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Friday, 7 January 2022

Coming Soon... Hopefully

Coming Soon...

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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, 23 October 2020

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.

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

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

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow

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Friday, 16 October 2020

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...

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

Next Time- Something else