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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!!

Jingle Bells-Ho Ho Ho-Chrimbo Time Again! #2

Here are my Christmas illustrations. 

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2015

2016

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2019

Next post will be Monday 21st @4PM- Xmas 2020!

Funky Punk Merch-

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and

JonathanOdds

Previous Fred Fortune comics available here-

http://www.comicfleamarket.com/brands/Abbot-Comics.html

Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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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.

 

CGUK corner-

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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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

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JonathanOdds

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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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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JonathanOdds

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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The Great Funky Punk Thingamebobs!

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.

https://twitter.com/ComicMondo

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.

Next Time- Woolley Jumper #3.

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JonathanOdds

http://www.comicfleamarket.com/brands/Abbot-Comics.html

Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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