Whale not Fail!

This is not funny at all. This is SERIOUS BUSINESS! And action needs takeing NOW!!

-- a silly booklet I did for a SERIOUS CAUSE. ;)

Hourly Comic Day 2015

Had a great day like. :P

Go here to see what other Edinburgh League of Comics guys did!

Happy Hallowe'en!

Soooo it's totally Hallowe'en and I am in the studio tidying stuff. Past few weeks have been hectic and it is not going to slow down any time soon I don't think. First off next Thursday is the opening for my little show at Hula CLICK HERE ;) And then day after opening for No Fixed Abode at Edinburgh Printmakers. And not to mention countless art fairs I will be attending in the coming weeks (including Renegade in London!!! So exciting!!!) In the meantime I have been nurturing my love for comics. This one has some slight body horror happening there, so I thought it will be appropriate to post up here.

 I hope to properly get it going as a maybe webcomic in January 2015 ;) Once all the X-mas madness passes!

Bäckahäst comic

It's essentially a Kelpie. A horrible horrible creature that does horrible things....

Now this took a while to complete :P I am not 100% happy with it but I am glad it's finished. So I can move on to the next thing and also... I officially started finishing stuff :)

 

psssst.... I really like the third panel on the last page. Like really really :D

Drop in and Draw session at BBC tent at Edinburgh Fringe!

Last weekend I was partaking in a Fringe event! It was a drop in and draw session aimed at families. Hosted in the BBC tent as a part of the Storytelling week. Needless to say, it was...

me

We had a few activities people (kids)could pick from. I sadly didn't think and did not take lots of pictures, but...

Aimee

 Apart from the whiteboard speechbubble we had the Giant Wall Comic which I think I have done an ok job recording.

 Took lots of pictures and then "glued" them all together... The quality is not ideal (phone and bad lighting), but it is legible! (when you view the full size that is).

click on this text to view the full size...

So I did the starting panel for this activity. The idea was that the story could go anywhere from there... People were to come along and add one panel, wherever they wanted. They could either start a new storyline or continue already existing ones. Some stories are crossing over... Just follow the arrows :)

I kind of wish I had more pictures! Other activities included
- "fix my comic" (where you could either fill in the speech bubbles, or add images to a comics with text but no pictures)
- "The worlds worst..." where you could draw the world's worst... zoo keeper, ballet dancer, warlock etc,
- Random Character - pick random name, profession and description (this is how Gertrude the Zombie Superhero was once born...)
- draw yourself as a Superhero. This is another one of mine, so you can print it out and give it a bash yourself! :) (complete with an Edinburgh skyline. One kid drew Godzilla in this one - I think Edinburgh needs a kaiju :P)

Just to make it clear, me and Aimee were not the only ones there (actually we only came in on Sunday....). This was organized by Eddie other helpers included Steve, Gill, Chris and Will (who did the worlds worst).

Comics Nonsense

So I have been attendingthis little short comics class. It was great fun and on the last one we were meant to do a shortened version of the 24 hour day comic (24 pages over 24 hours). Classes were 2h long so we did a 2 page. It took much longer than two hours ;) for me it was more like 2h + 1h + 2h. Well, we can't have everything, can we? Anyway, here it is. :)

Mini Comic Fair at Edinburgh Book Festival

Edinburgh Book Festival (probably my favorite of all festival activities here in the burgh) was hosting lots of graphic novel related events. There was even a Mini Comic Fair which I went to last Saturday with Aimee. I LOVE comic books, I read probably the same amount of books as I read cartoons as a kid (both is a lot). Recently I have been going through this "blast from the past" fascination with all things sequential. As much as I love illustration and product design this is a nice change. And also reading it and not drawing is quite relaxing ;)

We went first to have a browse and then decide whether we wanted to go back and buy things. And yes, we did! I was armed with a £30 budget (and ended up overspending) and one of my favourite purchases was this:

(Presented to us by lovely young Daisy in the background).
The guy behind them was a great chat and offered to sign the books for us.

And he even drew pictures! How exciting. My name always gets misspelled, and so does Aimee's, so we both were being morons making a big deal of it. And despite all this fuss, he did mess it up on the second book...

To make up for it he made a mistake on Aimee's too. It was pretty funny ;)

The books themselves are essays on film related things (one of them is food in films). They are pretty good, but I will perhaps say more about them next time, when I read them all :)

And here's another shot of Daisy, the dog who'd like to eat all the other dogs.