Ugly Mug is the House of Harley’s annual comic-art anthology, which ran for four issues in the late 1980s and resumed publication in 2021.

Featuring stories and drawings by renowned members of the British small press scene plus global guests.

The forces of optimism and pessimism battle it out in this horror-themed mag, which features new strips and drawings by the creme of the British small press cartooning scene:

• Organic Matter – an auxillary brain is assembled, in a twisted tale by Ed Pinsent
• Peasholm Island – prologue to the forthcoming graphic novel The Rightful King of the North Riding by Marc Baines
• Father Gilderoy Investigates – meet John Bagnall‘s dynamic sleuth
• Somberline: Dreams of Power – ominous politics in this Chris Reynolds one-pager
• Snak – an art-punk drawing from Savage Pencil‘s Animals Eating Other Animals series
• Beserker – Tom Baxter Tiffin‘s spider fellow is too mangled for the Multiverse
• Postcards From A Nother Place – images from the interstellar travels of Denny Derbyshire
• Put Your Best Foot Fwd – a radical self-help philosophy, modelled by Canadian contortionist and performance artist Ess Hödlmoser aka Strange and Wonderful Creature
• Ugly Mugshots snapped by Niall Richardson
• The Saga of the Scroll – Harry Excess encounters a giant octopus and other evil omens, in chapter 5 of Ed Pinsent‘s Windy Wilberforce epic

Editor:  Harley Richardson
Publisher: House of Harley
Pages: 72pp
Size: 8.25 x 12.75
Notes: perfect bound, b/w
Release Date: 2022