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ntinue on conor boyle s shadowy art is utterly brilliant throughout and his porcine portrayals are perfect he even handles the lettering with no small skill this porky volume from the disconnected press duo is a startlingly satisifying small press ks success story and i ve only just heard that the second issue of a proposed four will be out this august oink hey you going to read this chuck i got places to be things to do freebie david ziggy greene this freebie was being handed out by master artist david ziggy greene private eye time out london etc at the bristol comic and zine fair 2013 and is extraordinarily charming made up of six short cartoony stories that had largely previously been published in various french comics it is a fantastic promotional tool greene s art has a european animated feel to it and every panel no matter how small is a joy full of life and character the punchlines are fairly predictable but the ride towards them is fantastically unique this brief booklet made an instant fan out of me and i got his book where s north from here without hesitation i ll give that a review hopefully afore the next blog rears its ugly head posted by unknown at 07 37 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 22 may 2014 may goings on it s been a busy and until now sunny may and since m last blog post i ve been all over the shop well to birmingham anyway for the fantastically dreddy lawgiver and then the bristol comics expo just after flogging the psychedelic journal i also had a birthday which was a bit of a lark i m knocking up posters for a fabulously fuzzy monthly noise night in bristol known as noise annoys and the inaugural gig a month ago today blimey was as smashing as it was deafening as you can see above the next un is a fortnight from now and should be grand all hail king tansey catching up with my big fat dreddheads backlog a bit this month a moderately unsuccessful ivan drago from rocky marks my first foray into sov territories a fun ravejudge as in tyres from spaced was retweeted by the brilliant michael smiley and my first ever psi judge delia smith probes into your mind for baking tips or just to judge you on why you re not as candidly passionate about norwich city fc as she is pretty big clue for the next one due very soon would be this also a big hurrooh and halloof to former housemate and possible king of reality chris nolan rennie for creating this wonderful pixelart portrait of dreddhead o for my birthday d finally i got another wee stash of comics from bristol comics expo this year to add to my massive ever increasing rarely decreasing pile of to read comics the next review is indeed from the expo last year ah so by bristol 2015 you ll be reading this year s comics right ahahahaha probably not tales from the gentry water closet press richard worth jordan collver mike pasquale this slim volume from the ladies gentleman crew features four or so short stories related to mysterious victorian era vigilante group the gentry it works well as a companion piece to the main volume and those hankering for more of the universe and more of jordan collver s singularly brilliant artwork won t be disappointed collver is a difficult act to follow however and the final story a victorian noir is illustrated by mike pasquale whose linework seems shaky and awkward in comparison but he uses bold shadows well and clearly has a strong nose for design a nice taster comic for the unitiated or an appetiser for those longing for more looking forward to reading their bulky anthology from later in 2013 posted by unknown at 15 39 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 30 april 2014 the busy year continues in my last post over two months ago i said that 2014 was going to be busy certainly it s proving that way and the last few months have seen me travelling zero houring and plotting the destruction of humanity not the last one either way it s been absurdly dense but i ll clamber through it the best i can here s a dreddhead of hunter s thompson wi psychedelic eyes and likely a herbal cigarette of some kind welcome to judge country like this blog the next one has been a long time coming but here is a clue you can see all the dreddheads here http dreddheads tumblr com and for extra recent dredd related fun here is karl urban impersonating sylvester stallone above is some leisure colouring what on some hellboy pencils by the ultra talented king of all creation bern campbell check out his stuff the man is art that is me for the last month or so and for the next fortnight i ve been adding to my list of 100 albums that enliven my brain at 26 over on the glorious rateyourmusic it s mainly thrash stoner and 70s hard rock but m lord i love it all take a gander you may find something interesting or at least learn to despise the way i randomly capitalise the end of sentences for comic effect if he knows it s annoying why does he still do it enshrouded in an amazing david frankum cover massacre for boys s new picture library issue also features the feeble drawing talent of me on the brilliantly funny jimmy baker animal hatmaker it really is a classy small press volume those denton bros make good comic buy it here around mid march i took over the weekly themed art blog or tab as it is sometimes known as it s a very informal facebook based although used to be a blog hence the title artjam group with a new theme every week 99 members and perpetually growing join in the larks here above are my recent contributions for miracleman exosuits and hulk smash the current theme is star wars which despite its extreme obscurity is attracting many many fine drawings above is my quite poorly constructed and a bit too aqua entry for the latest month of the 2000ad forum art competition the theme was classic dredd story the day the law died and i was attempting to express the contemporary state of mega city 1 and cal s current redundancy within it although by crikey they d miss the wall if it wasn t there i ll say that the other entries are far more interesting and can be seen here although voting ends tonight here is the latest page of flaubert st cloud goat an epic length saga because its taken 4 years to do 27 pages written by the very patient geoffery crescent and drawn by meself the question is just what is meep see the whole thing to date her e finally on to some small press reviews still mired in my last year bristol con haul and we re only a week away from this year s bristol new york park self published andrew scaife a purchase from bristol expo 2013 local andrew scaife s one off tale of a group of future high school students and their trip to ancient new york is bright irreverent and full of character it suffers occasionally from a lack of gag pay off and scaife s bold cartoony art is sometimes slightly off the mark but it is an impressive début and a consistently engaging and very funny read i know he doesn t intend to carry on this universe but another similarly styled volume would be definitely worth pursuing razarhawk 2 self published ian matthews dani abram brought from the creators at bristol 2013 this second issue of razarhawk did just as i hoped it would and delivers brilliantly from the set up in the first the majority of the issue is concerned with a punch up between this gurt monster and a giant robot and it s done brilliantly the pacing is excellent and abram s dynamic animators