TAY BRIDGE DISASTER COMIC #26

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MOUNT A RESCUE cover colours

I've inked the cover for my next comic Mount a Rescue. (See the pencils here.)

Here's a detail:

I began colouring today. I decided to paint the back ground with acrylics, and do the figures in Photoshop.

In order to do this I put the acrylics on, and then tidied up all the colour that went inside the lines...

Finally, added the digital colours to the figures...

Pleased with the final effect. I like the mix of the digital and traditional.

MOUNT A RESCUE cover pencils

My upcoming comic is called Mount a Rescue.

A title I like the sound of, should it really be "Mount a rescue... mission"? Is it a mispronunciation of Mountain rescue? In any case, when it came to thinking about what to put on the cover, I had to consider the fact that last year I put out But a Dream!, which has a mountaineer on the cover.

So that was out. I decided after a while on pulling four images from the stories inside, maybe a bit like the style of the Kirby painting I did.

Then I thought about those movie posters with a plethora of characters for the likes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and the Marvel superhero films. I was always amazed they make movie posters that look like 1990s Marvel comics.

So I decided to do something in the style of those for Mount a Rescue's cover.

Here are the pencils, completed today.

BELL TIME review video by BOOBOO CHILD

A nice surprise today to find this video review on Booboo Child's YouTube channel.

Have a watch here.

STAR JAWS #31

The new Star Jaws issue 31 is out now from Barnstormer Comics, featuring work from Robin Barnard, Martin Hand, Rozi Hathaway and myself!

More information at the Images Degrading Forever website here.

THAT COMIC SMELL: European Comics

The new episode is online now.

From the web:

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This and all the usual comics chat on the only comics podcast to go from Paris to Berlin but every disco we went in our hearts weren’t quite pumping for love…

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TAY BRIDGE DISASTER COMIC #25

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BUT A DREAM! at THE COMIC BOOK YETI

Christa Harader has reviewed But a Dream! over at Matt Ligeti The Comic Book Yeti.

Have a read here.

BELL TIME at COMICHAUS

Print and digital copies of Bell Time are now available at Comichaus - The App and Marketplace/Database for indie comic books!

Have a look here.

STAR JAWS #30

"A brand new decade, with the same old stories..."

The new Star Jaws issue 30 is out now from Barnstormer Comics, featuring work from Robin Barnard, Doug Chapel, Martin Hand, and myself!

More information at the Images Degrading Forever website here.