Des Fishman's Holiday Lodge pt 5
Of course the final guest could only be Samantha from Sex & The City, Des' favourite. Here ends Des Fishman's Holiday Lodge.
2021-12-22 15:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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Des Fishman's Holiday Lodge pt 4
It's possible that this is the final part of Holiday Lodge but it's also possible that it isn't. Stay alert.
2021-12-20 17:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostDes Fishman's Holiday Lodge pt 3
Lottie adds real value to this holiday special. I don't know if there are any more parts of it to come. It doesn't really emerge with my permission.
2021-12-19 17:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostDes Fishman’s Holiday Lodge part 2
The less said here, perhaps, the better.
2021-12-18 16:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostDes Fishman's Holiday Lodge
No explanation offered, or indeed, I would say, strictly necessary.
2021-12-17 18:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostRead STEEPLE: CLOTTED CRIME pt 4 now
Steeple volume 3 concludes! I'm not sure when Steeple will return - I'm juggling a few things at the moment, and ready to move away from darker things for a bit towards lighter fare. But we'll get back there eventually.
The next comic will have to remain a mystery until it emerges her...
2021-12-13 00:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2021
I have compiled my annual list. I thought this was a good year, I found a lot to listen to and there were a lot of things I didn't have time to investigate properly - for example, a lot of new jazz I enjoyed came through the house, I hope to get into this rich new vein in the new year.
I th...
2021-12-11 10:04:18 +0000 UTC View PostMini Q&A: Bad Machinery volume 7
John C. Kirk writes:
"I’ve recently read through “Bad Machinery” (which I enjoyed). I noticed that vol 7 was in portrait mode while the rest of the series was in landscape. I remember you mentioned something about formatting Steeple in vertical panels for Webtoon;...
2021-12-09 16:42:52 +0000 UTC View PostHISTORICAL FINDS
FOX FLAKES
I don't think anyone has ever seen this before. I don't remember making it, or why I made it. It's only one page.
It doesn't scan to my liking, which makes m...
2021-12-07 15:39:26 +0000 UTC View PostDEARTH BECOMES PLETHORA
I just had a look for some current things to share with the Patreon and I've got nothing. I'm working on several prospective projects, none of which I can share any of my sketches for. And I can't tell you anything about the story that follows Steeple ahead of time. It would spoil things.
S...
2021-11-30 17:09:32 +0000 UTC View PostSteeple: Clotted Crime pt 4 cover preview
Here's a sneak preview of the cover for Clotted Crime pt 4 (of 4), by Game Of Thrones/Fighting Fantasy/etc art king Robert Ball! An honour and a privilege to work with Rob again. Part four begins on December 13th.
2021-11-24 17:12:08 +0000 UTC
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Quick draw
I designed the character of Graham McGraw for Giant Days, a process which involved drawing him twice. I’ve barely had to draw him since. But today I had to practice drawing him and here’s a page of the fellow. The reasons for this practice may or may not become evident soon.
2021-11-20 18:10:54 +0000 UTC View PostDays For Days
For the last couple of weeks I've been writing and roughing out material that will follow the current Steeple story onto the web. It's a one-off thing, 32 pages, that will run on badmachinery.com on Febr...
2021-11-18 16:24:44 +0000 UTC View PostNot final cover
I'm currently rebooting my mental mind after two conventions and a lot of travel over the last three weeks so here's a "not final cover" I stuck on Clotted Crime chapter 4 prior to the proper artwork arriving. The actual cover will be less about community dance but I feel like, maybe now there sh...
2021-11-15 16:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 5: telling the truth and tiny rules
Brian Durcan writes:
"I saw one of your live streams (during the recent amorphous blob of time in which it's hard to know when specific things happened) and you said something that stuck with me. "Your pencils have to tell the truth."
The top table of comics
I'm still trying out new inking styles, with a slightly more chaotic feel. Trying to avoid rigidly straight lines to create movement where the line width itself is stiff and fixed. Here's a test co...
2021-10-28 12:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostRead STEEPLE: CLOTTED CRIME pt 3 now
Your PDF is linked under the cover image - please let me know how you're enjoying the story in the comments.
