Do you have any advice on how to encourage your kids to get into art? You say you got the art gene from you mum & grandfather; did they teach you how to draw/paint, or take you to the gallery?

Well, you can only encourage so much I guess. Either they take to it or they don't, in the end I guess. I was always happy to sit in a corner & get my imagination out onto paper... It was really just something I *had* to do. It came from within.

I'd say just show them fantastic art that enriches their imaginations. That doesn't have to be galleries, it could be as simple as a comic. ( which worked for me) & showing them amazing visual things like dinosaurs & space things. ( which also got me drawing! ) When I said I got the art gene from my grandfather & his daughter, my mother, they didn't teach me, I just knew they had artistic skills above the norm.

Ask me anything. Typing actual english words helps though.

What did you like to draw the most when you were a kid?

Dinosaurs. Always dinosaurs.

Until I reached 13 or so and then it was drawing naked wimins. Well, tracing them off comics ( they weren't naked initially in the comics mind you, that's where I got *creative* obviously )

Ask me anything. Typing actual english words helps though.

Name a book, a movie and an album that would introduce someone to "who you are."

Book: "Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom. " by Tom Holland

Film: "Mad Max2."

Album: "Mule Variations." by Tom Waits

Ask me anything

Another Squidly Girl

If you saw me work on this as I tweeted, well, it's now up on ebay. Actually quite like how this one turned out. Done on a piece of paper nicely borrowed from the great Dave Johnson!

Comicspipeline

If you've not heard me scream it yet, or seem my tweets, I'm actually part of this Comicspipeline thing.

What is it? Well, a bunch of really good and some quite well known comics artist types are doing a sort of private site where we show off exclusive and never to be public images, our process and sneak peeks on new things coming up.

Me? Well if you sign up and check my bit out, you'll see a bunch of original art commissions I'm doing but won't be making public as well as a complete behind the scenes process on a new zombie book I'm putting together. From rough sketches and writings to the final actual book ( if all goes to plan! ) It's a sort of horror comedy thing, tell the story of...

Well, sign up, stick around and find out. I'm a teasing bastard that way.

I do a lot of work in progress type blog entries, and give a lot of content I generate away for free online... I'll still be doing that, but the real good stuff and the more frequent stuff? Well, that's likely to wind up in my pipeline in the future. For a small subscription fee, you can see a whole bunch of us mad buggers doing our artistic thing.

LOBO

Had to get this image out of my head and try to stay sane amongst the mountain of real work needing to get done. Always had a soft spot for Lobo. If you dig it, the finished result is also up on ebay.

SQUIDGIRLS: EROTICA TENTACULAR is now available online!

Yes, after what feels like forever, after many many email requests and queries too... and just in time for Christmas... I've put the first batch of SQUIDGIRLS: EROTICA TENTACULAR up online in a new online store. Eventually there's going to be much more in the store but for now, just the first batch of Kraken Editions. So get them before they're gone. Once sold out, I'll do up another batch and proceed until supplies run out. Humboldt and Colossal Editions will eventually be online also, just not yet. If you're interested in purchasing all three at once for some reason, best to hold off for now. Otherwise, get them while they're hot!

BLACK SKY

The first teaser trailer is out, from the very fancy chaps at Halo-8.

Trust in the power of the Squid.

I could go all Mark Millar on you and make a ton of claims about this being possibly the first truly game changing "illustrated film" where only paltry half arsed motion comics have come before, that it'll crack the internet in half, cure lung cancer, give everyone free unlimited energy and solve hunger world wide... but I won't.

Once I'm working properly on this thing ( Which I can't wait for, ) things will get very interesting. We've got to do voice casting and deal with the animation and all that stuff. I find the story telling possibilities fascinating. It's going to be a real journey of learning for me.

So let's see if I don't arse this up!



Black Sky Teaser - 120110 from Halo-8 Entertainment on Vimeo.