Ed Pinsent

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Ed Pinsent is a cartoonist born 1959 in London. He was editor of Fast Fiction. He is currently digital archives manager at ULCC.

He has drawn comics of Primitif Henrietta and Windy Wilberforce since 1983. Although the Henrietta La Folle and Windy Wilberforce comics from 1991 and 1992 are reprints of short strips from the early 1980s. His comics are drawn with large flowing brush strokes and intricate penwork. The stories are simplistic.

In 1990 he took over Fast Fiction was a market stall, magazine, mail order distributor and news sheet that played a key role in the history of British small press comics. It existed in its various forms from 1981 through to 1990 under the stewardship of Paul Gravett, Phil Elliott and Ed Pinsent. The name was taken from a Classics Illustrated knock-off spotted in the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Ed Pinsent, another cartoonist who had been involved in the cassette culture music trading scene, subsequently took over from Elliott and continued to run things until 1990. Fast Fiction #30 in 1991 was the last issue Pinsent edited. Following the closure of Fast Fiction their mailing list was passed on to Luke Walsh and Mike Kidson who used it to launch the small press comics review zine Zum!.

[edit] Published works

Primitif in Sting of the Arrow / Land of the Dead Kingly Books 2006 ISBN 0953163970
Desperate Failure Comics self published 1992
Henrietta La Folle self published 1992
Windy Wilberforce in Voice of The Wilberforce Kingly Books 2003 ISBN 0 9531639 3 8
Windy Wilberforce in The Saga of the Scroll Slab-O-Concrete Publications 1995 ISBN 1 899866 00 0