Misc Fits: The Sea Apple Cover

Misc Fits is a new series of slice of life short stories about misfit college friends. The Sea Apple is the first short story comic coming soon

Over the summer you'll be able to follow the comic online via Tumblr , Smack Jeeves and Tapastic. A print version should be released in the autumn.

Giant Rhinos In Space #1 Cover Design

 

I designed a new wrap around cover for Giant Rhinos In Space #1. The first issue will contain all 30 pages of chapter 1. I an hoping to have the print version available at the end of March. This comic is also being published online weekly as a webcomic. 3 new pages of the story are added every Friday afternoon. Click here to start reading.

The Programmers Guide To People

This is a book cover illustration for The Programmers Guide To People by Tom Howlett. The book is not published at the moment but you can find a mailing list and a blurb here.

Portraits are of Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, John McCarthy and Donald Knuth

Nostalgic Upsurge

I had a lot of fun recently drawing this cover image for Nostalgic Upsurge: An Oxford Tramp's Music Journal written by Le'Tong and published by FishNote.

I also drew a dancing Angela for Timothy Winchester's Angela Lansbury week. :)

Free Mini Comics

This is a free mini comic I created to hand out at Thought Bubble 2011. We had a great time at the event on the Inspired Comics table. Sorry I forgot to take a photo of our table, we had such a massive variety of stuff this year. It was really great seeing people again and I hope I can go again next year :)

The comic characters are from my Jumping the Shark webcomic 

Science Fiction Octuple Feature

 

The new Inspired anthology Science Fiction Octuple Feature arrived in the post at the weekend. I'm really excited about taking these comics to Thought Bubble in November. The characters in the fan art I've drawn are owned by Sarah Fogg, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Laura McNulty (writer), Sammy Borras, Luke Bayliss (writer), Harry Griffin-Hayes, Cat Reda, Shaz Jubeen, Jacob Boniface (writer), Jack Davies and Gemma Sheldrake.

This is the wrap around cover that you need to keep an eye out for at events and in comic shops. The illustrations in the square have been cropped from each of the comics in the anthology.

Ink + Paper will be launching at Thought Bubble too. The cover has recently been announced as well as a launch party at Orbital Comics in London.

 

This sketch of Philippa Hannah at Sunday Night Live (on a Wednesday). I recently posted a couple of new gig sketches to my flickr gig sketches set. 

Jumping the Shark

Jumping the Shark is the latest webcomic short story to be uploaded weekly on Instant Comics. It's a follow up to a previous story, Best Day Ever. I have printed copies of Best Day Ever which I have been selling at comics events, shops and my Etsy shop. Hopefully I will be able to print this new comic at some point during 2012.

These are my designs for some new characters and slight changes to the original cast such as weight change and hair cuts.

University Degree Show

My University Degree show is open for this week. I've really enjoyed the course and its been a great oppertunity to work on interesting comic projects. Our work is also printed in a portfolio book called Olio 6 which you can find a PDF version on the Pittville Press website. For more information about the Degree Show visit the University of Gloucestershire website.

Webcomics return

In my 1st year of university I decided to start creating webcomics because a lot of my modules could not be responded to by creating a comic and it was a good way to get feed back from others who create comics. I've really enjoyed posting several different styles and story telling techniques. I had taken a break to finish my Final Major Project but I now have a new story to post over about 6 weeks. Instant Comics can be found online here.

The story is about a sleep walking experience I had very recently. I don't think I have sleep walked before and I was surprised how much of the dream I remembered so I decided I wanted to try telling the account in the form of a comic. You can find the start of Moth Eyes: A True Story here.

Best Day Ever, Cat and Mouse

I'm getting a new cover on the 4th print run of one of my comics. Best Day Ever was a weekly webcomic I worked on around a year ago. You can still read it online or buy it from my Etsy Shop.

I'd really love to do more with these homage characters Mouse and Cat. It would give me a change to do some semi-biographical comics without directly drawing myself. People seem to really enjoy the references that come up when I draw them. If you are the same age as me you might spot the Digimon the Movie references in this one. (or to the film Summer Wars if you aren't from that specific generation. I'm a big fan of Mamoru Hosoda's work.)

Artemis Fowl Illustrations

For a personal project I have created a cover and a couple of illustrations for the first Artemis Fowl book by Eoin Colfer.

These are the character sheets I created for the main characters.

Giant Rhinos In Space

Giant Rhinos In Space is a graphic novel I've been working on. This is the cover for a dummy book and the first 5 pages of chapter 1.

Giant Rhinos In Space design and development blog.

Olio 6

Olio is an anthology of work by 3rd year illustration students. These are the pages I have submitted for the 6th book. I wrote a couple of stories based around the same 3 characters. The comics could have been autobiographic but I replaced real people with Cat, Mouse and Bunny. The pages below are another submission I was considering using for a long time but chose the comic above instead.