I went on a brief holiday a few weeks ago, and while out and about, I improvised this beautiful three-part comic. There could have been a fourth part but I resisted. I felt that it was going in a d...
2021-09-09 18:49:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe PDF is linked under the cover image - let me know how you're enjoying the story in the comments.
The next episode is due to appear here on October 25th.
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Cover by Jorge ...
2021-09-06 07:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostWorking with a different inking technique. You've seen a few tests here over the last year but I'm starting to feel like I'm getting somewhere. I'm trying to reduce emphasis on line weight to focus...
2021-09-01 15:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostI've not got a lot to offer the Patreon this week. I'm getting towards the end of work (27 pages to go) on Steeple volume 3, which constitutes Christmas With Clovis, the Lottie/Shelley crossover, a...
2021-08-31 12:52:39 +0000 UTC View Post
A cover rough where I tried out some techniques in Procreate on the iPad. I'd like to do a whole comic ...
2021-08-26 17:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post
If there's one thing Shelley takes against, it's being asked to toe the company line. She marches to th...
2021-08-23 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a second pencil practice page just for patrons. This one's a Murder She Writes page. I feel like I got somewhere with this one. But again, I doubt I could do it twice in a row.
2021-08-23 19:53:40 +0000 UTC
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In July, I made attempts to harness my other drawing style for comic pages again. All I really want to ...
2021-08-23 15:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostSteeple: Clotted Crime part 2 will go up on Patreon on September 6th (for $3 and up patrons), here's a super sneak preview of the cover, by the amazing Jorge Monlongo 2021-08-19 07:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post
You'd think the limitations of this format would make drawing these quick but I am fast being reminded that the more characters you draw in a panel, the more quickly it becomes a 2-dimensional game...
2021-08-16 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This was part of a recent experiment that ultimately went nowhere but I liked the drawing.
2021-08-11 17:42:19 +0000 UTC
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Here's a third one of these. I absolutely believe there can be a fourth. Don't forget there are a feast of Shelley and Nemulon history comics at 2021-08-10 07:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post
A second instalment of this powerful new tale.
A new fun comic begins today. If you're not familiar with these series, they leak out slowly, starting in protean form, before gaining their shape. I'm not sure when the next page will emerge but i...
2021-07-27 16:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostOn the train on Saturday I drew two really spiffing fun comics. The first one is a minor entry in the series but part 2 is top-hole. Beezer.
With the first one, you must understand t...
2021-07-20 19:18:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe PDF is linked under the cover image - let me know if you enjoyed it in the comments. There should be another one of these in early September.
In other good news, Dark Horse have agreed to...
2021-07-18 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostI've done a variant cover for issue 4 (September '21) of Image/Skybound's SIX SIDEKICKS (by Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer). The covers were meant to be in the style of different print magazines, ...
2021-07-14 17:03:09 +0000 UTC View PostOn Monday evening I sat down with a blank sheet of my drawing pad and a pen, and half an hour later, this existed. Powerful social realism with a message of justice.
Want to see more JACKIE S...
2021-07-09 12:44:31 +0000 UTC View PostBlew a gasket last weekend and couldn't toil any more. I'd worked myself to a standstill. It's not been a very holidays-ish period over the last year and a half, has it? When people start saying "y...
2021-07-03 17:35:21 +0000 UTC View PostHundreds of people have contacted me to say that they can't find the final issue of Onion Dan in stores. This doesn't surprise me, as there is a conspiracy to suppress this, my most important work....
2021-06-26 07:55:46 +0000 UTC View PostVery sad news, Patreon friends. Onion Dan has been cancelled by Image Comics as of issue 5. There will be no more Onion Dan. Apparently "it was too extreme" and "it made people fee...
2021-06-21 16:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm still practicing with pencil, pen and paper. Here's an improvised comic, I started with ...
2021-06-19 15:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostI've started to get a little busier of late, a deadline has appeared for a new book, plus a few illustrations on the side, and some distant thunder on other projects is starting to sound. This has ...
2021-06-13 08:45:09 +0000 UTC View PostI did quite a lot of drawing in my ink-only sketchbook in May. Below is a themed selection. Why is the sketchbook ink-only, you ask? Because it's wire-bound and if I keep it in my bag for dra...
2021-06-06 08:21:36 +0000 UTC View Post
More pen and paper practice. I broke a page of my practice script (Giant Days 38) in half and added som...
2021-06-02 16:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostPDF link at the bottom... enjoy! And let me know what you thought in the comments. There should be another early-release PDF in a couple of months.
2021-05-30 23:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Here's the second part of WHEELIE: Rhyme Masters, which I drew while watching an episode of Midsummer Murders with my parents. You try writing rhymes while DI Barnaby is "on one"! There's not a lot...
2021-05-28 06:50:12 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the last of the New Bobbins e-books. There are a few scraps that weren't collected in these, when I next have a bit of free time I might do an odds-and-sods collection, but don't hold me to ...
2021-05-24 14:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been on a much-needed break this week, mostly away from screens, getting it together in the country. But I've drawn a few comics straight out into my sketchbook, watching TV, just like I might...
2021-05-23 08:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post