Ed Pinsent

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Ed Pinsent is a cartoonist, artist and writer born 1960 in Liverpool.

He has written and drawn his own small press comics since 1982, including characters such as Primitif, Henrietta and Windy Wilberforce. Around 1987 he took over Fast Fiction, the 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, who had been aware of 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 of the flagship magazine which Pinsent edited. Following the closure of Fast Fiction the mailing list was passed on to Luke Walsh and Mike Kidson who used it to launch the small press comics review zine Zum!.

Ed Pinsent's comic strip work has also appeared in the pages of Escape Magazine, Knockabout Comix, and Fox Comics in Australia. Between 1990 and 1996 he produced a handful of comics, including The Staring Eye, a collaboration with the Cumbria-based artist / painter / poet Denny Derbyshire, which ran to four issues. He also maintained some contact with the small press through Zum! and Caption.

In 1996, Ed Pinsent published the first issue of The Sound Projector Music Magazine, devoted to reviews of experimental music. The self-published small-run magazine is still running today, and in early 2007 published its 15th issue. In 2004, he began making regular weekly broadcasts of The Sound Projector Radio Show for Resonance 104.4 FM, the London-based art radio station.

[edit] Some 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