Author: PJH

Folklore Thursday: Woodwose

Posted on 22nd August 2019 by PJH

No time for blogging this week, just enjoy the strip…! Oh and enjoy this email exchange between me and John… John, can you send me a selfie?I have … reasons… ME Hang on… Are you making me the Woodwose? JOHN
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Savage Dragon

Posted on 20th August 2019 by PJH

Out this Wednesday is issue 245 of Savage Dragon, Erik Larson’s impressively long running superhero strip. A while ago (actually quite a while ago) during a bit of a lull in work, I put it out there that if anyone
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Studio Tour

Posted on 18th August 2019 by PJH

I’ve had a room to work in since around 1997, when my wife (then GF) and I moved into our three bedroom flat. At that time, I had a massive room that I used to work in – it was
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Folklore Thursday: Mushroom

Posted on 15th August 2019 by PJH

Blame me for the titles. John writes a tweet, I supply a title, it was ever thus (in er.. the five weeks we’ve been doing this). Fairy Rings are circles of mushrooms often seen in fields and woodlands across Europe.
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Mum

Posted on 9th August 2019 by PJH

I wrote and drew this comic strip in October last year. It tumbled out of me too quickly. It deals with losing a parent, and it seems to have moved a number of people who read it when it was
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Folklore Thursday: Mandrake

Posted on 8th August 2019 by PJH

You know the drill by now… John’s original tweet: The roots of the Mandragora genus of plants are known as Mandrakes. Once prized as magical ingredients they are hallucinogenic, and highly toxic. It was once believed that when uprooted, the
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Folklore Thursday: Hawthorne

Posted on 1st August 2019 by PJH

This week’s folklore topic is Trees and Forests. As ever, the strip was prompted John Reppion’s tweet length story: In 1990 work on the Limerick to Galway motorway halted. A lone tree stood in its way. The Hawthorne, according to
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Folklore Thursday: Blackberries

Posted on 25th July 2019 by PJH

“John! JOHN! We’ve gotta do another one! Quick! Think of something…” I’m kind of curious about John (Reppion)’s creative process, I should ask him to do the next blog post – does he have any idea in his head what
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Channel Hex: Testing a cover

Posted on 25th July 2019 by PJH

So, in order to figure out how I’m gonna get Channel Hex moving, I’ve been playing with a lot of ways of working, and wanted to have a cover that I could play with (see what logotypes work, see how
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Folklore Thursday: Island

Posted on 18th July 2019 by PJH

After John Reppion and I did a fun little one pager using a tweet from John as my script for a one page comic we rattled around thinking what we could do next, and we’ve glommed on to #FolkloreThursday on
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