Building Blocks 4

Here's some more architectural sketchbook studies for you...

This first one is an A5 pen and ink that was done in the mid 90s to have a go at showing moody atmosphere with light and shadow.

Next up we have a very exaggerated extreme depiction of the 'Crooked House' in Windsor near where I grew up. It's quite the tourist attraction, was built in 1687 and is the oldest teahouse in England. It was done with watercolour and pen and ink in the late 90s.

And finally we have this shopping mall design... Mid 90s again it was going to be part of my 'Anytown' story which has had several incarnations over the years. Essentially it was going to be a satirical swipe at UK suburban life told through the eyes of the Grey family. This design was very early on, early/mid 90s, and would have featured an elite class of superheroes who only cared about their celebrity. I ditched the superhero side of it and it became newspaper style strip focusing on the older son of the Greys and his terrible amateur metal band, Beneath Contempt. I wrote about 70 strips and drew 36 of them that were showcased on a very early now long gone website, SillyArts around 2001. Then around 2007 I scripted a whole comic book format story that has yet to see the light of day. Still focusing on satire and the Grey family it was about the daughter's birthday told in a kind of comic mockumentary style if that makes sense. I still like the idea and might have to work up a more up to date draft of the script and do it as an OGN. Also I quite fancy the idea of restoring, colouring and finishing off the newspaper style version, though some of the jokes will be very out of date now... 

A satirical graphic novel...

Coming soon... 

maybe...

 NEXT TIME- The Third Dimension

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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.

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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.

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Turn Left To Nowhere.

Here's another project... Coming soon...

A story of life, shopping and a really terrible band!!

Meet 'Beneath Contempt', a very poor approximation of amateur death metal...

On drums and beer it's Cosmo Block!!

On guitars here's Gator Gravel!

... and last and least, on vocals and lazing around it's Gavin- urrm sorry, it's a legend in his own lifetime, the hero of the hour, I give you the supreme lyricist Rooster!!!

They're all a bit shit really, but the graphic novel will be coming soon...

In other comic news, this campaign isn't running yet, but you can join the mailing list on Indiegogo...

FIREBALL

FIGHT FOR YOUR SOUL

By Jean Luc Meisel

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fireball--3/coming_soon/x/23632294

Next Time- The Listening Post #1

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