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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Next Time- Something else

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Woolley Jumper #4

It's time to get out that knitting, poor a glass of sherry, sit back and enjoy our fourth outing of John Woolley's superhero parody with 'Pea-Brained Nuts' Part One, originally published in #14 of Mondo from September of 1993. It was a 40 page issue that also featured British Bulldog by Lee Davis and Paul Knight, Darkness by Mark Yarwood, Fred Fortune by myself, six pages (!!) of the legendary Mailbag From Hell!, a Superman article by Lee, a one off strip, Decisions, Decisions by Tom Murphy and myself, Part Two of Engine Man by Matt Banwell and Chris Doughty, another article by Lee- this time about newspaper strip Axa that ran in The Sun from 1978-1985, and the Private Hell of Negative Man also by Matt Banwell and Chris Doughty. It was all wrapped up with a fantastic cover by Tom Carney who could out-Bisley Simon Bisley! and a cut out and keep Danny Baker mask on the back! You can see the cover on Mondo's new Twitter here-

 

https://twitter.com/ComicMondo

Mondo still has it's Facebook page where you will find 300+ of the Daily Doodles we used to do, lots of strips and a few articles.

https://www.facebook.com/mondoukcomic

... it's new Twitter page here-

https://twitter.com/ComicMondo

... and now has new Facebook page, MondoToons to showcase Mondo's chief cheese, Lee Davis' own rampant lockdown cartooning-

 

https://www.facebook.com/MONDO-TOONS-104848528058195/

Please check them out, thanks.

I couldn't resist it-

Next Time- More...

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Space Babe Part Two- Painty Boobs!

Caution- This comic contains boobies, has an offensive sense of humour and is toxically masculine!!

'This better not be prawn!!'

Here's the original first four painted pages of last week's Space Babe strip. They are scanned as is and unaltered, except as I have an A4 scanner, each page was scanned in two halves and pasted together with a few tidy ups to eliminate blurs and line up the two halves. They were originally painted in acrylics on A3 Bristol board then finished with Indian ink line work on top with a bit of coloured pencil here and there. They were tucked away in an old portfolio case and this is the first time I've seen them in about ten years. I think they still look good, especially the all the blue tones in the space backgrounds. I think if I ever went back to the character I'd like to use the same technique.

The next piece was done as a cover image for the 2007 black and white version. It was drawn traditionally in Indian ink and coloured digitally. Unfortunately it was one of the artworks that fell victim to the hard drive disaster a couple of years ago and was lost along with loads of other stuff. This is a scan of a print of it that I found in the same portfolio as the original painted pages, hence the grainy texture. The colours of the original version are more natural than this one. It was used on one of the old Daily Doodles I used to do on the Mondo Facebook page, Doodle #245, I put the logo across her boobs so as not to attract unwanted cancellation, but you can still find it in the photo bit here- 

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Fed up of Hollywood celebrities telling you what to think and how to live your lives when it's none of their business and they do the opposite? Sick and tired of being preached to by stupid people who they are better than you and that you owe them a living just because they are famous? If you're mad as hell and you're not gonna take it any more, cut the rich and famous down to size with these fetching T-shirts and other merch from the Funky Punk Teespring and Redbubble stores, links below.

Next Time- Woolley Jumper #4

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Space Babe Part One- Soft Core Sci-Fi!!

Caution- This comic contains boobies, has an offensive sense of humour and is toxically masculine!!

This is a story from way back around the turn of the millennium. Initially it was to be a full colour painted strip of which I completed the first four pages in acrylics and Indian ink. If I recall the I was going to submit it to Heavy Metal and had planned an epic plot to save Trixie's home planet. It was also an excuse to draw lots of sexy sci-fi women and was quite spontaneously scripted and fun  to do. The four finished pages appeared in a later 2001 issue of Mondo as a first episode. I quite liked how the black and white photocopied pages showed the tones which later gave me the idea to do this 2007 version. At the time I wanted to get this story finished and was trying to get to grips with digital art so I used this to play around in Photoshop, though the line art was all done traditionally.

There you go. What did you think? Would you like to see more of the Space Babe?

Let me know in the comments below...

Please note- her organs are inside her!

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Go sub to The Rabbi From Another Planet on YouTube-

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You can check out his comics here-

http://biblicalcomix.com/

 Next Time- Space Babe Part Two

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JonathanOdds

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The Listening Post #2

No prose, just pics and tunes and one reason to be cheerful!

At the time of this writing I only have one box set in my vinyl collection. First three studio albums and one compilation of non album tracks on coloured vinyl. Proper funky punk! Here it is-

Here's some of the tunes-

Here is my favourite cover version from Curve in 1993. Loved Curve back in the day, saw them live at the Slough (!) music festival in the summer of 1991, but was hooked before then.

Don't forget that 

Only Death Can Save Us

by Russ Leach, Rik Hoskin and Tim Quinn is still funding on Indiegogo. It's a Bronze Age-inspired, cosmic, fantasy romp! just look at this fantastic cover...

You can back it here-

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/only-death-can-save-us/x/23632294#/

Please let them know that we sent you.

Next Time- Back to the comics.

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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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Woolley Jumper #3

It's Woolley time again with part 2 of Pawns of the Mechanical Madman! Originally published in Mondo #13 August 1993, which featured a rather splendid front cover by yours truly photocopied on some fetching blue paper. As always with these uploads the pages are presented as unaltered scans from the issue. They will be remastered at a later date.

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Wow, look at the art in this comic. If you like 80s cyberpunk sci-fi, then this is the book for you!

EYVA Comic Issue 1: Mainframe is Watching

A cyberpunk comic series set in a 23rd century world of bio-implants and intrusive surveillance.

Now in demand on Indiegogo.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/eyva-comic-issue-1-mainframe-is-watching/x/23632294#/

It's great value at only £4 for the printed issue or £2 for digital. Back it while you still can.

Please tell them we sent you, thanks.

Next Time- The Green Slimy Thing Behind The Cooker...

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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