FutureQuake - Retirement Day

Have done the artwork for 5-page strip 'Retirement Day' in latest edition of FutureQuake no.27.

It's written by Daniel Bell (who's no slouch when it comes to the art department also), lettered by FutureQuake supremo Bolt-01 and was a lot of fun to do.

I wanted to keep the pages direct, clean and simple black and white ink art, no greyscale shading or Photoshop twiddlings involved.

It can be bought here, along with previous issues.

Zombies Hi: Brain Chompers

Before Christmas I pencilled and inked a 4-page back-up strip for the Uproar Comics flagship title Zombies Hi! issue 12, out now to buy.

The script was written by Glenn Matchett (industrious Northern Ireland-based writer, can be followed on Twitter: @glenn_matchett) and had that old-school 2000AD black satire bite to it I love. Enjoyed doing these pages, wanted to set myself task of producing them relatively quickly so didn't want to get overly precious about level of detail/polish, hopefully I came close to hitting some kind of happy median. Though looking at them now, they've come out a bit on the sparse side and level of quality isn't maintained as much as I'd like throughout.

Below are the final clean Bitmapped inks:

For those of you into the kinky under the bonnet stuff, here's original pencils:

 

Dirty Inks Done Dirt Cheap - Original Artwork for Sale

 

Have a large number of inked comic book pages from the last few years for sale over at my Comicsy account. They're all pretty much A3 size. Any queries, get in touch.

The Cosmic Plectrum

Have finally sent the material for my third issue of Charlatan Tales off to print.

It contains a self-contained 28 page full-colour story 'The Cosmic Plectrum' containing my erratically occurring character 'Spaceman'.

Below is the cover artwork, hopefully update sooner rather than later on release and availability of the finished product.

The Hollows via Emanata

A link via Emanata Comics to a 9-page supernatural tale created last year, 'The Hollows'.

It's scripted by actor/writer friend Mark Kavanagh. Further details can be found on this previous link.

Mirror - inks

Work in progress...

The Hollows

I've just completed a nine page story 'The Hollows' which will be appearing in the next issue of 'Charlatan Tales'.

It's written by mate Mark Kavanagh, actor, writer, raconteur.

Here's the first three pages...

The basis of it came about after a drunken discussion to do a story built around the old school ghost story set up of a seance. A lot of fun to work on. Here's the layers of the onion showing pencils and layouts of the first page...