Colour it in...

Another page for a colouring book I'm working on.

ALSO, our new Hat animation has gone LIVE!... LIVE, I SAID!

The Hat Will Return

Anyway, we're making a short flash animation based on The Hat from the Windell comic. Richard O'Shea (Ireland's foremost Grizzly - also the heaviest baby in the history of the state) is bringing my drawings to life while Garret Shanley (who also wrote the windell comic) is on script duty. It's going really well and should be finished soon, available for all to view on youtube. The guy in the pic above is one of the guest stars.

Noted

Look at this beauty. Got it yesterday, along with a bunch of equally splendiforous comics from blackshapes creator, gentleman, scholar, Phil Barrett. Thanks a million, Phil. Your work is always pure quality.

Samples From a W.I.P.

A W.I.P. of course is a Work In Progress, and that's very much what this is. I'm still writing this stuff as I'm drawing it, which is a bit bonkers, but I just can't bring myself to sit down and contrive the material into a soup-to-nuts document.

Why?

Because the drawing informs the writing as much as the writing informs the drawing. Sufficed to say, this is not a process I'd necessarily recommend to anyone, or even one I'll be using again in the future. The only reason I'm doing it on this ditty is beacsue it's an abstract narrative, and if I just attempt to plot it out, the left side of my brain will lock the door on the right side. Can't be having that.

If I was doing a straight narrative I'd almost certainly outline and write it before illustrating it. But you really don't have to be able to see the forest for trees when you're creating abstract narratives 'cos by defintion they're more holistic. As long as the individual units sustain themselves the whole should look after itself. Any joins you're making are going to be more indirect, symbolic, unconscious, or even thematically driven, rather than functioning as a set of linear progressions on the surface.

It's not to say I don't love straight narrative. I love plots. LURVE them. But I love abstract shit too. Horses for courses, and all that.

Salvo's Colouring Book

Here are some prototypical lines for a possible colouring book project. If I can muster another fifteen or twenty like this in the future I might self-publish it as Salvo's Colouring and Activity Book.

Silkscreen Print

I recently received this beautiful print in the mail from Ztoical. In a feat of clairvoyance that would make Derren Brown flinch, the colour of the walls in this print are almost identical to the colour of the walls in the room where I work.

Kingdom of Furniture

Salvo's Test Card

Nothing signals the counter-cultural intentions of an artist quite like the fusion of dismembered heads and test card chic. That’s right… one look at this baby and the beholder is left with little choice but to conclude that its creator is one of those serious artistic types who would never let THE MAN’S member get within an asses roar of his bum hole.

Who knows, the viewer might even be inclined to picture the draughtsman responsible for this illustration as a hopelessly maladjusted (and probably overweight) fellow who has taken up permanent residence beneath the monstrous shadow cast by the establishment, clutching a shovel in his fist.

On a more practical level (and putting aside any and all considerations of creative matters) the periodical transmission of this test card on giant screens all over the world would allow any viewer the opportunity to conserve vital energy by just staring at it for anything up to an hour; energy that is badly needed for the important business of being awake in the world.

K. V. Jr.

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

Let the Fish and Goose soiret commence

Our homepage for Windell comics has been overhauled (thanks to Richard) so you can now buy the comic from the site. Also, the promo has been posted on youtube so you can go set your glazzies on that HERE or alternatively click below. Tell your friends.