24/11/2010

Re Boot



When drawing is stinking it up regularly I go back to the start of it all and draw Star Wars. It may still stink but i'll have a bloody good time doing it.

21/11/2010

Scotch Corner Guest, Me!

Pleased as punch to have been asked to do a sunday guest spot at Scotch Corner. I love a bit of Dune.

19/11/2010

Many Fisto

Goods at Thought Bubble

While i'm sneaking about at Thought Bubble on saturday i'll be carrying swag for sale, comics, Gungle postcard sets and these A3 prints. Prices start around 1 million quid, which will cover my train fare. There will be a haggling option. I might also remember to bring some Kani original art.



If anyone at all would like an A6 sketch of summat, let me know and i'll do one for a few quid. I may well be found at either the Blank Slate table or the Solipsistic Pop table, both of which are not to be missed.

17/11/2010

Kani at FPI

WJC Comic #2 KANI got reviewed on the Forbidden Planet's blog and jolly nice they were too.



There are still Kani comics left available, email me if you're interested. I'll have a few tucked up me coat at this saturday's Thought Bubble



There are also original pages and parts of pages available to buy if anyone wants.

Commissions taken too, train fare to pay for!

16/11/2010

12/11/2010

Solipsistic Pop #3 Launch



Solipsistic Pop #3 Launch party TONIGHT!

11/11/2010

awesome, awesome, yadder yadder yadder ORSUM! ORSUM! great cool blah blah blah ner ner noop . . . . . .

This blog is really for drawings, notes, ideas and that sort of thing and not really writing. I don’t mind not making sense with the artwork as it goes up, once I’m done with it, once I’ve got something out of it and it might not necessarily be ‘finished’. So it’s likely that something like this will have a few problems, which I would apologize for but need not now as I have now halted my plans for a decent essay on this good stuff in favour of a link heavy list.



Since BICS I have got hold of an unusually high quality of comics. They are excellent in most ways and poor in very few. There is little point in me telling you why I like them, better that you try them yourselves and decide. Times are not ideal for trying new books, many of these I got through swaps. Some are in a foreign language and I cannot read them. Some maybe rarities though several can be found in the library.



Slates 5 and 9 from Blank Slate Both inventive, unique and excellent (Flores book read now by most of my family now)



More sterling Sherlock Holmes and a truly epic and haunting book in At the Mountains of Madness. Actually, 'awesome' artwork and NOT in the easy internet sense, I was stopped in awe several times through the book (first page!!)




Both of these are in German and though I don't understand the language at all, I do understand comics. Aces. From here and here.



Bad Dog (Smashing) Slang (Don't know if Rob has any left but has the feeling of a comic that everyone should know and have read, brilliant work and I'm dead happy he gave me a copy) Herald Owlett (High energy) Comics Food-Pedia (Cliodhna Lyons and Tsuyoshi Ogawa) and Twins (Smashing)




Luke Pearson (Some Folk and Dull Ache) Accent Uk David Hine West Tozo David Wynne's Particle Fiction and Trick or Treats from David O'Connell Joe Decie and Cliodhna Lyons

The combined effect of this new pile of comics in my house is one of energy and enthusiasm. They are very different in many ways, stronger and weaker in varying respects but a really exciting to have collected in little less than a month.

There are plenty of books still on my 'to get' list and no doubt accidental omissions too. The DFC library books aren't here today, they will have a post of their own and of course, Solipsistic Pop #3.

I love comics.

09/11/2010

SLAMS



Book Cover (not an actual one)

Sweary Bear and Hot Dog

08/11/2010

Finishing Sketches

Catching up with some colour on a couple of the weekend.s sneakily managed moleskin moments.



04/11/2010

Chimerney Sweep.

We had the chimney sweep around today, he looked nothing like this guy though.

02/11/2010

Coconut Robotics

Back from the MCM Expo highly enthusiastic and inspired by other peoples comics. Best not forget I have one of my own on the go.
Here's the Coconut Robot in progress.



More about MCM when I get a mo.

01/11/2010

Halloween (well it was last night . . . . )

. . . . . . And I felt like death all day.



Last night posted a link to download The Cauldron pdf during the midnight hour. If you missed it, you can still read it all here. But a fantasically creepy comic from Emily Carroll is here.