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For sale: Pimples, Thugs, Bugs Bunny, and a man with three buttocks
I've just uploaded a few new items on eBay for auction if you're interested. Original artwork including Tom Thug, Pete and his Pimple, plus a couple of different pages...One is a huge A2 size double...
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In this week's Beano...
...there's the final Celebs on a Sledge mini-strip from me. This was a fun series to do and I hope I'll have the opportunity to do more daft ideas for The Beano in the future. Next week this strip is...
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The Day it Began...
...or close enough. Me, age 2, in 1961 in my grandad's back garden. (We lived with my grandad until I was four.) Starting to draw something. Dunno what. Still drawing, 53 years later.I'm no longer left...
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COMBAT COLIN returns in a brand new story!
Combat Colin, the bobble-hatted hero, (imagine if Nick Frost played a cross between Rambo and James Bond in a small English town) whose adventures ran in the pages of Marvel UK's Action Force and...
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Rasher Returns
Dennis the Menace's pet pig Rasher returns for a new series of mini-strips in The Beano No.3719 which is on sale in shops today.I'm very pleased to be drawing Dennis' porcine pal again. Rasher...
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Doctor Flu and Rasher previews
Here's a preview of the strips I have in today's issue of The Beano. Doctor Flu does what most of us would do if we had a time machine and goes back in time to buy old comics at cover price. This is...
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Beano mystery
I'm just embarking on drawing my new mini-strip for The Beano. You've seen the character before, but never by me. Who is it? I'll reveal more details closer to its publication, although that won't be...
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Word play
Although I've often lettered my own strips I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a professional letterer. Which is odd really, especially as I've often been paid extra for it. (Perhaps it's because...
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The moment has been prepared for...
...and Doctor Flu regenerates in this week's issue of The Beano! That should clear his head. It's the final episode of the time travelling spoof. The other mini-strip I have in today's issue is Rasher,...
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Team Toxic preview
Here's a preview of the first few panels from the two page Team Toxic story I did for this week's issue of Toxic magazine before the word balloons were added. The Team are entrusted to guard a bank,...
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"A fine compendium of knee-slappers, guffaws, and belly laughs!"
Well, that's how Alan Moore described one of my Brickman mini-comics when he reviewed it for The Daredevils back in the 1980s. And who am I to argue with the great man? In 2005 Richard Starkings'...
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From drawing board to print
Here's an example of how the Rasher strip progresses from the initial drawing to the printed page. I'm not showing the full strip obviously. Just one panel. After having my script approved by the...
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The origin of Tom Thug!
One day in 1984, while visiting Bob Paynter, the Group Editor of the IPC humour comics, up at Kings Reach Tower on London's South Bank, he told me of a new comic that was in development. This was to be...
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Cover story
Back in 1988 when Oink! switched from fortnightly to a weekly frequency, I was asked to come up with some cover ideas for the comic. I think I drew four or five covers in total. I tried to make them...
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Ro-Butts on the rampage!
There's a new issue of Toxic out today and amongst the features and posters you'll find a brand new Team Toxic 2-pager by me. Butt Face is back, and he's created Ro-Butts to menace Spud City! Can Team...
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Rasher rushes in
Here's a quick preview of a panel from this week's Rasher mini-strip in The Beano. I've been commissioned for a few more of these strips so it'll be running for another couple of months yet. They have...
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A comic for a quid? Yes indeed!
If you're one of the people who hasn't subscribed to Aces Weekly yet, this image of Combat Colin flashing his pins might not be a great incentive BUT you'll be missing out on a great digital anthology...
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Unseen Horrors
Here's a page of rough sketches I've found that I did a couple of years ago. Just experimenting a bit with some comic horror characters for my own amusement. I didn't develop it any further but perhaps...
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Referencing yesterday for tomorrow
It's often useful for artists to have some reference, and Googling on the Internet is a great boon in quickly finding out what a certain prop looks like. However, sometimes it's good to reference...
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Who ate all the pies?
One of the enjoyable things about doing a Beano strip is that all the characters live in Beanotown so they can wander into each other's stories. This week, Fatty from Bash Street and Dennis' pal Pie...
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