TREEHOUSE 1-5 at COMICS ANONYMOUS

Gary Watson has written on the first five issues of Treehouse over at Comics Anonymous.

Have a read here.

DUMP 3 IS GO!

I'm very pleased to tell you that Dump 3 is now available from the Fred Egg Comics Shop! 

Click on the link for more info. I hope you buy a copy and I hope you enjoy it. Previews of the stories contained within will follow soon...

GRANITE CITY COMIC CON

Next weekend I’ll be at the Granite City Comic Con in Aberdeen, along with the Treehouse Comics team. Both my new comic Dump 3, and the anthology Treehouse #6  will be launching at the event.

I’ve done three stories for the new Treehouse. Two one-pagers and one two-pager. Here are a few one panel previews:

Dump 3 is completed, all 80 pages of it. I am waiting for the books to be printed and delivered – hopefully before next Saturday. Treehouse Comics are in the same boat. 

If you are at the event, come by and say hello. We’ll have friendly chat for you - and hopefully new comics!

A BIT OF UNDIGESTED POTATO

The new anthology edited by Keara Stewart has now been released.

It has a great line-up of cartoonists: Sean Azzopardi, Rachael Ball, Tim Bird, Mary Blomley, Gareth Brookes, Justyna Burzynska, Francesca Cassavetti, Richy K. Chandler, Kim Clements, Ruth Collingwood, Ella Dawson, Annabel Dover, Wallis Eates, Martin Eden, EdieOP, Karrie Fransman, Kelly Froh, Steven J Harris, Rozi Hathaway, Sally-Anne Hickman, Pete Hindle, Cathy Lomax, Abraham Mann, Mike Medaglia, Danny Noble, Alex Potts, Andy Poyiadgi, Elizabeth Querstret, John Riordan, Karen Rubins, Tom Ryling, Viviane Schwarz, Paul Shinn, Nick Soucek, Corinna Spencer, Matilda Tristram, Una, Robert Wells and Keara herself.

I'm also in there! A new story entitled, "Visitor".

Have a look here for more information.

DUMP 3 - PROOF

I'm excited! The proof copy of my next comic Dump 3 arrived today.

Now taking bets on how many errors I can find, and additions I want to make before I order the print run. I've already found one before turning the cover over.

It's always great to hold your comic in your hands for the first time.

PREVIEW: A BIT OF UNDIGESTED POTATO

Over at Broken Frontier, Andy Oliver has written an article on an upcoming anthology I'm featured in - "A Bit of Undigested Potato". 

There are some images by the cartoonists involved, and an interview with editor Keara Stewart. It's interesting to see how she collated everyone's work and kept on top of things.

The book looks good, I am very pleased to be involved with it.

Have a look at the article here.

SKETCHES FOR DUMP

Ticking Boy Damon Herd is set to appear in the next issue of Dump.

He has been working away on his story and shares some process work over at his blog. It's very cool.
Have a look here.

I've seen the finished page too, and it's a goodie!

I FINISHED MY DUMP

I have just this minute finished my comic story Dump.

In the absence of a statue in an Edinburgh hotel room to scribble on, I am posting this message instead!

In the days to come, I will start checking the pages for corrections, but for now - Good night!

TREEHOUSE 5 at THE BIG GLASGOW COMIC PAGE

Gary Smith has written on an anthology I'm in - Treehouse #5 - over at The Big Glasgow Comic Page.

Have a look here.

DUMP - THE FINAL 10 PAGES

I have reached the stage where it's time to draw the last ten pages of my comic Dump. It's a trepidatious and exciting feeling.

In writing the story, I've known what the final page is for a good while. Leading up to it, I jotted down ideas about what could happen as I went along. I picked and chose what was pertinent to the overall story. Sometimes I don't use ideas I really like because they are distracting from what I'm trying to get across. How do I know what's correct? The great thing about writing is I am in charge of deciding these things.

I had previously written up a run of 7 pages and hit my final page. After a read through or two, I wrote down a few things I thought I needed to get across to the reader. So another three pages were written. I sat down tonight and drew up a wee plan (shown above - sans plot details) to put the pages in the order they will appear. Everything is in there now, and adjustments to dialogue have been made because of the new running order. You really want to try and get everything in its proper place before finishing the pages - rewriting comics is not as simple as rewriting prose.

It's now time to get on with this.