Gender in Comics and other stuff…

Towards the end of last year I was asked a few questions about my involvement with the amazing series of events / movement that is Laydeez Do Comics, as well as the role gender plays as a comic creator.  The related article looks unlikely to be published now but Guardian journalist Tola Onanuga‘s questions raised some interesting points so I thought I would put the Q&A up here…

Tola: How did you get involved with Laydeez do Comics?
Richy: I first went along to see my friend, the manga artist Inko, talk back in 2011 when Laydeez Do Comics took place off Brick Lane.  I was a little nervous of how men would be received in the group but it turned out to be one of the most welcoming comic events I’d been to.  Soon afterwards I was asked to create one of their monthly graphic blogs ( see here! ) and later to give a presentation of my own work.  I’ve enjoyed attending most of the monthly meetings in London since then, and recently the creators of Laydeez, Nicola and Sarah, wrote about the positive impact of Laydeez Do Comics as a foreword to my comics anthology Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox. Richy-K-Chandler-Laydeez-do-comics-2Tola: Why do you think events like Laydeez do Comics are important?
Richy: While the readership of comics and graphic novels is diverse, the public perception of the medium seems to still be that it is largely almost solely male orientated. There need to be events which make an effort to welcome women into discussions of comics culture.
Laydeez Do Comics goes beyond creating a comfortable space for different genders to feel included.  It involves contributors from a wide range of backgrounds and ages working in different genres.  It even lets first time creators discuss their work alongside comics veterans.

Tola: Where do you find inspiration for your art?
Richy: I grew up making comics, my world immersed in Peanuts strips, Disney films and Hannah-Barbara cartoons.  Its natural to me to express my thoughts and frustrations through creative means.  I think more and more people are turning to comics as a form of cathartic self-therapy.  Right now, parenthood is influencing my work, and while the giants of comics and cartoons still inspire me, local creators like Amber Hsu (Tiny Pencil) and Simone Lia (Fluffy) also have a huge impact.

Tola: What role, if any, do you think gender plays in a comic artist’s chance of success?
Richy: You wouldn’t think it was an issue sitting amongst the open minded folk at Laydeez Do Comics, or visiting the artist alley at virtually any comic convention where you’ll find no lack of talented female creators.  However, if you compare the high percentage of women who have an interest in comics with the much smaller number who get their work published there’s clearly a discrepancy.

Tola: Where did the inspiration for your heroine Lucy the Octopus come from?
Richy: The Lucy the Octopus strip allows me to look back at times of feeling bullied and ostracised at school.  By making the protagonist both an octopus and a girl I avoid any self-conciousness that would come from a more direct autobiography.  I wanted to make Lucy a traditional “everyman” figure who happened to be a girl, but is relatable to everyone.  Young boys growing up need female role models as well as male ones.2015-07-08-155 Tola: What has been your favourite piece of work so far?
Richy: Working on Lucy the Octopus for three years had been incredibly satisfying and it will be be bittersweet when I finish off her story next year.  It’s also been really enjoyable collaborating with dozens of artists from the small press comics scene in my Tempo Lush Tales contemporary comics anthologies.

Tola: And finally, what are you currently working on?
Richy: I’m developing a graphic novel focussing of the pressure to fulfil societal gender roles from a male perspective.  It’s about a lumberjack raising a son while keeping his passion for cake baking suppressed!Island-Town-Pitch-Sample-8-copy

MCM London Comic Con October 2015

Had a lovely time at MCM London Comic Con last month and here’s the photographic evidence to prove it…mcm2015-01Always good to have the best table buddies, including Inko, Chie Kutsuwada, Van Nim and Zarina Liewmcm2015-02 mcm2015-03 mcm2015-04Some awesome cosplayers
mcm2015-05 mcm2015-06An interesting commissionmcm2015-07Some portraits I did…mcm2015-08 mcm2015-09 mcm2015-10 mcm2015-11 mcm2015-12 mcm2015-13 mcm2015-14 mcm2015-15 mcm2015-16 mcm2015-17 mcm2015-18 mcm2015-19And finally an amazing portrait of me and Lucy by Inkomcm2015-20

 

Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox Tasters: Inko, John Miers and Rachael Smith

Here we go with the first of a series of samples of amazing artwork from the recent Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox.
I also asked each contributor for a positive idea in keeping with the theme of the anthology…

INKO

Previous works include: Go! Go! Metro!, Manga Cupcakes, MangaQuake, Howl!, Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Cloud

