Author: PJH

PJ Holden is a comic artist and this is his blog.

Holden On Holibobs

Posted on 11th July 2022 by PJH

(Holibobs was a word my mum used a lot for holidays, I’d entirely forgotten about it until there now) So I’m on hols, one week in Rathmullan – this is our regular escape from it all. We book a little
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MonkeyArms #1

Posted on 9th June 2022 by PJH

A brand new Monkey Arms secret origin comic! Thomas (now aged 14) has been working on this for yonks, issue 1 is officially launching at the Enniskillen Comic Festival (assuming the prints arrive on time!) Selling for £5 per issue
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Back to basics

Posted on 4th June 2022 by PJH

I’ve lately returned to pencilling pages in a notebook. For the past… I dunno … 300 pages? I’ve pencilled and inked directly on to the computer, and I think it’s some of the best work I’ve done, BUT I feel
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Roots

Posted on 15th February 2022 by PJH

Last week, 2000ad prog 2268 had my debut as a writer. Roots is a “Terror Tale” – a four page horror story. Partially inspired by Junjo Ito’s deeply disquiting horror comics, it tells a story of what how smothering a
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February Updates

Posted on 5th February 2022 by PJH

Hey, been a fab month – finishing off Soul Plumber (all done now!) hopefully you’ll see issue 5 soon (it’s been hit by world wide shipping delays apparently). Then the following month issue 6. Also this month, issue 1 of
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PJ In Print 2022

Posted on 7th January 2022 by PJH

Crikey, lot of stuff coming up this year. Some of the dates are approx or subject to change, because, well, isn’t everything subject to change in the plague-ridden twenties? (If you’re curious – I certainly am this amounts to about
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2022 The Year Ahead

Posted on 31st December 2021 by PJH

I tend to make new year’s resolutions every year, they don’t hold for long, but I like to do them. The last couple of years, unsurprisingly, my resolutions have largely been of the form “just do something” Also, there’s a
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