NOBODY inks

I'm experimenting with not having panel borders for this story. 

I'll be painting it, so that will do a lot of the work in the composition.

NOBODY pencils

Here are pencilled layouts for a one page story called "Nobody", written by Tom Stewart.

AWESOME COMICS PODCAST: Brainstorming Comics!

I had a great time on the latest episode of Awesome Comics Podcast, available online now.

Have a listen here.

From the website:

"A whirlwind of creativity abounds, as the Awesome gang try out a creativity exercise using the awesome Narrata playing cards to brainstorm a bunch of comic book pitches! From dinosaurs, death row, sex crazed villains and tragic love stories involving tortoises and horses - this ones got it all! Not only that but the amazing David Robertson (Break the Cake, Bell Time) joins in on the fun and helps recommend some awesome indie comics you should check out too!

Great stuff to check out this week - David Robertson, Fred Egg Comics, Mount a Rescue, Bell Time, That Comic Smell, Narrata Storytelling Cards, Humanoids Humble Bundle, Knockout & Tiger Style, Skrawl, Knights vs Pirates, Sappy Flu Year, Tim Kelly, Usagi Yojimbo - Bunraku, The Boy Who Became a Dragon, Hedra"

THAT COMIC SMELL: Comics aimed at children

The new episode is online now.

From the web:

"On this brand new episode of That Comic Smell we are still coming to you remotely. This time we just get right into it. We did have a chat beforehand but that was just between us about something coming very soon… But you’ll have to wait to see what it is.
In this we tackle “Comics aimed at Children”, we didn’t go massively in depth but just touched some of our favourites, and had a brief chat about what classes as all ages and should the libraries review how the classify comics ages.

This and all the usual comics chat on…

That Comic Smell!

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Adventure Time (Various, Pendleton Ward)
Animaniacs
Asterix (Albert Uderzo, René Goscinny, Jean-Yves Ferri, Didier Conrad)
Babysitters Club (Raina Telgemeier, Gale Galligan)
Batman: Gotham Adventures (Ty Templeton, Rick Burchett, Terry Beatty)
Be Prepared (Vera Brosgol)
Beano
Beezer
Bone (Jeff Smith)
Broons and Oor Wullie
Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
Count Duckula
Crunch
Dandy
Dear Justice League (Michael Northrop, Gustavo Duarte)
Dick Tracy (Chester Gould)
Dino Riders
Disneytime
Dragonball (Akira Toriyama)
Fantastic Four (Stan Lee, Jack Kirby)
Fantasy Sports No.1 (Sam Bosma)
Fast Forward (Various)
Franklin Richards: Not-So-Secret Invasion (Chris Eliopoulos, Marc Sumerak)
He-man
Hilda (Luke Pearson)
Hoot
Jungle Book (Gil Kane, Mary Jo Duffy, Craig Russel)
Little Heroes Anthology (Various)
Lookin (Various)
Looney Tunes
Lucky Luke (René Goscinny, Morris)
Mini Marvels (Chris Giarrusso)
Nutty
Panini Pocket Books (Marvel)
Peanuts (Charles Schultz)
Pokemon
Popeye (IDW Reprint)
Roland Rat Annuals
Science Comics: Dogs (Andy Hirsch)
Simpsons
Sisters (Raina Telgemeier)
Smile (Raina Telgemeier)
Space Ghost (Alex Toth)
Spike
Spirou & Fantasio (Various)
Thundercats
Tin Tin (Hergé)
Topper
Transformers
Visionaries
Wild Lives (Claire Hubbard)
World of Quest (Jason t. Kruse)
X-men Adventures"

IT'S DOCTOR TIME colour pages 1-6

I spent this week colouring six pages of this story, involving digital colouring and some acrylic tones mixed together.

STAR JAWS #37 - MOUNT A RESCUE pull out section

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

Inside is work from Robin Barnard, Martin Hand, and Paul B. Rainey.

In the middle is a "Star Jaws previews pull-out" dedicated to Mount a Rescue.

It's great to see this! It reminds me of comics pull out sections Marvel UK used to do. 

Many thanks to Robin for having this in Star Jaws. More info on Barnstormer Comics can be found here.

IT'S DOCTOR TIME page 6 inks

Here's the sixth and final page.

SPOILER ALERT!

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Winston Churchill ends up in Dundee, and decades later an Oscar is handed out to an actor portraying him.

IT'S DOCTOR TIME page 5 inks

Winston Churchill joins the crew for a trip in space!

A return to acrylics to show the inter dimensional travel in panel four.

IT'S DOCTOR TIME page 4 inks

An old enemy shoots down German planes and serves tea.

IT'S DOCTOR TIME page 3 inks

Page three sees our dynamic duo meeting Winston Churchill.