Positive Idea:  Ichinichi Ichizen is a Japanese saying means One good thing a day, to encourage you to do anything good (as small as making a cup of tea for someone). No pressure to do anything big or a lot, just one in a day!
How about going to One Click Donations? By clicking company adverts there once a day, the company will donate to various charities instead of you! It’s a very simple and easy way of making a positive move!
www.thenonprofits.com

Art sample from her Tempo Lush tale:  Tanuko
Inko-Tanoox-SampleJOHN MIERS

Previous works include: Score & Script, How to Train your Robot

Positive Ideas:  “(1) “Mimesis as Make-Believe”, which is American philosopher Kendall Walton’s theory of how representational art works.  Basically he says that works of art “function as props in games of make-believe”.  So enjoying a fiction is a more developed version of what a kid does when it imagines that a stick is a horse, or its bed
is the sea.  I think it’s a lovely idea.
(2) Whatever happens with the Labour leadership election, the whole “Jez We Can” thing seems to provide good evidence that if a coherent anti-austerity position gets a decent platform, it can enthuse a wide range of people, including plenty who don’t normally vote.  That feels like a much-needed sliver of hope in contemporary politics.”

Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale:  Bugleberry Tree
John-Miers-Tanoox-SampleRACHAEL SMITH

Previous works include: The Rabbit, House Party, Flimsy the Kitten, Dr Who

Positive Idea: “I’m a big supporter of the Alzheimer’s Society.  My Grandad sadly passed away a few years ago after suffering from Alzheimer’s for many years.  He was the nicest man in the world and I’d love for more support to go to this charity so they can care for people with this illness and make sure they still get the most out of life.
www.alzheimers.org.uk

Art sample from the Tempo Lush tale:  Bugleberry Tree
Rachael-Smith-Tanoox-SampleTLT-2-Cover-Double-Page-Spread-UpdateYou can get hold of the book online here, or at Gosh Comics or if you’re heading to any comic festivals this year you can find me and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox at…
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (Kendal, Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 2015)
MCM London Comic Con (Excel London, Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October 2015)
Thought Bubble (Leeds, Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 November 2015)

Support Art Aid Nepal’s HOME Anthology

I was incredibly proud when I was asked to contribute some pages to the amazing Art Aid Nepal Anthology, alongside an amazing range of multicultural artists.  It’s a wonderful and important project set up to support the children who lost their home in the devastating earthquake in Nepal earlier this year.

You can find out more, support the project and get your own copy of the book plus original artwork,  by visiting The Art Aid Anthology Kickstarter Page. 467e374bafb23c300321758d335e4402_originalYou can see two pages of my four page tale above.  My work appears alongside a mind-blowingly talented and varied group of creators in the 92 page book, such as Katriona Chapman, Chie Kutsuwada, Mike Medaglia, Francesca Mancuso, Sarah Lightman, Hannah Lee Miller, Inko, John Miers  and the founders of the project Kripa Joshi and Elena Vitagliano.

As Kripa and Elena say on the kickstarter page

Art Aid Nepal enable us to use our ability as artists to raise funds. We wanted to do something to help children recover from the trauma that they faced during the earthquake and which resurfaces after every aftershock.
The 7.8 magnitude quake created a lot of destruction and loss of life. Even those who survived were not spared the mental trauma and even months later the aftershocks causes our hearts and minds to tremble. Thousands of adults and children lost their homes and are still displaced.
The need to help them remains, for their troubles are far from over.
…All funds raised from the sale will be used to support education and art therapy workshops for children affected by the tragedy. Art can help to heal and bring simple joy to their otherwise troubled lives.

Donating to the project will not only make a real positive difference to children’s lives, but will enable you to get your hands on the following goodies…

8b08b9f6b0e4c8d9ec5068199260cde7_originalHere’s my original art that’s available to you if you can donate £100…186b524816eba89fa0859dfb182ceba0_originalPlease visit the kickstarter page and donate!

Thanks for reading!

Round up of the Tempo Lush Penny Blackfeather Launch Night at Gosh Comics!

On Friday September 18th 2015, a crowd of lovely people shuffled into the amazing shop known as Gosh Comics to help celebrate the launch of four new comics.

That would be the fourth Lucy the Octopus print collection: Too Cool for the Likes of You, the first issue in the second volume of Francesca Dare’s Penny Blackfeather, High Spirits#1, the anthology of positive change Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox (see Andy Oliver’s review on Broken Frontier here), plus we revealed the special project (top secret up until the announcement on the night), Alidade, a 20 page comic made from scratch over one weekend.

