After my recent comic work, I felt like giving narrative a break and returning to my short, one page character assassination days. Revisiting the vitriolic and spiteful ventedspleen humour of Art School Scum, here’s the fourth page of the You’re Wrong series…

So, somehow I managed to complete the 24 hour comic within 24 hours. I’ve scanned it in and left it pretty much untouched in terms of spelling errors and the like. Editing it in that way seems to go against the principles of the thing. I have, however, made the colours sync up in photoshop. Some of my pens ran out forcing me to adopt different coloured pens during the process. Felt a shame to not correct this. I have to say, it’s fairly bad but I’m just quite elated I managed to make it though to the finishline. Let alone make anything readable.

Was it worth it? I certainly feel the challenge was a useful learning curve that has made me question how I produce comics normally. We’ll see how this affects my work over the next few months…

I may publish the comic later - as part of my anthology collection next year.

And here’s my very own 24 hour comic completion certificate…

Back in June I was invited, alongside three other London-based comic artists, to spend ten days in the Polish city of Lodz. There, we collaborated with Polish comic artists to produce the second issue of ‘City Stories’ (the first issue was a Russian/Polish pairing). The recent comic festival in Lodz saw the launch of the book and the results of our endeavours. The cover image of the book, in all it’s three dimensional holographic glory (which is hard to tell in this picture of course) is below:

The story I worked on - with Polish artist Michal Bedkowski - follows. Michal wrote the concept and coloured the pages. My job was the black and white artwork. I attempted a very different approach to my usual comic style this time. No cross-hatching, just harsh, angular lines which were meant to suggest an East European feel. There are a couple of colouring mishaps (the character’s eye on page two was originally drawn closed) that weren’t picked up on during the emailing process, but overall I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. I’ll post my black and white originals up here for comparison.

A couple of months ago, I was asked by a record company who manage a musician named Yoav to illustrate a comic version of his biography for a press release. In the end, it was decided that a comic might not suit his style quite as much as they anticipated.  The files have been sitting on my computer ever since, but it feels like a waste not to give them some sort of exposure, so here they are…

The large areas of empty space were for where the final text would eventually appear.

Like staring in front of a hall of mirrors, wearing a suit made of mirrors, on a planet made entirely of mirrors, eating tiny shards of mirror, which is all being drawn by one giant, self-referential mirror…

And that’s the last preview of Issue 2 that’ll be uploaded before the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing (March 17th) where the whole, whingey relationship saga will finally be unvieled. Come pick one up and save yourself all that squinting in front of your computer screen…

The epic love letter to twenty-something self-involvement continues its relentless march towards an inevitably unsatisfying conclusion…

Here’s a new, completely inconsequential, two page comic.

As always with my comics, it’s just plot, plot, plot…