Arnside

Had a walk along the very cold river bank yesterday...

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone. I'm off now for a while. Normal posting will resume in the New Year.

Card from Think Bubble

Edinburgh

Off to Edinburgh today to collect my son Fred after his first term at university. Makes me feel very old...

Hot Stuff

Mr Majestyk

Started a painting for a Criminal essay today...

Oils on board, about two hours so far. I'll leave it to dry overnight and finish tomorrow.

More CRIMINAL Inks

CRIMINAL inks

Dempsey and Makepeace

Still working on spoiler laden Criminal pages, so here's a blast from the past. I drew a six page strip for the Dempsey and Makepeace Annual 1986, based on the short lived TV show. I drew this in my first year at art college, so I was 19 I think. Here's the first couple of pages...

More CRIMINAL inks

CRIMINAL inks

Been working on Criminal the last couple of days. There's too many spoilers on most of the pages so there's not much I can show. Here's a panel that doesn't give anything away...

Better CONAN scan

Conan

Had some free time so did a Conan study this afternoon...
Oils on paper, I'll put up a good scan when it's dry.

Korean Noir

News Stand

INCOGNITO trade and CRIMINAL: The Sinners #2 out today

CRIMINAL inks

Thought Bubble

I'll be at the Leeds Comic Festival on Saturday.

Thought Bubble

I'll be bringing along a limited quantity of the Criminal Deluxe Edition, and copies of next week's Criminal: The Sinners #2.
Also might bring along some art from Criminal and Incognito as well.

28 Days Later #6

Here's the stages of a recent cover...
Sketch...

Painting...

Finished cover...

 

In Progress

CRIMINAL finished inks

CRIMINAL partial inks

CRIMINAL pencils

CRIMINAL inks

More CRIMINAL Inks

CRIMINAL inks

CRIMINAL pencils

Back To Work

Started a new issue of Criminal last week but didn't really do much worth showing. Lost one and a half days because some of my village was without electricity while some trees were trimmed near the power lines. Went into the Lake District to a couple of galleries instead. Got me keen to do some more painting though I don't know when I'll get the chance, got too much work to do.
Here's a page I finished over the weekend...

Australian Noir

CRIMINAL The Sinners #5 cover

CRIMINAL The Sinners #5 cover inks

CRIMINAL The Sinners #5 cover sketch

CRIMINAL detail

More Criminal Inks

CRIMINAL inks

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More Inks

Noir

Dark Horse book of Noir out today, includes a new Criminal short story.

CRIMINAL inks

CRIMINAL partial inks

Zombie Goliath

Cover Detail

CRIMINAL inks

Zombie Cyclops

Zombie Quicksilver

INCOGNITO exclusive

Gosh comic shop in London will have an exclusive bookplate edition of the Criminal trade in December signed by both Ed and myself...

Comic Action

Regretfully I won't now be appearing at Comic Action in Essen next week. I'm just too snowed under with drawing Criminal to make it there. Hopefully I will still be going to Thought Bubble next month.
Also on Halloween, along with Charlie Adlard and Duncan Fegredo, I will be signing at Infinity and Beyond in Shrewsbury.

The Robbery

Didn't do much drawing today. This morning I gave a talk to my nine year old son Archie's class about comics as they are doing a project drawing their own graphic novel.
Then I watched this movie for homework...

It's directed by Peter Yates who also directed The Friends Of Eddie Coyle and Bullitt. I've got some drawings to do from it for a Criminal back up article (only available in the monthly comic, not reprinted in the collections).