Nosebleedman

Here's just one of the many oddballs and lowlife's who might be featuring in a new thing i'm working on. He has been provisionally titled nosebleedman. Here we see him buying some new furniture.

Everyone has Mindpuss...

Drink 'em in. There's nothing better than receiving original art in the mail from other scribblers. Today I got these two beautiful pieces from mindpuss creator Ronan Kennedy.

I'm starting to build up a small but growing collection of original work. OK, it's VERY small, but still, these will get framed and hung next to my note from Phil Barrett and my original panel from Mr. Amperduke by Bob Byrne which contains the mighty Panzer Meister.

Hey, if anyone else visiting this blog wants to post me something feel free to email me and we can swap some doodle-do's. And let me publicly thank Ronan for sending me these two beauties. I love them. No, I lurve them. No, no, I LUFF them...

"I wanted to rub humanity's face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror."

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It's perpetually pissing rain in the midlands today. Maybe I'll start doing weather forecasts alongside the doodle posts. It's pissing rain. Perpetually.

I bought La Strada for 6 euros yesterday. I've never seen it before but I'm sure it's worth 6 euros.

The Windell Showcase is at the printers and should be finished before the end of this week. There'll be a cabaret to launch the book with Noel V. Ginnity as compere. He's already promised me he'll do his WEE-WAW routine so it's gonna be a fucking great night. More details soon.

The Future is Unwritten

The Old Crew

I know the new Abrams movie is just around the corner but today I decided to draw some of the old guys instead. The new movie certainly won't stink but it remains to be seen just how good it's going to be.

I'm more of a casual Star Trek fan than one of the true believers, but given the times that are in it, I think everyone going to the cinema this May could do with a good dose of entertainment and a bit of optimism.

EXP #0

This is a new page for something that might happen later in the year. I think it's about the fourth page in a six page sequence. It's at a very experimental stage. Lots of floating ideas without any structure. When I'm starting something like this I try not to pressurise myself into making too much literal sense of the drawings 'cos it'll just end up getting nailed down to some bullshit explanation without other possibilities being explored first. I like this page so it''ll definitely end up in the comic, whatever other decisions I make from here on in.

It's enjoyable because you're basically free to mess around with as many unrelated doodles as you want. I've mapped out about six opening pages where the sequences were created almost entirely on instinct. I might have stopped once or twice to ask myself what the fuck I'm doing and then alter my decision about what I'm drawing but most of the inital material is drawn intuitively. For better or for worse.

The Black Rider

Today I finished all the nib work for the windell book so to celebrate I naturally decided to do this drawing of The Black Rider. This ended up looking way more cartoony than I wanted. I just slapped it down without stopping to think what I was doing and this is what I got. I think I hate it.

Windell will be printed next month and available to buy around late April or early May. More info as soon as I know.

Promo Portraits

Here are three standalone portraits of windell characters created for possible use in an animated promo that's being created by Richard O'Shea. Go here: www.osheamedia.com

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This sketch was done with black and white acrylic. It's one of my favourite movie images ever. I first saw it in an old movie magazine when I was about 8 or 9 and I just remember wanting to see the movie very badly 'cos I thought Peter Lorre looked so scary.

I only got to see 'M' properly in the last few years. I was expecting it to be an expressionistic horror thing with canted angles and Lorre leering down at the cherubs. Instead it's a very sober movie based on a real life case in Germany just before the film was shot. A lot of it's taken up with the unglamorous details of police work in tracking down a child killer. It's brilliant stuff, just not the ghoulish spectacle I was expecting it to be.