All photos are by the amazing photographer Mauricio Molizane de Souza (except where indicated).

There on the left is contributor to two of the night’s comics, Mike Medaglia, helping lay out the goods…m01 m02 m03 m04So nice to see many friendly faces join us for the evening, some regulars and some new to the world of comic shops… m05Below (left to right): Friends of Gosh Comics, Paul Shinn (Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox contributor), Chantel Beaven and Lauren Louise Murphy. m06On the left below, you can see my amazing co-host, Penny Blackfeather creator and Alidade contributor Francesca Dare.m07Below:  On the far left is comic creator and director Andy Poyiadgi who kindly filmed much of the evening’s activities for us, on his own phone.
Taking a swig of beer is Alidade collaborator Tim Hassan, next to Paul Shinn and with the amazing pink hair is Paul’s fellow Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox contributor Anna Dowsland.m08It was great seeing comic related images projected nice and big in the shop…m09…such as this wonderful panel by Francesa Dare, taken from her Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox story Undertow
m10And there’s Francesca again signing a comic for a fan!m11It was great having the shop full, creating a brilliant buzzm12It was a busy night but I was glad to catch moments to chat to star creators such as David O’Connell who contributes the first story in Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox, Flat Em13And there’s two good friends (and Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox contributors) who I barely got to chat to at all, even after they traveled to the event from Brighton, the amazing Inko and Chie Kutsuwadam14I have a big grin on my face here but I think it masks my nervousness as I’m about to perform some music in a few minutes…m15Speaking of music, here’s three great performers, newly-weds Paul and Sally-Anne Hickman chatting to my old band mate Miss E (Enoma Igiehon). m16And two more contributors who created the Tempo Lush Tale Give It a Go, Angela Wraight (back, in glasses) and Nas Bee (front left) who surprised me with some incredible homemade cake to feed the masses…m17 m18Aw!  Such a nice bunch of folk including (left to right) comics academic and creator John Miers (who did a fantastic page of Bugleberry Tree in the anthology), Graphic Novelist S J Harris and  Broken Frontier top guy Andy Oliver.
(Photo by fellow Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox contributor Keara Stewart)
m49-kearaThat’s James Hickman holding a beer!  James created the four page epic for Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox, Colossi, next to Lisa Woynarski.
Lisa used her theatre direction skills to great effect, timing the image changes during the evening’s performances on top of writing her first comic story for the Tanoox anthology: The Death of the Familiar. m19Miss E, Sally-Anne Hickman and myself downstairs in the shop after a bit of tuning up… m20And upstairs – Five minutes to curtain!m21Right!  Things are really about to kick off as Steve Walsh, writer, podcaster and Gosh Comics superstar introduces his niece Aimee to get things rolling with a penny-whistle performance…m22 m23Next up I start plucking away on Imani (my guitar) as we prepare for a special satellite link-up with the undersea town of Stoneydipm24 m25…and Lucy the Octopus!

Lucy’s shy at first but does a good job introducing the evening, despite some trouble. m26 m27You can see screen grabs of the satellite link up here and a video below…

Lucy welcomed to the stage my two musical collaborators for the night, Sally-Anne Hickmanm28…and Miss E, who as Lucy pointed out, bears a striking resemblance to someone who appears in Lucy strips like this one! m29We three performed a little guitar instrumental I wrote a few years back, which still doesn’t have a name…m30(Photo by Karen Rubins) m31-Kaz m31 m32

Next it was the turn of the Francesca Dare Theatrical Players to perform a scene from the new Penny Blackfeather comic with style and panache…m33 m34Left to right: Francesca Dare, Paul Shinn, Steve Walsh and Lauren Louise Murphy.m35Left to right: Saul Taylor and Ramsey Hassan. m36 m37

The crowd lapped up the culture, including Andy Oliver and contributor to two Tempo Lush Tales collections Matt Boyerm38Now for the serious business of creator shout outs…m39Musicians strum while Francesca Dare leads the role call of talent involved in the evening’s new comic offerings…m40…such as Graphic Novelist, singer and actress Jessica Martin who produced an amazing page for the Bugleberry Tree section of Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanooxm41…and Saul Taylor who won last year’s Complete the Lucy the Octopus strip contest!m42 m43 m44

Now it was time to reveal the secret project!  Francesca called to the stage our collaborators on the book…m45…and the crowd saw the 5 artists who made Alidade!  (Left to right) Me, Mike Medaglia, Tim Hassan, Karen Rubins and Francesca herself!m46Mike explained how we created the 20 page comic from scratch over one weekend in August, how fun it was, how stressful it got and what a great experience it turned out to be…m47

Finally I said a few thank-yous before launching into the song Bugleberry Tree alongside Miss E, Sally-Anne and the whole crowd in the shop.

