The Last Working Day Of The Month: Issue 202

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(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, August 30th 2024)

Hello all, and welcome to this CONTENT RICH edition of the newsletter - let's get started!

GIGS TO COME
Friday 11 October 2024 - JT Soar, Nottingham
Supporting White Town - tickets HERE:
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/630623/

Wednesday 16 October 2024 - Backyard Comedy Club, London
Talking about Doctor Doom at Nerd Nite London - details HERE:
https://backyardcomedyclub.co.uk/event/link/?ceId=d04bb2f0-2121-49df-a4b6-5df2fb274200

Thursday 24 October 2024 - The King & Queen, London
Totally Acoustic, with Lonely Tourist - details HERE:
https://mjhibbett.co.uk/totallyacoustic/thegigs.php

Friday 8 November 2024 - The Hub, Cambourne
Playing with The British IBM - tickets HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-british-ibm-mj-hibbett-acoustic-performance-retro-gaming-tickets-883963337137

Saturday 14 December 2024 - The Oast Community Centre, Rainham
The Careful Now Promotions Christmas gig, playing with Swansea Sound and Sassyhiya - tickets HERE:
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/624897

Check http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/gigs/ for more information.

THE FUNNY COMICS FAN CLUB
John Dredge and I have started a brand new podcast about British comics called 'The Funny Comics Fan Club'. Issue one is already out and the next one will be hitting the shelves on Monday 2 September, so please reserve a copy with your newsagent today! Alternatively, you can get it on all podcast providers or directly from HERE:
https://thefcfc.podbean.com/

ALL THEM TRIMMINGS
Artists Against Success are releasing a new compilation album called 'All Them Trimmings', which features a whole heap of AAS-related artistes (including me) creating new songs using some lyrics found in an old 'How To Be In A Band' book. It's based on an Audience Engagement Opportunity from the 'This Are Johnny Domino' podcast, which you can find out more about HERE:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1icOrbkUxaKTpuC1ON2X3t

The album will be released on Thursday 12 September via the Artists Against Success Bandcamp site, HERE:
https://artistsagainstsuccess.bandcamp.com/

ROBERT DOWNEY JR
The announcement that Robert Downey Jr is going to play Doctor Doom in the MCU has led to all sorts of excitement for me, not least getting to write an article for The Actual Radio Times, which you can read HERE:
https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/scifi/robert-downey-jr-doctor-doom-marvel-disaster-comment/

I had a lengthy, also FUN, chat about it all with the Get Your Comic On podcast too, as you can both see and hear HERE:
https://getyourcomicon.co.uk/blog/2024/08/15/dr-mark-hibbett-the-worlds-only-doctor-doom-phd-holder-talks-robert-downey-jr-avengers-doomsday/

I am very much up for talking about this to ANYONE who fancies it on whatever media is available, so please let me know if there's a CHANNEL I can access!

DENNIS ARTICLE
My article 'The Three Generations Of Dennis The Menace' was published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics last month, and is available to read OPEN ACCESS and for FREE, right HERE:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2024.2384439

AND FINALLY
Thanks very much to everyone who took part in the Judge Dredd survey - I got an amazing 250 responses, so am currently working through getting them all into a database to analyse! While I do that, you can always read a Rather Nice Review of my Doctor Doom book, what uses the same methodology, HERE:
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/08/book-review-data-and-doctor-doom.html

And that's the lot for this time - thanks for listening!

Cheers,

Mark

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