Other Comics by Roger Langridge

FRED the CLOWN

FRED WEEKLY

Fred the Clown ran for five years on this website and on Modern Tales.com, where the strips are still archived. You can access them here if you're a Modern Tales subscriber or you're willing to cough up the $2.95 per month it takes to become one. Otherwise you'll just have to get the print comics like everyone else.

FRED'S HISTORY

On the other hand, if you're a cheapskate, you came to the right place! Here you can read the thrilling, lavishly illustrated "History of Fred the Clown", from his humble origins in the 1890s to today's ubiquitous merchandising titan, taking in more or less the entire history of comics along the way.

FRED DAILY

And there's also a sampling of a rejected daily newspaper strip proposal if you're in to that sort of thing. (I got personalised rejection letters, so I suppose they can't have hated it too much.) This stuff dates from about 1997. Best read with very low expectations, I hadn't really got the hang of writing Fred at this stage.

DIABOLICAL LIBERTY

In 1993 I did a series called "Diabolical Liberty" for the late, lamented Deadline magazine. It ran for five issues, took me about six months to do, and was promptly forgotten immediately afterwards. It's been out of print since then, and even when it was published the pages were printed out of order, so it's been a bit of a lost orphan for the last eleven years -- lots of painted artwork, so it would have been expensive to publish in a collection or anything.

Fortunately, we now have the internet.

So -- the Hotel Fred invites you to dip in, snigger, make fun of the corny jokes and with any luck find no deeper meaning whatsoever.

THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR

"The Thirteenth Floor" is another one of those ones you have to be a Modern Tales subscriber to read -- it's part of their Modern Tales Longplay series. It's a 70-page black comedy about what happens when the world ends and nobody bothers to tell you.

I was aiming for something between Father Ted and Waiting For Godot, but I think I ended up with Abbott and Costello Meet Planet of the Apes.

PDF MINICOMICS

Pretty much what it says -- I've done a bunch of minicomics and these are those selfsame comics presented in handy PDF format for your immediate perusal. Contrary to what your newsagent always told you, this is indeed a liberry.

BLOODY HELL #1

My first minicomic, from 1993. More or less incomprehensible, even to me. Reprinted in Zoot! #2, but much more sexy as a minicomic.

THE FABULOUS WORLD OF THINGS

Mini culled from Zoot! (#1 this time). Also crops up in ZOOT SUITE TPB. Of no great use to owners of either.

FRANKEN-STEIN MEETS SHIRLEY TEMPLE

The four-parter that ran in A1 in 1992, redrawn for black & white reproduction, and a significant improvement in my opinion.

FRED THE CLOWN - The Minicomic

Not the 1999 comic, but the original 6 strips upon which it was based.

SPITOON FUNNIES

Hastily thrown together mishmash of new and old stuff. No Shit Man, Frankenstein & Shirley Temple etc.

DR. SPUTNIK #1

The first Dr. Sputnik story, the one from DEADLINE #64. Martians 'n' that.

DR. SPUTNIK #2

Doctor Sputnik Vs. Bobzilla, the Mutant Chicken. Your mother liked it, I can assure you.