Sun. Sea. Sand. Script

Not long back from a trip to Spain. I know that sounds bad, me sunning it abroad when i should be chained to the drooling board finishing Channel Evil #2.

But i really, really, really needed to get away for a spell, and we payed for coach, planes and train months back in a more optimistic time, before i knew i was struck with some deadline-buggering 'weird ear' disorder/ailment and not just a shitty head cold.

Besides, i took script and art tools with with me and spent hours in sea-view cafes, gulping my Fanta Limon(Hardcore!), eating twice my body weight in olives and laying out most of #3, along with sorting a few 'problem panels' on #2.

Fun was had, work woz done and Suzanne got to see her Mum, paddle in the ocean, fondle a chameleon, and get bitten by bugs.

Odd thing, other than the first two days, i suffered no unpleasant symptoms(nausea, ringing/buzzing in ears, dizziness, etc.), then after a day back in Stoke i had a juggernaut driving around my skull and an attack of the wobblies. Mebbe I'm living in a 'sick town?'

Right now I'm on the tail end of pencilling #2, due to start the inks next week. Will post some previews along the way.

Work is getting faster, and I'm feeling on top, I'm grateful for your patience and understanding, and touched by all the well-wishes, especially from No;1 fan, Justin Gillett.

Onward and upward!

See you at the Show?

Although I'm too busy, skint, and still got a crappy cold(thank you Ryanair for your freezing, filthy plague-ridden recycled air)I'll be at this weekends Birmingham International Comics Show. I'm on a table with me good chums Leah Moore and John Reppion, 12 noon-till-1 in the theatre lobby. If you'd like to have anything signed, get a quick sketch(i don't charge!)or buy original artwork, please come and say 'ullo'.

I'll be at the launch party too, so if i owe you a drink, or you owe me one, let's form an orderly queue.

And...

A few of the better sketches i did in Spain. Done with Zig, Faber brush pen and Letraset markers, and a little messing in Photoshop.

Back in blighty

Bin away on me hols for near a fortnight, so other than Uggly Monday, i tried to stay away from anything 'work-related' and enjoy the scenery, which made a refreshing change. Though i did fill a whole sketchbook with doodles, a big bunch of which I'll be posting on Wednesday.
Meantime, I'd like to share a coupla photo's from my trip to Spain - and before you shudder, I'm not gonna bore you with scenic snaps of sunsets and glorious beaches. I'm probably much like you, having to look thru other folks holiday pics fills me with a crawling, suffocating dread, unless there's a shot or two of alligators eating small children or Bavarian monks skateboarding.

So ere's a creepy-looking doll on sale at the Cadiz flea market(more or less like a car boot sale but with loads of kitsch religious paraphernalia and dog porn)and a knocker resting on a knob. Hasta luego!