The Great Funky Punk Thingamebobs!

For anyone who is interested, Mondo- Britain's Best Comic! now has it's own Twitter account. Hope to see you there for lots of fun comics stuff.

https://twitter.com/ComicMondo

Hope to see you there.

Drawing stuff today...

Here's a random design for the Anytown comic. He's not a particular character, but was drawn to get the feel of the story. If memory serves, one of the stories was set in a particularly unsuccessful evening in Anytown's only nightclub. It looks very 90s to me so the style of the new version might differ somewhat and I'm don't know yet if I'll revisit the nightclub plot. I'll have to find the old sketchbook it's in and give it an objective look.

At the moment there are 36 newspaper style Anytown strips from the early 2000s with another 30 or so scripted with several different plot threads running. At the time it did appear on my very early site Sillyarts (now long gone) in black and white. Here's an example-

There's also the script for one big mockumentary style story that could be expanded into a graphic novel. The story is a comedy all about the Grey family living their ordinary lives in an ordinary suburban town. Mum, dad and their three offspring but it mostly focuses on the older son, Gavin Grey, who is around 20 and wants to be a music star with his metal band Beneath Contempt, the only problem is Gavin and his mates have no talent or ability.

Here's another Anytown nightclub punter.

They were both drawn traditionally with Indian ink. I'm itching to get back to drawing traditionally, so I think I'll be doing Anytown on real paper. Would you like to see an Anytown book? I've got my dip pens and bottle of ink on standby, let's dig out that old script...

You know what this lady needs..? A new tote bag adorned with the fantastic front cover of Fred Fortune #1 to keep all her comics and stuff in. 

Lucky there's one for sale on the Funky Punk Teespring store. Link below-
You can also buy the comic to keep in it, still on sale on Comic Flea Market, link further below.

Thanks for looking.

Next Time- Woolley Jumper #3.

https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/funky-punk-comics

JonathanOdds

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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If You Don't Like My Politics Please Buy My Book

https://twitter.com/i/status/1294636922476924929

Late to the party as ever, I thought I would add my thoughts on the above now infamous quote from a 2017 interview with comic writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. I'm sure lots of other people have said the same thing, but don't worry, it's gonna be short and sweet.

This is why I'm comicsgate. Comicsgate puts aside the petty differences and is inclusive of everyone regardless of their identity or point of view.

The ridiculous 'If you don't like my politics...' line has to be one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard in comics. Not to mention mean spirited, condescending and rude. I've only ever read one trade paperback of one of her series in the past and will never be reading any more again. Congrats Kelly Sue, here's another potential PAYING CUSTOMER you've chased away. The book I read was kind of 'meh', not very good, kinda boring. What I particularly don't like is the erstwhile Ms. DeConnick's appalling attitude that you see everywhere in pop culture at the moment, that nasty need to divide the audience all in the name of preaching some sort of extremist dogma. It's really weird, ugly and just so effing stupid! That's NOT what comics and pop culture is about. It's about bringing people TOGETHER from all walks of life, from all colours and creeds, and from all points of view including the ones you disagree with. The business of comics is about selling as many books as possible, not chasing away your customers and taking the few that remain for granted. You can't control and police your readers, what they do or think is not up to anyone but themselves and you, Ms DeConnick and your ilk are NOT entitled to any of their money or patronage. You have to earn that by producing good work that anyone, regardless of their politics might want to buy. 

'If you don't like my politics, don't buy my books', (?!!) Surely the OPPOSITE is true. If you have something to say, that you feel is important and needs to be out there doesn't it make sense that you want it to reach as many people as possible? Even the people who might disagree with you? 

As a rule I want to stay out of divisive partisan politics in any of my comic projects. That's not to say I don't have a point of view or don't explore any issues within any work I produce, in fact the opposite is probably true. I'm just not gonna preach or chase anyone away and I want to challenge other points of view and have my point of view challenged. Maybe then we can both learn something new to take forward.

So if you don't like my politics, if you do, or if you don't care, please buy my book and then tell me what you think of it. There will be something in there for everyone to enjoy.

A whole piece with no images... we'll soon fix that-
Here's a digital OC that was going to be a character in 'Reality Check' from a few years ago.

P.S. Everyone knows this as well but, Captain Marvel is a poor selling, mean spirited,  catastrophic failure that only survived because of constant reboots and new #1s to artificially push up the numbers. Nobody likes it... and it's an objectively poor comic. Pass it on...

This isn't objectively poor, it's a Funky Punk Comics T-shirt... links below.

Here's the cover for the first issue of the old Fred Fortune series, link to where to find it on Comic Flea Market below. It is now available, along with the FP logo above, as a design on T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and stickers from our Teespring also linked below. Please have a look, thank you.

Next Time- The Great Funky Punk Thingamebobs...

Stay safe everyone.

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JonathanOdds

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Woolley Jumper #2

This week Mondo legend, John Woolley is back! His crazed cartooning graced Mondo's pages from the beginning right the way through to 2004 with his unique cartoon style. Mostly known for his superhero parody strips Massacre Comix, later changed to Murkle Yarns. He also did art for other Mondo stories such as Lord Thunder and inks on Gladiator and Fred Fortune. John is not online and in our last correspondence told me that he is retiring from small press comics as he's 60 and finding it increasingly difficult given his disability which is understandable, but is still a shame. Most recently he drew several Fred Fortune strips including 'The Sirius Job' and 'Hooray For Hollyworld'. You can read 'The Sirius Job' in Fred #s 2 and 3 (link below). They will all be reworked to appear at some point after the upcoming 'City of Tomorrow'. But his stuff will not be forgotten as we have his Mondo collaborations, 60+ pages of his own stuff and 5 complete issues of Murkle Yarns which will see the light of day at some point.
So here is Part One of a two part Massacre Comix story which originally saw print in Mondo #12, in July 1993. As last time the pages are scanned as is and haven't been tidied up. Don't worry- that's coming with added colour. Watch this space...

CG Corner-

SUPER DEAD

He gave his life to save a world from extinction, and now he will take from them all that remains.

By Mandy Summers and Peter Gilmore. Funding now on Indiegogo. Back it here-

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/super-dead/x/23632294#/

Next Time- Other Stuff.

Stay safe everyone.

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JonathanOdds

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Quink Ink Illos

This stuff might be a bit 'studenty' but while studying Illustration in the north east of England one of the lads I was studying with introduced me to painting with Quink Ink. For those who don't know Quink Ink is a brand of ink designed for use in fountain pens. I'd never considered using it for making art and had always used drawing and marker pens or dip pen and brush with indian ink. The thing with Quink Ink is once you add water to create a wash it breaks down into all it's component parts and you get a lovely blue grey oil on water affect that has accents of orangey brown and that's just with the black Quink Ink, I've no idea what happens with a red or a blue ink... So I did quite a few big A2 sized figure studies with it and it was great fun. Here's a few of them-

At the time I only did figure studies, but I wonder how it would look doing a woodland landscape, or a crowded city street? Or would you like to see an entire comic done with this art technique? I think it would be fun to do... now can I get Quink Ink on Amazon?

Don't forget you can buy lots of Funky Punk Comics stuff at our Teespring and Redbubble stores, links below.

Next Time- Woolley Jumper #2

Stay safe everyone.

https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/funky-punk-comics

JonathanOdds

http://www.comicfleamarket.com/brands/Abbot-Comics.html

Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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