It was great to display artwork interpreting the song for the Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox collection, such as the panels seen in the background below drawn by Rachael Smith.
(Photo by Keara Stewart)
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It was a very special night for me – Thanks to all the friends and collaborators who turned up and made it rock monkeys!
All of my new books are available to buy in Gosh Comics and the Tempo Lush Etsy shop!
Phew!

Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox

Holy Schmoly!  Check out the line up of creators involved in the upcoming anthology from Tempo Lush…
TLT-2-Cover-Double-Page-Spread-UpdateBrand new comic book stories on the theme of positive transformation from…
Nas Bee (Paper Houses) & Angela Wraight (Circuit Breaker, Yoshitoki is Making Waves, Paper Houses)
Francesca Dare (Penny Blackfeather)
Emmeline Pui Ling Dobson (Knights of Eve, Wu Wei)
James Hickman (Score & Script)
Amber Hsu (The Sardine and Gherkin – A True Love Story – and other One Pound Poems, Tiny Pencil)
Inko (Go! Go! Metro!, Manga Cupcakes, MangaQuake, Howl!, Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Cloud)
Chie Kutsuwada (Go! Go! Metro!, The Story of Lee, Hagakure: Code of the Samurai, Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Cloud, Manga Shakespeare: As You Like It)
David O’Connell (Jampires, Monster & Chips, Tozo, The Public Servant)
Keara Stewart (On The Escalator, A Bit of Undigested Potato)
and Dr Lisa Woynarski (Performance + Ecology) & Mike Medaglia (One Year Wiser, Wu Wei, Last Days of Nobodies)

Plus a jam comic featuring the drawing talents of…
Matt Boyer (Running)
Chonto (Acclaimed Japanese Artist)
Kim Clements (The Great Cat Mystery)
Francesca Dare
Anna Dowsland (Don’t Feed the Pigeons)
Sally-Anne Hickman (Bang! Crash! Whizz!, Black Diamonds and Blue Scars)
Jessica Martin (It Girl, Elsie Harris Picture Palace)
John Miers (Score & Script, How to Train your Robot)
Chibi Shibby (Stories about Me and You) 
Paul Shinn (March of the Penguins)
Rachael Smith (The Rabbit, House Party, Flimsy the Kitten)
Tammy Taylor (Bon Appetit, 18 This Summer)

If that wasn’t enough, there’s a foreword by Laydeez Do Comics founders and award winning comic creators Sarah Lightman (Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women) and Nicola Streeten (Billy Me and You, Becoming of Age).

It’s an embarrassment of riches and I’m thrilled and in disbelief that they’ve all agreed to take part!

Tempo Lush Tales of the Tanoox is a follow up to last year’s Tempo Lush Tales (see reviews on the Big Comic Page and Broken Frontier).  Again I will be collaborating with some amazing artists, but this time round I’ll generally be handing over the writing duties to other creators.  It’s going to be a wonderful mix!

There is a definite theme to this collection too.  At times it’s hard to see out world moving forward and getting better so I thought it would be good to ask the creators to focus on the idea of positive transformation.  Obviously this can be interpreted in numerous ways and it looks like each writer has their own distinct spin on the idea.

It’s all coming together nicely ready for a launch at Gosh Comics in London on Friday September 18th.  Save the date – and see the Facebook event page here!

The book is available to order online here on Etsy!

That leaves just one question… What is the Tanoox?

WASP 2015: The Webcomic Artist Swap Project rolls on…

I’ve been having so much fun sitting back and seeing the amazing comic collaborations from WASP (Webcomic Artist Swap Project)  flow in over the past week.

2015 is the third year for WASP.  I conceived the idea to spread awareness of different webcomics and have a fun and creative challenge for comic makers.  After a couple of years at the helm I was happy to be able to leave the project in the capable and telented hands of the new co-ordinators and editors, Sarah Turner (Folklore) and Francesca Dare (Penny Blackfeather, Rosie and Jacinda).

