Phillip Marsden



Phillip Marsden is an artist and illustrator currently roaming around SE Asia and the Antipodes. As well as self-publishing comics and limited edition artist's books and prints under the imprint Compromise Comics Enterprise, Phillip has a weekly comic strip, Seven Inch Stories, published every Wednesday in NME Magazine. He has exhibited nationally, illustrated a children's book, worked as an art and English teacher in South Korea, and decorated a wide array of fibreglass animals(!) Find out more about Phillip here


2010 Graphic Life Narrative, IABA Conference, University of Sussex Rhino Mania, various locations, Chester Mistranslations, The Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station at the Bluecoat, Liverpool Proof, Arena Gallery, Liverpool PrintROOM, Amsterdam Zine Jam, Netherlands Lancashire Zine, Artists Book & Multiples Fair, UCLAN, Preston 2009 Go Penguins, various locations, Liverpool True Stories by PM, Riverside Gallery, Richmond She Laughs, Nexus Art Café, Manchester Sense Summer Art Fair, Sense Loft, London The Magnificent Seven, Editions Ltd, Liverpool Go Pink & Blue 09, Novas CUC, Liverpool Drawn In, The Lost Soul and Stranger Service Station at the Bluecoat, Liverpool PrintROOM, Nest, The Hague, Netherlands Climate For Change, FACT, Liverpool SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool 2008 Retold (Liverpool Biennial), M.USE, Liverpool Artists' Book Fair, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool Go Superlambananas, various locations, Liverpool Liveline, Riverside Gallery, Richmond on Thames 2007 Love Is...?, Riverside Gallery, Richmond on Thames 2006 Comic Art, Riverside Gallery, Richmond on Thames Novellus Castellum, various locations, Newcastle The Space In-between the Sole & the Heel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh Cumberland Arms Winter Festival, Cumberland Arms, Newcastle Normalife Unlimited, Art in Carnaby, London 2005 Multiplus: Go Find the WMDs, Skirt, Newcastle Strangers on a Train, project by artists’ group Discotheque, London-Newcastle train route The Sublime to the Ridiculous, The Forth Hotel, Newcastle Practice, High Bridge studios, Newcastle 2004 Four Colour Legends, Newcastle Central Library, Newcastle Modus Operandi, Globe Gallery, North Shields 2003 Degree Show 03, University of Newcastle NUFA v NUFC, St. James’ Park, Newcastle 8329, Miasma Mobile Gallery, Newcastle


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NME Magazine, IPC Media, published weekly, Mar 2010 - ongoing Drawing a Diary: Graphic Art Autobiography, Dr. Kylie Cardell, IABA, 2010 Illustration Magazine issue 23, Ruth Prickett (Ed.), Spring 2010 What Were You Doing When The Disaster Struck? Compromise Comics, 2010 Go Penguins: A Celebration of Creativity in Merseyside, ex. cat, Wild In Art, 2010 Blank Pages Issue 14, Jack Welsh (Ed.), Blank Media Collective, 2009 True Stories by P.M. Compromise Comics, 2009 The Liverpool Art Journal #4, Tracey Eastham, 2009 Chandlers Quay, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2009 Noteworthy, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2009 Blackout 1-4 with Phillip Buchan and Jack Fallows, comic book, independently published, 2005-2008 Betty the Butterfly, New Writing North, 2006 (ISBN 0-9552423-1-2) Untitled, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2006 Get the Look Fashion Supplement: Gothic & Lolita Special , limited edition artist’s book, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2005 Get the Look Fashion Supplement, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2005 The Princess with Many Shoes: An illustrated fairytale, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2005 Aesop’s Fables, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2005 Clam & Elgar etc. 1-2, Compromise Comics Enterprise, 2003 Hiro & Hatomi, Hayvend, 2003


First class BA (Hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University 2003 National Diploma Foundation Studies Art & Design, Wirral Metropolitan College, 1999


Print Studio at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, Mar-May, 2009