05/09/2011

Sugar Glider

So, PJCC stalwarts Daniel Clifford and Gary Bainbridge have just released the second issue of their gritty Newcastle-set superhero story Sugar Glider. It's great, you should buy it. A while back, I mentioned that I'd done some fan art, showing gutsy protagonist Suzie (perhaps after dispensing some vigilante justice), for the fan art page. I never posted it here, so here it is:


And much as it was an opportunity to practice and improve upon my neanderthal-level grasp of computery art stuff (it took HOURS to get the transparency on the damn goggles but not the cracks), the original rough sketch is perhaps still a bit better, so in honour of Sugar Glider #2, here it is:

16/08/2011

Immateria material

So, Promethea (by Alan Moore, J.H. Williams III et al) is flipping tremendous. I recently re-read it all and wrote a short review for Readers of the Lost Art explaining why it's so tremendous. You should perhaps read this Promethea review now.

03/08/2011

The dead may walk but I prefer a pony

Anyway, this was done a while back, I think in response to a comment about how the lead actor in The Walking Dead television series is (for a certain generation of the UK audience) inescapably associated with his his role in 90's twentysomething drama series This Life.