dan mcdaid

CH!

2012-01-30T22:01:00.003Z

A little somethin' somethin' from that Oni Press project I'm working on. Pencils and inks by me, colours by me and the missus. Coming... SOON!

Thor vs. Karate Kid

2012-01-29T19:12:00.008Z

Another recent commission piece. Not shown: Mr Miyagi, Ralph Macchio, that blond kid who always plays toughs in eighties movies, the dude from Cagney and Lacey or Elisabeth Shue.

Happy Birthday, Woodgod!

2012-01-28T21:11:00.002Z

This one's for Kurt Busiek.

In the clearing stands a boxer...

2012-01-20T00:56:00.003Z

Still kicking that boxer idea (from WAY back) around. Did this earlier today -

- came out nice!

Does Whatever an Iron Can

2012-01-13T17:02:00.008Z

Here's Iron Man!

I don't think I'm alone in finding Iron Man a bit of a bugger to draw. His armour is either too baroque and fiddly (as in the Ultimates version) or just kind of... dull. So this is a halfway house between the modern version and imperial phase Iron Man (ie. the Bob Layton model). I hope you (whoever you are) like it.

Bye!

I Drawed the Law!

2012-01-03T20:28:00.002Z

Some Dredd doodles to warm up my brush-hand. Drokk!

HIT ME!

2011-12-13T21:41:00.004Z

Remember that bit in the Dark Knight when the Joker's stood there in the middle of the street, and that crazy old Batman is speeding towards him on his massive bike, and then Batman pussies out because the Joker is too awesome to kill? Imagine that but with Adam West and Cesar Romero:

This was another recent commission. It's the most fun I've had with my drawing in bloody ages - I almost don't want to give it away. The commissioner (lol) asked me to take a moment from Batman's "dark" era (ie. everything since 1986), and recast that moment with the 60s Batman and Joker. I was torn between this and the neck-snapping bit in Dark Knight Returns. But no one wants to see Adam West snapping Cesar Romero's neck - that's too frigging horrible for words. So I picked this fairly iconic bit from The Dark Knight. Which in turn, let's be honest, is not a million miles from this:

Love that Joker!

Adding Burt Ward's Robin was my idea - sixties Batman is nothing without his monkey wrench, after all.

Knock, Knock!

2011-12-02T15:15:00.002Z

Another recent commission piece:

I do miss David Tennant.

FFed!

2011-11-29T16:41:00.003Z

And here's the rest of yesterday's picture. I get a huge kick out of drawing the Future Foundation, especially Spider-Man. Only when sitting down to draw the character, do you realise how cleverly they've stuck to the original design AND inverted it. Really smart stuff - and I love the integration of the hexagons into the spider motif-thing.

Fun.

Snippet!

2011-11-28T23:22:00.001Z

A wee glimpse at an upcoming commission piece - very pleased with this one. Especially the balls!

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Me and Batman

2011-11-23T22:20:00.003Z

Me and Batman:

Home and Harley!

2011-11-23T21:59:00.002Z

Commission sketch I did for Thought Bubble. Fun!

Drawing Tom III

2011-11-23T14:05:00.003Z

Thomas Stewart Baker... now with inks!

Happy Doctor Who day!

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Out of the Sketchbook...

2011-11-16T17:39:00.002Z

A clutch of Matt Smiff studies:

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Superman is "TECHNO-ACTIVE"!

2011-11-16T00:21:00.004Z

A wee snippet from a commission I'm working on. This bit features Superman in what I think of as "Euro-Kirby" armour.

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I've got TB!

2011-11-15T17:18:00.003Z

Hey! I'll be at Thought Bubble in Leeds this weekend, so why not come and see me? When I'm not spending time at the NELSON/BLANK SLATE BOOKS tent, I'll be mostly stinking up TABLE 76 in Saviles Hall. Check out this sweet map:

With me will be Mr Dave Stokes and Mr (?) Marc Laming. Stop by for sketches, chat and "inappropriate" touching!

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Drawing Tom II

2011-11-15T05:05:00.002Z

More Tom!

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Drawing Tom

2011-11-09T20:57:00.002Z

Turns out I love drawing Tom Baker:

Scarf: cool. Hair: cool. Big nose: cool. Beat THAT, Smith!

Who Killed Cyclops??

2011-11-03T15:10:00.001Z

Here's another recent commission piece - with added colour pizzazz by yours truly.

The characters are: Deathstroke the Terminator, Elle Driver from Kill Bill, Nicholas Joseph Fury of Shield and SD Bob "Snake" Plissken. But which of them shot Cyclops? I couldn't possibly solve this mystery... CAN YOU?

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A perfectly good FF cover...

2011-10-22T16:53:00.004Z

...ruined.

This was another recent commission piece, and my first stab at drawing the Future Foundation costume. I was originally going to go with the Thing for this cover (cos I love the Thing) but I've drawn him a lot, and I fancied a stab at drawing Invisible Woman instead.

Cool story, right?

The Funk of Forty Thousand Years!

2011-10-18T18:39:00.002Z

Just posted this on Comic TWART:

And if you like that sort of thing, here's the inks:

And the pencils:

AH-HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
*coffin lid closes*

D

Batman, She Wrote!

2011-10-14T00:06:00.002Z

THERE ARE NO WORDS

(OK, there are SOME words. This was a recent commission by Billy "Aqualec" Tournas, who asked for a team up between Jessica Fletcher and Batman. Bruce and Alfred, as per every other episode of Murder, She Wrote, are a pair of old friends who live out of town. I went for the "Year Two" late eighties Batman, so Bruce is a bit younger here than usual (and I used the David Mazzuchelli Wayne Manor for the background in panel one). Check out the label on Bruce's champagne bottle - he'd have his own vineyard, right? And for one night only, he's the butler. What a mensch.

