STAR JAWS #39

The latest issue of Star Jaws is out now from Barnstormer Comics.

It features Robin Barnard, Martin Hand, and Paul B. Rainey.

My story, "Bunker Destruction" also features. Here's a clip:

More information on Star Jaws over at the Images Degrading Forever website here.

WOW! RETRACTED at A PLACE TO HANG YOUR CAPE

Fred McNamara has written on Wow! Retracted over at A Place to Hang Your Cape.

Have a read here.

THAT COMIC SMELL: Who are you, again? (Character changes)

 

The new episode is online now, discussing how different character have changed and evolved over the years.

From the website:

"Hello everyone!

In this episode of the pod we dive into characters that have REALLY changed over time. We mainly cover ones that have changed in design from their first iterations but we also go a little deeper and cover some other angles.

This and all the usual comics chat on…

That Comic Smell!

Get us on…

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and most places you find podcasts.

Love and Rockets (Los Bros Hernandez)

Dennis the Menace (Beano, George Mooney, Davey Law)

Bananaman (The Nutty/Dandy, John Geering)

Drax the Destroyer (Jim Starlin, Mike Friedrich)

Garfield (Jim Davis)

Venom (Todd McFarlane)

Harley Quinn (Paul Dinin, Bruce Timm)

Catwoman (Bill Finger, Bob Kane)

Dragonball Z (Akira Toriyama)

Dan Dare (Frank Hampson, Ian Kennedy, Alan Moore :P Jokes, Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons, Gary Erskine and many more)

Robin (Bill finger, Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson)

Iron Man (Stan Lee, Don Heck, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber)

Nick Fury (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby)

Captain Marvel (Stan Lee, Gene Colan)"

TAY BRIDGE DISASTER COMIC acrylic tones

I spent the day adding tones with acrylics today.

Will be moving on to doing the cover for the collected comic book next.

TAY BRIDGE DISASTER COMIC photos and inks

I travelled over to Wormit this morning to take photos of the Tay Bridge, specifically looking to get pictures which included the stumps of the old collapsed bridge.

When I got back I pencilled the third and final panel, and then inked all of it.

I like the line drawings of the crash panel. I scanned that drawing and might do something with it. I'll be adding the watercolour black and white tones to the whole thing tomorrow.

TAY BRIDGE DISASTER COMIC more pencils

Two panels done. 

I'll be heading down to the Tay Bridge tomorrow to take some reference photos for that third panel.

TAY BRIDGE DISASTER COMIC pencils

Here are pencil roughs for my next strip.

It's a one panel depiction of the train falling off the bridge.

MOUNT A RESCUE at OPTICAL SLOTH

Kevin Bramer has written on Mount a Rescue over at Optical Sloth.

Have a read here.

TAY BRIDGE DISASTER COMIC #27

 

LIGET #3

This is Marc Casilli's latest issue of Liget, published by Incompleta.

One of the stories inside is a variation on the Harvey Pekar name story. This one is a kind of Marc Casilli face story, in which he discusses all the people and characters he's been compared to.

For the front cover, Marc has lots of these character faces in a Guess Who? style game.

On the back, he's asked different artists to draw pictures of his actual face, including Dominic Archer, Edson Bortolotte, Paula Cruz, Livia Fuhrmann, Joao B. Godoi, Debora Kamogawa, Kaina Lacerda, Mayara Lista, Isabelle Ribeiro, Hendric Sueit, and Gary Walsh.

I drew one too. It's in the middle at the front.

More details on Marc's comics can be found here.

LAKES COMIC ART FESTIVAL PODCAST

I, and my That Comic Smell buddies, appear on the latest episode of The Lakes Comic Art Festival Podcast.

Have a listen here.

From the website:

"It’s a review juggernaut of an episode in which I brought in the rest of the TCS crew to join me. So it’s just over 2 hours long.

We review everything from the latest Avery Hill Publishing releases, a Tribute Press title, Russel Mark Olson Art books & more. To V for Vendetta, Buck Rogers, Firepower and our personal reads. There is also chat on That Comics Smell’s recent comic anthology announcement and some of our personal projects.

Hope they just keep the place tidy before we get back! Unruly boys!

Brought to you by:

Tom Stewart Fernando Pons – @thatcomicsmell David Robertson – @fredeggcomics Mike Sedakat – @MikeSedakat"

ZINE LOVE - SMALL (PRESS) OAKS

 
Iestyn Pettigrew asked me questions about my influences and inspirations over at Zine Love website.

I mention Peter Bagge, Blade Runner, Bugs Bunny, Comic Books are Burning in Hell, Danger Mouse, Steve Howe, Tim Kelly, Jack Kirby, James Kochalka, The Police, Treehouse, Carol Tyler, and Al Williamson.

Have a look here.

BUNKER DESTRUCTION colour

 

Here's a panel with colour from this comic which will appear soon in Star Jaws.

BUNKER DESTRUCTION inks

 
Here we go. 

Before colouring in Photoshop, I'll be adjusting the figure in panel five so he's lower in the (non-existent) panel.