Merry Christmas!

Have a great festive season with all your family and friends and best wishes for the new year.

NUFF SAID.

Stop the division. Everyone has their own valid point of view. Only together can we move forward. Unite and end the dystopian clown-world.

NEXT TIME- 2022!!

SHILL CORNER-

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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The Old And The New

 

 Here's an old Fred strip from 1991, it's the first appearance of Fred's enemy and obvious Judge Dredd wanna be, the insane cop Officer McDab. Although a lot of these early one pagers are pretty terrible I do have a soft spot for them. They all have a manic spontaneity about them which serves the cheesy humour quite well. This page has been fully restored and re-lettered digitally from an old A4 photocopy.

This next one is from late 1999 and was the cover of Mondo #44. Much like the Space Babe strip it was fully painted in acrylics with Indian ink line work on top. It was for the story Waste Not Want Not in  which Fred chases a falling beer can from the top to the bottom of the city which gets darker and more squalid the lower it goes. I was a few months out of art college

by then and the city now had it's own more distinct and industrial design.

Here's some newer stuff... No spoilers, a completely random pencilled page from the new story City of Tomorrow. When this is finished it will have grey tone and rain fx on all the external shots. The cityscapes are great fun to do but take ages because they are very dense and background heavy, this is to give the reader a sense of claustrophobia in the harsh decaying city. These pages are all done to fit US magazine sized pages to give it a bulkier feel.

This is The Panther.. one of the story's new characters... Who is she? What lies behind her mask?  Why does she want to get into Fetty's trousers? Find out... or not, in Fred Fortune- City of Tomorrow...

Here's a finished panel from page two.

CGUK corner-

Launching today at 6PM it's Charlie's London, an official graphic novel about the life of Charlie Chaplin. This one's gonna be big guys, back it when it goes live...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/charlie-s-london-from-east-lane-to-the-limelight/coming_soon/x/23632294

Next Time- Something else

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The Green Slimy Thing Behind The Cooker!

Urrm... What's Lance looking looking for?

EEUUUWWWW!!

Looks like another blocked toilet situation!!

Panels from the Fred Fortune stories-

Oh, Bloody Hell!!

Bar-Thing's Big Adventure

McDab-Jobless

Hooray For Hollyworld

and

City Of Tomorrow

All heading your way at some point.

Pencils- John Woolley and Jonathan Odds

Inks- Ditto

You can still get a copy of Mortal Worlds by Michael and Caroline Anden

here on Indiegogo:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mortal-worlds--2/x/23632294#/

A supersoldier discovers that man's first ancestor is our final descendant-a being of ultimate evil. Back it today.

Just look at the fantastic artwork-

Next Time- The Listening Post #2

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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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Meet The Cast #6

Hail Bash Barnsley!! Saviour of the universe... kinda.

Don't lose your head!!

Above: Pencils- Jonathan Odds

Inks- John Woolley
Circa 2001 from Fred Fortune: The Sirius Job
Script by Lee Davis.

Next time- Meet the cast #7

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Meet The Cast #5

What happened to Fats Dump's wife? All we know is that she vanished before he was called Fats...

Above: Pencils- John Woolley
Inks- Yours Truly Big JonniO

Next time- Meet the cast #6

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Meet The Cast #4

Yay, it's the Bar-Thing, AKA B-T. One day and his friend go on a date with two buxom babes to see the latest Star Wars film (episode 257 or something) while being chased by a very mad fellow who's after Fred.

Please note... this story was written in the early 2000s years before I'd even heard of the real life comic creator Chip Zdarsky, so B-T's friend has been renamed, ahem... Plop Stardrive!!

This is a model of the Bar-Thing that I made in the early 2000s, partly for fun, but also as a drawing reference... Also I like the idea that his eye stalks can move independently of each other like the ears of a cat, so he can look in two directions at once. 

Next time- Meet the cast #5

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Meet The Cast #3

Lance will also be appearing in his own story entitled 'Oh, Bloody Hell!'. I might leave it as it is because I'm very pleased with how the story works. It was scripted by me, pencilled by John Woolley and inked by me. It's structured as a flashback as Lance, in the bar with Fred tells him of the horror he's just suffered as a nasty government official audits his life!! Like all these storeis it won't be appearing until after 'City of Tomorrow'.

