Seasons Greetings

I know many of the creative genius's out there are familiar with online eCard and the like so here's a challenge. Draw the World Together are looking to do a couple Seasons Greetings cards. The idea is to spread a little more DtWT cheer (and hopefully raise a little extra money for the charity in the process!)

This year we would like to trail run a Draw the world together E-card for the holidays! So if anyone out there has time to put together a festive image for us. It doesn't have to be coloured, Jason Cardy and Kat Nicholson can colour up if need be. Then please let us know so we can work something out!

This won' t be for print, just an on-line picture that people can access once they've made a donation and they can then send it on to their friends as an E-card.

You're totally free to draw whatever you want, so long as it's in keeping with the holiday spirit! Please let me know if you're interested in taking part! Best and most appropriate ones will be used :-)

IF you need any more details you can email me HERE

If you want any more information about Draw the World Together then check the site out HERE

Many thanks

Andrew (Wildman)

DFC Library news!

David Fickling hosted an exciting meeting on Tuesday to discuss the future of the DFC through the DFC Library. You can find out about what went on at the meeting over on Sarah's blog here!

Shadowquake & Shnookie Ep.3

'Finally got around to furthering the exploits of this star-crossed twosome. I very much doubt I'd have even attempted pitching this particular episode to the DFC - as you can see, it's especially untethered!

Hashtag Funnies

Hey Squaddies! I have been trying a new thing on my blog called Hashtag Funnies, where I draw a 1-hour comic every morning based on one of the day's trending topics on twitter. It's a warmup exercise, kind of thing. I can't vouch for them all making sense particularly, but I have certainly been enjoying it, and it does seem to make me more productive in the mornings, so that's the main thing.



I hesitated about linking to them here as sometimes the strips contain kind of.. well, "mature themes" sounds a bit strong, as heaven knows they're not very mature at all, but... I dunno. They get a bit, um... weird sometimes?

Gosh, that was awkardly phrased, wasn't it?

Anyway, if you feel you are of sound mind and able to handle the occasional bit of weirdness, why not go and have a look?

Hugo The Zombie

Just thought you might like to see a little strip that Paul Harrison Davies and I put together. We're pretty pleased with it. It appeared before in a different form in the Accent UK Zombies anthology but we rejigged it for a competition (which we didn't win). There'll be more to come soon from Hugo, but in the meantime...

Dragon Heir

Great news for all Emma Vieceli fans (eg. me!) - she has started posting episodes of her first Sweatdrop comic, Dragon Heir, remastering the first five issues for the web. Start here to get reading.

DFC Library

More news on the DFC Library with covers and publication dates - Good Dog Bad Dog sees its release on 4 March 2010, then Mezolith on 1st April, and Spider Moon will be available on 29 April 2010. Click the links to see the Amazon pages.

Cloud 109

I must be I reckon the newest recruit to the Super Comics Adventure Squad and it's a real honour to be rubbing shoulders with people whose work I was pouring over on a weekly basis until the sad demise of the DFC. I must thank Garen for the invite and briefly explain my connection with what I still regard as being the most exciting and innovative comic to have appeared in the UK for the last twenty five years.

I did have a contact with David Fickling and although we had talked before we had never managed to work together, so I was intrigued when some two years ago I received an email from Will Fickling canvassing me for any ideas for a comic strip to appear in a new and top secret project, which as it turned out was The DFC.

I was of course very flattered to be approached but the truth was I was just too snowed under with commercial work to be able to devote myself to preparing a comic strip proposal but the idea had definitely lodged itself in the back of my mind.

Some twelve months later and with economic armageddon looming I began to anticipate a slight if not serious lull and using the maxim of viewing the resultant downtime as an opportunity to be exploited I made a call to David Orme a wonderfully inventive writer who I'd had the privilege of collaborating with on a couple of series of "Spoof Manga" books under the title of Boffin Boy. The books were really off the wall and David's ear for teen dialogue made the characterizations even richer. So we set about devising a story about three teenagers, Gina, Cary and Rabby all living in a dystopic and dysfunctional world like all real teenagers, whose one source of self fulfillment is via an online cyber lounge called Cloud 109 where they can recreate themselves as glamorous avatars and gain credits to advance themselves in Cloud 109 by engaging in a series of games that unfortunately for all concerned start to go horribly wrong.

By the time we'd got our proposal up and running the DFC was on the brink of disappearing but by then we were commited to making the fershlugginer thing happen.

Several months on and we're still determined to make it happen and to this effect I've recently launched a blog called simply Cloud 109 where we intend to make postings on the progress of our project. We'd of course love to hear from you and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

*bodkin and the bear* update

after a long break, i've started working on *bodkin and the bear* again, my strip from the DFC.
whilst various DFC strips are reportedly being made into books, plays, tv shows, hollywood movies (i may have made up that last one), *b&b* seems to be the unwanted runt of the pack.
i suppose it didn't really have a very long run before the comic folded, perhaps not enough to really get a good foothold.

however, having re-read what i've done so far, my enthusiasm for the project has been reinvigorated, and i'm determined not to leave it unfinished, dangling for eternity. so i have resumed work, on the script, to begin with -- i've decided to write the whole of the rest of the story before i do any more drawing, rather than continuing to make it up as i go along (which the DFC schedule rather demanded)

when finished, it will see print -- if random house (who at this point in time still share the copyright with me) do not wish to add it to their forthcoming *DFC library*, then after a given time the full copyright will revert to me and i will self-publish and/or seek another publisher for it.

our heroes can't be left dangling forever! (a detail from one of the last pages i drew before the demise of the DFC)

The DFC Library

Some good news from the Frankfurt Book Fair on the DFC Library, with three DFC favourites to see print next Spring - Mezolith by Adam Brockbank and Ben Haggarty, Good Dog, Bad Dog by Dave Shelton and Spider Moon by Kate Brown.

More information from booktrade.info.

Comics at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2009

Sarah McIntyre and I had a great time at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday, where there was a panel on comics with fellow creators John Dunning and host, Kieren Phelps. For more details see Sarah's blog report and Garen's blog report.

New Online Portfolio

Using the ancient amulet of PHP scripting I have finally managed to put together an online portfolio for my comic and illustration work - if you'd like to take a look at some more of my scribblings, you can see it here!

A little bit of Bulldog...

I don't post much here (lurker!) but thought I'd share this pic just because. Best of Bulldog still available. I'll probably be carrying a few around at BICS.

of mice and men

here's my effort at george and lennie from the classic steinbeck novel..

for dave

Dan Tastic

I've set myself a little comic project to work on - the first page of pencils is up on my blog...