The next episode, the final chunk of Steeple for a while, is due to appear here on December 13th.
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Cover by Kelly Vivanco, colours this issue (cover excepted) by Sa...
2021-10-24 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 4: Complicated continuity
Jen Decay writes:
"On your own terms and without concerns for the audience talking in your face, how significant to you personally is the continuity of your sprawling canon, and how do you keep track of it all?"
I work very hard on my stories, and wh...
2021-10-23 12:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostRave on n'more
The Destroy History Rave On project I was making here has been set aside. I worked out a way to do the story that was worth doing properly. But there was one last, experimental page. I am finding my way towards a new art style that I may or may not use for a proper project. I've taken the speech ...
2021-10-21 17:53:22 +0000 UTC View PostEllerbisms is(n't) back/Garf
I'm supposedly on holiday from comics for a month after finishing work on Steeple volume 3. Thus far, the holiday is very tiring. I think I might just be old now. It's my 45th birthday on Wednesday, or as I like to think of it, my "half ninety".
Speaking of birthdays, I visited my friend Ma...
2021-10-18 19:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 3: Writer's block
Ken Kleinman writes:
Do you ever get writer's block? How do you decide which of the 12 items on your whiteboard to work on next?
Ken's asked a two-parter here, but as neither part was in the form of a statement as opposed to a question, I'm happy to tackle th...
2021-10-13 13:33:16 +0000 UTC View PostFresh fields
I've got one page of Steeple volume 3 left to draw, the 154th page. The book, due next summer, encompasses Christmas With Clovis, the Author Unknown crossover, and the four parts of Clotted Crime. Betwee...
2021-10-09 13:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 2: Remakes
Aram writes:
"I see artists remake their work quite frequently. I remember seeing some redrawn panels by you (maybe for the printed version of [Giant Days]?) Have you considered recreating some of the vector looking comics from the mid noughts? Why/why not?"
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2021-10-08 16:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostProcreate Murders
Here's a test comic (well, half of one) that I made in Procreate today. I love the pencil tools in this app. No other program has a pencil that feels so free to draw with.
But colouring a page in Procreate is a nightmare, and it's not a lot easier if you take your line work into Clip Studio...
2021-10-07 15:23:35 +0000 UTC View PostQ&A 1: starting stories
N. Forsythe writes:
"When you write a new storyline, does it usually begin in terms of a plot idea or with brainstorming snippets of dialogue/banter or a given situation or scene? I ask because your work does feel so dialogue and comedy driven, but your plots and emotio...
2021-10-03 11:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostCall for questions for a Q&A
Part of the reason I set up the Patreon was to be able to answer question for artists and writers and pass on a few things I have learned over 23 years of near-daily comic making. If you have a creative question, add it to the comments on this post and I'll round up a few over the next few weeks....
2021-10-02 15:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostWen-Tack PDF/Wen-tack reëvaluated
Sorry again for the slim pickings in recent weeks. I'm down to drawing the last nine pages of Steeple volume 3, pages that will run in January next year, and I feel like a man at the end of a marathon. As controversial as this may sound, I'm going to allow myself a break of a few weeks once I'm d...
2021-09-28 16:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostMystery friends
I'm currently working on Steeple comics that will run in January 2022 -- don't tell anyone because this could get me kicked out of the Tardy Webcomic Artists' Club. When this story is finished, I'm going to take a break (as you may recall, I don't allow myself a rest very often) then think about ...
2021-09-21 18:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostSome She-Hulks
I put these up on Twitter yesterday, my Twitter posts auto-delete after a month so I'll leave them up here too. A couple of warm-up drawings that I coloured for a lark. One of my favourite Marvel characters from the 80s and 90s. There's a great run by Charles Soule and Javier Pulido from the mid-...
2021-09-18 07:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostSteeple #13 cover sneak preview
Just in! My friend of two decades, fine artist and cartoonist (PATCHES etc) Kelly Vivanco has done the cover for Steeple #13 and it is a beauty. What can it all mean? Find out in about a month. Your support on Patreon has made ...
2021-09-16 19:26:33 +0000 UTC View Post