Happy Birthday Richy!

A New Year means New Birthdays...or at least the same birthdays as last year, but a year older! And my friend Richy K. Chandler kicked things off with a birthday on New Year's Day. I worked with Richy on a story for his Tempo Lush Tales anthology comic which he published last year, which he wrote and I drew.

Richy also has his own webcomic, Lucy The Octopus, which is updated weekly. The main character Lucy (who is an octopus) has a pet pufferfish called Puffy. Richy is also a big fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. These two things suddenly collided in my brain, and I drew Richy this picture with him coming up with the natural spin-off...



[EDIT] I was just clearing up the desktop on my computer and I found this initial sketch that I drew when I suddenly had the idea for Richy's card, so thought I'd share it here...

Comic Gosh!p

Comic Gosh!p is a monthly comic book discussion group that takes place at Gosh! London. Each event will normally includes one mainstream comic book and one small press book which is then discussed and dissected. Next month is a bit of a comic strip special, and we'll be looking at Krazy Kat by George Herriman, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson and Lucy the Octopus by Richy K. Chandler.

I actually hadn't read any Krazy Kat or Calvin and Hobbes before, although I was aware of them both, and it's been fun to finally have an excuse to give them a read. Although as much as I've been enjoying them, I couldn't help but feel a little bit disappointed that we weren't looking at another classic comic strip (and my own personal favourite)...