Gareth A Hopkins is an artist and illustrator from South-East England.
He's best known for his work in abstract comics, notably the autobio comic Petrichor, the graphic novel Found Forest Floor and his ongoing project The Intercorstal.
He's best known for his work in abstract comics, notably the autobio comic Petrichor, the graphic novel Found Forest Floor and his ongoing project The Intercorstal.
Gareth A Hopkins – Publications and Exhibitions
Unless co-creators are specified, I was the sole creator of the works listed below.
(ESFR) indicates that the work is part of the project ‘Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors.
Longform
Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors (ESFR) 2022
Jetwash Trampoline (with Sean Azzopardi) 2022
Ghosts In Things (with Martha Hopkins) 2022
Closure 2022 (completed for Closure Journal's issue on Non-Narrative Comics): link
Process Comic 2022 (completed for Closure Journal's issue on Non-Narrative Comics): link
Tuesday's Salted Curse (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
Not this House (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
Those Hills, Where They Lead (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
The Children Of The Valley (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
Moon Puke (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
The Hum (ESFR) 2020 (self published)
Drifts 2020 (self published)
Thunders (ESFR) 2020 (self published)
nothing (ESFR) 2020 (self published)
The Bones Of The Sea (ESFR) 2019 (self published)
Petalburn (ESFR) 2019 (self published)
A Hill To Cry Home (ESFR) 2019 (self published)
Petrichor 2019 (Good Comics)
The Intercorstal: Extension 2018 (self published)
Found Forest Floor (artist and letterer, text by Erik Blagsvedt) 2017 (7tNbjV/Abstract Editions)
The Intercorstal: tropicalpartymode 2016 (self published)
The Intercorstal: 683 2016 (self published)
Shortform (anthology appearances)
Levitating Warbike (2022) (for DUI2)
Just Growing (2022) (for Modern Glossolalia- CBA 58)
Sweetchuck (2022) (for Uncomics - CBA 56/57)
Found Forest Floor (excerpt) 2021 (featured in ‘Creating Comics, A Writer’s and Artist’s Guide and Anthology’ by Chris Gavaler and Leigh Ann Beavers, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Bullwise (ESFR) 2020 (from ‘Octo-Emanations’, edited by Carter Kaplan, International Authors)
DSN 2021 (from ‘The Good Comics Reader Vol.2, Good Comics)
The Caves of Ahuna Mons 2020 (from ‘Colossive Cartographies’, Colossive Press)
Butter 2019 (from ‘Jazz Creepers 2’, Strip For Me Publishing)
Untitled 2019 (from ‘The Seas’ anthology, Body Parts Publishing)
Every Tangled Path (artist, script by John Osborne, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2019 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume 3)
Occular Spittle Chorus (text, art by David Thomas, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2019 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume 3)
Captain Beefheart 2018 (from ‘Dead Singers Society’, Good Comics)
White Rabbits 2018 (from ‘Jazz Creepers’, Strip for Me Publishing)
5 Pieces Of Furniture 2018 (from ‘Komisk’, Fraser Geesin Publishing)
Gruaig; Etymophic; Unfurl; Downwardly Mobile (artist, text by JP Power, David Thomas, Daniel Willcocks, Tony Esmond, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2018 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume1)
Implosion Flower (artist, text by Erik Blagsvedt, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2017 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume 1)
Online Releases – these are short comics, often produced as part of a wider process, but released online for free
The Exploding Mess (Too Dry To Rot Phase 5, Comic 1) 2019
Too Dry To Rot Phase 5, Comic 2 2019
Too Dry To Rot Phase 4 2018
Too Dry To Rot Phase 3 2018
Too Dry To Haunt 2018 (released as part of the Noise In Opposition #3 compilation album)
Too Dry To Rot 2018
Found Forest Raw 2018
Forestry Commission: 6 Solid Sea Sky Glass 2017
Forestry Commission: 5 Wolf’s Blood (with text by Martha Hopkins) 2017
Forestry Commission: 4 A Salted Wound 2017
Forestry Commission: 3 Rabbit On The Stairs 2017
Forestry Commission: 2 Sugar Forest Fire 2016
After Smith (artist, text by Tom Whiteley) 2015
Exhibited work
Kludde 2019 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
Scramble 2019 (ink on paper) Shown as part of Three Colt Gallery’s Limehouse Open Salon
The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back 2019 (mixed media) Shown at Young Blood Initiative’s ‘Infinite Wheel Of Time’, London
Alpha Flight Special 1987 2018 (podcast, ink on paper) Shown as part of Young Blood Initiative’s ‘The Authentic Fake’, London
Ypres August 1918, from a photograph by Raoul Bertele 2018 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
100 Suns I’ll Never See 2017 (ink on paper, with text by Erik Blagsvedt) Shown as part of Young Blood Initiative’s ‘Altered States Of Mind’, London
Pre- And Post-Pointsman 2017 (ink on paper) Shown as part of Young Blood Initiative’s ‘(IN)Sane’, London
After Adventures 2017 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
Slate Ditko 2016 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
Neighbours Bring Food 2015 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
After Smith 2015 (ink on paper) Shown as part of Projectraum 404’s ‘Abstrakte Comics’ series, Bremen
Unless co-creators are specified, I was the sole creator of the works listed below.
