Tag: cover

Dredd on a Bike! (Grud on a Greenie!)

Posted by pj – Saturday 31st January 2009

The Megazine issue 281 is out this week, and with it, my first 2000AD/Megazine cover. It’s a ‘stock’ cover – that is, something drawn that can be used on the comic regardless of the content – 2000AD usually keeps a few in reserve in case the deadlines get fubbed up, or other matters make it difficult to co-ordinate a cover with a comic strip (say you have a great scene inside that issue but your cover artist is late – no point running the cover the issue AFTER that scene? and, vice versa – interior artist is late, that cover can’t be used so you need something you can yank out of the stock cover draw – that’s not to say either situation occured here, just letting you know the historical reasoning behind stock covers…)

 

Anyhue, here’s the sketches and wotnot I sent for approval to the Mighty One… (and a small version of the actual finished article – surprisingly, the thumbnail and the finished image are pretty damn similar looking…)

Dead Signal Cover Prog 1582

Posted by pj – Friday 4th April 2008

It’s always weird to see something you’ve created re-drawn by somebody else. Weird but cool. Anyhue, I think this is the second issue – for dead signal, rather than the first.

Some of steve’s colours…

Posted by pj – Monday 1st October 2007

S’nice, no?

Imago Cover

PROG 1544 – The 86ers start!

Posted by pj – Wednesday 4th July 2007

If you see this on the shelves, buy it!

PROG 1544 COVER

Previously Final Cover.

Posted by pj – Thursday 31st May 2007

Previously Final Cover

The final cover. I have plans.

Now the contents:

*The Tallyman by Gordon Rennie, 1999*

This marks the start of my long standing collaboration and friendship with Gordon. First appeared in Violent #1.

*Bertie’s Backyard Bomber by Paul Glasswell, March 2004*

A goofy cartoony strip in a style that I’ve never used before or since. Drawn for ‘Solar Wind’.

*Broken Claw by Stu Taylor, October 2004*
First printed in Neo #1 – we had big plans for ‘Broken Claw’ but we ended up doing a year long run of ‘Nanas ‘n’ Custard’ for Toxic! Instead. Relettered for this collection.

*The Adventures of Rogue’s Secret Other Biochip Buddy by Gordon Rennie. c2002*

Born out of a stupid conversation between Gordon and I, never intended to for print and drawn after Gordon had started Rogue but before I had.

*Horror by Kieron Gillen, September 2006*

Drawn for a horror anthology, relettered for this collection. Keiron is unnaturally fond of the pigs in this strip. It scares me.

*Dark Judge Wedgie by Gordon Rennie, March 2003*

Another daft Gordon strip, Dark Judge Wedgie, one imagines, is the Dark Judge that the others try to ignore and don’t tell when they’re going on inter-dimensional jumps.

*Stripped Bare by Jaspre Bark, c2004*

Written by Jaspre to accompany a series of articles he was doing for a fiction magazine I enjoyed the crammed detail (and now that I look again, it’s not unlike the Bertie strip previously mentioned, hmmmm…)

*Face Rot, c2005, and Rebel Strip, February 2006*

Origin of Face Rot unknown, the Rebel strip was written and drawn by me as part of a series of webstrips I’d decided to do for my website, wherein I would do a page a day. I lasted for two or three months and drew around 60 strips.

*Bulldog: Forgetful Snow by Jason Cobley, March 2003*

I’m fond of the delicate inking on this and there are some nice faces. Also, that’s my little brother Luke on the last page.

*Strontium Dog: The Day the Dog Died by Kelt, March 2003*

Posted to the alt.comics.2000ad by Kelt, this silly one page spoof was too funny not to draw. So I did.

*Cages by Nick Brownlow*

Four page call of chtulu style strip for RPG magazine the Black Seal.

Planning on a PDF version for sale, a hard copy and some other cool things, which I don’t want to talk about until they’re finalised.