Paul Shinn covers Sweet Tooth #1

My work is featured over on the Covered blog, where artists re-interpret comic covers. I've been featured on the site twice before, and this time I've redrawn the cover to the first issue of one of my current favourite comics, Sweet Tooth, which is written and drawn by Jeff Lemire.

Here is the original cover by Jeff Lemire, followed by my version below it...

And I was also pleased that Jeff Lemire retweeted my message on Twitter about my version of his cover. Hope he liked it!

World Goth Day 2012

Apparently, today is World Goth Day. It was also (miraculously) very hot and sunny in London today! So to sort of celebrate both of these disparate things, here's a drawing of Death from The Sandman with a strawberry ice-cream...

Animal Magic

Today I went to London Zoo and did some drawing while I was there...

This Black-Capped Squirrel Monkey wanted to get a better look at what I was doing...!

Ghost Rider's Day Off

I found another drawing that I did when I was initially working on ideas for my Sketchbook Project sketchbook last year, that I hadn't previously posted. So here's Ghost Rider, the Spirit of Vengeance, enjoying a sunny day in the park, having a bite to eat, and catching up on some reading...

In retrospect, I probably should have drawn him reading The Girl Who Played With Fire...

It's not easy being green...

I found this drawing I did of the Green Lantern in my sketchbook, so decided to add some colour to it, just for fun. I'm not really sure why I was drawing the Green Lantern in the first place. I think it might have been when I was working on ideas for my Sketchbook Project sketchbook last year...

Maurice Sendak (10 June 1928 – 8 May 2012)

The author and illustrator Maurice Sendak passed away last week at the age of 83. The New York Times called Sendak "the most important children's book artist of the 20th century."

I decided to draw an illustration celebrating one of Sendak's most popular titles (and my own personal favourite), Where The Wild Things Are, with Max and one of the wild things sitting down and enjoying Maurice Sendak's book like so many children (and adults) have done and will continue to do for years to come...

Happy Star Wars Day!

Today is Star Wars Day! If you don't know what that is, here is Darth Maul and an Ewok to explain...