(ESFR) indicates that the work is part of the project ‘Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors.
Longform
Explosive Sweet Freezer Razors (ESFR) 2022
Jetwash Trampoline (with Sean Azzopardi) 2022
Ghosts In Things (with Martha Hopkins) 2022
Closure 2022 (completed for Closure Journal's issue on Non-Narrative Comics): link
Process Comic 2022 (completed for Closure Journal's issue on Non-Narrative Comics): link
Tuesday's Salted Curse (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
Not this House (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
Those Hills, Where They Lead (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
The Children Of The Valley (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
Moon Puke (ESFR) 2021 (self published)
The Hum (ESFR) 2020 (self published)
Drifts 2020 (self published)
Thunders (ESFR) 2020 (self published)
nothing (ESFR) 2020 (self published)
The Bones Of The Sea (ESFR) 2019 (self published)
Petalburn (ESFR) 2019 (self published)
A Hill To Cry Home (ESFR) 2019 (self published)
Petrichor 2019 (Good Comics)
The Intercorstal: Extension 2018 (self published)
Found Forest Floor (artist and letterer, text by Erik Blagsvedt) 2017 (7tNbjV/Abstract Editions)
The Intercorstal: tropicalpartymode 2016 (self published)
The Intercorstal: 683 2016 (self published)
Shortform (anthology appearances)
Levitating Warbike (2022) (for DUI2)
Just Growing (2022) (for Modern Glossolalia- CBA 58)
Sweetchuck (2022) (for Uncomics - CBA 56/57)
Found Forest Floor (excerpt) 2021 (featured in ‘Creating Comics, A Writer’s and Artist’s Guide and Anthology’ by Chris Gavaler and Leigh Ann Beavers, Bloomsbury Publishing)
Bullwise (ESFR) 2020 (from ‘Octo-Emanations’, edited by Carter Kaplan, International Authors)
DSN 2021 (from ‘The Good Comics Reader Vol.2, Good Comics)
The Caves of Ahuna Mons 2020 (from ‘Colossive Cartographies’, Colossive Press)
Butter 2019 (from ‘Jazz Creepers 2’, Strip For Me Publishing)
Untitled 2019 (from ‘The Seas’ anthology, Body Parts Publishing)
Every Tangled Path (artist, script by John Osborne, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2019 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume 3)
Occular Spittle Chorus (text, art by David Thomas, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2019 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume 3)
Captain Beefheart 2018 (from ‘Dead Singers Society’, Good Comics)
White Rabbits 2018 (from ‘Jazz Creepers’, Strip for Me Publishing)
5 Pieces Of Furniture 2018 (from ‘Komisk’, Fraser Geesin Publishing)
Gruaig; Etymophic; Unfurl; Downwardly Mobile (artist, text by JP Power, David Thomas, Daniel Willcocks, Tony Esmond, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2018 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume1)
Implosion Flower (artist, text by Erik Blagsvedt, lettered by Ken Reynolds) 2017 (from Sliced Quarterly Volume 1)
Online Releases – these are short comics, often produced as part of a wider process, but released online for free
The Exploding Mess (Too Dry To Rot Phase 5, Comic 1) 2019
Too Dry To Rot Phase 5, Comic 2 2019
Too Dry To Rot Phase 4 2018
Too Dry To Rot Phase 3 2018
Too Dry To Haunt 2018 (released as part of the Noise In Opposition #3 compilation album)
Too Dry To Rot 2018
Found Forest Raw 2018
Forestry Commission: 6 Solid Sea Sky Glass 2017
Forestry Commission: 5 Wolf’s Blood (with text by Martha Hopkins) 2017
Forestry Commission: 4 A Salted Wound 2017
Forestry Commission: 3 Rabbit On The Stairs 2017
Forestry Commission: 2 Sugar Forest Fire 2016
After Smith (artist, text by Tom Whiteley) 2015
Exhibited work
Kludde 2019 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
Scramble 2019 (ink on paper) Shown as part of Three Colt Gallery’s Limehouse Open Salon
The Dust Blows Forward And The Dust Blows Back 2019 (mixed media) Shown at Young Blood Initiative’s ‘Infinite Wheel Of Time’, London
Alpha Flight Special 1987 2018 (podcast, ink on paper) Shown as part of Young Blood Initiative’s ‘The Authentic Fake’, London
Ypres August 1918, from a photograph by Raoul Bertele 2018 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
100 Suns I’ll Never See 2017 (ink on paper, with text by Erik Blagsvedt) Shown as part of Young Blood Initiative’s ‘Altered States Of Mind’, London
Pre- And Post-Pointsman 2017 (ink on paper) Shown as part of Young Blood Initiative’s ‘(IN)Sane’, London
After Adventures 2017 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
Slate Ditko 2016 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
Neighbours Bring Food 2015 (ink on paper) Shown as part of the Lakes Comics Art Festival’s Windows Trail
After Smith 2015 (ink on paper) Shown as part of Projectraum 404’s ‘Abstrakte Comics’ series, Bremen
