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.

I'm on French bloody TV!

I'm on French TV.( France 24, their culture show ) Arsing it up & yapping comics & horror.

Way better than the Fox "news' bit I did a few years ago. Their studio was third world compared to the French one & they were completely disorganized. France 24, by comparison was slick, ran smoothly and the set/studio was state of the art. Was awesome. Skynet controlled the entire studio, all cameras were handled from some room elsewhere in the building.

And apparently we shared the green room with one of the biggest musicians in France... but he's unknown in english so, he was just another hobo looking guy to me. Forget his name anyway. Ah well.

I'm All French And Stuff

Further info

The Gallery website

Hope it goes well. If you're in Paris drop on by! Contrary to what many believe, I don't "paint on computer" at all. Come see the originals before they hit photoshop. This will be a pretty big retrospective of my work. Pretty much all the best stuff I've still got. Over 100 art pieces including FELL, WORMWOOD, WELCOME TO HOXFORD and oh yes, some 30 DAYS OF NIGHT ( But only RED SNOW, since the older stuff isn't fit for exhibiting I think )

Delcourt France Trip 2010

 

I'm going to France, again, to work, drink wine & draw things for fantastic French people. ( And a few Belgians too ) thanks to my French publisher Delcourt and Galerie Daniel Maghen. I'll be all over the place but here's the details I've got for now. Most excited for my first ever Paris exhibition...well, not that I've done many exhibitions before but people are coming out of the woodwork wanting me to do more internationally so who am I to argue?

Anyway, if you're in the area, come on out and say hi and I'll chat and sign anything you want!

I'll be at:

November 13th-14th
Bédéciné - Illzach

November 16th

Signing session
« Multi BD » bookshop
122 – 124, boulevard Anspach
1000 BRUXELLES

November 17th

« Album Comics » bookshop
67, boulevard Saint-Germain
75005 PARIS

November 18th

Exhibition opening night
Galerie Daniel Maghen
47, quai des Grands Augustins
75006 PARIS

CHOKER FIVE

It's been an age since I've posted much about CHOKER...but it *IS* coming! Here's some WIP's on the cover to next issue.

Why I'm still on Livejournal

Awesome comments like this. I like the way I draw women too. Thanks Skullyflower.


" I really like your female characters. They are still sexy (as is required
 by the world) but they also always seem like they could really do a
 person harm as well. They also seem to have a little depth to them. Some
 mental illness, maybe. Anyway. I like it. "

Batwoman

A Batwoman I'm actually quite happy with.

Put it up on ebay too, after people were complaining I didn't have anything up for a day. Bloody hell! The public must be sated.

I won an Eagle Award! And Happy Halloween

Apparently I won an Eagle Award for "favourite Colourist" the other night, over in the UK. The ceremony for the Eagles being at the MCM Expo which I try to hit at least once a yeah but already did in May so had to miss this one, bugger!

Huge thanks to everyone who voted. Means a bit since it was a more public vote, so *you* crazy people actually think my colouring is somewhat interesting. Cheers!

Congrats to the other winners too, Especially happy about Warren Ellis ( Favourite writer ) and Jamie McKelvie ( Favourite new artist )

I Thank Squid for us all.

Oh...now, it's also Halloween and I just got sent this by Bryce ( or Spider, that's the name I have ) Many, MANY thanks man! So have a happy one. I shaved Marvin so I can be a 10th Doctor Who tonight. I now have the RIGHT sonic screwdriver and Psychic paper, so I'm set thanks to an awesome guy who GAVE me these things at ZomBcon, which I'll be at all day today.

Have a good one guys.