I had a busy but fun couple of days at the end of last week, doing 3 comics workshops at the Cartoon Museum on Friday and one at Barking Library on Saturday. Both were really enjoyable with nice kids producing fantastic work… The Cartoon Museum is a great place to… Continue reading
The road to WASP (Webcomic Artist Swap Project) starts here… http://www.tempolush.com/wasp/could-your-webcomic-be-part-of-wasp-2014/ Continue reading
Last week I had the pleasure of being a Creative Scribe (aka illustrative scribe) at a meeting at Camberwell College of Arts. Representatives from each of the colleges that form the University of Arts London gathered, all of them working with the colleges’ curation, galleries, conservation, archives, museums or special… Continue reading
I’ll be running a workshop on defining the look of your comic characters as part of the Barking and Dagenham Reading Festival… Visualising characters in comics and graphic novels workshop Saturday 12 October Barking Learning Centre 2 Town Square, Barking IG11 7NB A free event for children aged 11 to… Continue reading
Happy to say I’ve been interviewed by Andy Oliver for Broken Frontier about my comics work including newspaper strips, mini comics, Lucy the Octopus and Rosie and Jacinda. Look out for revelations about upcoming projects where I’m working alongside Inko, Sally-Anne Hickman, Francesca Dare, Tim Hassan, Jade Sarson, Chie Kutsuwada,… Continue reading
These guilt-ridden photos capture evidence of an early comic of mine, which I drew in Australia, back when I was 9. This disgraceful display of unoriginality shows carbon copies of characters that even someone with the vaguest knowledge of Hanna-Barbera cartoons would recognise. The rogue’s gallery and the characters they… Continue reading
So for #63 of my webcomic Lucy the Octopus I wanted a moment for Lucy, and the reader, to pause and reflect after a trying time. This is the end of a story that takes place over a couple of days in Lucy’s world, but took over four months in… Continue reading
The fantastic Lisa Woynarski is taking part in the intriguing Trans-Plantable Living Room as part of the Green Stage Project. Trans-Plantable Living Room is a living, edible performance space, grown by community gardeners, which will host interactive performances during September 2013 in Cardiff and London. I drew this this illustration for… Continue reading
I don’t normally do Lucy style portraits for free, but it was my son’s sixth birthday recently and he asked for this. We got him some toys too. We’re not complete monsters. Continue reading
Here’s the final selection of images from the Portrait and Life class I was doing a little while ago. Working in black ink, with no pencil roughs first was my favourite way to tackle life drawing. You can’t be precious and have to make every line count. I’d love to… Continue reading
