My name is Oliver East and I’m a comic artist from Manchester, UK.  For over ten years I have produced comics about landscape based on walks I’ve done, from Manchester to Liverpool, Blackpool and Stoke, Edinburgh to Manchester and the Cumbrian coast.  I have self published and worked with British company Blank Slate.  My first collection, Trains Are…Mint was nominated for Promising New Talent in the Ignatz Awards.

I am currently working on an ongoing anthology series called Rolling Stock, which includes comics about recent residencies in Finland and Romania, as well as various one-page efforts, single drawings and short trips.  Rolling Stock will be the new home for my personal comics.

As of April 2017 I am researching and producing a comic about a dormant canal that runs from Kendal to Lancaster, due to be released at The Lakes International Comic Festival in October 2017.

I am very fond of sharing my work with whatever audience I can find and I see this patreon page as a new home for single page and shorter strips from Rolling Stock and a lot of work in progress blog posts, both Rolling Stock and (the as yet untitled) canal project. 

I’m a prolific drawer and will share with you all my best efforts and some of the worse ones.
Thanks for reading