Currently on the drawing board (and screen)

Brickman is Copyright ©Lew Stringer

 

This week I'm completing work on Brickman No.2 which I hope will be ready in time for the London Comic Con at the end of this month. Most of the interior pages are done, and I'm currently colouring the cover after scanning my art into Photoshop. This issue collects the Brickman stories from the mid-1990s.

I still work traditionally, hand drawing the art, then I colour it in Photoshop. Text pages are also done with software of course. Absolutely no A.I., Chatgpt, or any of that codswallop are used.  

If all goes well, I'll post an update about the comic in a few weeks! 

It's Double Daft Month!

Don't forget that there's a new Daft Dimension comic strip in both the Doctor Who Yearbook and the latest Doctor Who Magazine this month. They're both on sale in TG Jones and other shops right now!

 

London line-up

Only three weeks to go until London Comic Con Spring at Olympia in Kensington. I'll be bringing along my comics and doing character sketches on request. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Saturday 28th February to Sunday 1st March. 

Here's the webste for all the info and ticket prices: 

https://www.londoncomicconspring.com/ 

Daleks galore in Doctor Who Magazine No.526 this Thursday

Only a week after the Doctor Who Yearbook went on sale comes the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine! Here's a sneak preview of my Daft Dimension comic strip alongside the cover by John Ross. Yes, the Daleks appear in my strip and in the main strip this month! It's Dalekmania all over again.
Issue 526, on sale Thursday 5th February!

 

More about THE DANDY ANNUAL 2027

DC Thomson have just released the cover images of their forthcoming annuals (thanks to John Freeman for notifying me about this link) so I thought it'd be appropriate to show a preview of another panel from the work I did for the book.

As mentioned in previous posts, I've written and drawn three stories for The Dandy Annual 2027, and each runs to two pages. They all star Dinah Mo, the girl who's passionate about inventing ways to help the environment. (Yep, this is a totally different character to the "naughty kid" Dinah Mo of decades ago that was by different creators.) In the example above, Dinah has created a rubbish-collecting robot. What could possibly go wrong?

These strips were my final work for DC Thomson and for mainstream kids' comics in general, but I'm still busy doing my own comics as well as The Daft Dimension for Doctor Who Magazine and other projects. 

The Dandy Annual 2027 will be published in September of this year. Here's the superb cover below (update: drawn by The Sharp Bros) and I'm pleased to see Dinah Mo prominently included. I'm sure Thomsons will have a great artist lined up to take over the strip in the years to come.

 

Double Daftness this month!

Not only is the regular Daft Dimension strip in the current Doctor Who Magazine but this month there's also one in the Doctor Who Yearbook 2026.

This glossy magazine is packed with background info about the previous season of Doctor Who plus lots more! It'll be in shops on Thursday 29th January so don't miss it! More info here:

https://www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/doctor-who-magazine-special-72-gbwhs072-uk02.html

 

Bidding ends soon on these items of original comic art!

 

This week's auctions end soon (Sunday evening, 25th Jan)! Original hand drawn comic artwork up for sale. No facsimiles, no prints! Original art!

Good luck with your bids!

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

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