THAT COMIC SMELL 8: Science

She blinded me with science comics!
The new episode of That Comic Smell is now online.
Have a listen at Soundcloud here and YouTube here.

From the website:

" It’s alive… It’s Alive… IT’S ALIVE!

It’s That Comic Smell Podcast and the folks here are grabbing their test tubes, firing up the Bunsen burner and concocting a brand new episode. Episode 8 covers that topic of SCIENCE.

The guys have a chat on whether it was easy or not to define between science or Sci-fi. Mike blows us away with his sheer volume of books. Also we tip it all off with some news on what’s been happening over the past month. 

All of this and more on the only podcast to discuss “Who would really win in a fight? Dinosaurs or Aliens?”

Enjoy.

[These are some of the titles we discuss]

Thanos Rising (Jason Aaron, Simone Bianchi)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill)
Dinosaurs vs Aliens (Grant Morrison, Mukesh Singh)
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage (Sydney Padua)
Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
Transformers: Best of Starscream (Various)
Farside Collection: Unatural Selections (Gary Larson)
Science Comics: Dinosaurs (M.K.Reed, Joe Flood)
Alita: Battle Angel (Yukito Kishiro)
Dr. Slump (Akira Toriyama)
Tinkle: Where Learning Meets Fun [No. 187] (Various)
Bomb Queen: Gang Bang (Jimmie Robinson)
Aliens: Hive (Jerry Prosser, Kelley Jones)
Batman, Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham (Simon Bisley, Alan Grant)
Spider-man: Origin of the Hobgoblin (Bill Mantlo, Roger Stern, Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, John Romita JR., Marie Severin)
Art of Gundam Wing (Shuko Murase)
Frontiers of Science (Professor Stuart Butler, Robert Raymond, Andrea Bresciani)
Spineless (http://newcastlesciencecomic.blogspot...)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip.K.Dick, Tony Parker)
The Zoohunters (Peter Steigerwald)
Logicomix (Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna)
Top 10 (Alan Moore, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon)
Valérian (Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières)"

STAR JAWS #15

The new issue of Star Jaws is out now. 

I've a story in there called "The Making of Space Film Episode 7". A wee preview:

Star Jaws also includes stories and art by Robin Barnard, Martin Hand and Andy Smith and is available from better comic shops! 

It's an intriguing and fun comic. More info on Star Jaws can be found here.

TWO COMIC READINGS!

As part of an event which was the launch of both the H.G. Wells anthology comic and the newly rebranded Ink Pot studio, there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and a certificates presentation before a series of comics performances from Damon Herd's DeeCAP began. This included performances from Kathryn Briggs, Andy Herd, Stuart McAdam, Norrie Millar, Damon himself, and me.

I did two readings. The first was a story I wrote and drew previously - "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: an Introduction", and the second - "George vs Herbert", was done specifically for "Time & Space".

Here they are:

Many thanks to Tom Stewart of That Comic Smell podcast, who filmed these!

TIME & SPACE

Cover by Norrie Millar.

This new anthology comic is based on and inspired by the works of H.G. Wells.

It features work by Adam Clark, Madeline Gangnes, Rebecca Horner, Molly-May Lockhart, Colin Maxwell, Norrie Millar, Chris Murray, Michael Philp, Helen Robinson and Andrew Strachan.

I am in there too, with a new story. Here is a preview:

HOURLY COMIC DAY 2017

Wednesday was Hourly Comic Day, where the challenge is to make a comic for every hour you're awake. This can take any format you choose.

I decided to do a three panel strip for each hour. It's a good discipline,boiling down an idea into this format.

Here are my strips then, covering 7am - 10pm. Click for larger versions. I hope you enjoy them!

THAT COMIC SMELL 7: Politics

The new episode of That Comic Smell is now online.
Have a listen at Soundcloud here and YouTube here.

From the website:

" WELCOME… to the WORLD OF TOMORROW!!

Yes folk, it is 2017 and we are here with a brand new pod for everyone to sink their ears into.
To start off this year with a rousing yet, at times, controversial bang we are talking politics. The folks here cottoned on to our news worthy last year and start to this year and thought they would ride the wave/contribute by talking about comics that are politically based or have a certain political theme/satire about them.
We also discuss what we got, picked up or interested us over the holiday season. We then sneak in a few news talking points at the end.
Join us. Pull up a chair. Become the 6th member at the table of discussion from here in the kitchen. Most importantly, enjoy episode number 7 of “That Comic Smell”

Here are some of the titles discussed on this months pod:

V for Vendetta (Alan Moore, David Lloyd)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
Che: A Graphic Biography (Spain Rodriguez)
Castro (Reinhard Kleist)
Ex Machina (Brian K Vaughan, Tony Harris)
Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Traveling Heroes (Dennis O'Neil, Neal Adams)
Civil War (Mark Millar, Steve McNiven)
Superman: Red Son (Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, Kilian Plunkett)
Siege (Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel)
DMZ (Brian Wood, Riccardo Burchielli)
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (Chris Claremont, Brent Anderson)
Give Me Liberty (Frank Miller, Dave Gibbons)
Suicide Sqaud: Trial by Fire (John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell)
King (Ho Che Anderson)
Hallblazer (Jamie Delano, John Ridgway)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill)
Private Eye: A Cartoon History (Nick Newman)
Malcom X for Beginners (Bernard Aquina Doctor)
Iznogoud and the Women (René Goscinny, Jean Tabary)
Batman: Earth One (Geoff Johns, Gary Frank)
Charley's War (Pat Mills, Joe Colquhoun)
March (John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell)
Transmetropolitan (Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson)
Star Wars: Marvel
Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Palestine (Joe Sacco)
Bumf: Vol.1 (Joe Sacco)
Munch (Steffen Kverneland)
Godzilla
The Wes Anderson Collection
The Story of Sex: Form Apes to Robots (Philippe Brenot, Laetitia Coryn)
Wrinkles (Paco Roca)
Love & Rockets: Beyond Palomar (Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez)"