Religion

 

First few pages of a comic in progress about religion (I suppose). So far, it seems to be about the hell of having complete and god-like control over everything. Hmm. But more will be up as soon as its done.

Night Tree

 

 

Night Tree
(pencil and scrap)

A comic from an ancient series of work comics- comics done when I should have been working. I suppose they tried to capture the feel of working at the time. This was from a job in a library, still and quiet and something growing in the dark somewhere.

Swan

 

 

Swan
[pen, pencil, watercolour]

What started as a weekend homage to Frank Miller grew into this strange affair about swans and strangling. Originally the whole thing was done in colour, but it all had too much give, was too soft, especially once the words were in. Anyway, enjoy!

Upcoming and Updates

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This moody, depressing image to your left is the first page of an upcoming comic. A weekend of reading Frank Miller got the better of me and this old man's dark city spun out in a day. 

All the sketching and painting were completed in a flurry of activity, and I aim to do the same with the words and letters at some point this week. 

A few other pieces are well on their way too [god, death, dogs, all sorts], so watch this space for a wave of nonsense at some point. 

Also, I can very nearly finish uploading the pictures of the Nun project what with the turning of the new month. Click here to check out the gallery- new responses will be up in a few days I expect. 

Excellent! Stay tuned and thanks for coming!

The Best of Partyline [comic]

The Best of Partyline (acrylic and pen)

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Detail:

 

Text Transcription

The Best of Partyline

Woo! Hi! This is the partyline! Woo

You betcha I'm dancing

no, I don't have a job

...and coked and pilled to my tits...

...or wish I was at least

i'm so so unhappy


Get in-mates and women to talk to you

Thank you to American Apparel a clothes store for the advert.

Morph [comic]

[REPOST] Morph (pen)

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This is a repost of an old poster comic, inspired in format (but certainly not style) by Brian 'Lightening Bolt' Chippendale. In his pleasingly easy to find comic Maggots, Chippendale lays out frames to read left to right, then right to left, working down the page. It's fun and remarkably intuitive, at least in his work. 

Check out some of Brian Chippendale's work here. 

Young Adults coming soon

These are from a new comic that I've not really been working on very hard.

 

It's not remotely near to being finished, so don't hold your breath or anything. I found this great collection of photographs of kids from all over the world. There were basically no adults in any of the photos and all the kids were very serious. I thought they all had that look of lost innocence at first, but coming back to them after a few weeks, their expressions seemed different somehow

Wow, this is getting pretentious, I'm going to stop. But yeah! Read it when it's done! Bye!

Drifting

Read it forwards and work out what it is then read it back and see how far the picture carries. Christ, sounds like Guy Ritchie DVD commentary. 

 

This was all done at work one day. A very productive evening! I worked from the end first, sketching the same thing more and more roughly. Prize for the person who knows what the drifting person is dreaming of! Answers on a postcard to tombocomics@yahoo.co.uk

Dinosaur Ads

Hello! Continuing the theme of magazine mutilation, here are some adverts for dinosaurs that cars happen to be in.

 

I feel this has legs for something or other, but using that goddamn tippex is just so irritating. Perhaps if I use paints or something. In fact, surely that will be a hell of a lot cheaper than the premiums on white out nowadays...

Prizes for whoever can tell me what dinosaurs they're meant to be. Bye!

Mysterious Travellers

Eels! They all have a great night it seems. Oops! It's not spoilt, honest! You should definitely still read it.

 

 

This was remarkably time consuming despite the 'cobbled together in an afternoon' look. Tippex takes forever to dry when you do a few coats, and then the pen smudges all over the place. Thanks to old copies of national geographic for the insightful captions though ('black eyes and red hearts'), but no thanks for the weird shapes of your pages.