eye for motion gives the lengthy fight scene some bonafide clout the duo s eye for character moments continues to be very strong as a single glimpse between man and ape had me hooting with laughter the lettering is a great deal more consistent this time around as well as the art itself which gets the balance between detail and lack of detail more or less right a particularly gruesome scene no spoilers is stunningly rendered and actually made me wince although the stark lack of detail on some of the more bare pages is still a little jarring beyond that the only thing i could criticize really is the slight over use of the liquify tool to generate a smouldering effect in a few panels and the continued lack of anything on the inside cover inside back cover and back cover which are really crying out to have dani ian saying something on them or a letter s page or well anything beyond a copyright notice and a little chibi issue 2 draws the storyline set up in the first to a satisfying and fun close but the potential for more is definitely there let s hope it s not too long before we see the return of this character who seems to me to be as determined and spirited as her creative team the small press would be a much colder place without them skal prologue self published jennie gyllblad the skal prologue is a handsome self published book i bought from the creator at bristol con in may 2013 being as it is just a taster really it s quite light on story but the short sequence present is engaging enough and definitely leaves you wanting more whether a twelve page story really needs acknowledgements or not is a matter of debate and the few pages dedicated to this and creator credits online links may have served better as giving some background detail on this interesting new world but really it functions well enough without it the real draw here is gyllblad s art which is of the beautifully painted variety and even features some mixed media elements the thick paper stock makes this even more grand and the asking price for such a slim tome seems justified as its clear that a great deal of creative effort has gone into it not at all shabby for something claimed inside to be a mere experiment whilst gyllblad isn t working on graphic novels by people who actually know how to write stories properly the story has been continuing online but let s hope its not too long before someone snaps it up for a physical printin posted by unknown at 08 46 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 17 february 2014 2014 the busy year it s been a while since my last blog and this is because right now my life is busier than a busy beetle busying its business along a branch for one i ve got a job my stunningly unproductive stint as a freelancer left me with less money than a horse with no money so i ve gone back to the trenches of archaeology and all is muddy and busy it s the perfect weather for that kind of thing digging big holes below sea level in the south west of england is a good idea right now i ve managed to squeeze in some activities though in the last month and a half and here be some of them two recent dreddheads that being my annual santa claus and ash of evil dead fame catch all of them on the tumblr there and yes you can request one but bear in mind the next one i m doing clue is a request from the end of 2012 so that s how slowly i m getting through them here s a scott pilgrim commission i did recently it was for a chap called theo hence the the in the k o there i m still taking commissions if you want anything drawn drop me a line for a quote in the autumn of last year i coloured smitten which is now live over on the new haven comics website two new pages every week it s a rollicking manga tale with giant robots and magic schoolgirls and guitars and all that sort of thing it was written by new haven s aaron walther and sergio apodaca who also pencilled it and the whole thing was inked by jesus salas oh yes and captain cosmos is back in the first of the sixth bit of crabcake who is captain cosmos i hear literally nobody asking apart from those capital letters just then he s a superhero from a story i wrote in college a decade ago and i m tying his whole bullshit nonsense into crabcake because continuity is great embarrassingly several years ago i took it upon myself to read the cosmos story out loud like an idiot the prelude will be the first time i ve actively drawn it just what the world was waiting for how will that ridiculous tale weave into the crabcake tale though hmm drew this house thing on the train through the crazy crazy damp countryside the other day i may give it a bit of a digitizin if i m in a mind to further down the line the tree bound pub is called ye olde tree but where was that train going to eh london i went to see swedish stonerkings lowrider and dozer which was a blummin special gig actually the two had played at desertfest last year but had both been plagued by sound problems and the dreaded truncated set for a festival syndrome meaty english foursome steak supported and the small amount i caught was grand lowrider pulled out some new ish songs some of them older than their lone 2000 release it had me longing to hear more from them really as they were clearly having a whale of a time their sound was atrociously flat at desertfest so it was amazingly good to hear their riffy tunes played louddddddd dozer were something else and crowd were euphoric throughout which made for an unforgettable bit of jumping about even a great few moments of happy stoner moshery which is always welcome they overran by a bit and you could tell that even when they finally finished they were ready for more i had a train to catch so i couldn t stick around for afterparty lets hope these two groups don t stay quiet for quite so long after this oh yes and i drew a lego version of deadwood which is the best television series there has ever been will probably do up some prints of it in the future all tinned peaches go to rob sol starr phillips and jasmine seth bullock for the ideas and assistance right my small press pile has benefited greatly from time away from the blog so there are quite a few reviews to get through ladies gentlemen 2 water closet press richard worth jordan collver the second ladies gentlemen is a huge step up from the first with both worth collver in stupendously confident form throughout there are a few playful narrative techniques used and the two of them are clearly having a ball the amount of attention effort gone into the composition on some pages is genuinely breathtaking storywise it takes the form of straightforward thriller heavy on victorian derring do but solid characterisation and good pacing prevents the appearance of some well tread tropes from lingering on the mind and disrupting enjoyment it s a profoundly solid comic and easily one of the best american format small press books i ve seen if you re a fan of victoriana or absurdly well drawn action comics then this is for you here s hoping their new anthology can continue on from this strong start porcelain a gothic fairy tale improper books read wildgoose porcelain made a bit of a buzz at thought bubble 12 due to an enormous amount of free samplers gushing like a flood from the improper books table it s a tactic that paid off as i don t think i saw a single person that year that wasn t wielding one it was a mesmerising little booklet thanks mainly to the beau...