Author: PJH

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

One long year

Posted on 16th March 2021 by PJH

Last Christmas my wife gave me a sketch a day book, and, of course, I didn’t use it. Part of that was my general rubbishness at doing any sort of do-this-per-day part it was because … well, covid happened and
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March, eh?

Posted on 7th March 2021 by PJH

Time has become a non euclidian space. Somehow it’s the 7th of March 2021. It’s probably a Thursday*. It’s always a Thursday. *No, it is, of course, Sunday. I think. I’ve plenty of work on, thankfully, should see me working
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2004 Q&A

Posted on 11th February 2021 by PJH

Some context, in 2004 a young fella called Tim asked if he could interview me for something (I forget what it was for, I stumbled across this old email while scouring my archive of emails which I thought had all
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Stay On Target!

Posted on 31st December 2020 by PJH

If you’re not familiar with “The Pomodoro Technique” it’s a super simple technique for focusing on tasks. The name “Pomodoro” comes from the italian for tomato, and is based on a rather cutsey tomato shaped timer the creator of the
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Twenty Years, Creep

Posted on 22nd December 2020 by PJH

This coming year marks the 20th anniversary of my first 2000AD Published work. tl;dr Just that. This year, twenty years drawing Judge Dredd, and hopefully I’ll get to do more… now read on… I’ve told the story many times, but
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WordPress and Comics

Posted on 31st October 2020 by PJH

I’ve been using wordpress for … well, as long as there’s been a wordpress. At various times, I’ve attempted to make it work for me to do comics online, and I’ve never really managed it. This time though, it was
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All the things

Posted on 13th September 2020 by PJH

Next week finally sees the Battle Special from 2000ad/Rebellion released, including the 8 page destroyer strip I drew written by Rob Williams. Here’s what it looks like! (Lettering here by Simon Bowland) Plus it’s filled with even more gorgeous stuff.
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