NEW YEAR'S EVE EXCLUSIVE: Long Gone Don Character designs...

Get Ready for January 7th!

Lorenzo!

Merry Christmas

From me, my daughter and a robin

WIN: a giant robot!

... to your own personal specifications!

Read all the details about this fun Christmassy Competition over on my blog, and then go enter the contest on the Mo-Bot High Facebook Page! Thank you. And Merry Christmas, everyone.

Merry Christmas everyone!

More- Mo-Blogs!

After a slight chickenpox-related delay, Mo-Bot Blog Week rolls on over on my blog! More fun stuff and even I think a little competition, coming up this week!

Mo-Bot Blog Week!

Hey, all this week I'm posting various fun Mo-bot High-related sketches and new art over on my blog and on the brand new Mo-Bot High Facebook Page! Go click 'Like' and get a FREE MINCE PIE*

- Neill

*This offer is in fact a TOTAL LIE. But go anyway!

Baggage makes it into the Irish Independant's round up of top books for Christmas!

Yup, Randall and the gang have made it across the water! Whoop!

Lorenzo!

Peek at Chris Riddell's studio & sketchbooks!

Hi, this is Vern and Lettuce's Sarah McIntyre here. I just got to go to Brighton to visit Chris Riddell in his studio, and he let me post a whole bunch of amazing images from his sketchbook! Here's his pencil drawing for Sauron's Bedtime, a cartoon you might have spotted in the back of The Phoenix Issue Zero. I saw distinct proof that he has a whole load of treats lined up for you in upcoming Phoenix editions!



Click here to visit Chris's studio, over on my blog.

Etherington book signing in Waterstone's Saturday 17th December...

If anyone's in town, come see us! More details on the blog!

Lorenzo!

Baggage chosen by the Guardian as one of its Children's books of 2011!

Whoop!

Lorenzo!

New Stranski Print released!

Hey folks! My brand new Stranski print from Ink-Dot and Hello Blue is now available for purchase through our store! Go HERE and scroll down the prints section on the right to check it out and purchase!

Lorenzo!

A FREE COMIC FOR EVERYONE!

Yes that's right! The free issues of The Phoenix issue ZERO are now available for you to get your greedy mitts on! All you have to do is visit thephoenixcomic.co.uk/waitrose enter your address details and the Waitrose Offer Code - PHOENIX1 - and a FREE copy of the comic will be posted to your home!

Here's a Sneaky-peek at Long Gone Don...

Lorenzo!

The Leopard of Lime Street

As Garen points out, it's been quiet here, so here's a pic for a dream project. This would be how I'd revamp classic comic strip 'The Leopard of Lime St'. Set on a council estate and giving it a parkour feel rather than a radioactive leopard.

SCAS - what shall we do now?

Hello Super Comics Adventure Squad!

As you know, the SCAS blog was started as a place to keep alive the creative spirit and camaraderie that was instigated by The DFC upon the news of its then-imminent demise.

The blog has been a fantastic fountain of British comics goodness since then, especially in its first year, though, perhaps not surprisingly, it has dwindled somewhat in past few months (largely kept alive by those magnificent Etheringtons!).

So, with the arrival of The Phoenix - for all intents and purposes a re-birth of The DFC - I have a question for you and some related possibilities …

Should The Super Comics Adventure Squad keep going?

Here are some options:

1) We close it down but keep it online as an archive that can no longer be posted to. This is probably better than it limping along with just a monthly post from one or two creators - no new audience will come for that and the effort of posting will outweigh the return in readers, who will diminish. It was good, but things move on - that's okay!

2) We keep it as it is and try to encourage more people to post their news and drawings and see if we can kick some life back into it. I think this may work for a short while, but I don't know how sustainable it is.

3) We revamp and redecorate and connect ourselves more closely with The Phoenix, including inviting new creators that will see their work in the comic. The good thing about this is that it will bring the blog back to life probably for a longer period than option 2; the other side of the coin, however, is that there may not be a need for the blog with The Phoenix being a living thing with its own site as a point of focus.

4) Never mind The Phoenix - we open it up to any UK comics creator and it becomes a central blog/hub for ALL UK comics creators to highlight their news and post sketches and stuff. This might get a bit manic (if it works) or it might die an even more dramatic death (if it doesn't)!

What do you think? Please post your thoughts in the comments and we'll see what the consensus is (readers as well as creators, let us know what you think). 

Thanks very much for reading this, and for all your support now and in the past :-)

Best wishes -

Garen (SCAS blog admin)

PS - no apologies or feeling guilty for not posting allowed - we're all busy with stuff and have our own blogs and social networks to take care of - it's okay! :-)

The Phoenix - you can now subscribe!

The Phoenix website has graduated from being a 'watch this space' news page to an (almost) fully functional site with news, previews, details and subscription details (and deals!).

  Go and check it out!

 Here are just a few little snippets of what you can expect to see - I think you'll agree that it looks rather fantastic (click for bigger version) ...