Bringing back an old friend...

Into the Woods cover revealed!!

Since Stacey has revealed the cover officially on her blog I can now show you my cover for her anthology, fanastically coloured by Steve Howard.

Originally a pinup to be printed in greyscale inside the book, I asked Steve to do a colour one first and I'm glad I did! Stacey kindly decided to use it for the cover and after a quick mock up we both agreed it suited the book so well. I added the logo and a few other bits and pieces and there you go!

I really chuffed to have my illustration as the cover for this book, even though I'm designing the book and putting it together I didn't push for this at all, and it came as much as a surprise to me as anyone. There are some very talented folk in this book and I'm proud to be part of it.

Into the Woods: A Fairytale Anthology

Into the Woods: A Fairytale Anthology is the next book I'm going to be designing for Stacey Whittle. You can see my logo for the book above.

Stacey is part of the Small Press Big Mouth team and is a real advocate of small press and indy books in the UK. Putting a book like this together on your own with little experience of print can be very daunting so I offered my services to Stacey to handle all the design, pre-press and production of the book (the same work I do for Accent UK).

I've got a piece of art in the book that I did a little while ago (that the lovely Steve Howard coloured for me and he did a cracking job as always) and Stacey has since chosen that to be the cover for the book, which I'm really chuffed about!

There are some really talented folk contributing to this book, and the pages I've seen all look superb and I've no doubt it's going to come out great, the rundown of the book goes like this:

• Alexi Conman and Conor Boyle: 'Changeling'

• Nic Papaconstantinou, Bevis Musson and Filip Roncone: 'Amber And The Egg'

• Richard McAuliffe and Sara Dunkerton: 'Red Riding Hood'

• Scott Harrison, Lee Grice and Filip Roncone: 'The Madness Of The Sea'

• Daniel Clifford, David Wynne and Ian Sharman: 'The Black Shoes'

• Lee Robson, Simon Wyatt and Filip Roncone: 'The Lang Pack'

• Ollie Masters and Valia Kapadai: 'Time For A Change'

The back cover is by Vicky Stonebridge and there's a pinup inside by Graeme Howard too.

The book will launch at the Cardiff International Comics Expo in February 2012.

Christmas already!? Where has the year gone??

Been a while since I've blogged mainly because I haven't done very much lately!

I haven't drawn anything since I completed my pinup for Dave and Steve's 'Robot Shorts' book (excerpt seen above, greytones again by the esteemed Mr Steve Howard) and it made me realise I've hardly drawn much in the way of comics this year.

I'm planning on getting back to it next year though and hope to start my new book with Mo Ali as early as January if all goes to plan. I will be very rusty so I do expect plenty of cursing, erasing and redrawn pages!

Where does this leave the last Wolfmen book? In limbo for a while sadly. If all goes to plan I'll get to that after I've done the book with Mo. if not to plan? I'll probably get another artist in the complete it. Will see what happens.

Early next year will mean that 'Robot Short's and '2ombies' will go to print and I'll also be designing Stacey Whittle's 'Into the Woods: A fairytale anthology' which looks a fab book.

So I'll be very busy as usual :-)

The Wolfmen movie!!

Many people have said over the years that 'The Wolfmen' book by Dave West and myself would make a good film. Dave and I of course agree, and if any film people are out there reading this please get in touch and give us loads of money. Thank you :-)

I thought mocking up a poster would be a fun exercise and after taking suggestions from friends who the stars would be I set about it. Wanted it to keep the British feel so all the actors and director) are British too.

I thought it came out ok in the end, some of the photoshopping is a bit iffy in places due to what I could find to work with, but from the comments I've got online from it so far, a lot of you seem to like it.

The Wolfmen & Fall of the Wolfmen enter the digital age!

The Wolfmen and Fall of the Wolfmen have entered the digital age and are now available on the iPad through the Lush Comics app.

I've just recently got an iPad myself and will take the plunge in trying some comics digitally very soon. But it's great to see our comics up here and hopefully selling well.

Lush Comics have already published Dave and Marleen's 'Whatever Happened to the World's Fastest Man?' and are really into indie comics, it is this that persuaded Dave to go with them as he felt our books would get lost in amongst all the top publishers on Comixology.

In other news '2OMBIES' is nearly done and I'm also done doing all the design and production work on Dave and Steve Holder's superb little 'ROBOT SHORTS' book. That's Steve's artwork there on the cover, but the rest is my doing... it was fun making it resemble a Haynes manual. The book should be out very soon and it's well worth your time and money.

I've done a little pinup in it, again ably assisted by the superb Steve Howard which I'll post up soon.

Very early days yet but I'm working on a new project with the multi-talented Mo Ali, this will be quite a departure for me and a challenge too. My comics work has been very thin on the ground this year so I'm hoping this might help kickstart me into wanted to carry on. Like I said, it's early days yet but I'm very hopeful and excited.

Doodles of fun!

Found a couple of doodles I did at the recent BICS con, I really must do a decent Batman piece one of these days... actually I will, once I've done the pinups for people I'm gonna sit down and do a proper one, might even post it on here :-)