FRED EGG COMICS REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2025

I knew at the start of 2025 that I was going to do more comics work than ever before, and because of that I was going to put out less work to the public in terms of contributing to anthologies.

The work I concentrated on was a book concerned with my love of music through the years. I was going to draw all of it myself, no guest artists this time around. I aimed to have this completed by the end of the year, so had to concentrate. Between 2nd January and 2nd February, I wrote and laid out every idea I could think of related to music, as they came to me. I would sort out the running order of the pages once they were completed. I had 24 pages to do, and I planned to make sure I complete a page every weekend. I would get to go to sleep on Sunday night when I’d completed it. Although I had no guest artists, I wanted to included stories from my immediate family, so that was a further 7 pages. I also knew I’d have more ideas as I went along, and indeed I did. As the months went by a further 11 ideas presented themselves to me.

So I had 43 pages to complete, alongside front and back covers. Doable, but I couldn’t sit around waiting to begin, as I’d used up January now and had to leave room at the end for production. As I went through the year doing the work, I decided to post updates of Work in progress online. Layouts, pencils, and inks were posted on this blog, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, X, and over at the Awesome Comics Podcast substack. While this took up the majority of my time, I took part in some other comics related activities.

In February I had a comic in Ryan Ewing’s Pocket Thoughts Annual #7.

In March, That Comic Smell podcast had an episode on Science Fiction comics. Incidentally, our third comic is still in production and will hopefully be completed next year.

In April, I had a comic in Bob Corby’s Contains No MSG or AI.

In May, I appeared on Marvel Star Wars Explorers podcast, discussing Indiana Jones comics #29 and 30.

In August, I wrote about AI in comics as part of the Broken Frontier article Raging Against the Machine. As I explained, I successfully did the entire For the Record comic in one year. Now I aim to try to fund it on Kickstarter. I haven’t done this since 2021, when I published The Tay Bridge Disaster comic. A lot’s changed since then, so I’ll see how it goes. As an incentive, I have an idea for a compilation zine of Fred Egg Music comics from throughout the years. Thanks for all your interest, feedback, and comments throughout the year. It’s much appreciated. Have a great 2026!