HAPPY HALLOWEEN

 

 

Some competition work

With "The Fat boy with the bomb" book drawing to a close and with it being the half term, now is a good time for a short break and maybe get myself a bit more organised.

Just prior to the "Fat boy" book I had this plan to concentrate on re-vamping some work, but due to time, that that fell by the way side. The other thing to do was to enter a couple of competitions.

I did manage to do the competitions... well one of them as it was finished and sent not long after I met Brian OConnell (writer of Fat Boy with the Bomb).

The competition was set by Titan Comics Teams Up with LICAF for Undiscovered Talent Search.
http://www.comicartfestival.com/2014/05/titan-comics-teams-licaf-undiscovered-talent-search/

My submission piece was about a monkey sent into space (attached is pages 2and 3).

 

Even though I didn't win I've been informed that my work has been selected  and will be published in the anthology. This in itself is quite a big thing for me and I look forward to seeing it published.

The second competition http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/observer-graphic-short-story-prize
I'm not sure if I managed to get the submission in on time but the Fat boy book was the priority. The work was heavily constrained due to time so I can only hope. Attached is one of the pages.

 

Regardless I hope these two submissions will lead me on to some new work prospects.

 

Now my current focus is to get a bit organised and contend with some existing projects one of which is Deadmoth.

 

Deadmoth is kind of an anthology though some of the stories are completed and some, like mine are not. My strip for it was illustrated earlier this year but due to some hiccups the publishing of Deadmoth stalled for a bit.

 

This is a page from the first part of my story and I have 2 more instalments roughed out to finish it. Next to it is the cover art for Deadmoth (Still to be coloured). I drew this with the purpose of  featuring a main character from each strip. As they are all stylistically different and would look out of place with each other I had them gather round a common focal point.

 

With any luck Deadmoth this will be out by early 2015

 



"The fat boy with the bomb and 299 more of the worlds craziest politicians"

It's been 3 months since my last entry and things have been crazily busy. I had planned to ink in past re-vamped work, start on some new submissions for 2000Ad and enter some competitions, but I only managed the  latter part of that due to some expected work. which I'll blog about next time

The unexpected work resulted from partnering up with a writer and illustrating a book that listed some crazy, eccentric, strange and often disturbing Politicians that are currently in power or working, some are well know, but many are not but are equally interesting.

The book is call "The fat boy with the bomb and 299 more of the worlds craziest politicians"

It turned out to be a really fun but taxing project. 300 caricatures plus some extras over the course of 2 and a half months.

It was pretty insightful too as I read about the politicians. Disgust, confusion, infuriating and uplifting are some of the words I would use to describe the politicians. There are more but I'll have to wash my mouth out with soap

The book should be coming out in November and there will be a book launch in Oxford, but the date hasn't been finalised yet.

Attach is few samples: Nigel Farage, Rob Ford and Janusz Palikot and yes, he really did hold up a dildo and handgun when addressing the press.