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April 27th, 2009 6:44 PM

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MONKEYS DO IT IN PUBLIC AT BRISTOL SMALL PRESS EXPO

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Chris Lynch and Stu.Art, more commonly known as “Monkeys with Machineguns”, are booked to exhibit at this year’s Bristol Small Press Comic Expo, in the Mercure Hotel.

This year they are exhibiting with a twist however, as all their hard work on “The Magpye” for Markosia has left them without a brand new issue of their eponymous horror anthology to début at the show. With the release of the latest MWM being somewhat of a Bristol tradition, at least for Chris and Stu, the monkeys were left somewhat stumped this year as to what exactly to do …

Thankfully, the answer was obvious. They would just write and draw a new issue of Monkeys with Machineguns at the Expo itself!

Chris Lynch had the dubious explanation; “Any of you who have attended one of my signings will be familiar with the setup - woefully unable to cede the limelight to artists and jealous of the constant requests they receive for sketches at shows and signings, I have gotten into the habit of writing flash fiction & short stories at shows, often based on random words, phrases, objects etc. thrown at me (figuratively) by whoever is around. It’s a sort of “Whose Line is it Anyway”, but with horror fiction.”

So, this year, visitors to the Small Press Expo will be cordially invited to challenge the creativity of the Monkeys with Machineguns team with some random objects, places, people, and whatever else comes to mind from which they must create a short story. Once Chris has written the short, Stu will be providing a sketch illustration and, after we’ve scanned the result to go into the new book, you will be able to buy the original artwork.

“By the end of the day we are hoping to have enough content to complete the upload to our POD publisher of all the stories and artwork, resulting in a brand new issue of Monkeys with Machineguns on sale at the end of the show,” Chris explained.

So, if you have ever wondered exactly how Monkeys with Machineguns make Monkeys with Machineguns … this is your chance to find out. Or, Chris mentions, “Watch us crash and burn horribly, which will probably be equally entertaining ...”

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