Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Friday, 7 January 2022

Coming Soon... Hopefully

 Coming Soon... 

Check back here to see what's coming soon from Funky Punk Comics...

 City of Tomorrow
Part One

Shitty City is flooded after months of non stop rain and it's about to be invaded by mad future pirates! Only Fred can save us now!!


In the style of classic 2000AD mixed with Deadline and The Beano, it'll be a 40-50 page black and white comic with lots of action, beer, flying car chases and jokes, wrapped up behind colour covers.
 

It's mostly scripted with 20 pages pencilled, 6 of which are now inked and ready for lettering.


If you like the look of it please check back for news and updates etc.


Here's a couple of random spoiler free pencilled pages to give you a teaser...


I'll also be posting a ton of the old Fred comics from way back when, all tidied up and digitally restored...


Thanks for reading this far.
Hail CG!!

Friday, 10 December 2021

New Discovery of Old 'Lost' Christmas Card Design!

Around this time last year I posted a few surviving Christmas card designs that my Dad did to give to friends, family and clients from the early to late 1970s. While he got the later ones professionally printed, the earlier ones he printed himself by creating the image as a lino cut, covered the lino in ink and printed it by passing the card and inked lino through an old mangle to mimic a printing press, kind of like a homemade etching. While tidying up a few months back I came across several prints of another design amongst some of his work. I don't remember this one but it's quite striking in it's graphic grainy simplicity. These are probably experiments in colour to see which version worked best. Personally the middle one works best for me. What do you think? I have no idea when he did this one, but I expect it's the early 70s. Love it...



There is a Facebook page that showcases more of my dad's art, including landscape paintings and arabic calligraphy, here-
Please check it out...

NEXT TIME- Chrimbo 2021!!

SHILL CORNER-
Funky Punk Merch-




Previous Fred Fortune comics available here-


Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

If you like Funky Punk please follow, subscribe, comment and share. If not, thanks for reading this far and we'll be back with some more comics and other stuff next Friday.

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Friday, 12 November 2021

BJ Teaser 'OOO-ERRR, MISSUS!!'


During the early 2000s artist BJ Wilson quickly became Mondo's stand out superstar with comics 'Iron Ed' and 'Assault Suit Kevin'. Sporting quite a cartoony style that is influenced by both US underground comix (Zap, Crumb etc) and the French/European comics (Metal Hurlant, Moebius etc) of the 1970s his work appeared in several underground/small press comics in the UK in the 80s before settling in to becoming a Mondo mainstay around the late 90s. He's known for his very precise inking and unique lettering style.

Here the is a few teaser illustrations by BJ to give you a sampler of what's to come. These are all just scans of the photocopied pages he sent me a while back and are unaltered. The proper stuff will be all tidied up and coloured... enjoy.


'Brilliant line work!!'


NEXT- The Death Of Simply Splendid
!!


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Previous Fred Fortune comics available here-


Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

If you like Funky Punk please follow, subscribe, comment and share. If not, thanks for reading this far and we'll be back with some more comics and other stuff next Friday.

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Friday, 5 November 2021

Mondominium #4

Not seen since the March 1995 issue of  Mondo (#32), this little gem saw Jon Edwards on a very Heavy Metal/Moebius sci-fi vibe. This new remastered version has been digitally restored and coloured very quickly by Yours Truly over a couple of weeks. Colouring isn't my strong point, but I really enjoyed doing this, the perfect pallet cleanser after months doing lots of very intense black and white detail on Fred Fortune. I loved those old Epic Comics reprint paperbacks of Moebius' work back in the late 80s and tried to evoke that colour style and not make it look too digital. My own colour sensibility has probably sneaked in a bit too much... What do you think?

Jon Edwards, apologies for remastering your stuff, if you are out there please get in touch...







NEXT- ???


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Previous Fred Fortune comics available here-


Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Friday, 10 September 2021

Random Pics


While sorting out stuff in the swanky uptown Funky Punk offices (above), I came across some old drawings and sketches... Here's a select few of them for you to enjoy... 






CGUK ROUND UP

InDemand on Indiegogo...

Twisted Fairy Tales
A Comic Book Anthology.




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 Please tell them we sent you.

NEXT TIME- EEK!

Funky Punk Merch-

NEW! CANCEL CANCELCULTURE WITH THIS GINA CARANO DESIGN

and


Previous Fred Fortune comics available here-


Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

If you like Funky Punk please follow, subscribe, comment and share. If not, thanks for reading this far and we'll be back with some more comics and other stuff next Friday.

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