THIS YEAR

Format-book size: 5.83” x 8.27”
Colour
page count: 20

This Year is the latest title from Fred Egg Comics.
A collection of mostly one page stories, covering the following topics:

Ker-Plunk as a torture device; dusting;, getting yourself spotted when your plane has crashed; post boxes with confusing last pick up times; white gold; Scottish Doctor Whos; A.I.'s influence on the young; that mid festive season feeling of not knowing what day it is; the cost of euthanising family pets; not knowing flags; the problems inherent in library request systems, radio signals travelling indefinitely; and a story of being amazed at a museum animatronic as a kid, and returning to see it as a young man.

There's also a free giant colour pin-up!

Reviews of my most recent comic For the Record:

"If reading this doesn’t make you nostalgic for some of your favorite music (and, most likely, dig out some older music you haven’t listened to in years), then I’m afraid that you just don’t have any soul in you. Yes, I’d call that highly recommended, wouldn’t you?"
Kevin Bramer, Optical Sloth

"Whether he is debating the best song of all time, analysing compilation strategies, or sorting through a life’s worth of concert tickets, David’s art captures the invisible magic of sound. It is a story for anyone who has ever spent too long in a record store or felt their heart skip when the needle finally hits the wax."
Warren Elliott, Almost Normal Comics

"While clearly an intensely personal project – musical tastes very much unique to everyone – it’s a project that works well on different levels. Firstly, as a history of musical discovery, and a guide to how the music industry has changed; secondly, it gets you thinking just what your favourite music is, too, David’s choices occasionally resonating, many not – also offering the opportunity to discover sounds you may be unfamiliar with, but his enthusiasm for them might just send you exploring."
John Freeman, Down the Tubes

"It’s Robertson doing what he does best. As I’ve said before, finding something meaningful and universal in life’s smaller moments. For the Record feels like a throwback to old school DIY culture too which could not be more appropriate for this rather sweet collection of wistfully nostalgic memories."
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier