Empire State Tate

Welcome to a Tumblr blog of Hugo Tate moments - an informal collection of Hugo Tate ephemera, doodles, sketches and anecdotes collected by the character's creator, Nick Abadzis. Follow @NickAbadzis !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); Tweet to @NickAbadzis !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Steve Dillon’s original intro to the 1993 collection of O, America.

Cheers, mate. Miss ya. 

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Hugo’s State

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HUGO TATE, along with many other titles from graphic novel and comics publishers from all over the world, is now also available in the USA via SEQUENTIAL as a digital edition for iPad. Download the app via ITunes.

It is of course also available as a print edition from Blank Slate Books and as a digital edition in the UK and the rest of the world, also from SEQUENTIAL. 

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Thank you Brett Warnock of Top Shelf Books for the high praise.

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There’s a new season and a new episode of THE COMIX CLAPTRAP, this time featuring yours truly in conversation with Rina Ayuyang and Thien Pham. Get it here!

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Richard Bruton picks Hugo Tate on his 'Best of 2012' at the FPI Blog. Thanks, Richard!

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Only just became aware of this fine review of HUGO TATE by TCJ.com's Rob Clough

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HUGO TATE hand screenprinted T-shirts are now available from the Nick Abadzis Etsy Shop! We also have designs fetauring LAIKA the COSMODOG and ZOX THE SPACE CAT. Please visit!

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Bridgeen Gillespie's review of HUGO TATE - thanks Bridgeen!

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(via Panel Borders: Hugo Tate | Panel Borders and other podcasts)

This is the podcast version of Alex Fitch's radio interview with Nick Abadzis

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Radio Interview

Just received this announcement from Resonance FM courtesy Alex Fitch: 

Panel Borders: Hugo Tate

Continuing Panel Borders' month of shows about the depiction of travel in comic books, Alex Fitch talks to the award winning cartoonist Nick Abadzis about the recent Blank Slate Books collection of his much loved strip Hugo Tate, originally serialised in Deadline magazine.

Alex and Nick discuss the autobiographic aspects of the serial, his experiences in the brief but influential wave of 'adult' British comics in the late 1980s and how the story reflects the difficulties of any Brit coming to terms with life in America.

8pm, Sunday 14th October, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

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(via On the Scene: Small Press Expo 2012 Day Two)

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Further SPX coverage from @HannahMenzies here and here.

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Cultural contextualisation: thanks to Richard Bruton of the FPI Blog for the appreciation in this very fine review of Hugo Tate.

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We got a proof of the new HUGO TATE T-shirt! 

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Howard Hardiman's Review of Hugo tate

Howard Hardiman wrote a great review of Hugo Tate that you can find here. 

In case you don’t know, Howard is a cartoonist who says he tells stories about lonely badgers and dog-headed escorts – but there’s so much, much more to it than that. Check out Howard’s work here and the shop is here.

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Yup, that was the one by Steve Whitaker. It was pretty much my bible growing up. I must have borrowed it from the library every week for years. Tumblr wouldn't let me use enough characters to type all that in the original ask! ;)

Steve was a fine teacher of comics and I supplied him with a load of stuff for that book. Don't think I ever saw an actual copy though.