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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!!

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-

https://www.facebook.com/michaeloddsart

Please check it out...

NEXT TIME- Chrimbo 2021!!

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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

Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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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...

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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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-

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/glyn-in-monster-land--2/x/23632294#/

NEXT TIME- Mondominium #1

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Abstract Trees Process

Here's a drawing of some trees in the water of the Thames near Windsor in Berkshire (UK). I was mostly interested in capturing the reflections in the water more than accurately depicting the scene. I did several different versions in different media. On one of them I melted candle wax mixed up with ink to create a nice texture in the water which I really liked. Sadly I can't find that one, lost in time I guess. The first one is your bog standard pen and ink with a grey wash and process white on top.

The next one is a quick watercolour sketch. Here you can see a bit more of the buildings in the background and I'm starting to think about colour.

Then it's time for an Indian ink version. I'm having lots of fun with this one and by now my approach is evolving. 

Now it's time to break out the gouache and think in terms of blocks of flat colour. I love gouache although I rarely use it. I used a lot of it mixed with washing up liquid for colouring the acetate cells of animation projects at my second time at art college in Harrow. The washing up liquid gave the paint a bit of flexibility so it wouldn't crack and fall off the acetate before videoing it. The flat colour lends itself to traditional graphic design and my Dad used to use it all the time. It has a very distinct smell and that coupled with the smell of gum arabic instantly takes me back to the 1970s and childhood. The final piece which I don't have anymore was a much tidier A3 version of this. I think the blocks of blue are particularly effective in creating the water which somehow looks a lot stiller. 

Of course I have also done an up to date digital version which I think looks even more abstract and graphic. Perhaps even a little stark? 

If you like it it's available as a design on Redbubble, links below.

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If you've got some time have a look at sci-fi author Justin Knight's Blog here-

https://theravenhelm.blogspot.com/

You can check out his cyberpunk book Harem Knights on Amazon here-

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harem-Nights-Showdown-Craydon-cyberpunk-ebook/dp/B08MXZGMGV

NEXT TIME- BUILDING BLOCKS 2

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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