TEAM SPUTNIK’s brand new comic strip
SKID AVENUE is now free to read online, telling the story of JOHN and
JO, a pair of ordinary folk who suddenly find themselves becoming part
of the ‘squeezed middle’.
 Taking
a wry and humorous look at the problems of just-getting-by in
austerity-hit times, SKID AVENUE is the latest brainchild of TEAM
SPUTNIK, the comics partnership of writer Antonella Caputo and artist Nick Miller (Graphic Classics, Comic Football, The RHG). Inspired by real-life events, it stars JOHN and JO, former stars of the long-running strip The Really Heavy Greatcoat.
Updated every week, the first three episodes of SKID AVENUE are available at www.skidavenue.com, or on the web comics platform Tapastic at http://tapastic.com/series/SKID-AVENUE and there’s even a blog – www.skidavenue.blogspot.com – with lots of extra goodies for hardcore fans!
Described by one critic as “the pan-European comics creative team”, TEAM
SPUTNIK has a proven track record when it comes to producing
well-written, well-drawn, popular comics. Their adaptations of classic
short stories for US publication Graphic Classics have drawn critical
praise internationally. Chris Allen of Movie Poop Shoot said: “Nick
Miller’s and Antonella Caputo’s take on The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut conveys
the power of Twain’s sharply satirical jabs at morality and hypocrisy”,
and Zack Davisson said: “Nick Miller draws a clever adaptation”.
SKID AVENUE protagonists JOHN and JO first appeared in the long-running strip The Really Heavy Greatcoat, co-created with writer JOHN FREEMAN and first published in On the Beat (later Off the Beat) in 1987 and published for mobile by ROK Comics and in the international comics magazine Comics International,
one of the most respected journals in the comics industry. It has also
been selected for publication in various titles, including The Norm, published by syndicated US cartoonist Michael Jantze.
Nick and Antonella first came up with the idea for SKID AVENUE during
lunch. Nick says: “I hadn’t drawn John and Jo for years and we got to
thinking: ‘What would they be doing now?’ When they bowed out of the
original strip, John was working in a local government department and Jo
ran a shop. We thought that, fifteen years on, they’d probably be doing
exactly the same thing, but now they’d be coping with ten years of
austerity and economic recession. We thought there’d be plenty of
opportunities for ironic humour, especially if you’re part of that age
group, as we are ourselves”.
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