Slab-o-Concrete was originally based in Sheffield. It moved to Hove in 1995. After intensely increasing its publishing line in the late 1990s (including moving into CDs and prose books), it collapsed in 2001 as policy changes in the book industry caused cash-flow issues.
In 1998, Slab-O-Concrete published four titles in partnership with Amnesty International. The comics were designed as 16-page minicomics with card stock covers, designed to be sealed and used as postcards. Ilya's A Bowl of Rice was about the forcible relocation and killing of Shan rice farmers in Burma. Enrique Rodríguez's Freedom from Discrimination was a story about maltreatment of and violence against street children in Brazil, and undocumented, unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States. Dan Jones' Just Deserts told the story of a female Filipinomigrant worker's false conviction and punishment in Saudi Arabia. Peter Arkle's Love told the story of Mariana Cetiner, a Romanian woman arrested and imprisoned for allegedly attempting to seduce another woman. In 1999, Slab-O-Concrete published another 16-page mailable minicomic called Donna's Day, by Donna Mathes and Peter Bagge.
One of their its publications, in 1999, was The Worm: the Longest Comic Strip in the World, by Alan Moore and a "galaxy of greats", which was published in association with the Cartoon Art Trust and the Swedish Council for Cultural Affairs. "In one single working day, over 125 British cartoonists gathered together in one place to create 'the longest comic [wordless] strip in the world.'"[1]The Worm had introductions and explanatory text in English, Swedish and French.
Titles published
Music
Jackpot - Songs And Art, (7" with art book) Jad Fair and Jason Willett (1997)[2]
17%: Hendrix Was Not the Only Musician!, by Billy Childish & His Famous Headcoats (1998)
Excreta: Stories of Bodily Fluids, by Ole Comoll Christensen (1999)
Fishbowl #1 (1994), #2 (1995), by Chris Tappenden
Floozie, by Jane Graham (1998)
Gash, by Soren Mosdal (2000)
The GirlFrenzy Aillennial: a Big Girl's Annual, by Erica Smith (1998)
The Great Challenge: an International Anthology of Political Cartoons (1998) — exhibition catalogue to accompany the Great Challenge held at Oxo Tower Wharf, London, 1998
Handy Hints for a Consumer Society, by Chris Tappenden (1995)
Liberty Fernando: a Story of Zits & Revolution, by Ole Comoll Christensen (1999)
Lux and Alby: Sign on & Save the Universe, by Martin Millar and Simon Fraser, with lettering by Ali Kirkpatrick (1999)
Meet John Dark, by Darryl Cunningham and Simon Gane (1998)
Pavement (issues #0, 1-3; title changed to Pavement Pizza for issue #4), edited by Peter Pavement, with contributions by Pavement, Dave Hanna, Lawrence Burton, Adeline Wartner, Paul John, Welly, Andy Hemingway, Renée French, and Chris Tappenden (1990–1994)
The Plot Thickens (1997) — published with Brighton-based Armchair Comics
