ALAN GUBBY

Indie six-part comic series focusing on a mystery in the Brit electronica vaults.

Now up to part four (Severence) of its six edition run, welcome to the fertile imagination of Buried Treasure label owner Alan Gubby and his tale of experimental Radiophonic Workshop-esque composers Iain and Cissy, who stumble across an abandoned WW2 studio and, after utilising the reels that they find, are dismissed by their employers, The Corporation. The era is mid-late 60s, the feeling esoteric and groovy. The look of each comic – DIY, A5-sized and just 20 pages long including its cardboard cover, designed variously by M Wayne Miller, Luke Insect and Nick Taylor – is as colourful and symbolic as the weird happenings inside. Rather than a panel-led format, Gubby’s words read like a screenplay, setting scenes and presenting dialogue on the left-side page while fullpage illustrations adorn the right. And absolutely fab they are too, in the unmistakeable cross-hatched Boho hand of Regal Worm and Cobalt Chapel man Jarrod Gosling. With ‘additional prose’ from David Yates we go from the WW2 discovery to occult gatherings, from Camden Roundhouse freakouts to establishment cover-ups. Original and intriguing stuff.