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Saturday 22nd March 2008 sees the official launch of Factor Fiction’s The Girly Comic and Violent! as webcomics. Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed that an archive of strips has already been building up on a daily basis since the beginning of the year.

To celebrate the launch, a brand new full colour comic strip Sisters of the Head will start on The Girly Comic site on Saturday. It has been penned by Doctor Who novelist Daniel O’Mahony, and illustrated by small press supremo Terry “Sleaze Castle” Wiley. 

We will also be visiting The London Underground Comics Camden Market Stall, and The UK Web & Mini Comix Thing to promote the new site. Both webcomics will debut new strips, threaded alongside our ongoing project to put the entire Factor Fiction strip archive online. Going online will enable us to continue our mission to bring new and established comic creators to a wider audience. 

For those who have never picked up a copy of Violent!, you’ll be able to read serials such as The Flatworm, Spare Parts, MageWorks and Knuckles from the beginning. Plus we’re featuring a brand new four panel strip series: The Silent Service  by Jay Eales and Paul McCaffrey: http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/category/silent-service/

Small press and Girly Comic fans will be aware that all sixteen print issues of The Girly Comic include work by autobiographical comic goddess Lee Kennedy, and we are very proud to be compiling an online archive of her work as part of The Girly Comic website. Those who are unfamiliar with her work should check it out now: http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/category/lee-kennedy/

We’re also excited to announce that over the coming months we’ll be making all the Oddcases strips by Alistair Pulling & Bevis Musson available on The Girly Comic site. This will not only be the stories published in the comics, but also the early uncollected Oddcases strips, and hopefully some new ones: http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/category/oddcases/

Fans of print shouldn’t worry though, as part of our overall plan we will also be producing book collections, including The Girly Comic Book, an as-yet unnamed Lee Kennedy Collection and compilations of the new strips featured on the sites. In the meantime, you can still buy copies of issues 1-16 of The Girly Comic and 1-13 of Violent! from our online store: http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/shop.html

In 2008, our eighth year of trading, Factor Fiction mutates again, and is ready to take on the world. We hope you’ll join us. Jay Eales and Selina LockFACTOR FICTION

http://factorfictionpress.co.uk