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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Category: Blogging
Who Killed Captain Cookies?
Well, another belter of a Kenneth Neimand script, in the form of Who Killed Captain Cookies, and, hopefully, by now you’ll realise the Chimpsky is on the case! This is a four parter (part 2 this week) and I promise
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Stay On Target!
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
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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All the things
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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The Portable Studio
Away from home for a couple of days, and so I had a chance to build up a portable studio. There are, obviously, major constraints but that’s ok, I like limits. Everything fit in a single big bag. Digital elements
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June 2020 Catchup (I KNOW I KNOW!)
Eight days into July and I’ve only just realised I didn’t log my page count for June. So let’s try that now. Ok, Chimpsky Captain Cookies ep 3 finished (I can mention the title as it’s been announced in the
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Folklore Thursday: Stone
In a slightly unusual move, I’ve done two versions of this, the first didn’t sit well with me so I recoloured it. So I present the recoloured version first: If you’ve come all this way down to read my thinking
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2020 Week 25
Sheesh. How’s your week. It’s been a complex, difficult week for everyone I think (and for many it’s doubtless been painful too). I’ve been slowly slowly working my way through part three of a four part Dredd. Got it finished,
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Folklore Thursday: Egg
Available to buy as a print on redbubble Originally published over at patreon. So, while John and I aren’t exactly the same age, we both grew up in Blighty and share many of the same references, and I’m pretty sure
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