Building Blocks 3

 

Just some arty stuff today, here's some more London/city drawing studies... This first one is A3 and inked with drawing pens from a pencil sketch similar to the ones below.

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Rokan

First issue of an ongoing comic book series, Rokan is part fantasy, part super hero, and all Metal.

Look at this fantastic art...

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Building Blocks 2

 
Here's some more old architectural studies from the late 90s, around the Southbank Centre and the Barbican in London. First is a pencil drawing, the second and third pen and ink, and the last one is a gouache painting. Kinda like how the blue on the concrete floor looks a bit like water as if it's a view under a bridge.

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Glyn In Monsterland

by Kevin Philpott

A 48-page fantasy adventure for everyone young and old!

After failing an audition for a tyrant King, an apprentice witch named Glyn is banished to a dungeon and left to rot. She quickly discovers she is not alone and that her fellow inmates are a crazy bunch of Bright Magic monsters. Refusing to give up, Glyn forms a gang and attempts to break out and overthrow their evil masters!

You can back it here, please tell Kevin we sent you-

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NEXT TIME- Mondominium #1

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Building Blocks

Here's some old architectural studies from the late 90s, mostly around the Southbank Centre in London. I used inks and washes in an attempt to create a graphic mood and atmosphere and I'm sure a lot of this stuff fed into the concrete towers of Fred Fortune's world. Most were sketched at the locations then redrawn later.

 

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Fully funded in a couple of hours... now standing at just shy of £24,000 (by the time this post goes up it might be past that!) If you like the sound of a graphic novel biography of Charlie Chaplin hop on over there and back it, please let Charlie's know I sent you. Told you it was gonna be big.

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Next Time- The Rain In My Pictures Stays Mainly In A Separate Layer

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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.

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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...

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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:

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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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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.

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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...

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