There's a feature of my website CMS that lets me show a list of the upcoming comic page titles I have queued up. I don't think most people notice it (it's well down the page), but here are all the ...
2020-07-21 16:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostI've long been aware of TV chefs "The Hairy Bikers" but have only recently watched their TV show. My interest in them was piqued when I saw the pair of them staring on a street corner in Soho, suit...
2020-07-19 08:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Wicked Things issue 3 is available in comic shops ( 2020-07-18 07:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Five sketches from my sketch dungeon folder.
1. Patsy Walker: Hellcat.
Did you watch Jessica Jones? Patsy wasn't much of a laugh in that. I love the history of the character though - she d...
This week I've begun drawing a new Steeple story, "Secret Sentai". It will start running on the Steeple site towards the end of August.
2020-07-07 14:37:27 +0000 UTC
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With Steeple on a break for a few months, here's a chance to see how Des is getting on in Tredregyn. I think you can guess how he's getting on.
This is what your Patreon pays for, so...
2020-07-04 10:54:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The long gestation of Steeple has lead to a glut of sketch pages, character designs and story ideas, some of which will be used, some not, and some of which will be boiled down or rolled into other...
2020-06-28 14:18:55 +0000 UTC View Post
From today's Destroy History comic. You're going to meet most of these people over the coming weeks.
I...
2020-06-25 07:17:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Because it is just you and me talking, I can tell you that of all the Giant Days characters, the only one whose future I have considered, is Esther. The series ends with her fate in doubt. But secr...
2020-06-23 14:42:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Wicked Things issue 2 is out on Wednesday from Boom! Box, in comic shops and 2020-06-20 15:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post
$3 a month (and up) Patreon members can now read all 36 pages of Destroy History: NEMS in fu...
2020-06-19 13:56:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I was asked by David Harper (of the great Off Panel podcast and Sktchd blo...
2020-06-15 17:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote in an earlier post about fixing the first page of Steeple; the first three all needed little fixes, and what greater pleasure is there than flipping backwards and forwards between two versi...
2020-06-14 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Four sketches from my big sketch dump folder. One's from a convention I probably shouldn't have exhibited at (I certainly had a lot of time to be alone with my thoughts that weekend) , one's from t...
2020-06-13 08:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Basic drawing practice for a basic boy this basic week, not all successful but I was working on my knee which doesn't always give you the best line.
2020-06-11 16:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Pleased to announce that I, John Allison, am not the new artist on Vampirella, but if Dynamite Comics ever see this drawing I did last week, I will be.
I know. WOW.
You did not know I h...
2020-06-09 13:59:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The first few pages of the current Steeple story were drawn back in February when I was very feeble following a very bad bout of flu/early COVID-19 (who knows?) so I'm tidying them up for eventual ...
2020-06-07 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Before Clip Studio came out for the iPad, I tried out an app called "Comic Draw". It was a bit buggy and weird and had some odd limitations, but it also had some well thought-out features, quite di...
2020-06-06 08:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostI had to entertain myself all day today while our boiler was replaced. Here’s a page of Steeple sketches I did. I particularly like the big face in the corner.
2020-06-02 19:52:38 +0000 UTC
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Murder She Writes was the best-selling of the run of mini-comics I made between 2011 and 2016. I had to reprint it three or four times. I wanted to do more issues but other things got in the way. I...
2020-05-31 14:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostI really enjoy the Great British Bake-Off and watch every year. I think I prefer it in its Channel 4 incarnation with Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig to the old BBC version, though Junior Bake-Off ...
2020-05-30 07:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostA number of people have asked me, since Steeple started, with its complex sea monster mythology, if Desmond Fishman would appear in it. I think this was also an inadvertent way of asking if Steeple...
2020-05-24 10:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Steeple was an unusual project in that I did a full script, as I would for another artist, then roughed...
2020-05-22 14:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t know why but I decided to ink with the thinnest line I could. It sort of reminded me of animator Don Bluth. Or something else? Inexpensive cartoons. I thought it was funny. Or, at l...
2020-05-16 15:37:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe collected edition of STEEPLE issues 1-5 will be out from Dark Horse on June 09. To celebrate, here are some behind the scenes sketches from the very early development of the book. ...
2020-05-15 15:03:52 +0000 UTC View PostDes Fishman has easy listening options for you, EXCLUSIVE to Patreon
There are several more Desmo...
2020-05-10 07:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAt the moment I'm working on a new Destroy History series. It's nice to have some time to devote to a project that I've had worked...
2020-05-09 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDuring a week off in 2013, I posted a series of illustrations entitled "On This Day In History" in lieu of new comics They were deleted when I returned from my week off. I just found them, and sinc...
2020-05-03 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhile a guest at the Angoulême Festival in France earlier this year, I "delighted" my hosts with a two-part recreation of Victor Hugo/Lord Lloyd-Webber's great collaboration "The Phantom Of The Op...
2020-05-02 08:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post