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.