Past six days
Attic Lights frontman Kevin Sherry: I'm stripping for feminism
The Glasgow singer tells Paul English why he has turned to writing anarchic comic books that fight the patriarchy
Paul English
Sunday July 21 2019, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
Sherry, far left, with Attic Lights
He designed his first comic book at primary school — a weekly anthology of childhood rebellion delivered to an eager primary five readership at St Matthew's Primary in Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, between learning times tables and the fundamentals of grammar.
This year, Kevin Sherry has finally fulfilled his P5 promise. Not satisfied with releasing the third album of harmony-laden guitar pop with his band Attic Lights, the frontman of the Glasgow indie outfit has taken steps towards fulfilling a potential first seen when he was too young to understand.
Sherry writes Warpaint, a comic featuring teenage girls who daub their faces with menstrual blood
"I wrote and drew 30 issues. A big, thick comic, and it was kept in a box up the back of the class at school," said the 41-year-old creator of a challenging new comic strip that