28/10/08
Blimey how the months do pass. I keep meaning to update this with the kind of
regularity that would make grown comic book readers weep, but I keep forgetting.
Anyway, in the news at the moment is the new comic book- Facebook the Comicbook.

Excitingly, it's the first book to be in full colour throughout and, although very pretty
to look at, is also cripplingly expensive, so if you fancy reducing my burdenous debt
at any point, please see the distinctive blue box above...

26/05/08
Right - The Weekend Starts There is now finished, and I've got 200 of them sitting in
boxes awaiting processing for the underbed region. They're £7 including postage, and
you can buy them from the shop.

As well as collecting all 24 Weekend Starts There
e-comic strips, there is also 60 pages of new strips,
collecting everything I've drawn since Malodorous
Offscourings. So its essentially another guide to
dealing with the oafs and defectives that nick all our
oxygen, every waking day of our lives.

In other news, for anyone living in Brighton, I now
have some shelves at the curio emporium Snooper's
Paradise, which are filled with canvas prints, framed
pictures, badges and comic books. Head on down if
you're stuck for a present for someone you barely
know.

I'll be updating the shop with these new bits and
pieces later as well.



29/04/08

It's been a bloody busy month, mainly because Pog have been playing so much, but its
been a lot of fun. Managed to miss the zine symposium in London due to lack of sleep
beforehand, but I did get along to the Gladstone comics fair which (much to the dismay
of every geek present) clashed with the start of the new Doctor Who season. We coped.

Most drawing this month has centred around a calender I'm putting together for
Birmingham university - so far I've done up to September, and you can see them below.
The Weekend Starts There comic book is now just a few pages from being finished - I'm
aiming to have it done for printing by 12th May (when my man at One Digital Printing
comes back from his holiday) - it currently sits at 110 pages. I'm not going to
think about the next Chav book until I've finished this one!

04/03/08
Quite a lot going on at the moment, which is why it seemed
apt to have a spanky new black website. I've been meaning
to get round to doing this for ages, and typically I determined
to do it on the warmest and sunniest day yet this year. Never
mind - at least my window's open.

So - new at the moment is as follows...

I've started on the Chav sequel (6 pages in to be precise);
it's going to see the extended family from the first book
having a holiday in Butlins, Minehead after young Moggy scores
an ABSO from her creche. I'm stuck for a title though - Chav
2 seems a bit lame, so let me know if you have any ideas.

Sean from Paper Tiger Comics announced a very final
deadline for his War anthology book, so I burnt the midnight oil
in order to supply my strip to him, which is about a post-nuclear
war Brighton as seen through the eyes of a schoolboy with
Asperger's Syndrome. Kind of like The Curious Incident Of The
Dog In The Nighttime meets Threads. However, meeting up
with him mere hours before this deadline elapsed to force my
tatty pages into his hands, I was informed that the deadline
has once again morphed into a vague cloud so I don't know
when it'll be out.







In the meantime, you can find out more on his Myspace page,
and see some of the awesome work already collected for it.
It's currently standing at about 280 pages.

Elsewhere in Last Hours land, the story of Chatstonbridge Des
continues at an alarming rate. Des is an inept DIY punk promoter
who first popped up in Divs and Defects all those years ago, and
all being well will continue his underground mishaps for a good
while yet.


I'm also putting together the pages for the next book, the bulk
of which will be formed by The Weekend Starts There strips I
sent out as weekly Friday morning emails. There'll also be a few
new short stories by way of padding. This one should be ready
sometime in May. I shan't say which year.

While on the subject of comic books, Chav, Divs and Defects,
and Mr Bethnal and Mr Ongar are all close to selling out, and I
don't imagine I'll be getting them re-printed, so if you've been
dithering on the cusp of buying one then best do it now before
they disappear forever.







I think that's it for now. Have a peruse round the new site
anyway - you can view the cartoons easier now as I found a
half-decent AVI encoder, although because I'm too tight to fork
out for it, the demo version has a horrible splattery watermark.

Never mind - I like it, It reminds me of Nickelodeon.