WRONG AGAIN

Coupla one off pieces here - again testin new style for the girls and really wishing i could come up with a story. I decided to scrap all existing ideas and try for a self contained loop of a story. i was wanting to think more out of the box. - But i was getting loadsa comercial work - mainly from Barnardos - so celph never mad print in 2008. Instead i used my print privillages up on publishing a series of illustrated short stories, which i thought would take up less time than doing a comic .... how wrong was i....

CELPH TEST

Back to Celph - again - a few pages to try out size/format of a new strip. inevitably abandoned, I still really like the sequence so I thought I’d put it up here. It was the research for Celph book four which is pouring out of my head now, (summa 2009). it is a one pannel per page - no text story. i've been trying to keep it short - but it looks like at least a hundered pages long - so i'm doing it in three self contained shorts. it's gonna be tiny pocket sized and owes a lot to the downbeat tail of "Poor Sailor" by sammy harkham. (Buy Sammy’s work on Amazon.)

JOMUNRO

So the sister inlaw wanted some business cards doing for her new pilates studio - i banged out a coupla ideas - these two i liked the best. By the way - pilates changed my life and sorted out my back problems - now i'm even teaching it.

BOY PARKER

iwas a busy guy last year - Boo Cook was asked to do a series of pics to be made into top trump type cards for the excellent tee shirt shop in brighton - BOY PARKER. So i designed the cards and the finished result is great - check out mo' of booswork by following his blog link on here.

(seeing as he actually bothered to "friend" me - looks like i have at least one person who cares - it'snot like this on myspace you know....)

thomas tantrum

So randomly i got asked to do some vector assets for a music vid. The band wanted a "comic" theme and had grand ideas about a giant fifties batman style set appearing behind them as the song goes on. but the pieces were well to heavy when they were made up and the set was just there from the start. check it at - Music video background design for Thomas Tantrumhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIaqXbQzSq4

BEE HAPPY

So having done lots of youthwork in Edinburgh years ago - i still miss that kind of work and have ended up working for other organisations that deal with the third sector. Designing and drawing workshops and info leaflets. Here are my bee illustrations for the BEE HAPPY campaign for the fantastic Comic Book Company a southern based info. resource producers. check them out at -

http://www.comiccompany.co.uk/

Hip flask is an amazing creation. In a world of comics where superheroes are appearing on screen telling stories that are fifty years old and still feeling stale and over used. Richard Starkings has produced a modern heroic tale. Set in harsh world of genetic manipulation, Hip Flask (now ELEPHANTMEN) cashes in on the history of great old style storytelling, but has the depth of a well written novel and talent pool of creators you can really enjoy swimming around with.

Anyway - he's a nice chap and gave me a typeface i wanted in return for character studies. Here we have Vanity sitting on a time machine staring out over mystery city. I still owe hip and can't wait for him to cash in his chips and use me for something. Check out the saga - http://hipflask.com/

CELPH WIDESCREEN CARDS AND HATING CAR CULTURE.

after that short break from Celph over the summer - I finally got back into her world. The story arc i had wad very large and wobbly. The story just wasn't moving with the pace i wanted and with amount of commercial work mounting around me i condensed the story into eight widescreen cards. Probably the most successful thing i have done with Celph. Mainly, i think, because i took the time to colour it. (which took nearly as long as drawing each one.)

There are still a few packs available from me on request. and printed here are my favs and the editorial, that only made it into a few packs, where i rant on about how i hate car culture. Which i do.