Do The Wolf Dance!

One of my favourite scenes from Teen Wolf is the school prom, where Scott proceeds to "wow" everyone with a dance that only a werewolf could do (apparently). Watch this to learn the dance and be the envy of your friends!

More Character Prints!

Con Season will be in full swing come May, so I'm starting on new prints to sell. Have some Marvel and Akira based goodies!

Undead Alert Cards

My zombie comic, Brains Etc, is very nearly completed and will be released at the Bristol Small Press Expo in May! Expect lots of goodies to go with it including a mini comic, stickers and a special edition print only available with the zine :D

A busy and exciting last few days!

Do you ever get those days where you feel very down about your work only to have something awesome happens to make you feel a billion times better? I had one of those days last week! On Thursday, I set aside a chunk of time to send work out to publishers. I emailed people, rang people, printed stuff and made promo packs ready to send out in the afternoon. I had a list of places to try and ended up ringing one of them to find out if they accept submissions and who to send them to. The very lovely person I spoke to gave me her email address and I sent some samples to them. 10 minutes later, I accepted an offer to work on a project for them to take to the Bologna Children's Book Fair! Needless to say, I was absolutely delighted by this turn of events. Even more so when they said they'd like me to do four board books for them. Hopefully I'll be able to post some images soon as it's a really fun project!

Apologies for also not announcing the winners of my mini-comics giveaway either as I was working flat-out all weekend. The lucky peeps are: David Tiernan and Victoria N. Well done guys!

More Monster Noms!

Monster Noms!

Some cute monsters discuss their favourite food!

Mini Comics Giveaway!

It had to be done; I couldn't make these comics without doing a giveaway! And the first one of 2011 to boot! I have two sets of four mini comics to giveaway along with four full-colour prints (one for each comic.) All you have to do, as always, is leave a comment below with your email address and the winners will be picked randomly on the 19th of March. Go for it!

A Cautionary Tale...

More Mini Comics!

I finally got the other mini comics in my four comic set printed today for the London Comics and Small Press Expo! To join Cryptids and Gross Stuff are Zombies and Ninja Skills. I know that Zombies and Ninjas have been done to death, but hopefully I've done something not-too-boring with them.

Ninjas are good at everything.

A snazzy Ninja print to go with your Ninja Skills comic!

Gather 'round kids and hear a story!

Have some full colour entrails with your comic!

The comics will be on sale for £1.50. I'll also have some colouring books, paintings, prints, key rings, magnets and greetings cards. Please do come along as it will be awesome sauce!

Secret Project!

I can't say much about this but for the last few weeks I've been working on a children's book proposal with a writer and have just finished a batch of illustrations for it. It's not so secret that I can't post a couple of pictures:

...but it IS so secret that I can't tell you anything about them! The pictures may look like they say it all, but there's a lot more behind them than first glance. I can tell you the book is aimed at kids who like gross stuff; if you ever read the Little Dracula storybooks or like Horrible History or Horrible Science books, odds are you'll like this. More on this story as it (hopefully) develops! :P

Mini Comics, batch 1!

Two out of four of my mini comics for the London Small Press Expo are printed and packaged. Each diddy 15 page comic comes with a full colour print and there will be four in the series to collect. Here are the first couple:

Zine + print = awesome!

The Cryptids comic comes with a print of Sasquatch - it had to be!

The Gross Stuff zine comes with a dung beetle print. It seemed logical.

We're talking deep stuff here.

Never heard of the Mongolian Death Worm? Read about his escapades here. I like to think my comics are educational as well as pointless! :P Ninjas and Zombies will be done for next week and I can see more mini comics being made for future cons. I've already got plans for titles including Video Games, Sharks, Mexican Wrestlers, Robots and a Japanese Phrase Book. If you can't make the con, fear not as I will be selling these in my online shop soon!

Busy busy busy!

You know how you get really busy weeks but have hardly anything to show for it? This has been one of those weeks! Well, not that I don't have anything to show for it, just that a lot of the work I've been doing, I CAN'T show. I've been working on a pretty cool project for a writer, working up some illustrations for a kid's book that will be pitched at various book fairs. Fingers crossed it gets some interest! I can't say much at the moment, only that I've been drawing zombies and people transforming into horrible things!

I have started working on stuff to take to my first con of the year though; the London Comic and Small Press Expo, formally the Web and Mini Comix Thing. As the Thing was no longer running, it got taken over by the awesome peeps who have vamped up the Bristol Con and I can't wait to see how it goes. The Web and Mini Comix Thing was the first con I ever went to as an exhibitor and has pretty much been the reason I go to cons so I'm glad it hasn't been canned. Here are some of the bits I've been making:

Zombie key rings and magnets! It's a dull job cutting out all of those little squares but the end product looks awesome!

Some finished magnets; more designs to come too!

Finished zombie magnets!

Fortune cookies...

