Work produces work - Gareth A Hopkins' unending process

Gareth A Hopkins started his comics career by making an abstract reworking of his favorite 2000 A.D. comic book. Since then, he has returned to his own work time and time again — published work, misprints and discarded art — to use it as the foundation for new uncomics work. Your host Allan Haverholm talks to Gareth about comics, musical inspiration, personal grief and the paranormal.

Gareth A Hopkins is a featured artist in the Uncomics anthology, out now!

The galleries below only cover the works discussed in this artist talk. You are strongly encouraged to visit Gareth’s website, where you can not only find links to buy his books, he also has a section of free, downloadable comics. You’ll want to support that sort of generousity, of course, so he has a handy Patreon just for that.

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Credits

The Uncomics podcast is edited and produced by Allan Haverholm. Music by Allan Grønvall Pedersen. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license.

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Works discussed

The Intercorstal 683 (2016)

Found forest floor (with Erik Blagsvedt, 2017)

The Intercorstal: Extension (2018)

Petrichor (2019)

Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors

A Hill to Cry Home (2019)

Bones of the Sea (2019)

Petalburn (2019)

Nothing (2020)

Bullwise, in Octo-Emanations (2020)

Further reading

• A collection of reviews of Gareth A Hopkins’ work on discerning comics resource Broken Frontier.
• Gareth’s process in his own words, from the Uncomics anthology
• Listen to Subtle, an early musical inspiration on Gareth’s approach to uncomics (Bandcamp link).
• Intercorstal, a project site for a slice of Gareth’s work,
• david quiles guilló, Gareth’s editor on Found forest floor and director of the Wrong Biennale.
• Fantômas’ comics-inspired, extreme metal album (Bandcamp link).
• Concrete / Field tracks mentioned by Gareth as inspirations: Skeletal church and A cathedral (Bandcamp links).
• Suburban Lawns on discogs.com
• *Searching for Su Tissue, about the mystery surrounding the Suburban Lawns singer.
• Mark Fisher, “What is hauntology?” in Film Quarterly Vol. 66, No. 1 (Fall 2012), pp. 16-24 (JSTOR link)

Gareth A Hopkins is a featured artist in the Uncomics anthology, out now!