Vic Pratt

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Victor Alfred Pratt usually called just Vic Pratt is an artist, writer, musician and actor Born in 1965 and lives in Hounslow West London.[1]

He printed two issues of his own British small press comics Flea Circus[2] in the mid 1990s. His comic strips are mostly autobiographical similar to Robert Crumb or Chester Brown. His art influences are David Law and Herge. He drew a comic strip "Bad Feedback" in which he bitterly remembers his time in university having his comics rejected. He drew "Harry Tate's Final Curtain" in which his grandad met the music hall star Harry Tate and saved his life before he died in 1940. Shorter more humorous comic strips are "Charlie Childish" and "Strange man In a bookshop".

He wrote reviews in the 1990s small press zine Zum![3] He also wrote for Story Paper Collectors' Digest, a magazine about British boys' story paper fiction. He wrote reports on "The Old Boys' Bookclub". He is a historian on British comics and wrote reviews and drew comics in Psychopia the zine of British comics. He drew many multi artist "jam strips" in the zine including "Martian Jam" and "Stranded on the M25".

As the British Film Institute fiction film curator he brought the first screening of Stanley Long's Primitive London movie[4][5] He brought to the National Film Theatre the first screening of the live-action Tintin film Tintin and the Golden Treasure[6]

In his spare time he is in pop group Monogram with Stephen McCornachie and Corinna Reicher they first performed live at The Drill Hall, London in October 2004 and they recorded their first album for the Irregular Records subsidiary label for new bands, Unlabelled[7] and they are named after melancholy monogram machine. He supported humorous music hall novelty-pop group Dylan Rabbit dressed in a rabbit suit playing his guitar.[8]

He was in the Hounslow films of Jan Manthey[9] He has acted in films such as Teenagecstasy[10].

He sent a drawing of himself to Robert Crumb asking him to draw himself shaking Vic's hand. The art can be seen in the book Odds & Ends[11]

He is married Charlotte with three children.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Biography in The Zine #9
  2. ^ flea circus website http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/southbank/pottery/768/index.html
  3. ^ website at http://www.zumcomics.info/
  4. ^ http://www.resonancefm.com/listings/20070127.html
  5. ^ http://www.fayrstede.com/news3.htm
  6. ^ http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=3003
  7. ^ http://www.monogramophone.com/index.html
  8. ^ Full name is The Dylan Rabbit Pop Circus Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ1OBad2iSk
  9. ^ http://kinokarno.tripod.com/id9.html
  10. ^ http://kinokarno.tripod.com/id2.html
  11. ^ [http://www.amazon.com/Odds-Ends-R-Crumb/dp/1582341362

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