I was hoping to have my new big zine, Brains Etc. finished for this but tight deadlines this month have pushed it back a bit. In the meantime, I'll be making 4 mini-comics that will be sold in packs with a print and some other goodies. You get to choose from Gross Stuff, Cryptids, Ninjas or Zombies! Or all 4! :P

I will also be selling a few Transformers bits at Roll Out/Roll Call on the 6th of March as my boyf is a guest. A busy couple of weeks but worth it!

Venger!

Another great 80s cartoon baddie who wore a skirt (sensing a pattern here), Venger from Dungeons & Dragons! I always liked Venger because even though he was a complete bastard, he had his moments where he was almost human. My favourite episode, The Dragon's Graveyard, is a great example of this and gets me every time. It was considered a pretty risky episode as the kids all plot to kill Venger and even get to the point where they can. Venger was also voiced by the amazing Peter Cullen, who also did Optimus Prime. Apparently, doing Venger's voice was always a strain on Cullen's voice so it wasn't one of his favourites to do!

Awesome Korean Cinema

I'm a huge fan of Asian cinema - see my post about some amazing Japanese films here - and have recently been getting back to it in a big way, most notably with South Korean cinema. Here are three I've watched in the last few days, all of which happen to star one of my favourite actors, the amazing Song Kang-ho.

Memories of Murder has actually been one of my favourite films for a while now and it just gets better with every watch. Based on Korea's first major serial killer case back in the 80s, MOM sees a small town shook by a series of grisly murders. The local police force don't have the resources to deal with such a case and resort to extreme measures to try and please the press and catch a killer. The acting in this film is superb and the story is gripping and bleak; don't let that put you off though! It's currently being remade in the States so catch the original first.

The Good The Bad The Weird is brilliant, pure and simple! Set in 1930's Manchuria, a bounty hunter, a hired killer and a thief cross paths as they all become involved in a treasure hunt. The direction in this film is fantastic; very kinetic and inventive and it's obvious that the actors are having a great time too. This is a mere £2.99 on Amazon and more than worth that price; very highly recommended!

Vampire films have been done to death but Chan-wook Park has managed to revive a tired concept. A priest volunteers at a remote hospital to find a cure for a virus and after almost dying, is given a blood transfusion from blood belonging to a vampire. He becomes involved with his friend's wife and everything goes wrong from there! Brilliant film; no sharp teeth, fantastic acting from Song Kang-ho and just a different take on the vampire genre.

New Godzilla Comic Series

It's not unusual these days for single issue comics to have several variants; having worked in a comic shop, I remember all too well sorting through sketch variants, wrap-around, colour variants, character variants, foil covers - the list goes on. However, IDW have come up with an amazingly original and frankly crazy new variant idea; any comic shop that orders 500 of the new Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters series gets their comic shop drawn being destroyed by Godzilla on the cover! You can read more about it here but this means that there are no less than 80 variant covers to this comic which has never been done before. More excitingly, my talented beau John-Paul coloured no less than 20 of these covers. Above is just one of them; now we need to see if we can collect them all!

Mumm-Ra: The Ever Living!

Growing up in the 80s, I watched a LOT of cartoons. Apparently, me and my brother played outside a lot too but my memories consist mostly of cartoon shows and computer games. I thought I'd do a series on the characters that had some influence on me as I grew up. First off, we have Mumm-Ra: The Ever Living! Baddie to the Thundercats, I always though Mumm-Ra was bloody weird; an Egyptian dude wearing a skirt who always had spit hanging from his teeth, almost compares with the oddness of Saw Boss from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors! Here he is in his second incarnation as a buff, immortal vision of evil!

Astonishing X-Men commission

I was given the rather daunting but fun task of drawing a page from Astonishing X-Men in my style. I had a lot of fun with this but my work just doesn't compare to John Cassadays!

Inflight Mag Illustrations

I've just finished my second job for Air Emirates pre-school in flight magazine and it was even better than the last one! I had a lot of fun with this and can't wait for the next one.

Find the rhyming pictures!

Old MacDonald's farm, with tractor to colour in!

Alphabet drop-ins; V and X are my favourites!

Work and 80s TV

It's been a busy week and it's only Wednesday! I thought I'd share what I've been working on lately. For Valentine's Day, I made my awesome boyf a deliberately bad card based on Die Hard:

The chicken dippers refer to the Die Hard themed restaurant we created whilst eating at the Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant. Someday we will produce a full menu!

I asked JP to get me Street Hawk on DVD for my birthday in April but he got it for VD instead - woo! Mainly to shut me up, I think, as I've been going on about it for ages. It's brilliant for all the wrong reasons and is definitely better as a memory! I've been loving it though; can't get the Tangerine Dream theme tune out of my head! :D

I'm almost done with my new Air Emirates brief; here are the inks for a double-page spread for Old MacDonald's Farm...

I finally got my awesome District 9 art book through the post; it's fantastic. I can't get over the designs from this film. The weapons are especially gorgeous and it's easy to see why Neill Blomkamp and Weta would have been perfect for the canned Halo film.

Some colour drop-ins for another Air Emirates spread. Illustrating X For X-Ray was my favourite!