Recent and current work
It's a busy time at present, I'm pleased to say. I drew a new Pathetic Sharks page for Viz last week, which will appear in their Christmas issue which goes on sale on the 21st November. I won't reveal...
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When I'm selling artwork on eBay I usually put new listings up on a Sunday but as I was busy last weekend I didn't have time. However I've just added a few items today. This week I've chosen to use the...
View ArticleThe Pimple Premiere
One of the most enjoyable new blogs of recent times is Phil Boyce's The Oink! Blog which looks back at each issue of Oink! exactly 27 years to the week it was published. This week highlights Oink!...
View ArticleHere they come! CELEBS ON A SLEDGE!
This week's Beano features not one but two mini-strips that I created. Firstly it sees the debut of Celebs on a Sledge! It was a straightforward pitch that I gave to the editors: "Every week, a...
View ArticleThe Whovian Sharks
Part of the Sharks page. Click to enlarge.The Christmas issue of Viz (published yesterday) sees the return of The Pathetic Sharks in a seasonal story I did for the comic. I thought I'd tie it in with...
View ArticleIn this week's Beano...
I'm pleased to say there are three items by me in the issue of The Beano that's out today. Firstly, there's a full page You've Been Pranked feature featuring Dennis the Menace. I just did illustrations...
View ArticleEarly Tom Thug on eBay
Yes, it's one of those posts where I plug my eBay sales again. Want to own some original comic art? This week I have one of my very early Tom Thug pages up for auction. It's from Oink! No.5, way back...
View ArticleThat's about the size of it
On various forums and blogs there's sometimes discussion about the size original comic art is drawn. Many years ago pages were usually drawn at least 'twice up' (twice as wide and high as the printed...
View ArticleNew Team Toxic for 2014
The Christmas issue of Toxic is out today and it features a reprint of a Team Toxic strip I did several years ago. However, from the next issue I'll be doing all-new Team Toxic stories again for the...
View ArticleCelebs, Robots, and Pranks
It's Wednesday, so there's a new Beano in the shops today. This week Will.i.am becomes the latest of the Celebs on a Sledge, there's a new Rubbish Robots in town, and I also illustrated another prank...
View ArticleA Combat Classic
For some Friday fun here's a complete Combat Colin serial that ran in three issues of The Transformers back in 1990. (Specifically Nos.264 to 266, 7th to 21st April 1990.) As ever, click on the pages...
View ArticleIntroducing... Doctor Flu!
As the news has already been revealed in the Christmas Beano that subscribers have now received I thought I'd show an image of my new mini-strip, Doctor Flu, that will begin in The Beano in the New...
View ArticleKnow How!
I've been commissioned to draw some odd things in my time and one of the strangest was this robot for Know How! magazine in 2002. Know How! was a lighthearted educational / activity magazine for young...
View ArticleChristmas Comic Card 2001
I've drawn a few self-created Christmas cards over the years and in 2001 I thought I'd design it as a comic. Only a two page comic admittedly - front and back of the card - but with a few mini-strips....
View ArticleTom Thug - Christmas Fairy
Photo Copyright © Andy Hall 2013For the 1987 Christmas issue of Oink! I produced a cut-out Christmas fairy for readers to decorate their Christmas trees with. And what better choice of fairy could...
View ArticleStocking Stuffers
If you still have a few presents to buy, don't forget that The Dandy Annual and The Beano Annual are still in the shops (if you're lucky). Both contain all-new full-colour strips of the familiar...
View ArticleNew strips for the New Year
The New Year kicks off with a new issue of Toxic in the shops today, and it contains the first in a new series of Team Toxic adventures that I've done. As you may recall, Team Toxic went to reprint...
View ArticleSonic Sample - in colour
Last year on this blog I posted about how I submitted artwork to Egmont's Sonic the Comic in its early days with the hope of becoming one of its artists. As it transpired they were looking for a...
View ArticleMini-strips galore
Today's issue of The Beano (the first for 2014) features three mini-strips that I scripted and drew for the long-running weekly. There's the penultimate episode of Rubbish Robots (see pic above).The...
View ArticleRubbish Robots concludes
It's the final episode of Rubbish Robots in The Beano today as Captain Kog readies his robot army to invade the Earth! Also by me in this week's issue is the penultimate Celebs on a Sledge mini-strip...
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