5 YEARS OF SMALL PRESSGANGED

I was delighted to contribute a little bit to a celebratory article of five years of Small Pressganged at Broken Frontier.

I wrote on Jack Teagle - a great cartoonist who has been featured at the website in the past.

Well done to Andy Oliver and the team at Broken Frontier for all the small press comics coverage over the past half decade!

Have a read of the article here.

DUNDEE SHMUNDEE! 2

My second Dundee Shmundee! strip is now online over at the Dundee Comics Creative Space website.

Have a look here.

NANDO: Page 1 pencils and inks

A new update is up on the blog detailing the creation of my new 12 page story for the Comics and Graphic Novels MLitt course at University of Dundee.

Have a look here.

PEZZ

Thought Bubble comic festival is next week.

I put an entry in for the event's competition and it's up at the website. A comic called "Pezz".
Have a look here.

I'm pleased to say it's in an exhibition at Leeds Central Library too.

I'm getting excited for the trip to Leeds now. See you at the con, if you're going!

THAT COMIC SMELL 4: HORROR

The new episode of That Comic Smell is now online.

Have a listen at Soundcloud here and YouTube here.

From the website:

"Welcome to this month's Spook-tacular episode of That Comic Smell.

We are one host short this time around. Not to worry, Giuseppe will be back. In the mean time the remaining 3 hosts talk Horror.
With Halloween upon us, we went for the scary theme. The conversation takes a very "comics at the time" route when we speak about Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. David discusses a little about how he came up with a Horror story of his own and there is all the latest news (Worth speaking about) to wrap us up.
All of this and more on the newest episode of "That Comic Smell"
These are some of the comics we spoke about:
Saga of the Swamp Thing (Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette, John Totleben)
Black Hole (Charles Burns)
The Walking Dead (Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard)
Death Rattle (Story: ill Bred) (Charles Burns)
The Hive, X'ed Out, Sugar Skull (Charles Burns Trilogy)
Tales From The Crypt (William Gaines, Al Feldstein)
Mr Monsters Weird: The Brain Bats Of Venus (Basil Wolverton)
The Demon (Jack Kirby)
Black Magic (Joe Simon, Jack Kirby)
Creepy Worlds (Alan Class Comics)
Sinister Tales (Alan Class Comics)
Trashed (Derf)
ABC Warriors: The Black Hole (Pat Mills, Simon Bisley)
American Vampire (Scott Snyder, Stephen King, Rafael Albuquerque)
Batman: Black Mirror (Scott Snyder, Jock, Francesco Francavilla)
Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection - Field Notes from Dr. Robert Twombly [Illustrated Novel] (Don Roff, Chris Lane)
Recorded Zombie Attacks (Max Brooks, Ibraim Roberson)
Quality Comics: Halls of Horror (Hammer House of Horror Special) [Dez Skinn]
2000AD's 2000th issue
From Hell (Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell)
Outcast (Robert Kirkman, Paul Azaceta)
Locke & Key (Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez)
Crossed (Garth Ennis, Jacen Burrows)
The City [Online Serial] (Derf Backderf)
Velvet (Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, Elizabeth Breitweiser)
Treehouse (Dundee Comics Collective)"

IAN KENNEDY MASTERCLASS

What a good day it was today.

I was at Ian Kennedy's live drawing session this afternoon. I've known Ian for years, and been a huge fan of his work for decades before I ever met him.

I've interviewed him, commissioned him and had some nice chats with him and his wife.

But one thing I've never done is actually watch him work. How does he draw those beautiful comic layouts and paint all those wonderful colours?

What a thrill to watch him apply the brush to a picture of the Mekon he'd previously drawn in his own distinctive style.

He's doing another masterclass this Saturday at Dundee Comics Creative Space. If you are interested in comics, or painting in general, I'd seriously recommend going along to that. Details can be found here.

BERSERKOTRON returns!

I've put together a complete collection of my first self-published comics Berserkotron 1 & 2.

It's a 56 page story with a new 10 page "behind the scenes" making of section, which was fun to put together.

A lot of material in here that made me cringe. I was tempted to "fix" the most obvious howlers, but in the end I didn't change anything. It is what it is!

I wanted it finished in time for this year's Thought Bubble convention, and here it is.

Hopefully see you there!

INK & PIXELS

Poster by Elliot Balson.

Yesterday was the opening of the Ink & Pixels exhibition of comics produced in Dundee, which I am very pleased to be included in. Curated by Louise Quirion, it is a fun and impressive collection of artworks.

Photo from the Dundee Comics Creative Space Facebook page.

The show has all four pages of my story 'Silently Falling' from Zero Sum Bubblegum, my wraparound cover for Treehouse issue 7, and another wraparound cover for the new collected edition of Berserkotron, which I will say more about tomorrow.

Go along to see the free show if you can, as it is very inspiring. Runs until 27th November.

NANDO: Page 3 pencils and inks

There's a new update on the production blog.

 Have a read here.

NANDO: Facebook PM chat

I've done another update on the production blog.

 Have a read here.