See more details and resulting comics at tempolush.com/wasp.

Here’s a round up of the WASP strips I’ve worked on over the last three years…

2013
WASP (Webcomic Artist Swap Project)Promo image by me!

Cafe Suada written and created by Jade Sarson.  Drawn by me!
CAFE-SUADA-by-Jade-Sarson-with-Richy-K.-ChandlerLucy the Octopus – Written and created by me!  Art by David O’ConnellLUCY-THE-OCTOPUS-by-Richy-K.-Chandler-with-David-O'ConnellLucy the Octopus – Written and created by me!  Art by Zarina LiewLucy_WEB LUCY THE OCTOPUS by Richy K. Chandler with Zarina Liew2014
New-WASP-logo-2014
Banner WASP painting by Francesca Dare

Becoming of Age – Written and created by Nicola Streeten. Art by me!
Richy's-Art-for-Year-at-50Lucy the Octopus – Written and created by me!  Art by Rachael Smith2014-02-26-WASP-Rachael2015

Banner by Paul Shinn, Francesca Dare and Sarah Turner
WASP-Creator-Banner2015Go! Go! Metro! – Written and created by Inko and Chie Kutsuwada.  Art by me!
Richy-Go-Go-Metro-WASP-2105Lucy the Octopus – Written and created by me!  Art by Midori Harako2015-03-04-WASP-MidoriNow I’m thrilled, not only that Sarah and Francesca did a wonderful job pulling the comics together this year, but also that they’re going to continue the project next year – Onwards and upwards!

Tempo Lush Launch Night at Gosh: Photos, Videos and Report

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Tempo Lush launch night at Gosh Comics last Friday.  There was an amazing turnout which made for a fantastic evening (for me anyway)!

GETTING READY FOR THE LAUNCH

So glad I was working with Rich Hardiman of Comic Printing UK who got all four of the new titles ready and delivered in time for the big day… 01Always important to compare a printers proof of your book with your cat…03Other things that needed to be done included practicing the musical section of the party with Bang! Crash! Whizz! artist Sally-Anne Hickman!  Much of this went down in Hyde Park.02THE LAUNCH NIGHT

So arriving at Gosh I knew I was in good hands as Hannah, Andrew and Steve, part of Gosh’s crack team helped get everything just right.  Nice to see the new books laid out on display!
04One thing I’d forgotten to organise was someone to take some nice event photos, so I was delighted and relieved that amazing photographer Mauricio Molizane De Souza was on hand taking some wonderful pics.  Unless otherwise stated, all the photos of the night in this post were skillfully taken  by Mauricio!

The shop soon had a busy and friendly buzz inside…
06 07 08 10I was thrilled that so many contributors to the new comics turned up for the occasion.  For those who couldn’t make it, we displayed their portraits, as drawn wonderfully by Keara Stewart (see below) so Francesca Cassavetti, Tim Hassan, Mike Medaglia and Aaron Murphy were certainly there in spirit!

After some fun mingling, Steve Walsh Of Gosh and South London Hardcore fame got the crowd’s attention…

11CHATTING WITH ALEX FITCH

Alex Fitch made me feel very comfortable chatting through the new releases as we stood on a make shift stage made up of two benches!
Nice to hear the people’s cheers as each artist’s work was displayed on the screen to our right.
Alex is such a skilled interviewer and comics and film journalist he makes it very easy to chat to him even in front of a crowd!12 13Pic below by David O’Connell…14ROSIE AND JACINDA: DEMON CLOUD

Here’s the amazing team behind one of the books launched on the night, the second volume of teenage fairytale Manga, Rosie and Jacinda.

Top row left to right: Jade Sarson (For the Love of God Marie!, Cafe Suada), Francesca Dare (Penny Blackfeather), Chie Kutsuwada (King of a Miniature Garden, Self Made Hero’s As You Like It), Van Nim and me
Far right: Zarina Liew (The Art of Sleep, Le Mime)
Bottom middle: Inko (Ketsueki (Markosia), Rachel Moves To Brighton)
15So proud to have worked with this lot!

Inkos’ cover looked amazing projected as a backdrop to the party!16Inko (left) and Chie travelled up from Brighton for the evening, with Inko cosplaying as one of the Rosie and Jacinda characters, Aaron!
That’s the first time anyone’s cosplayed as a character I’d co-created.  So cool!17Award winning creator, Jade made it to the event all the way from Milton Keynes.
28Here’s Francesca chilling with our good friend and Limehouse Comics associate Chantel Beaven.18Was touched that Francesca had painted me a lovely pic of the Pumfles (introduced in the new comic), to mark the event.  So cute!19BANG! CRASH! WHIZZ!

