Hot off the press (and after much hand-folding) I’ve got the first batch of my new Lucy the Octopus Tasty Taster Comic all ready for sale at upcoming comic shows. Just in time for MKomix in Milton Keynes, this Thursday 19 July 2012, 6-9pm. Hoping the print comic will get… Continue reading
I’m very pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting and selling my work at the MKomix event in the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes on Thursday 19 July 2012, 6-9pm. The event has been pulled together by the very talented Paul Rainey and features many greats of the Small… Continue reading
From yesterday until 19 July, anyone passing through London Town can stop off at Orbital Comics and check out their gallery to see some amazing experminetal comic work from the fantastic Karrie Fransman. We’re talking comics made from jewelery boxes, puppets, dollhouses, sewn comics and my favourite, the piece below… Continue reading
In City of Mouse, I worked in 2D images painted in enamel on various 3D pieces of ceramics. The objects could be buildings or obelisks or just platforms to display the ghosts of captured moments of the solitary mouse caught in various points in time. The mouse with the star… Continue reading
A few weeks back I got into a conversation with Paul Gravett and Karrie Fransman about 3D comics, and the ways they can take on different forms. Karrie is in fact having an exhibition on the subject called Experimenting with Comics at the great Orbital Comics shop in London, starting… Continue reading
Okay – heading off for a week in China with my family I had lofty plans to get out the old sketch books and capture the locals sites and atmosphere. Traveling with a 4-year old son (my 4-year old son, for the record) made this pretty impossible, so I humbly… Continue reading
lucytheoctopus.net will kick off with a week of daily strips before settling into regular weekly installments every Wednesday. In the mean time have a look at some of the characters in Lucy’s world! Continue reading
Being an illustrator rather than a fine artist, using watercolour with an ink line seems to come a lot more naturally to me than watercolour alone. Not that I’ve come close to mastering the technique of course. Sometimes it’s nice to pick one area of a painting (such as the… Continue reading
Hoorah – my new Tempo Lush business cards have arrived, and look pretty slick! Let’s do business! Continue reading
Took an afternoon off yesterday (with no work or child in tow) and went to the Tate Modern to soak up some inspiration. It’s been a couple of years since I’d walked those floors – I should do it more often coz it rocked monkeys! I’d thought there was at… Continue reading
