Vic Pratt

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Vic Pratt, born in 1971 in Hounslow, is an artist, writer, musician and actor who lives in Muswell Hill, London. In the mid-1990s he published two issues of his British small-press comic Flea Circus, whose strips are autobiographical and echo artists like Robert Crumb, Chester Brown, David Law and Hergé. He created Bad Feedback about his university days and has written for Zum!, Story Paper Collectors’ Digest and Psychopia, earning a reputation as a historian of British comics. He also drew jam strips such as Martian Jam and Stranded on the M25. As a film curator for the British Film Institute and National Film Archive, he organized early screenings of Primitive London and Tintin and the Golden Treasure, and hosted Rupert Bear Night with guests including Mary Turner and Terry Jones. In music, he sings and plays with the country-folk-pop group Monogram, who performed in London’s The Drill Hall in 2004 and released an album on Irregular Records’ Unlabelled label; he also played with Dylan Rabbit. He has acted in films, including Teenagecstasy, and in Hounslow-based works by Jan Manthey. He once sent a self-portrait to Robert Crumb, which appeared in the 1974 comic Odds & Ends.