I've done a post for $3> patrons this week but that leaves the $1 contingent with nothing, so I present to you a grab bag from my sketch folder, the mysteriously named "1Misc Goog". So what do I have for you today? Gold, Jerry, gold!
During my "wilderness years" of art, between 2017 and ...
2021-02-23 19:45:33 +0000 UTC View Post$3-and-up subscribers, here's the second 22-page half of my new Charlotte Grote story, "Circus Windows", downloadable as a PDF.
[COVER ART: MAX SARIN]
If you prefer to read it in web...
2021-02-22 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'm still recovering from whatever curse I put on my back, trying to catch up with the jobs I couldn't do standing up. Today: a bookplate for Wicked Things volume 1 (there is currently little prospect of a volume 2 but stranger things have happened!)
2021-02-16 12:16:05 +0000 UTC
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One of my greatest friends is the cartoonist and podcaster Dan Berry, a man of limitless energy but, given his predilection for avoidable accidents, a limited lifespan. Every night I say a prayer for Dan.
Back in 2010 Dan made a minicomic called Onion Soup, based on him live-tweeting making...
2021-02-10 20:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostI commissioned Max Sarin to do a cover for part 2 of Circus Windows and it is as good as you would expect. Your Patreon contributions made this happen - thank you!
Here are all my hourly comics from Hourly Comic Day 2021 in one easy-to-parse zone. I'd not done this for a long time - 2013 I think. Can that be right? I'll try to find the old files for a follow-up post another day.
2021-02-02 09:01:00 +0000 UTC
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I did most of the character designs for Giant Days. Obviously once Max Sarin got hold of them, they would be immeasurably improved, but I took pride in sitting down and working out looks and outfits.
Issue 50, the "cricket issue" featured more than 20 new characters and multiple sport...
2021-01-30 17:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostAnother Here Comes Gothy. This one really stretched my ability to draw a comic without pencilling it first. Also without doing any character designs. What I am saying is that this was a struggle, but I made it through.
We must assume at this point that there will be a Here Comes Gothy...
2021-01-26 15:50:13 +0000 UTC View PostIn today's bootleg, unofficial comic, Esther forces her powerful but wayward mind into action. Will there be a sixth Here Comes Gothy episode? It's very, very hard to know.
Now, when you scrutinise this comic, I don't want you to jump to too many conclusions. Of course, if your conclusion was "this is the greatest comic I have ever read" then fair enough, I'll let you have that.
2021-01-12 15:36:11 +0000 UTC
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To warm up after three weeks' break from the draw board, I've inked another one of John Byrne's modern pencil comics pages where he pretends it's the past, presumably so he has some new originals to sell. [...
2021-01-04 16:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs a $3-and-up subscriber, please enjoy (if you wish) the first 22-page half of my new Charlotte Grote story, "Circus Windows", downloadable as a PDF.
If you're a chronology fan, this st...
2021-01-04 00:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostA further missive from darkest Whitby. Not everyone in Whitby is a goth (apart from during Goth Weekend), though Dracula does live there I believe.
Happy new year, Patreon subscribers! Fingers crossed for our collective 2021. I will continue to (attempt to) entertain you.
2020-12-31 13:50:25 +0000 UTC
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Steeple volume 2 hasn't been announced yet but it has started to show up on bookstore websites so here is the cover, by Max Sarin. The book, again from Dark Horse comics, collects the Secret Sentai and Silvery Moon stories I put on the website this year. "Christmas With Clovis" will have to wait ...
2020-12-30 21:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs this benighted year sputters out, another Esther comic for you, with a sighting of your friend and mine, Susan Ptolemy.
Will there be a third Here Comes Gothy strip? It's a difficult question to...
2020-12-28 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Giant Days is over. It is never coming back. But in the shadowy, paywalled world of Patreon, in the Cattywampus Cinematic Universe powered by Pure Fishman Energy, there is HERE COMES GOTHY.
Will th...
2020-12-18 19:06:24 +0000 UTC View PostProduced in collaboration with "vape imagineer" Laura Snapes (thank you), here is this year's Vape Escape Christmas catalogue.
2020-12-10 17:30:51 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the lack of fun posts over the last week or so, I’m working hard to get the first part of the new Charlotte story done before taking a Christmas break for a few weeks. I intend to release the...
2020-12-09 20:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostHere's why you signed up for this Patreon, all the Giant Days spin-offs you can handle.
11+ years ago, I did a guest page for a Somefield book by Barnaby Ward, a very talented illustrator and cartoonist who lives in the West Indies. I found it the other day when looking for a page to rework for the Youtube stream. i think the strip was called "Merrick's" or "Merricks" but it was a l...
2020-11-30 15:42:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I had an idea to make a sort of Scary Go Round advent calendar. My initial attempts to do the drawings for it didn’t work in any form that I could actually present, though they were fun drawings so I present those abortive efforts here. This is not a heavy duty project.
Chappy and Dr...
2020-11-25 21:19:12 +0000 UTC View PostI've been working on a new two-part Charlotte Grote story, "Circus Windows". It's not a strict continuation of Wicked Things - I'm hopeful that I will get the chance to tell more of that story, so I need to leave certain plot threads open to be picked up later. Just as Lottie has...
2020-11-21 10:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing what I can only describe as a grievous falling out with Mr Marc Ellerby over my (supposedly low) placement of Jeff Rosenstock's "No Dream" in my 2020 top 40 albums, he has left me with no choice but to reveal t...
2020-11-19 17:45:48 +0000 UTC View PostWill Des live or die? What sort of chowder will he make? How has this taken six months to resolve? Find out below!
I can't tell you if Cattywampus will ever return but if there is justice in our wo...
2020-11-17 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI sense that the tale of the Bosun is drawing to a close. Will Des make it out of 2020 alive?
$3-and-up subscribers can read Steeple: Christmas With Clovis in full now as a downloadable PDF. I'm putting this out a few days early to stave off any tense, nervous headache...
2020-11-06 10:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a stressful day for fans of the freedom eagle so here's a super sneak preview of something upcoming in early 2021.
The last issue of Wicked Things is out tomorrow. I hope Max and I will be able to reunite to continue the story but it could be a little while. But for Charlotte Grote fans, there will be a new story in early 2021, Circus Windows, a 44-page reunion with Mildred from Bad Machinery. Not 100% sure w...
2020-11-03 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostA tiny post today, but I think, still fun.
I made these in Asesprite, I hadn't done any pixel art for... I can't remember! Tw...
2020-11-01 14:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostToday's Cattywampus is free-to-air, and I am only sorry that Des appears in but one panel, being hypothetically murdered/maimed.
I don't pencil these, I just draw them straight out...
2020-10-25 10:21:57 +0000 UTC View Post