Happy Birthday RIchy!

I still have a couple more 2015 catch-up blogs to run, but in the meantime I'm going to take a quick trip back to the future, and post a couple of recent things I've drawn...

My friend Richy started off 2016 by celebrating a pretty monumental birthday. And as we share a mutual love for Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip, I made him this Peanuts-inspired card, featuring his beloved cat, Suki Kabuki...

Blogs of Future Past (Part 2: Comics)

So continuing my catch-up of 2015 in the early days of 2016, here's a couple of comics projects I was part of last year which I hadn't got around to mentioning properly...

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I contributed a page to A Bit Of Undigested Potato, Keara Stewart's anthology about bad dreams and nightmares, which is available to purchase from her online store.


I was also asked to contribute to Richy K. Chandler's second Tempo Lush anthology: Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox, the follow-up to Tempo Lush Tales which was released in 2014 and which I provided artwork to a 12-page story that Richy wrote. This time I was contributing to a collaborative comic with a dozen artists all illustrating a page of a comic based around the lyrics to a song Richy wrote called Bugleberry Tree.

Richy sent me the lyrics for the whole song and told me which verse he wanted me to illustrate, but that was it really in terms of direction. Everything else was up to me in terms of how I chose to interpret those lyrics and even how the main character should look. I didn't see any of my fellow creators' work until the book was all put together and it was fun to read through it all together. Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox also features a number of other stories and is available to buy from Richy's online store.

And I drew a one page comic for Frame By Frame, a free Film and Television zine put together by Steve Walsh and Shaun Richens from Gosh! Comics. I don't think there are any copies still available, but I drew a comic about Spoilers!


I'm hoping to have a lot more comics projects happening in 2016, so watch this space!

Tempo Lush Tales

So one of the Secret Projects I've been working on recently has been a 12-page story for Tempo Lush Tales the new anthology comic created by Mr Tempo Lush himself, Richy K. Chandler. All the stories in the anthology have been written by Richy and illustrated by a cavalcade of artists including Matt Boyer, Francesca Cassavetti, Martin Eden, Tim Hassan, Steve Horry, Inko, Chie Kutsuwada, Mike Medaglia, Aaron Murphy, Van Nim, Karen Rubins, Keara Stewart and me! The book is being released next Friday and there will be an epic book launch for not only Tempo Lush Tales, but also three other books that Richy has been involved in creating: the second volume of Rosie and Jacinda, the third collection of Richy's webcomic Lucy the Octopus, AND a pre-school children’s comic/picture book Bang! Crash! Whizz!. Phew!

The launch will take place at Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, from 7-9pm on Friday 3 October, and there's a Facebook event set up here. Come along! It'll be fun!! And I might even scribble in your book!

Anyway, all of which is leading up to me sharing a sneak preview of the story I've been working on, called The President Of West Tibia...



What happens next? Well come to the launch, buy a copy of the book and find out! :)

Happy Birthday Richy!

Talented comics creator Richy K Chandler's birthday is at the very start of the year and here's a card I made for him with a picture of Richy on the skateboard he got for his last birthday, playing on the 3DS XL that he got for christmas...