Hey! Look, I did it! A proper issue 1 of my A4 ‘zine, A4! Most of these stories were written in a flurry of activity after I’d finished the zero issue – itself more a test of concept than anything
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Author: PJH
October on the Shelf
So, looks like (somehow) I have three books all coming out in October, and they are: Soul Plumber Concept by MARCUS PARKS, HENRY ZEBROWSKI, and BEN KISSEL Written by MARCUS PARKS and HENRY ZEBROWSKI Art by JOHN McCREA and PJ
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Scritchy Scratchy Screen
As you may or may not know, I bought a Huion Kamvas (sic) 16 graphics tablet and – for the price – it is FABULOUSLY impressive – honest. Resolution, while not 4k (it’s HD, but in a 16″ screen that’s
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Bolland’s Dredd
I was an hour or so in to this when I realised I HAVE THIS BOOK and I should read it while watching the video. Recommend you do too…
Dept of Monsterology
Way back in time (2010?), Gordon Rennie and I kicked around the idea of a book called “Monsterology” (which needed renamed cus it turned out there was already a book called Monsterology). And we ended up finding a publisher in
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Drawing the Basics
I have an immense and somewhat impressive library of “How to Draw Books” which, I’ll be honest, I’ve barely read. So I should make the effort, right? And I am. Starting with the grandaddy of them all – How to
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Drawing page sizes for 2000AD
Here’s how I fit comics on to A3/A4 paper – A3 paper width is 297mm. 2000AD Page Size safe width is 264mm – subtract one from the other = 33mm, divide by 2 = 16.5 and I just measure in
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Planning the week…
I know I’ll illicit very few sympathies for this, but it can be tough planning out when you’ll finish a book when you can find yourself hitting spurts of speed and equally, suddenly losing a day for family reasons can
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The Studio
Been a slow slow slow development towards what my new studio space looks like. Functionally, I’ve moved to entirely digital, which has meant the focus of the space is around digital drawing. But I still want to have the option
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A month of pages
Well, I’m not going to do any drawing tomorrow, but let me tell you – phew, what a month. In the end, I pencilled 47 pages and inked 49. It felt good. It breaks down like this: Week Beginning Pencils
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