STAR JAWS #36

The new issue of Star Jaws is out now from Barnstormer Comics, featuring the work of Robin Barnard, Martin Hand, and Paul Rainey.

This issue also features the final part of my comic, Los Angeles, November 2019. Many thanks to Robin for running my story.

More information here.

IT'S DOCTOR TIME sketches

I spent the day doing preliminary drawings for a Doctor Who parody comic.

I've mocked up a kind of "composite" Doctor, with a feature from each incarnation of the character.

There are drawings of the characters that feature in the story too; Yaz, a dalek, K9, and Winston Churchill.

I'm also going to have a multi-colour TARDIS in the story, because I feel like it.

COLOURING JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED): Pages 1-6

This week I did the flat colouring on pages 5 and 6, then went a step further than I have in the past and added shading throughout the 6 pages.

There's a sequence of rasterising type that locks in aspects of colour, and once that's done, it affects being able to change all the pages the same way.

Using photoshop is a continual learning experience.

Glad to have this one finished and get on with something else next week.

THAT COMIC SMELL: Movie Chat part 2

New episode out now!

From the web:

"Welcome back to part 2.
Strap yourselves in folks. Our Mike is about to tell the tale of cinema.
This was supposed to be a top 10… Someone didn’t give Mike the memo. Dave and Tom book end this episode with their lists but this is Mike Sedakat’s Odyssey.
We chat on what seems like every movie known to human existence. We have such a great laugh doing so though. This was so much fun putting this 2 parter together and we really hope you’ve enjoyed/enjoy it.
We will be back to our regular comics chat next time.
We hope you are all safe, healthy and happy out there.
Here comes the movie chat on…
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COLOURING JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) pages 1-4

I spent the week colouring Journey into Space (Interrupted) pages 1-4 in photoshop.

Thanks to Norrie Millar for the technical assist on Monday.

Going to add some shading and do pages 5 and 6 next week.

THAT COMIC SMELL: Movie Chat

The new episode is online now.

From the web:

"You all missing the cinemas, movie theatres, picture houses? So are we. That’s why we have a special 2 part episode where we sit down and chat about our favourite films.

We recorded this episode back in November 2018. We really hope you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we enjoyed making it. This first part is made up of some preamble, and Nando’s “Top 10” as you will see, very few of us managed to actually stick to just 10. Just wait until part 2 coming next week…

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JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) page 6 inks

All six pages inked.

Have spend some time today thinking about how I'm going to colour them. Started tentatively today, and hit an immediate snag with photoshop.

I'll look into that next week, unless the print run of Mount a Rescue arrives, and I'll start on the publicity, mailing out, and putting on sale online for that instead.

JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) page 5 inks

One page to go, folks.

JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) page 4 inks

The influence of 1950s flying saucers is evident.

NEVER IRON ANYTHING: The Cute Manifesto

I enjoyed discussing James Kochalka's The Cute Manifesto on Tony Esmond's podcast Never Iron Anything.

We talked the ins and outs of the book, and also stopped off for digressions on Star Trek comics and Barry Windsor-Smith's upcoming Monster comic.

Have a listen here.

JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) page 3 inks

The story is halfway done.

I'm toying with the idea of colouring this comic in shades of blue.

THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING

Just had a special delivery.

The proof copy of Mount a Rescue is here.

I will do a final check then order the full print run.

Getting there!

JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) page 2 inks

I'm borrowing Star Trek set design on this page.

JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) page 1 inks

Here are the inks for page one.
I'll be adding the text to this one using photoshop later.

THAT COMIC SMELL: Surreal / weird comics

The new episode is online now.

From the web:

“Well… that was strange ”
Welcome to another remote episode. This time we are chatting everything Surreal and Weird. From everything Doctor Strange, Arkham Asylum, The Invisibles to Dan Clowes, Charles Burns, John Tucker, Todd Oliver to Ren and Stimpy, The Simpsons, Jon Adam and beyond.

This and all the usual comics chat on…
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JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED) page 6 pencils

Sixth and final page of the story pencilled today.

It's great to get this stage done, and I am eager to begin inking tomorrow.

JOURNEY INTO SPACE (INTERRUPTED): page 5 pencils

Today's efforts.