A round up of what I've been up to this past year...
In January, I finished my comic story, Nando. The process of making it and other comics projects is explained at my
Comics MLitt blog.
Dundee Shmundee! 5 went online at the Dundee Comics Creative Space website
here.
I had a cartoon published in US zine
Copy This #35.
In February That Comic Smell podcast tackled
politics.
I took part in
Hourly Comics Day.
I wrote and drew a comic called
George vs Herbert for Time & Space.
I then did readings of this and a comic on Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album at the launch of
Time & Space.
I did a story called
Making of Space Film 7 for Star Jaws #15.
That Comic Smell then did an episode on
science.
In March,
Dundee Shmundee! 6 was published at the DCCS website.
I was a guest in the Covers Album article series for
Broken Frontier.
I did a comic called
Patriotism for Reworking Walter Scott.
And
Dundee Shmundee! 7 appeared at the DCCS website.
In April, I did three stories Revenge on the Orbiting Space Pod, I Live with a Killer 3, and In Concert, for
Treehouse #10.
Not comics really, but in May, I did a design as part of the Universty of Dundee 50th anniversary
mural.
That Comic Smell had
3 episodes in June; the topics being Vertigo, Justice League, and “Comics with Meaning”.
In July I did a story called
Endless Love for Love Bites #1.
In August, I wrote an article on the book, Wonderfully Wordless, for
Reference Reviews.
That Comic Smell talked about
Image Comics.
It was Jack Kirby's 100th birthday! In honour of the great comics creator, I did a massive
painting.
That Comic Smell discussed
Valerian, and then then two episodes on Kirby:
one,
two.
In September, I made a new comic to perform with The Scottish Ensemble for DeeCAP. It was called
Orchestras.
Big Brown Eyes: Habitat published my comic
Homeless.
I did a story called
Robot // Monster for Love Bites #2.
I was interviewed by Gary Watson at
Comics Anonymous.
In October, I did a 24 page comic called Dog Walker for
24 Hour Comics Day.
I did a photoshoot and put together a
Foto Romance strip for Wilma!, written by Alexandra Craven.
In November, I bade
Goodbye, Star Wars for the final issue of Star Jaws #23.
Dundee Shmundee! #8 was published at the
DCCS website.
I guested on the
Treehouse Comics podcast #7.1, discussing The Lakes Comics Festival and Stan Sakai.
I was also guest on
The Beans podcast.
I was
Dundee Comics Prize 2017 runner-up for a story on Gulliver's Travels, published in the Swift at 350 comic.
Dundee Shmundee! #9 appeared at the
DCCS website.
In December, That Comic Smell did 2 episodes on Avery Hill comics;
one,
two.
I was on the second
Treehouse Comics podcast on the Lakes Comics Festival and Sergio Aragones.
Dundee Shmundee #10 over at the
DCCS website.
I released my new comic Wow! Retracted. 110 pages, with 40 stories, including a 12 page guest artist section featuring Eileen Budd, Marc Casilli, Zu Dominiak, Damon Herd, Olivia Hicks, Rebecca Horner, Paddy Johnston, Tim Kelly, Neil Paterson, Ludi Price, and Pam Wye. Online previews are
here.
That Comic Smell did an episode on
music, on
westerns, and then on
Calvin & Hobbes.
I also continued work on my webcomic
Bell Time (Up to episode 33 completed as I speak).
Over the summer I worked on various comics for the MLitt course assignments, including a 24 page Dundee Comics Comic.
And I continued my Star Wars comic panels
blog.
Happy New Year, everyone!
See you in 2018 for more comics adventures.
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