Also launched was my first creator-owned kids comic, Bang! Crash! Whizz! as drawn by the amazing Sally-Anne Hickman.
20Sally-Anne and me had great fun performing a musical version of the story, to a visual display of the illustrations.  Engineered with great skill by Richard Carter.21 22 23 24 Photo above by David O’Connell.

So nice that crowd seemed to enjoy it, no guitar strings broke, we remembered most of the words and we didn’t fall off the benches!   26TEMPO LUSH TALES

The biggest book launched on the night was Tempo Lush Tales, an anthology of stuff I’d written with no less than thirteen artists handling drawing duties!

Here’s good bud and artist Paul Shinn27 The talented Matt Boyer29Portrait artist  Keara Stewart30The cheery smile of Steve Walsh, writer of many fine things including the Tempo Lush Tales foreword31 Martin Eden chatting with comic creator Tammy Taylor and fellow Tempo Lush Tales artist Karen Rubins32Keara and her fella checking out the anthology…33Matt and Paul soaking in the launch party vibe.
There’s comic maker Anna Dowsland on the left!34Signing a copy of the book…35For the second musical performance of the night Sally-Anne and I were joined by musician and Tempo Lush Tales artist Steve Horry.  We only had two run-throughs (in the Gosh offices!) with Steve who had learned the song on the day, but being the smooth professional he is, he sounded fantastic.
Pic below by Inko.37

We performed the song Save Night-Time for my Dreams which Mike Medaglia had visually interpreted for the collection. You can see one of Mike’s pictures in Keara Stewart’s photo below.38What an honour to have all these talented artists work with me!
Top row left to right: Chie Kutsuwada, Karen Rubins, Paul Shinn, Matt Boyer, Steve Horry, Martin Eden and Steve Walsh
Bottom row left to right: Inko, Van Nim, me and Keara Stewart39Keara was kind enough to give all the contributors framed original drawings of the portraits she’d done.
My one is now hanging in my studio
40LUCY THE OCTOPUS: ANY LESS THE FREAK

Fun to see my artwork from the third volume of Lucy the Octopus projected in Gosh...42So the line up of creators working on the final comic released on the night is… just me!41 Excellent then that someone else had been up to something Lucy related.
Why it’s cake maker and blogger, Jess Cave!
43Jess made a big and delicious batch of Lucy the Octopus cakes!
Dr Pepper flavour no less!44 45Photo above by Paul Shinn.
The cakes made for a perfect combination with comics and music – my kind of night!
46SO THERE YOU GO!

Thanks to all the amazing people who were involved with the comics and the party!

Back row left to right: Karen Rubins, Paul Shinn, Matt Boyer, Martin Eden
Next row left to right: Zarina Liew, Chie Kutsuwada, Sally-Anne Hickman, Francesca Dare, Jess Cave, Steve Walsh
Next row left to right: Jade Sarson, Inko, Van Nim, Keara Stewart
Me in the centre
Richard Carter at the bottom
47You can buy any of the four comics plus other Tempo Lush stuff here!
Bang-Crash-Whizz-CoverCover-for-PromoR&J2-cover-for-promoLucy3Cover8updateI’ll leave you with one final Lucy cake that made it home.48Peace!

Rosie and Jacinda Magical Preview: Me!

So the final preview of Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Cloud is by the likes of me!

It’s an honour to have my art in a comic alongside the amazing talents of Zarina Liew (The Art of Sleep, Le Mime), Francesca Dare (Penny Blackfeather), Inko (Ketsueki, Rachel Moves To Brighton), Chie Kutsuwada (King of a Miniature Garden, Self Made Hero’s As You Like It) and Jade Sarson (For the Love of God Marie!, Cafe Suada).R&J-Richy-sampleR&J2-cover-for-promo

Rosie and Jacinda Magical Preview: Inko

It was hard to find a panel of Inko‘s to show before Rosie and Jacinda: Demon Clouds comes out.  Of course every single one of her images in the story look amazing, it’s just I gave Inko the finale of the story to draw and there are so many spoilers there I have to be very careful!

Here’s a tiny hint at her wonderful art in the comic…R&J-Inko-sampleI guess we can see the full glory of her stunning cover though!R&J2-cover-for-promo