Monday 13 May 2024

The new Dinah Mo is here!

Just arrived in the post, this year's Dandy Summer Special, which includes the debut of the all-new Dinah Mo. (Created by the Dandy staff, with story and art by me.)

With a cover by Nigel Parkinson the Special should be in shops this week or can be ordered directly from the DC Thomson Shop.
https://www.dcthomsonshop.co.uk/dandy-summer-special-comic

Cover drawn by Nigel Parkinson.


Friday 10 May 2024

Con announcement


I'm sorry to say I won't be attending TFUKcon this weekend. Under advice from my GP I had my COVID jab the other day (Moderna) but it hasn't reacted well with my system. Perhaps because my immune system is already compromised I dunno. Aching all over and totally exhausted. Too weak to leave the house never mind travelling.
My apologies to those of you expecting to see me there

Tuesday 7 May 2024

Thanks again!

A big thank you again to all of you who placed bids on my art auctions, and congratulations to the winners. I'll be posting the art out over the next few days! 

If you didn't win, don't be downhearted. I'll be listing more soon!  

I'm happy to sell my old pages to collectors. I was just thinking that the ones from December 1990 onwards were all drawn in my current house, posted off to London back then, were returned to me after publication, and have been in my archives for the past few decades. Now I'm packaging those same pages up again to post at the same post office I used back then. 

I don't have any family to leave my artwork to so the best thing is for collectors to have them who'll appreciate the pages. I'm holding some back though for close friends to have after I'm gone.

I wonder what will happen to all the artwork in the decades to come? Will the families of the collectors inherit the pages? Will they be sold off again in auctions? Descarded and destroyed? Who knows? For now, at least, I'm grateful that people appreciate my work. 

Sunday 5 May 2024

Original art auction ends soon! (Bank Holiday Monday)

My latest auction of original comic art ends very soon! Pages I did from Viz, Oink!, Buster, a Combat Colin cover PLUS a Billy Bunter original by Eric Roberts that's around 70 years old! 

Please bid if there's anything here you want. See the full listings at this link...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=203554298786&_ssn=graphite47&_sop=1

Thanks in advance. Good luck!



Saturday 4 May 2024

Shouty Showdown!

 

Here's an advance preview of the final episode in the current Sgt.Shouty story arc! Our hero confronts Doctor Plank for the showdown in the Moon! The two pager will appear in The77 No.10, to be listed soon on this link:

https://the77comic.bigcartel.com/ 

Sgt.Shouty has appeared in The77 since issue one, and I hope he will return in the future but, like everything these days, it depends on my health and how my CLL develops over the coming months. Had a CT scan last week to see the extent of the cancer and I'm currently awaiting results. 

At least I got this story concluded so I'm not letting readers down on that score.

Anyway... I thought I'd keep you up to speed. I'll plug The77 again as soon as it's available to order.


Friday 3 May 2024

Lots of ORIGINAL COMIC ART up for grabs right now!

My latest auction of original comic art contains a variety of pages that I hope will appeal to collectors out there. Here we go...

An original Felix and his Amazing Underpants strip (page and a half) from Viz No.140 published back in 2004. (Adults only.)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770490099?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RS9Q06335QWBAVVNY6&hash=item2fad45b6f3:g:Rp8AAOSwhGNmL-vH 

 

The art for the final episode of Robo-Capers published in Transformers No.152 in 1988...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770625960?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RSF0Q5RPN8ZP3PN8FV&hash=item2fad47c9a8:g:NBcAAOSwl49mMAEc

 

My original art for the front cover of Combat Colin No.2 (and I'll throw in a comic too)...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770484233?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RS3JVF421DE6RG3ZMH&hash=item2fad45a009:g:oaAAAOSw181mL-m5



My unfinished art for my first version of the cover to Oink! No.53 (1988)...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770477686?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RSHAK07V4P965N6QHK&hash=item2fad458676:g:eyQAAOSw2TBmL-eV



A one-off strip called The Warrior that appeared in Oink! No.22 (1987)...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770464624?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RSA6VS4S401ZCR6BQ8&hash=item2fad455370:g:THsAAOSwHjlmL-SA



A one-off strip, Invaders From Beyond, that appeared in Buster in December 1990...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770459643?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RTBBMZ5VZXBDG91H2W&hash=item2fad453ffb:g:dG4AAOSwzatmL-KP



A Tom Thug page that was published in Buster in 1993...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770453555?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RTC213W0EMF4KTV062&hash=item2fad452833:g:V3wAAOSwGW1mL-GR



PLUS... something different. Part of an original Billy Bunter strip by Eric Roberts that appeared in Knockout around the late 1950s...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204770447876?itmmeta=01HWZJM0RSEF8G8EQ41ZPM8YFQ&hash=item2fad451204:g:VdgAAOSwfk5mL99G


 Your bids are really appreciated so I hope you'll find something you like. Auctions end this coming Monday, 6th May! Good luck!

Here's a link to the complete listings...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=203554298786&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562&_ssn=graphite47