Disturbed Ground

First three pages from a short story i did with Chris Roberson. 

Published in Hello Darkness #20.

Holy Hannah! Sweet Christmas! More art up for grabs!

Doesn't happen much, true believer - Shane does superheroes!

I must admit getting a big buzz digging thru some old Marvel comics and looking back on two of my boyhood reads, Luke Cage, Power Man and The Fantastic Four.

You may get the impression from my blog that i hate superheroes, but i don't, i just hate what most writers/publishers have done with them, which is take them far too seriously(and ironically making them seem even more ridiculous). A dark and glum world with no place for bright yellow shirts and wing-tipped collars!

Superheroes in the real world? Who cares! The world is scary and depressing enuff, i don't want to read about Captain America fighting in Iraq(i don't even want to read about REAL soldiers fighting in Iraq). I like a generous serving of escapism with my comics, i like the writer to impress me with his imagination, take me someplace that's new, and give me a fun trip for my money.

Ditch the leathers! Embrace the primaries!

Meanwhile, over on eBay... the black and white originals are up for auction. Click on the link to your upper right. And I'm also selling another buncha Albion pages, £45 each, price includes postage - and both the covers i did for the Accent UK anthologies; Monsters and Zombies, for £55.

Zombies, tentacles, etc.

Two covers from BOOM! and moi. Both should be on the shelves in time for Halloween.

The Dead Never Stop

Zombies! Tell me you have appetite for more?

Over at Geoff Boughs goriffic zombie-fixated site; http://www.revenantmagazine.com/ you'll find a mini-gallery of undead art by yers truly. Six in all, three of which are old(but two of them are 'remastered'),tuther three brand spanking new - as much as reanimated corpses can be brand spanking new...

Because you didn't demand it!

Not that the universe hasn't got anything else to offer other than the shambling, fly-blown, pus-dripping, flesh-ripping, brain-eating hordes of the undead. But let's be straight, you don't want to see delicate watercolour studies of fauna and flora or pencil portraits of cute puppies - you want ZOMBIES!

I aim to please...

More ZOMBIES

Just finished reading ZOMBIES, the latest 'themed' anthology from Accent UK. If you love the 'living dead' genre, then you'll LOVE this book. You get a whopping 168 black and white pages of comic strips and art, sandwiched between a suitably grisly cover from the putrescent pen of Steve Bissette (who in the eighties, along with Alan Moore and John Totleben, worked on an epic run of Swamp Thing - easily the best horror comics that DC have EVER done), and a back cover(and a coupla pics inside)by yers truly.

Zombies is a real labour of love(and death), publishers Dave West and Colin Mathieson have made every effort to rise above their 'small press' origins, and they do, in grave-robbing spades. With it's eclectic mix of artists/writers, both pro' and amateur, striking design work by Andy Bloor(who also draws one of the most chilling stories in the collection)and first rate production values, this book holds it's own among the 'big guns'.

It's not without it's weak points, page numbering would've helped, and some of the stories are very slight, sometimes too-obviously influenced/inspired by Romero's movies and Shaun of the Dead. But most, Gary Crutchley's Job Satisfaction in particular, do it with wit and style. Zombies is far more hit than miss, and for £6, it's a LOT of hit!

To see more of it's contents or to order a copy go to;http://accentukcomics.com/

Zombies Invade Stoke!

FPI: You’ve not been without some resources and help though, have you? I heard from my colleague Lee that you had a whole bunch of extras willing to play zombies for you at a shoot, appropriately on Friday 13th; have you had a good response from folks and how has that helped you in making it?

Mike: Yeah we’re currently at the 100 mark and steadily rising. People are falling over themselves in fact to help out, and everyone on board is totally excited about the project. Some people are giving up their regular work to come along and help out including my good friend Shane Oakley (who worked on “Albion” with Alan and Leah Moore and John Reppion) who’s putting all his upcoming art on hold to come along and be a zombie and help out behind the scenes as well!

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