I'll be uploading the second part of Author Unknown for $3-and-up Patreon subscribers on May 31st, so here's a sneak preview of the cover I commissioned from Nick Roche (SCARENTHOOD, TRANSFORMERS: SINS OF THE WRECKERS/LAST STAND OF THE WRECKERS, SPIDER-MAN: RENEW YOUR VOWS etc etc etc). I know yo...
2021-05-21 08:06:59 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of weeks ago, I took advantage of a break between stories to spend a week trying out different drawing techniques. Using traditional materials, I drew a couple of pages like I used to back in the day, but I soon remembered why I stopped doing that. No matter how much I love drawing in my...
2021-05-16 17:27:05 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the third of the New Bobbins ebooks, it's a short one, collecting the post-Mordawwa Erin and The Boy stories from 2016/17. There's a new essay at the start that might only be notable for containing the synopses of the issues for my rejected Mordawwa pitch. PDF at the bottom of the...
2021-05-14 11:26:58 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a comic that I broke down a plot for in 2016, then set aside forever. I found the notes for it today. It's a 22-page rip on Father John Misty (ahem, "Papa Joe Foggy"). You will agree that it is better left in the vault. As a period piece tied to the old ways, its time has passed. As a cove...
2021-05-10 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Bad Machinery was finished, Giant Days was entering its final year, By Night was coming out and before I started work on Steeple, I should have taken a rest, but my mind was a factory making nothing, a machine that would not turn off after 20 years. I have a whole folder marked simply '2018'...
2021-05-08 09:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the second of the four New Bobbins collections. PDF link at the bottom of the post. It runs to nearly 100 pages, with a new essay. Thank you for being a patron!
Here's the final installment of Here Comes Gothy. You can't say there wasn't a sort of logic to this story. A circularity. Similar to a fever dream.
Catch up with previous episodes on the 2021-05-02 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Scary Go Round site has had to be taken down, so my older archives are unavailable. I'm not sure when they'll be back up, so I'm collecting some of them into pay-what-you-want PDFs on my Gumroad. $3-and-up subscribers will get the four New Bobbins collections (A Magical Pink Being, Ou...
2021-04-30 14:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a double Gothy week! The only downside to this upside is that this is the penultimate HCG. Catch up on all the eps on the HCG master post.
2021-04-28 23:01:02 +0000 UTC
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It's a cruel world, but sometimes good things happen. Here's the 10th episode of Here Comes Gothy. Can you believe there are only two more?
You can catch up on the HCG Master Post if you've missed any episodes. 2021-04-26 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The second part of Author Unknown should emerge with a cover by an Undisclosed Star Name (it's Milo Manara (it isn't)) but I did a quick dummy cover for the PDF I sent out to my friends once I finished drawing the pages. It came out a lot better than I intended it to.
My brief for thi...
2021-04-23 10:11:28 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, the 9th Here Comes Gothy comic. I'll stick this one on the HCG Master post (where you can catch up with the story) later today.
2021-04-19 23:02:00 +0000 UTC
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I'm streaming a redraw of a classique Scary Go Round comic this afternoon, plus some reminiscences, come watch and chat!
POST-STREAM UPDATE
On this redraw stream I tried to take different decisions to those I ...
2021-04-19 12:53:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm trying to improve my traditional inking and to use my lightbox. It's proving hard but there are signs of improvement coming with practice. The most important thing I have to remember is not to trace ...
2021-04-15 20:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are my designs for John Cloake from Circus Windows. I knew what I wanted him to look like, he was based ...
2021-04-13 19:30:40 +0000 UTC View PostIf you prefer to read it in webcomic form, or just want to comment as the pages go up, the story is running M-W-F at steeple.church for the next 14 weeks. Part 2 will arrive on Patreon on May 31st.
2021-04-11 23:02:00 +0000 UTC
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It's a short life, and here's how I spent a portion of it. This started as a blank page and maybe it should have stayed that way...
...but I don't think so!
To think some Patreons are just pi...
2021-04-07 17:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostA lot going on in Onion Dan #3 (from IMAGE COMICS, HOME OF SPAWN) - remember, Onion Dan is not recommended for anyone of either a nervous OR stout disposition! Not available in the USA, Canada or the UK for legal reasons!!! Try Russia!!!!!!
2021-04-04 17:04:54 +0000 UTC
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I did a video interview last week to assist my French publisher Akileos' Giant Days hardcover edition crowdfunder. I go into a few things much more deeply than I have elsewhere - you may find it interesting! If you can read French, and want more Giant Days hardcovers, 2021-03-30 17:28:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I redrew the last three pages of Secret Sentai for Steeple Volume 2 (due in July from Dark Horse). The clock is always ticking for someone to tell me they liked the original version better when I do this, but these three were all drawn when I was having some bad eye and hand problems. I was a bra...
2021-03-29 12:45:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This one came easy. A truly ghastly colour scheme; a cover for a story that is scheduled to start July 18th. Talk about "early access". To all things a season!
EDIT (below): My friend Robert Ball, responsible for many great book covers, made a colour suggestion I think really lifts it, prop...
2021-03-25 08:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
With writing on the crossover complete and the artwork half done, the next story up on the drawing board is a 4-part Steeple arc. In my work folder, I’ve continued the issue numbers from the Dark Horse issues (1-5) so Silvery Moon was issues 6 & 7, Secret Sentai was 8 & 9 and Christmas ...
2021-03-23 20:09:42 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you are enjoying (or if you are a $3/month patron, have enjoyed) Circus Windows. In this post I will take you through the thinking behind it, the background to it, and some of my sketches for it...
2021-03-18 16:18:38 +0000 UTC View PostIn the upcoming Author Unknown crossover, Billie wears a garment I dubbed the Backless Clerical Jumpsuit. A sort of reverse Fleabag and Hot Priest in one. It’s very Church of Satan.
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2021-03-14 20:27:27 +0000 UTC View PostCome to Youtube and be entertained! All good, nothing bad.
UPDATE: The stream is archived at the link above so you can watch at your leisure.
2021-03-12 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostYou only had to wait a week for thrills and spills at a very high level, as Here Comes Gothy returns! So many relatable characters in this episode who we must hope return soon!!!! Spooky woman! Steam le punks! Adoring emo! Others!
I've not written the senses-shattering conclusion to this st...
2021-03-09 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI did a master page for Here Comes Gothy, here's one for Cattywampus' first story arc so you can read all the pages in one place.
In "Cattywampus", Desmond Fishman moves to Tredregyn to (let's not put too fine a ...
2021-03-07 10:29:40 +0000 UTC View PostMy Steeple - Charlotte - Shelley crossover starts on April 12th (on the Steeple site, after internal deliberations that lasted well into the wee small hours). I have drawn nine pages so far and declare them "good". I will share some process work in the coming weeks, but for now, here's the cover....
2021-03-03 16:54:54 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a break of a month, which must have seemed painfully long, here's Here Comes Gothy #7. To read all the Here Comes Gothy comics on one page, just go to this page.
2021-03-02 16:29:23 +0000 UTC
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