Emergency comics alert
My testing personal period continues, but somehow the business of government has continued. I've comple...
2022-08-12 11:12:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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Read SOLVER: GREEN DOOR in full now!
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2022-07-31 23:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostCommissions open... commissions closed
I don't really take commissions except in special circumstances or in times of penury, it's not the kind of drawing I enjoy. I can seldom find the emotion that underpins the illustration. But I did...
2022-07-27 19:11:08 +0000 UTC View PostDog days
Sorry that the posts have slowed down a bit over the last few weeks. The hot weather has mad...
2022-07-22 10:54:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I didn't make "NEMS Part 2" part 2
If you're reading this far, you've (hopefully) read my rough NEMS Part 2 PDF. As I wrote on Monday, I...
2022-07-07 15:45:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I didn't make "NEMS Part 2" part 1
Earlier in the year I wrote the second part of the "NEMS" story from 2020. I wasn't happy with the results and I consider it undrawable, at least, by me. So here, as a PDF download, is the rough co...
2022-07-04 16:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 12: questions round-up
Mariel Tam-Ray asks:
Hazel, age 10, wants to know: "When can I read the book made by the absolute genius Charlotte Grote, Energy Crow?"
I have thought...
2022-06-23 19:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 11: "The business of webcomics"
John Lee writes:
"This is a question more concerning the business end of things, so not sure if it's completely relevant, but I'm curious - what are some of the biggest d...
2022-06-17 14:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 10: Dialogue bubbles
Ross Webster writes:
"How do you maintain the balance between your dialog and what's going on in the panels so that neither overtakes the other? I ask because of all the ...
2022-06-16 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 9: McGraw/arcana
Thomas MacColl asks:
"Could the Brian x McGraw handymen crossover mooted in this week's comments ever really see the light of day? "
A serious answer:...
2022-06-14 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostRead SOLVER: AUTUMN SPECIAL in full now
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Call for new Q&A questions
ITEM! It's been a few months since I've done a Q&A, so if you have a question on creative matters, Scary Go Round history, or anything else (within reason), stick it in the comments below and I...
2022-06-11 14:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostSolver 7 cover
Solver 6 "drops" on Monday, here's the cover for Solver 7, due August.
Good luck working out what this issue is about.
2022-06-09 14:32:17 +0000 UTC
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Bump off bumped up
I've written previously about the Great British Bump-Off; it's still out there in the murk, being tinkered with.
It's not like NEMS pt2, where I wrote a script too difficult to...
2022-06-05 09:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostNatural man
I've been working to capacity and trying to catch up over the last few weeks, which has left very little sketching time. But here's a quick one, one of my many attempts to do something more substan...
2022-06-03 15:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostAutumn Special complete
The Solver Autumn Special will begin on June 13th, and appear here in PDF form for $3-and-up subscribers the same day. I finished drawing it today and I think you will enjoy it. It...
2022-06-02 17:29:43 +0000 UTC View PostBeauty And The Beast from memory
I've never seen the Disney Beauty & The Beast (the late 80s Linda Hamilton TV vehicle is another matter) but I am vaguely aware of it. Recently I saw a superb exhibition about it at th...
2022-05-25 16:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostRead STEEPLE: REVEREND IN LOVE now
Steeple is on a break while I consider a potential 4th arc. It's kind of a wait-and-see on how volume three (out in August) does, as I can only draw one series at a time.
But there is one pie...
2022-05-22 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostConan (The Barbarian)
On Saturday I was forced to sit still all day, which is always dangerous. I find that time goes at about half the normal speed when I don't feel well, which is obviously bad because it prolongs the...
2022-05-15 07:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostBeer garden
Had to make a pub with a beer garden yesterday for use in a few upcoming comic pages. It took about an ...
2022-05-12 09:29:39 +0000 UTC View PostKatamari colour process
Here's a video of my colouring process for today's nutty page. Some people have remarked that it looks a bit like the old Scary Go Round pages. I thought about making it in Adobe Illustrator as I w...
2022-05-11 11:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostNemulons
Here are some unused character designs from earlier this year. Nemulon-13 was designed for “the darkest timeline”. He’s experimental!
2022-05-03 19:29:33 +0000 UTC
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Candidate cover art
Here's an illustration I did for a 7" single by the band Candidate for their single 'Rough As Fuck b/w Windows & Pinback". I'm hoping this will open the door to me being asked to design some be...
2022-04-29 15:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostSTEEPLE NEWS
The Steeple summer special is complete and looks great. Max Sarin and Sammy Borras have buffed this thing to a high shine. My intention is to release it to $3-and-up Patreon subscribers in late May...
2022-04-27 15:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostWobbly Heads
I posted these on Instagram a couple of weeks ago. Wobbly Head is the Wicked Things story that I planned to round out the initial arc with, it would have been issues 7 and 8 and wo...
2022-04-22 20:04:19 +0000 UTC View PostAn unscheduled cover
I've begun work on a second part of Lottie's careers-related story. I'm still in a kind of work limbo waiting to start on various projects, but it'll emerge eventually, as the first part went over ...
2022-04-20 15:07:43 +0000 UTC View PostI’m still alive
Good news, I’m still alive despite the Covid. I had one day where I wore my dressing gown over my clothes with a hot water bottle shoved down the front, shuffling up and down stairs like a pensio...
2022-04-14 14:57:28 +0000 UTC View PostFlickr
I've got Covid. In the likely absence of red hot content for a few days, why not visit a long forgotten corner of my ...
2022-04-13 18:32:53 +0000 UTC View PostDeath's Head: Grand Design
Marvel's 'Grand Design' is a series where Pittsburgh indie cartoonists summarise hundreds of issues of ...
2022-04-12 08:39:06 +0000 UTC View Post