Gareth A Hopkins

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Abstract Comics. Absolute Collider Press.

A rough painting of a landscape (in portrait orientation), or some hills. The ground takes up about 2/5s of the page. The sky above them is grey-blue. A caption on the sky reads 'a data centre chewing on ghosts'
The cover to 'Plants Not Pets'. It's A5 proportions. On the left is a simple line drawing of a church, on the right is a mess of abstract lines and colours. The words 'Plants Not Pets, short comics, Gareth A Hopkins' are written just below the top-left corner of the image.
A sheet of tracing paper with black ink showing a drawing of a water-funnel and the words 'Vortices' and 'Gareth A Hopkins'. On a sheet underneath the original blue-line drawing van be seen.
A photograph of Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole, from his novel Breakfast Of Champions
An electrical control box with a torn circus poster hanging off it
Black and white abstract inkwork on a landscape-format page. Two caption boxes are present, with white text on black backgrounds. The first reads 'I have this recurrent night-mare that I am not doing anything." The second is backwards and reads 'Perhaps I am trying to undo everything."
Landscape format paper spread, black and grey patches of ink and hand drawn text
An abstract comic page. There are 10 panels of varying sizes descending in rows - 2 then 3 then 2 then 3. The panels are not straight. A mix of greens and reds are punctuated by areas of black as well as a variety of small lines.
A small paperback edition of 'The Seven Voyages Of Sinbad The Sailor'
Tracing paper with black ink patches and small amounts of drawing on. The words "A vortex often pulsates in itself" are handwritten on the page.
An A5 booklet made out of tracing paper standing on its end with its pages open. Black ink has been liberally added to the pages.
A Penguin Classics paperback edition of Maigret and the Loner by George's Simenon.
An abstract painting using white and black ink on the cover of the comic 'The Intercorstal: 683'. Captions on the image read 'Surely if an angel was writing his memories out it would be in a secret and arcane angelic language, not whatever this is'
A 9 panel abstract comic. Rather than a 3x3 grid, there are four rows of panels - 2, then 3, then 2 then two. Past that i'm going to really struggle to describe this, sorry.
A photo of 'The Skeleton's Holiday' by Leonora Carrington. It's a very small book, released as part of the Penguin Modern series of short reads.
A messy abstract comics page.
A photograph of a booklet standing on its end, it's pages splayed.
Fred, a dog. Asleep.
A copy of The Vegetarian by Han Kang
A screenshot of some text that reads "Then while I was watching The Leaf Library play live, I was thinking over these phrases, along with the title, and realised something a little silly but also very funny, which was that I'd actually been thinking of the computer-game Horizon Zero Dawn a lot while letting phrases pop in, and that I could secretly make the comic about that, in a very loose sense."
A two-page spread from a zine. A faded red flood of colour spreads from the lower left to the upper right with pools of darker red and brown congealed at its edges. A caption on the left page reads "He looked around at the other drivers in their own cars and wondered if they were having the same experience that he was."
My dog Fred, with his red ball, in some longish grass. He's very cute. He's also a pain in the arse.
On the left is a marker-pen drawing of a swan. On the right is the text "Barbara Saunders is a werewolf. People often argue with this without thinking it through fully, insisting that she should be called a wereduck. But a wereduck would be a person who turned into a duck, not a duck that turned into a wolf. So until culture develops the language to describe her affliction, we must respect her decision to be called a werewolf."
A photo of an A5 zine which is titled 'Oh Really Now For Gooness Sake This Is Ridiculous Can Someone Please Tell Me How We've Ended Up With Another Bunch Of Ghosts In Things' with a small drawing of a cartoon ghost
A cartoon ghost liberally covered in closed-cap mushrooms and those creepy long stemmed mushrooms. A caption reads 'Ghost Infested With Mushrooms'
Abstract comic in five panels. Captions are black text on pale yellow backgrounds and read "an entire planetary sheet of bullets that are the notes to upper words the morning melody realm zenith power you used to cover your mouth when you smiled time moves right and we're aware of the air the waveform's crest it's like not needing to breath anymore"