Ed Firth is the East London, UK artist and writer behind the Pound Shop zine cycle and the ongoing Horny & High anthology comic series exploring British chemsex subculture among gay men in 2010’s London. Vol 1 was shortlisted for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition, and described by queer comics legend Ralf König as telling “a truth only the bowels can understand”. In 2022 his autobiographical comic The Lift placed second in the Observer/Faber & Faber Graphic Short Story competition, and in 2023 he was recognised by Broken Frontier as one of their Six To Watch emerging Small Press creators. He is currently writing volume 3 of H&H and producing a hardback Best-Of collection of Pound Shop, as well as volunteering for Controlling Chemsex to help people resolve ambivalence around substance use.