Musical Batman

I'm not entirely sure what this is all about, but a friend asked if I fancied submitting something, and the answer was never going to be "no", was it?

Shadowquake & Shnookie Ep.3

Huge Website Update!

'Just finished burdening nelson-evergreen.com with roughly twelve month's worth of illustrations and comic strips. It's the longest I've ever gone without updating the site, which is purely down to the existence of this blog. It's so much easier to just shove new work up on here as and when it happens.

So as you'd expect, most of the "new" stuff has already been showcased 'round these parts... although happily there are a few exceptions:



'Damienne Hobbs Reflects'
This appeared in New British Comics #1 earlier this year. I was pretty happy with how it turned out, but had to admit that I'd bitten off more than I could chew in regards to juggling the rendering with the deadline. So it made good sense to hurl some spit and polish at it for it's online debut. Think of it as the director's cut...



'John Henry - Hammerin' Hero'
A kids' graphic novel for Stone Arch Books. I posted the cover recently, but you can now see a selection of the interior pages too.



'Burn Zombie Burn'
A five page comic to promote the PS3 game of the same name.



'Dishcloth Of The Damned'
Another collaboration with Mr Paul O'Connell; we knocked out this demented one-pager for the second (zombie themed) issue of Slave Labor Graphics' "Fat Chunk" anthology.

Elsewhere, the childrens' illustration section has received a particularly hefty boost to it's line-up - it's just about trebled in size! Feel free to have a good rummage.

And finally, there'll be a particularly revolting new episode of Shadowquake & Shnookie appearing in the next few days...

New British Comics #2

Just out (sporting a cover from yours truly) is New British Comics #2.

Among the gifted folk returning after successful stints on the first volume are Dan White, Paul O'Connell and Lawrence Elwick, along with new contributors such as my current faves WJC, Iain Laurie and Craig Collins. The first two episodes of Shadowquake & Shnookie, my all-ages deformed romance comic, are in there too.

English or Polish versions are available, depending on your fancy/mother tongue. Be warned: you might urgently need to own a copy after you've browsed the sample pages at the new NBC website, so pop to Bad Press to order yourself one.

Kudos to editor Karol Wisniewski for making it all happen.

Sid Meets Abba

A couple of years back, Paul O'Connell and I knocked out this page for issue 11 of his splendid comic The Sound Of Drowning. It was to be the first of many, but we kind of, well, forgot to do any more. Good news: the concept has been re-named and snapped up to appear in the pages of quarterly music magazine The Stool Pigeon, beginning with a reworking of the above episode before moving on to such bizarre yet apparently true musical curios as, well... that would be telling, wouldn't it?

His Latest Flame - Process 3

I started on this one... let's see... there's an early version in a post dated August 2008, so it's hardly been speeding hungrily towards the finish line, has it? Still, all the better for being able to rethink and refine it as I go along. Ideally, I'd never finish an illustration. You're always learning new tricks.

Satan's Hens

The colour palette for this piece is going to have more than a hint of fire and brimstone to it, but for now it's depicting a fairly straightforward evening of sozzled pre-nuptial tomfoolery.

Troll vs Goat - Process 2

Laid some more detail down on this one, although at least one of the troll's arms looks a little awkward; an afternoon's tweaking looks likely. It doesn't help that I've given him noticeably different proportions in the opening shot of the sequence...


... so yeah, time to start bringing them together.

Airwalk - Process 1

First stages here. A rudimentary sunset and seaside townscape sketched in behind and below. I'm trying to make it look vaguely Brightonesque, although elevated/overhead pics of my adopted hometown seems pretty scant even on the trusty old internet. The holding sketch was cribbed pretty much wholesale from a shot on Flickr - will have to rework it big time so as not to be overly cheeky.

Jenny Everywhere

For an imminent caption competition over on the Shifter Archive.