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September Sizzler
The original art for last week's Ivy story.Work has picked up considerably recently so September is going to be a very busy month indeed. Therefore I'll have less spare time to update this blog and my...
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Derek the Troll is back for his 30th anniversary
In 1984 I created the character of Derek the Troll as a comic strip for Games Workshop's Warlock magazine. The full page strip adventures of the spotty, stinky (but reasonably good natured) troll ran...
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New event: Malta Comic Con
As mentioned on my Blimey! blog yesterday, I've been invited as one of the guests at the Malta Comic Con, in the city of Valetta, 29th / 30th November 2014. I feel very honoured and pleased to be added...
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Snooty roughs
Here's what I'm working on today; a Lord Snooty page for The Beano Annual 2016. That's a photograph of my pencil roughs. I'll modify a few things before I ink it. Also today, I'm working on a script...
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Return of the original Keyhole Kate
In a story I did for The Dandy Annual 2015, now on sale, today's Keyhole Kate travels back in time to 1937 to encounter her ancestor... the original Keyhole Kate. It's one chapter in a three-part time...
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Noisy comics!
I've always enjoyed lettering the sound effects on my strips, and this week's Team Toxic adventure has no less than three instances where the sound FX dominate the panels. I know some fans don't like...
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Beano No.3751 preview
Here's a quick preview of the strips I have in this week's Beano (out now). I think this will be the last Lord Snooty strip for a while, but there's a couple of unused ones that should appear in a...
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Ivy the Terrible: preview
Ivy the Terrible, getting bored at a bus stop. What could possibly go wrong? Find out in The Beano this Wednesday, September 17th. (At least I think this is the episode scheduled for this week. We'll...
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Attack Eyebrows
This Thursday sees the publication of a new issue of Doctor Who Magazine which includes my second Daft Dimension comic strip. I can't really show much from it or it'll spoil the joke so here's part of...
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Viz Annual 2015
Work has been very quiet on the Viz front for some reason this year but I've just noticed the new Viz Annual in the shops and there's an old Pathetic Sharks page in there that I did a few years ago....
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What's he gawping at?
Enlarged section.She's out for revenge, she's on her way, and he's going to feel her wrath! Who? What? It's rated 'D' for demented and it's something new coming soon! Stay tuned!
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Fun-Size Fun!
I-Spy and Calamity James images by me.Back around the turn of the century I was commissioned by DC Thomson to draw quite a few stories for their pocket-size comics Fun-Size Dandy and Fun-Size Beano....
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MacUser mention
Thanks to Oink! fan supremo Phil Boyce for the info that the latest issue of MacUser magazine gives me a mention. It's a feature on logo design, and in one instance how the language of comics has...
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Funny Faces!
The current issue of The Beano features the third of the set of puzzle pages I did for them recently. Funny Faces features Plug, Dennis, Spotty (above), Danny, and Minnie reacting to different things....
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STINKYTOWN!
The next issue of Toxic will feature Team Toxic in Stinkytown, a sequel to the story in the current issue's Team Toxic in The Land of Living Farts! As seen at the conclusion of the latest issue, one of...
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ACES WEEKLY reaches its 2nd birthday
Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the launch of Aces Weekly, the all-new digital anthology comic weekly published by David Lloyd. Over the past two years it has featured numerous contributors and many...
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Toxic preview
Here's a preview of part of the two-page Team Toxic strip I did for the latest Toxic that's out today. Stinkytown features 'gross humour' for kids, but I hope you'll get a chuckle out of it too. Click...
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Snooty drops by
When I did my recent run of Lord Snooty strips for The Beano there were a couple that were skipped from being published. There wasn't a problem with them. It's simply that these things happen sometimes...
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Latest convention news
I'm pleased to announce that I've been invited as a guest to The Birmingham Comics Festival which takes place on Saturday April 18th 2015 at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground from 9am to 6pm. Birmingham has...
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Tom Thug on eBay
It's been a few weeks since I listed anything on eBay but I've sorted out a few items to sell. It's a bit of a Tom Thug special this week with three original pieces of artwork:A complete half page Tom...
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