When I first broke into comics, 25 years ago kids! (16th March 2001 is my first 2000ad credit!) I somehow convinced myself that only by using a brush – a proper tool proper artists use – could I somehow be
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Category: Blogging
Windoze
I’ve been eyeing up the brand new Macbook Neo. Since I’ve decided this year is the year I take writing seriously, it occurs to me I need something decent to write on. My desktop is so configured towards drawing that
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The Persistence of Music
Sometimes, late at night, I’ll put music on that is a time machine to my youth. Sometimes that time machine will take me back to being 16 years old and sat drawing comics at the kitchen table. Mum with her
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POD
(Today’s image from my vast bank of photos is from Machine Man 2020 by Herb Trimpe and Barry Windsor-Smith) My wife has been in a new job now since the new year. It’s full time, that means now, my days
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2000ad and more…
Out Today: 2000AD Prog 2472 Featuring part 2 of Judge Dredd Climate Crises, by me with those rapscallions, Ned Hartley and Rob Williams and on colours Jack Davies with lettering by Annie Parkhouse. This strip episode I drew and John
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The Dark Knight Returns
I guess, I can remember the first time I found the Dark Knight Returns. It was in a double page spread in the magazine Computer and Video Games. A tiny 2″ reproduction of a single page, microscopic text – I
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Just a check in
(Featured image: My wife had planted Daffodils, and they popped up the other day and yesterday I saw this rather impressive fellow mooching around – SPRING IS HERE!) IBS attack last night. Didn’t get to bed until I’d say about
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Never ending story
It’s silly, but I’ve been mulling over the question of “could I write Terran Omega as an on going comic series”. I keep thinking, well, I’d run out of material, really. But I suspect in coming up with a character
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Rice Rice Baby
Yesterday in the car taking 21 year old son N home from work. “Dad, I’d love to make egg friend rice again. But I need old boiled rice.” (His last egg fried rice making adventure he used 8-EIGHT! Egg –
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PJ’s Patreon Perils
Ok, not really perils. But it’s been interesting. I restarted my patreon and thought if I just consistently delivered new material every week on a regular metronome like consistency I’d slowly build an audience, and I did, but actually that
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