Thursday, 24 January 2008

Garden Funnies Availability

Garden Funnies number 1 is now available in London's Gosh! comics (Great Russell Street) and Manchester's Travelling Man (Dale St).
More stockists shall be added as they happen.

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Hot off the press


Just spent 2 hours folding, stapling and trimming, resulting in the first 60 copies of Garden Funnies number 1. It's going to take me awhile to do the whole run (400 copies altogether), but will endeavor to get contributors copies out as soon as possible, whilst also getting it on some shop racks. Garden Funnies will be retailing for £2.
Need to get on with some drawing now, but expect to be announcing another call for submissions in a couple of months I expect. Might see how this first one does first! I'm really pleased with it anyway.

Annoying Cat for Sale

More attempts at mastering the Pentel Brush Pen, this time with Ruby the cat as model. She's not in our good books, having pissed in the corner behind the telly and woken us up every morning between 5.30 and 6.00am. She's a fluffy idiot.





But this is what she really looks like -

Tuesday, 8 January 2008

Garden Funnies cover art preview!


Tension is mounting in the world of publishing as the final stages of printing take place in an undisclosed location in Manchester.

Collectors stand poised clutching sheets of acid-free tissue and archiving slips.

And children's snotty faces smear the comic shop windows, their keen eyes seeking out the distinctive red and blue flash of the first landmark issue.

Resister your interest NOW for advance copies.

Saturday, 5 January 2008

addendum



Just for the benefit of our American friends, this is Sooty and Sweep. Sooty is silent and good at michief and magic, and Sweep makes the most amazing noise ever. You are missing out over there.
Thanks for your congratulations, by the way!

Friday, 4 January 2008

Official pregnancy announcement


Just had our 12 week scan and all seems good so far, so I'm allowed to officially announce to the world (of Ollie and maybe 3 other readers) the exciting news that Katy and I are to have a baby child.
I've now got until mid-July to get everything I ever meant to do done, so better get busy.
As for names, I like Sooty or Sweep, and Katy likes Pugsley.