Happy Anniversary Mum and Dad!

As well as being New Year's Eve, today is my parents' 37th wedding anniversary. Here's a card I made for them, with them as sparrows. Because they like looking at the sparrows in their garden. And it's difficult to come up with something new to draw every year! :P

Happy Birthday Tom Fog!

It was my mate Tom's birthday on Sunday and I drew him a card based on the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, also from the Eighties...

The Line It Is Drawn Try-Outs: Week Two

The Line It Is Drawn is a weekly column over at the Comic Book Resources website. Every week Followers of the site's Twitter page come up with responses to a comics-related theme, and a group of artists pick a suggestion from this list to illustrate and the final result is posted online each week at CBR.

They are currently looking for new artist's to take part, and as it sounded like a fun exercise, I decided to take part. There will be two weeks of Try-Outs and then five artists will be selected from those that manage to produce an illustration for both weeks.

The topic for Week Two, to celebrate Batman's 75th Anniversary, was Batman Team-Ups and I chose to draw Vampire Batman, Count Duckula and Count Von Count from Sesame Street. And as I thought was befitting three Vampires, I decided to base it on the poster for the Eighties vampire movie Lost Boys...



All of the artworks are now up online here: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/12/22/the-line-it-is-drawn-2014-artist-try-outs-week-two/ and you can vote for me...or whoever...here: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/12/22/the-line-it-is-drawn-2014-artist-try-outs-week-two/9/

The Line It Is Drawn Try-Outs: Week One

The Line It Is Drawn is a weekly column over at the Comic Book Resources website. Every week Followers of the site's Twitter page come up with responses to a comics-related theme, and a group of artists pick a suggestion from this list to illustrate and the final result is posted online each week at CBR.

They are currently looking for new artist's to take part, and as it sounded like a fun exercise, I decided to take part. There will be two weeks of Try-Outs and then five artists will be selected from those that manage to produce an illustration for both weeks.

The topic for Week One was "Cover Homage" and I chose to draw the cover to All Star Superman #1 featuring Streaky The Supercat...



And here is the original cover by Frank Quitely...



All of the artworks are now up online here: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/12/15/the-line-it-is-drawn-2014-artist-try-outs/

Birthdays: Triple Deluxe

On Saturday my friends Anna, Lauren and Jess had a joint party to celebrate their birthdays. Which meant that I had three cards to draw!

I met Lauren through various events at Gosh! Comics and one of her favourite comics is the current run of Hawkeye from Marvel Comics, written by Matt Fraction with art by David Aja and Annie Wu. So I drew a picture of Lauren reading the first volume of Hawkeye...



For my friend Anna, I drew her as a 50ft woman stepping on a lizard. Because reasons...



And last, but not least, for Jess I continued the theme of the card I made for her last year, by re-creating another Hanson album cover, this time "Snowed In"...





Before I met Jess, I didn't realise that Hanson had more than one song, let alone multiple albums, but it seems that now I have consigned myself to drawing her a Hanson-themed birthday card year after year... Sometimes I really shouldn't start something in the first place!

Process #21: Christmas Comics Creating Party

Process is a monthly comics workshop/discussion group, run by Steve Walsh, that takes place on the first Wednesday of every month at Gosh! Comics.

This month's event was a festive comics jam and we spent the evening making comics, eating Jaffa Cakes and Quality Street, drinking beer and being forced to listen to xmas songs.


(photo courtesy of Matt Duncan)

Steve provided a selection of basic materials, including felt-tip pens, stickers and a xmas stamp set. I decided to use some of these stamps to make my comic. There was also a range of inspirational material provided by Jess Milton, Cristian Ortiz, Daniel de Sosa, Matt Boyer, Anna Dowsland, Saul Taylor and Tempo-Lush Richy K. Chandler (Steve had asked me if I could draw something too, but sadly I ran out of time!). I took one of Saul Taylor's blank variant cover designs, complete with Steve's face in the corner box, and used it for the cover to my comic.

And here's what I drawed (partially fuelled by alcohol and e-numbers):









It was a fun night, and there was also a couple of comics jam pages being passed around during the evening, with each person tasked with completing the comic from the previous panel and passing it on. I don't have any photos of those, but if they turn up online, I'll add them here...

The House Of Illustration's Christmas Illustrators' Fair

Earlier this year, I took part in the House Of Illustration's inaugural Illustrators' Fair. And they are currently running a Christmas Illustrators' Fair shop alongside the House of Illustration's shop selling a range of prints, cards and other festive gifts produced by a wide range of contemporary illustrators.



They're currently stocking copies of both my "March Of The Penguins" comic and my latest comic, "Look What I Drawed...", alongside my new xmas card design...



The Illustrators' Fair will be open during the House Of Illustration's usual opening hours: 10am–6pm Tuesday–Sunday (Please note, they're closed on Mondays!). They also currently have two exhibitions on: "Paula Rego/Honoré Daumier: Scandal, Gossip and Other Stories" and "Paddington: Illustrated and Animated". The House Of Illustration is next to Central Saint Martins' building close to Kings Cross station: 2 Granary Square, King's Cross London N1C 4BH