Post of Random Crap #2

I have returned to this blog after a gap of over 4 and a half years and the world has become a darker place within that space of time since 'Post of Random Crap #1'. Now here is 'Post of Random Crap #2' which is being written on my oldest cousin's 40th birthday, also the date of the release of my second 123 page comic known as Blot, another #2. And now it is time to search for the links to these comics which can be bought from the self publishing site known as lulu.com, a print on demand service which I've been addicted to for over a decade now... 

A link to buy #1 is here-: https://www.lulu.com/shop/sam-backhouse/blot/paperback/product-84zpzv8.html?page=1&pageSize=4&fbclid=IwY2xjawFyMzpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfjGzoHsphZSXgw4rGgSWtVpw8CVhORJPz5iaS_WbYiM13oIFR7utZO7OQ_aem_Rc2-hZEi2kBWoFZFX4qyqw

A link to buy #2 is here-: https://www.lulu.com/shop/sam-backhouse/blot-2/paperback/product-gj89kqe.html?q&page=1&pageSize=4&fbclid=IwY2xjawFyMrVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWc3-11_V5wny4uEOGUy7fUVoR7fm_If4ZdPFwSzJ7ffsd4MkNSlviI7lQ_aem_iPYnebGeWlpyZwGhHsirlg

A description of Blot #2-: Mountain essays, violent snowmen, millipedesexuality, plummeting anvils, broken legs, alcohol cereal, ghost post deliverers, bodiless and armless beings, levitating spectacled weirdos, giant conks, sprout disliking teenagers with stretching powers, mindless consumers, Woke mermaids, 20th Century Cavemen, cats who can see through the simulation and many more odd bits and pieces have been assembled together in this second issue of the 123 page comic series known as Blot, created by the Milky-Waylion known as Sam Backhouse. 

And here are a few pages of previews from the 123 page comic-:

Ghosty Postie made his first appearance in the first issue of Blot released in November 2023, my most recent new character. He appeared on the back cover of #1 drawn on post it notes. He appears a couple of times in #2, drawn on envelopes this time.

Here is another page-: 

Longface, the boy with the stretchy body first appeared in a comic I used to draw for myself between 2003-2011 called Smudge, and he made his debut in #14 in 2004 along with another character I've been drawing since then too, L'il Shrimp, who looks like two eyeballs with three hairs ontop and two feet. Their birthday is shared and 2024 is their 20th anniversary. 

I like to do things in threes so I'll throw in another page for free-:

This is the back cover of Blot #2 which took me several hours to create. It contains the names of all of my main characters on a Scrabble board, my favourite board game. I created a similar thing in my book Big Book of Random Crap Book Six. There's probably a way to achieve this on the internet somewhere very quickly and I didn't create it this way at all; I spent hours trying to work out the puzzle myself and I succeeded. It feels much more rewarding to create something myself as opposed to speeding processes up with AI. 

(I guess there's more that I could write about in this post with other happenings in my world within that 4 and a bit year gap. Let's fill in the missing pieces briefly then-:)

Self published releases on lulu.com since Post of Random Crap #1-:

2020- 

Prodigious Publication of Peter the Pissed off Parent

2021- 

Big Book of Random Crap Book Eight (released ten years after the last issue of Smudge I drew in 2011, Smudge #100. A decade later I decided to create Smudge #101 for a special treat, included at the back of this book which is an explicit adult book)                                                                                                

Big Book of Random Crap Book Nine (released very shortly after Book Eight. Books Eight & Nine are like the double album of the Random Crap series).

2022- 

Giant Book of Smudge                                                                                                                             

(A Selection of Favourite Works From a Decade of Books by Sam Backhouse) - 304 Pages, my most proud achievement and the book of mine which I recommend the most to others.

2023- 

Blot #1 

2024- 

Blot #2

.....................A simple link to all my available books is here-:..............................................

https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Sam+Backhouse&adult_audience_rating=00