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Ivy's back!
Beano subscribers will probably find out any day now so I thought I'd mention that the new strip I'm drawing for the comic is Ivy the Terrible, and she's scheduled to start in The Beano dated August...
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Back from Birmingham
I really enjoyed ICE the International Comic Expo yesterday in Birmingham. After being away from the convention scene for a while it's a good feeling to get back into it this year and, as always, very...
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Bash Street Plus
I did a few puzzle pages for The Beano a while ago and the first of them will be in this week's issue, on sale Wednesday. It features a few of The Bash Street Kids plus several other Beano stars. Great...
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Snooty at the fair
It's the summer holidays, so this week Lord Snooty goes to the fair in the mini-strip I did for the latest Beano. I actually e-mailed this strip in to the office on April 4th but of course we sometimes...
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Into the unknown
As I mentioned the other day, my new series of Ivy the Terrible starts in The Beano next week (on August 13th). The week after that I have another new strip beginning. Something brand new. Not in The...
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Cuthbert Cringeworthy!
Another of my puzzle pages appears in The Beano next week and this one features Cuthbert Cringeworthy and Walter. Cuthbert is the swot of Bash Street School who sometimes appears in the strip. Yes, he...
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The Amazin' Spider-Guy
One of the wonderful things about Oink! comic was the flexibility of its format. It had its regular characters but it also featured many one-off strips. This was a perfect opportunity for contributors...
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Ivy the Terrible: inks and colours
As I've mentioned previously, I'm drawing a new series of Ivy the Terrible half page strips that begins in The Beano this week. I'm really enjoying working from John Anderson's scripts and it's a good,...
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Life of a freelancer
New characters? Nah, just doodlin'.As every freelancer knows, life is often a case of "feast or famine". Sometimes work can be thin on the ground for months, then a stack of commissions come along all...
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Terrible Day!
Today's the day that Ivy the Terrible returns to The Beano! A brand new series of weekly half page strips begins, written by John Anderson and drawn by me. Ivy's a great character to draw and I'm...
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Extra Team Toxic!
There's an extra helping of Team Toxic this month as the Toxic Annual 2015 has just been published! Although Toxic magazine has been running since 2002 this is the very first time Egmont have issued an...
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Ivy causes chaos in the kitchen
Here's an advance preview of the second Ivy the Terrible strip I drew, which presumably will appear in The Beano this coming Wednesday. It's Ivy in the kitchen! What happens next? Poor Mum! Ivy's...
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New strip for Doctor Who Magazine!
There's a new issue of Doctor Who Magazine out this Thursday (21st August) and I'm very pleased to announce that I have a new strip starting in there!Doctor Who Magazine has a long history of featuring...
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Ivy the Terrible mini-comic, - free!
This week The Beano official website has my latest Ivy the Terrible online for you to read for free! Simply go to the website http://www.beano.com/beano-comic/issue-3748 and click on the 'Issuu Clip'...
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Life's a beach!
Whenever appropriate for the story, it's traditional in British comics to have the strips reflect the time of year they're set in. The idea being that it helps the reader identify with them more. This...
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Sheffield next Saturday!
Just a quick reminder that next Saturday (August 30th) I'll be a guest at the Sheffield Film and Comic Con at the Motorpoint Arena. The event runs for Saturday and Sunday but I'll be attending on...
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Suburban Satanists!
Looking through some old files I came across a strip I hadn't thought about for a while. Suburban Satanists! I created this strip about a family of dysfunctional devil worshippers in 1997 for Geek, a...
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Sheer Terror!
What's Ivy the Terrible's dad reacting to? What has The Beano's infant terrible done now? Buy The Beano this Wednesday to see the full story!
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Bid on Syd!
I have one of my old Viz pages up on eBay at present. The original artwork to a complete Suicidal Syd page. Black ink on Bristol Board. The auction ends this Sunday (31st August). All bids...
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Beano preview
Ivy the Terrible skips next week's Beano but the tiny tot of terror will be back the week after. However, Lord Snooty continues his run and here's a preview of next Wednesday's strip. Above is the...
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