Above- Lance as he appears in his solo story 'Oh, Bloody Hell!'

Story: Jonny Odds

Pencils: John Woolley

Inks: Big JonniO

Next time- Meet the cast #4

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Meet The Cast #2

One thing I wanted to do was give each character their own stand alone story or two that gives them a chance to shine and develop a bit while still being part of the overall narrative direction. It's not scripted yet but Daisy's first is called 'Bra Wars'.

Next time- Meet the cast #3

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Meet The Cast #1

These cast profiles were originally in the issue #0 special preview issue of Fred Fortune (link to where you can buy it below) of the most recent series. #s 0-3 are available and issues 1-4 of Fred Fortune: Gold, a series that collects the really old strips from the early 1990s. Bear in mind that the stories that appear in 0-3 will be reworked and form part of the ongoing narrative that follows the forthcoming 'City of Tomorrow' story line, but if you don't mind spoilers please feel free. I'll be reworking most of them to fit the narrative. Also several of the stories in those issues were drawn by old Mondo* legend and all round good bloke Mr. John Woolley, who has since retired from drawing, so I will be drawing new art for all of them. This is by necessity rather than design because unfortunately I had a digital disaster a couple of years ago when the external hard drive that stored ALL of the Fred files decided to give up the ghost and break down on me and it was lost. I had one issue saved on Dropbox and a few low res back ups here and there, but not enough to continue as was originally planned. Luckily most of Fred was drawn traditionally so it has mostly been re-scanned... the oldest strips needing the most TLC to tidy up to a printable standard. Around 50 pages were lost completely, mostly ones that were digitally inked. Still have the traditional pencils though. A stupid mistake that won't be repeated. It feels like starting again from scratch so some jiggling of stories was required to get back on track. Mr Woolley will of course still be credited and will get a cheque for those stories if enough funds are raised. 

*Mondo- The UK small press anthology comic where Fred was first published in 1993 which up to 2004. It still has a Facebook page here-

https://www.facebook.com/mondoukcomic/?ref=bookmarks

 

Next time- Meet the cast #2

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Here We Go- Welcome to Funky Punk Comics

First off I hope everyone is coping okay with the current unprecedented situation. Stay safe and spare a thought for key workers the world over at every level who are on the front line of the pandemic. We'll get through it and good health to all.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to have a look at the first post of the Funky Punk Comics blog which will be the new home for my Fred Fortune comic.

Fred is a fun loving free spirit of the future who likes nothing better than lots of beer, his friends, a good curry, lots of beer, his flying car and... ahem... lots of beer. He lives by his wits and is always getting into scrapes that he usually embraces with a cheery grin and a song in his heart. And there's car chases... lots and lots of car chases.

The story is set in roughly 1000 years time in the city of Imperium, nicknamed 'Shitty City'. The city was once the proud capital of Earth's Solar Empire, but after 500 years of galactic war it has fallen into disrepair and squalor, it's mile high towers long since past their prime and the lower levels are dark with a nasty dank whiff in the polluted air.

The first new Fred story, entitled 'City of Tomorrow', will be divided into three or four 40-50 page graphic novels that will  be crowdfunded. In the story the city is invaded and taken over by the mad evil pirate King Lord Tim Timminy-Tim-Timminy-Timtim-Terry (!)

So far the first forty or so pages are scripted, with the first twenty being pencilled and the first two are completed bar the lettering. I hope you'll join us as Fred's new chapter begins...

Here's a quick sequence from the Fred animation that was part of an old college project back in the 90s... It is a short two minute cartoon that was all done traditionally- hundreds of hand drawn acetate cells and eighteen painted backgrounds, filmed on high band video- it was done before digital animation. As I don't have a video copy that could be digitised I have scanned all the cells and backgrounds and will be remaking it digitally. As soon as it's done it will be posted on YouTube.

Next time- Meet the cast #1

Coming soon- Fred Fortune's secret origin and lots of other stuff...


Stay safe everyone.


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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune : City of Tomorrow 

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