Free Comic Book Day and Get London Reading
Free Comic Book Day was spent at the wonderful GOSH! Comics in London’s glittering West End. It was hectic and fun – there should be a word for that. Funtic? I spent some time at the drawing table with budding comic-creators who all had very firm ideas about what they wanted to do. I’m always so taken by ...
Free Comic Book Day at GOSH!
A quick post to let you know that I’ll be spending Free Comic Book Day at GOSH! Comics in London. Along with a host of other brilliant artists and creators, we’ll be drawing on windows (and paper) and generally enjoying being surrounded by loads of comics and friends. The details are all here. Amazing poster by Gary Northfield, whose Teenytinysaurs book ...
Monster Art & Comiket
A school teacher friend of mine sent me these pics drawn by students in his class. They were drawing characters from their favourite books and a few of them had chosen MONSTER & CHIPS! I’m very honoured that they liked the book so much and the art is pretty amazing too: Joe meets Fuzzby. Great ...
Imagine Festival
MONSTER & CHIPS had its first official outing at the Southbank last weekend, when I held a couple of workshops as part of this year’s Imagine Festival. The events took place just under the Queen Elizabeth Hall, probably better known as the place where the skate-boarders hang out. Part of the space has been walled in to create the ...
Monster & Chips news and reviews
My advance copy of MONSTER & CHIPS arrived on Saturday! It’s pretty much a year since I signed the contract with HarperCollins – can’t quite believe I’m seeing the finished book in my hands (apologies for the terrible photo): And I’ve had some badges made too! Joe, Fuzzby and Barry flavours: You can buy these from ...
Comic Workshop at the Imagine Festival
If you know a young person in need of some activity during half-term week, I highly recommend the Imagine Festival being held at the Royal Festival Hall – loads of stuff for kids involving dance, literature, theatre and art. I’m delighted to say that I’ve been invited to take part, so I’ll be running two comic-making workshops on February 22nd, at ...
Score vs Script
“A has the flesh of a fruit which [he/she/it] begins to eat. B has the seeds, which [he/she/it] plants. A realises that [he/she/it] will have no source of food after eating the fruit. B begins to starve while waiting for a tree to grow. The remainder of the fruit will sustain A and B until ...
Multitasking
Dare I say summer is almost over? Such as it was. My blogging rate has fallen short of its target but that is more a sign of busy-ness than laziness (but there’s a bit of that too). Last February, I wrote this post providing a creative to-do list for the year. Let’s have a recap: ...
Pop Up Festival of Stories
No doubt you follow the blog of children’s book illustrator-extraordinaire Sarah McIntyre. If not, why not?! You’ll see that lately she’s been blogging up a whirlwind about the Pop Up Festival of Stories. This weekend (30th June-1st July), part of the redeveloped Kings Cross area will be turned into a fun-packed festival, with different book ...
Thirteen Dwarves
Things I learnt at the bananas-but-wonderful MCM Expo this weekend: It’s probably still too early for Hobbit fan-art (click on it for a bigger version). Games of Thrones fan-art is hot! No one likes Aquaman. Poor Aquaman.
Orbital Self-Portrait Show and other stuff
I’m honoured to say that I’ve been included in an exhibition of self-portraits by comic artists, curated by Camila Barboza, that’s taking place at the wonderful Orbital Comics in London. There are pics by a number of small-, medium- and large-press favourites such as Joe Decie, Adam Cadwell, Ellen Lindner and Gary Erskine, as well ...
Nine characters in search of a timeslot
Some characters from various different projects I seem to find myself working on simultaneously – some in the pipeline, others may never see the light of day. All good fun, though. I’ve realised that one project I’ve not actually mentioned on my own blog is ink+PAPER, a comic magazine I’m editing and publishing, due ...
Birmingham Zine Festival – this weekend
I’ll be at the Zine Fair as part of the Birmingham Zine Festival this Saturday afternoon. I’ve not been to this event before but it looks like a lot of fun and an impressive <insert collective noun of choice> of comickers and zinesters will be there. I’m sharing a table with the jolly Mr Winchester. ...
Caption 2011: call for artwork
Caption, the Oxford comics festival (with the theme of austerity) will soon be here and we’re looking for artwork for the souvenir programme: “As usual we will be creating a souvenir programme and are looking for contributions from the comics community. You don’t have to attending Caption to contribute, as in this year of Austerity ...
Queen Mum workshop @ Orbital Comics
As part of the ongoing International Alternative Press Festival, I’m hosting a workshop at the wonderful Orbital Comics shop in London this Thursday from 6:30-8pm. Do come along – no need to book. I’ll be giving a bit of “insight” into my Queen Mum comics, then we shall create STUFF together – it will be ...
