FEATURES, ESSAYS & ARTICLES
CATHI IN SPIRITUS SOHO BY ROBERT RUBBISH
Cathi was delighted to be asked by Soho artist ROBERT RUBBISH to contribute the forward to his new book SPIRITUS SOHO, a culmination of his project to salute the Capital's most notorious and decadent quarter before the wrecking ball takes all. Robert's beautiful artworks (The Three Ages of Derek Raymond shown above) draw on his deep knowledge of Soho's history and the outsiders who made the place: "always up or down but never on the level," as Keith Waterhouse so beautifully put it. The book was launched at The French House, in the Bermuda Triangle area of Soho between Gerry's and The Coach and Horses where so many souls have disappeared before. Here are Robert and Cathi at the launch:
You can pick up a copy of SPIRITUS SOHO – and a limited edition print if you are feeling flush - directly from The French if you get there fast enough. Or you can order the book, priced £25 from HERE More about Robert and his work HERE
NEW! Read Cathi's feature on the Trail of Helen Duncan at The Revisionist
One of the major plot strands of That Old Black Magic is the trail of Scottish medium Helen Duncan, the last woman to be prosected in this country for Witchcraft at a sensational Old Baily trial in 1944. How did a 17th century law get evoked to persecute a woman for such a crime in the middle of World War II – and perhaps more importantly, why? Read Cathi's take on this still-controversial case HERE
Cathi was delighted to be asked by Editor Shelly Bond to contribute to FEMME MAGNIFIQUE - a beautifully produced hardback comic anthology that salues the achievements of 50 inspiring women who cracked the ceiling and changed the game in pop, politics, art and science. The anthology feaatures an A-list of writers and artists from around the world, whose subjects range from Joan of Arc, Michelle Obama, Peggy Guggenheim and Mary Anning to Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Beth Ditto. Cathi has contributed an essay on her friend and inspiration Lydia Lunch, illustrated by the legend that is Billy Chainsaw. For more information on the anthology please go HERE
Cathi has contributed a brand new short story entitled 'Bring Out Your Dead' to VERBAL, the zine edited by Football Factory/Human Punk legend and London Books maestro John King. Fans of Bad Penny Bluesplease note that 'Bring Out Your Dead' features the return of Dave Dilworth and his Diaboliks from that book, as well as a related in-depth interview with Stewart Home, whose book Tainted Love, about his mother Julia Callan Thompson, is set very much in the same milieu. There is also new writing from Koushik Banerjea, Robert Ciesla, Allan Kausch, Michael Keenagahan, lyrics from Lee Wilson and some family history from the great Martin Knight. All yours for £2.50 (plus £1 p&P) from London Books HERE
Cathi in Black Crown Quarterly #3
It’s the new Winter’s Edge of Comics Cool in 48 pages! Delight in regular continuing features like legit publications with literary pedigrees!
It all begins with the 10-page regular lead feature Tales From the Black Crown Pub, starring Stacey the barmaid, by award-winner Rob Davis (The Motherless Oven). Recurring short features include Canonball Comics: an exquisite corpse that will not stay dead, Cud: Rich and Strange by co-writers/bandmates Will Potter and Carl Puttnam and artist Philip Bond, Swell Maps by music journalist/novelist Cathi Unsworth with illustrations by Cara McGee and a new Hey, Amateur!
To order from Forbidden Planet go HERE For more on BCQ go HERE
It all begins with the 10-page regular lead feature Tales From the Black Crown Pub, starring Stacey the barmaid, by award-winner Rob Davis (The Motherless Oven). Recurring short features include Canonball Comics: an exquisite corpse that will not stay dead, Cud: Rich and Strange by co-writers/bandmates Will Potter and Carl Puttnam and artist Philip Bond, Swell Maps by music journalist/novelist Cathi Unsworth with illustrations by Cara McGee and a new Hey, Amateur!
To order from Forbidden Planet go HERE For more on BCQ go HERE
BFI Flipside Man of Violence sleevenotes
Cathi has written an essay for the BFI's reissue of Peter Walker's 1971 underworld thriller Man of Violence, now available on the Flipside series. In a world of gangs and villains, one man - Moon - will stop at nothing to get the girl and take the spoils. Pete Walker's affectionate low-budget homage to the gangster thriller is packed with sights and sounds from a Britain about to swing out of the sixties and into a somewhat less optimistic decade.
Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned contributions from Cathi Unsworth, screenwriter and critic David McGillivray, and film historian Julian Petley.
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Illustrated booklet with newly commissioned contributions from Cathi Unsworth, screenwriter and critic David McGillivray, and film historian Julian Petley.
BUY IT HERE
