The Singles Tour

CUD are on tour through October playing EVERY SINGLE SINGLE.

Dates and ticket links below.
Hull Adelphi, October 20
Leicester Soundhouse, October 21
York Fibbers, October 25
Manchester Night & Day, October 26
Bristol Thunderbolt, October 27 *SOLD OUT*
Birmingham The Flapper, October 28 *SOLD OUT*
Leeds Wardrobe (Early Xmas show), November 24 *SOLD OUT•

CUD are also returning to play the SHIIINE ON WEEKENDER on Saturday 11 November at Butlin’s Minehead Arena, as above. Details and tickets, here.