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!

Nun - Gallery is up!

The first gallery of the Nun project is up here.

In total, over two hundred people stopped to write or draw for which I am very grateful for; the wealth of imagination and opinion is both exciting and reassuring.

In large cities, where we can pass each other with little notice for others, and where anonymity is, to an extent, forced upon us, the enthusiasm and warmth of everyone is a reminder that people do care, that we all in fact have valid opinions.

I believe the Public Voice, comprised of messages, quotes, delicate little drawings, exclamations of happiness and love, frustration and sadness, is something that unites us all. There are few responses that we cannot identify with on some level, at least that is how I see it.

I would like to thank everyone who took part. Your comments of 'this is fun' and little chuckles made every cold shoulder and pretending-not-to-hear worth it. Thank You!

This is not the end of Nun; there are still many responses not yet uploaded, and all the photos and responses are undoubtedly going to be used in a future project, so keep in touch.

N.B. The gallery does not contain every response, so if yours is missing, I apologise profusely but plead for patience! Flickr has a monthly upload limit which I have exceeded so I will put up the remaining responses as soon as possible. 

Nun - Update

 

I have been collecting responses all week and now have a growing album of wisdom, nonsense, art, insults and everything else you can think of.

I once again want to thank everyone who has stopped and taken part, and those who just wanted to talk too. The picture emerging is that Downtown Manhattan has an innate current of creativity and humour, for which I am very grateful!

I am working on a Flickr gallery at the moment and hope to have the photos up by the end of the weekend, so check back then to see what everyone has to say. More Soon!

Nun - Fill The Space

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Today I started a project, tentatively named 'Nun' (the working title of an unfinished project).

Members of The Public are asked to fill in the blank space with whatever they like: writing, drawings, etc. There are no restrictions on content and I give as little explanation as possible beforehand.

When enough responses have been collected, I will collate them in a gallery on this website, before starting on the main piece. That will also be followed by a description of what 'Nun' is about, so check back soon!

If you would like to take part and are able to come to Downtown Manhattan, send me an email and I'm sure something can be worked out. Eyes right for contact details.

Finally, I would like to thank everybody today who offered their time, interest and creativity. Thank you!

Giants added

A wild page has appeared. Giants!

It contains an (as of yet) small catalogue of influences and inspiration.

It will undoubtedly be updated in the coming weeks and years, so keep an eye open or a blind stick poised.

Re-post excuse

Hullo all,

To get the backlog of entries to fit the new category system (snicker), there will probably be re-posts of old material. So this is an apology- sorry. That being said, I will fiddle with the clock so no one will ever notice. Ha!

Thanks

Restructuring coming

Hmm, dry title. Apologies for inconvenience that this will no doubt cause no-one, but hopefully it will improve the site a thousand thousand times. Thanks!

Strange land

Hullo all,

This is an advance apology for the next few posts. All uploaded pictures and comics will be lowly photographs with a background of a crumby wooden floor. The heady heights of scanners are far, far away; finding that service in this strange land has proved difficult.

I'm afraid this is all I can do for now. Enjoy though!

Away

Hi! I will be leaving London (and my computer and the internet) for a month or so and will be unlikely to update this. In fact, that's not true; I am taking drawing things (who doesn't travel with a can of charcoal fixative?) and my camera, so conceivably I could load them up. What a dry sentence!

I've plans of dusky landscapes and deadbeat portraits but we'll see how things go. Where the pot's not is where it is useful as they say. Stay tuned perhaps, some nonsense will be on here. Bye!

Welcome!

Hello friends and strangers!

Tombo comics is just a tiny helpless infant at the moment so please be patient if everything looks terrible and doesn't work.

I've set up an 'about' page (like every blog ever) if you'd like to know more about what tombo comics tries to do. Wait redirection is lazy. Okay, its about drawings and paintings and comics I guess.

Posts will almost certainly not be with clockwork regularity what with life and everything getting in the way of the internet. Also writing and drawing comics is far more fun than grappling with scanners and blog mechanics.

All that nonsense being said though, there will almost certainly be a flurry of posts because that's what happens when you start one of these I think.

Much love and hope you come back!
Tombo