Box of Rain
Welcome to the Box of Rain website. The home of Sector 13 Comics.
If you see something that peaks your interest and want to comment or even contribute something to one of the pages, please send me a message to admin@sector13comics.co.uk.
The Gift, is a distinctive and heartfelt work from Belfast comics legend Davy Francis, widely known for Oink!, Brain Damage, and Electric Soup, as well as for his long-standing contribution to Sector 13 and the wider Belfast comics scene over more than three decades.
Originally presented to the Sector 13 team as a rough set of drawings — many sketched on scraps of paper and other unexpected surfaces — the project immediately stood out for its warmth, humour, and emotional honesty.
Encouragement from editor Peter Duncan led to further development, additional artwork, and ultimately a remarkable 52-page wordless comic.
Sector 13 is keeping details of The Gift under wraps for now, but promises readers a comic full of charm, surprise, and heart. As the team puts it: “We’re giving nothing away about this one — but you’re going to love it.”
To be launched at the Enniskillen Comics Fest, the comic is 52 pages, published at half-A4 size for £7 + £5 p&p (UK and Ireland) with a limited sketch cover edition available at Enniskillen for £12.50 - which includes Davy drawing a cover for you.
We are accepting pre-orders for the standard edition now, for £12. Order fulfillment will start after Enniskillen Comics Fest Please click here.
Also new in 2026, writer/artist Patrick Brown's Penny Blood and Other Stories continues the Penny Blood story from AD 1900, which contains some of the best art Patrick has produced, inspired by 19th-century illustration.
The book introduces John Landlorn: Beyond the Sundering Strait, a new historical fantasy and a fresh take on A Virtual Circle, a story Patrick created in the 1990s when virtual reality was pure science fiction.
Penny Blood and Other Stories is a 56-page magazine, which, like our other new books, will be available first at Enniskillen Comics Fest.
We are taking pre-orders now with the price being £8 plus £5 p&p in UK and ROI)
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6th May 2025
On Friday and Saturday of last week (2nd, 3rd May), Sector 13 took part in an academic conference on Comics in the Coleraine Campus of The University of Ulster.
Under the banner of, "On the Margins" it was an excellent event, which brought together academics and 'practitioners' from the small press scene in Northern Ireland.
key-note speakers, Julia Round and Nigel Parkinson kicked off two very successful days. A full report will appear later somewhere on this page.
Sector 13 Comics put together a special issue of Splank! to mark the occasion. At 56 pages, published in the oversized, 'Summer Special' format we used for Whapp! and the special issue of Sector 13, it sports a Nigel Parkinson cover and features a brand new three-page autobiographical strip by the 'official' Dennis the Menace artist.
The magazine is a mix of articles by some of the academics at the conference, writing in a non-academic way about what excites them about comics, and an overview of the small-press scene in Northern Ireland. Tony Esmond, of the excellent 'Awesome Comics Podcast' writes about his thoughts on the current small-press scene.
We were delighted to have Davy Francis reveal the terrible truth (?) about the early days of NI's small-press scene, with a strip that reveals some terrible secrets about Game of Thrones artist and sometime Sector 13 Cover Artist, Will Simpson.
Produced in aid of NHS Charities together, it is available now from us here for £12 including UK P&P. Due to its size, it will be posted folded. This is something different, and we are very proud of what we have achieved. I do hope you'll give it a try.
6th May 2025
We're offering a few copies of a very limited edition, hardcover version of the Splank! Annual.
This book contains almost 50 extra pages of material, gathering together strips from the out-of-print issue 1 and commissions gathered over the years.
All presented in the format of a British Comic Annual. This is the format Peter always wanted Splank! to be in, but felt was a little too expensive for most.
Intended as gifts for family and friends, a few extra copies have been printed and made available. Price £28 which includes UK P&P.
The softcover version of Splank!, together with its sister titles, Whapp! and Yow! are available on our store page or as a bundle for £36 here
6th May 2025
Just in from Bob Curran’s Fool Moon Graphiks, the second issue of Sinister Tales. A B&W, square-bound, 60-page US format comic that continues Bob’s tale of the Esoteric.
With distinctive art by Andy Paciorek.
Price £9 inc. UK P&P, Card Payment link here.
Price for both issues of Sinister Tales, £15 inc. UK P&P.
Issue 6 Reprint, New Cover.
We've had a bit of a run on complete sets of Sector 13, and recently ran out of copies of the cosplay cover of issue six.
To fill the gap we've printed a very limited number of copies of our sixth issue with a brand new cover by Pete Stewart.
Depicting, Judge Duncan as he prowls the cursed earth its another one of Pete's stunning images.
Available as part of a complete set of all seven issues (including the three part issue seven and the silent special) for £38 including P&P.
We've only printed a very small number so they won't last long. If you'd like to buy one on its own, please contact us and we'll see what we can do.
Just out, the second issue of Hoodoo Comix, continuing Bob Curran's tale of Cajun Horror. This B&W, square-bound, US format comic conatins the stunning art of Andy Paciorek.
Price £9 inc. UK P&P or £6 if you can drag yourself to one of the Sector 13 editorial meetings in the Parlour Bar in Belfast on most Wednesday evenings.
Price for both issues of Hoodoo Comix, £15 inc. UK P&P.
Links below.
Outside Uk, please contact us at admin@sector13comics.co.uk
From our friend Bob Curran's Fool Moon Press is the first issue of Sinister Tales. This sixty-page, US standard-sized comic tells a deeply mysterious tale of a man searching for his identity and the source of his ever-growing psychic powers.
Set in the bleak political world of the post-war years of the early sixties, it's a claustrophobic tale that may or may not, link to almost every conspiracy theory you've ever heard. Story by Bob Curran, stylish art from Andy Paciorek available now from Sector 13 Comics. £9:00 including UK p&p.
Order Sinister Tales 01 vIA Paypal to admin@sector13comics.co.uk or by using your
credit card here.
For foreign prices, please contact us on the admin@sector13comics.co.uk address.
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Buy Whapp!, Splank! and Yow! Plus Anno Domini 1900
For those brave souls wishing to see all four of our new comics for 2024, we offer this package.
Whapp!, Splank! and Yow! plus S13 issue 01, Anno Domini 1900 in one package. With more than 250 pages of comics for £36 this is great value and will invovle a hefty donation to 'NHS Charities Together' from Whapp!, Splank! and Yow!.
A hefty package, it has to go as a 'small parcel' rather than and large letter.
Credit Card Payments link, here. Or visit our on-line store here.
Special Offer
THREE ISSUES OF SECTOR 13 £10 plus p&p
Three issues of Sector 13 for £10 plus £3 UK p&p.
With stunning covers by Stuart McCune, Will Simpson and Joseph McCafferty, see the issues where Sector 13 'came of age'. Moving from an amateur fanzine run by a chaotic collective effort to an ambitious magazine with something that might be loosely described as an organised editorial team.
In these three issues we featured some of our favourite stories. Including John Farrelly's Alpha Male, a superbly rendered, 'Flesh' tale. Plus, Ironic, a very different story of the Sector 13 Judges that took the whole editorial team to get ready and, in issue 5, our ambitious quartert of linked stories. Order here, while our stocks last.
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