(Massive thanks to Billy for the commission - thanks, man!)

-D

...With a Bullet!

2011-10-10T20:50:00.006Z

This week's Comic TWART subject is The Punisher! Here's the colours:

The pencils...

And the inks!

D

Hercules - After Dark!

2011-10-04T22:40:00.003Z

Hercules doing what he does best.

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Big Green Love Machine!

2011-10-04T20:33:00.001Z

When I was a kid, my go-to character for doodles was Batman. I've got that pretty much out of my system these days, and prefer to draw big-ass, hulking green buggers in purple trousers. This means NOTHING, Dr Freud!

Kirby-gasm - THE "LATINO EFFECT"

2011-09-26T13:56:00.003Z

Warning: looking at these colours will actually make you a little high.

Gorgeous hues once again supplied by Kyle "Omega Sanction" Latino.

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OMAC-Colour!

2011-09-24T13:34:00.002Z

Scorching colours by Kyle Latino. Thanks, Kyle - it's gorgeous!

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One Man Apple Core!

2011-09-23T20:54:00.003Z

Really enjoying the all-new, all monstrous, Keith Giffen-ized version of OMAC. Here's my take on the big, beefy bugger:

Colours to come? Maybe!

D

(kudos to Kyle Latino for the blog title)

Kirby-gasm - INKED!

2011-09-22T01:16:00.002Z

Click to King-size it!

Here's yesterday's pencils if you want to compare and contrast. I tightened up the Kirby logo, removed Infinity Man (sorry Kevin), removed Darkseid's pupils (couldn't make them work) and did a bunch of other small fixes and tweaks.

I had a blast - hope you like it!

D

Kirby-gasm!

2011-09-20T20:58:00.002Z

This is a commission I'm working on at the mo - I was asked to do a whole bunch of Kirby characters in the style of one of those Marvel Handbooks. Remember those? Anyway - cool stuff, and it's nice to scratch that Kirby itch again. Inks to follow!

Harry Potter on a unicorn, flying out of the TARDIS

2011-09-19T15:01:00.003Z

A semi-recent commission piece. Three of Jen Vaughn's favourite things, as requested by Chris "Chris Sims" Sims.

Enter: Sandman (literal version)

2011-09-15T22:28:00.002Z

This is a pic that's been yelling at me to draw it the last few days. It's almost certainly been done before, but it's pretty irresistable nonetheless.

I'd like to reiterate here how much I love drawing Sandman. Striped top, cornrow hair - he's an inker's dream. Actually, both he and Spider-Man are brilliant for this sort of abstraction - Sandman cos of the stripes, Spidey cos of the webs and spot blacks.

The first one I did of these was a bit Romita-esque. I think this one is quite "Ditko-ish".

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The Crimson King!

2011-09-14T15:00:00.005Z

(Not final art)

So, the cat's out of the bag - The Crimson Hand, a collection of comic strips from Doctor Who Magazine written by yours truly and drawn by a host of top flight British talent (and me), is finally coming out next year. I'm totally thrilled to bits about this, for any number of reasons: primarily, it's going to be nice just to read the whole thing as a novel, with its subplots, callbacks and running jokes plain to see. While I was writing TCH, I was hugely influenced by my other half (AKA The Brains of the Operation), who has a fondness for The Great Gatsby, Gothic fiction, and the freewheeling chutzpah of mid-century screwball comedy. So all that's there, and I'm hoping that when read as one piece, all those influences and levels will have an extra resonance.

The other reason I'm chuffed to see The Crimson Hand out there at last is that I'm a writer. I don't get to do much writing at the moment - I've got so, SO many art jobs on at the moment, it's untrue - but I don't want to forget that I'm a writer, and it'll be nice to point at an object and go "See that? I wrote ALL of that."

Now. All being well, I expect the trade paperback to include the following strips from Doctor Who Magazine:

Hotel Historia (art by me)

Thinktwice (art by Martin Geraghty - this is one of my favourites)

The Stockbridge Child (stands up quite well, despite my reservations at the time. Has some lovely Mike Collins art)

Mortal Beloved (my actual favourite, probably. This is where the influences mentioned above really come into their own. Fantastic, mordantly funny art from Sean Longcroft)

The Age of Ice (another cracker from Martin Geraghty. When the pages started coming in for this, I pretty much flipped my lid - bold, slick, sexy stuff. Why Martin isn't a bigger deal in comics I don't know)

The Deep Hereafter (a story I'd been struggling with for ages finally unlocked itself in the middle of a dark and stormy night. Beat poetry, noir, Eisner's The Spirit, all beautifully drawn by Rob "yer actual genius" Davis. Something a bit special, I think)

Onomatopoeia (how many times did I have to write that sodding word while working on this strip? Bit of an experiment: an entirely silent strip, with a story told entirely through sound effects. Detailed, vivacious art by Mike Collins)

Ghosts of the Northern Line (Bloody hell! It's Paul Grist!)

The Crimson Hand (the grand finale! Even I was surprised at how well the threads all tied up at the end. More gorgeous work from Martin Geraghty, apocalyptic colours by James Offredi)

Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Even if I hadn't written this thing, I would still be all over it. So feel free to soil your pants with excitement, because this is going to be GREAT.

D

Absorb THIS!

2011-09-13T20:32:00.002Z

A little belated tribute to The King - Absorbing Man gives the New Gods' Orion a bit of the old Ultra-Violence.

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The Golden Age!

2011-09-11T21:08:00.004Z

UPDATE! Now with added INK!

This was a recent commission piece, where the commissioner asked for 10 (actually 11, but I couldn't fit the Atomic Thunderbolt in) of his favourite Golden Age heroes in one super team. My initial instinct was to do something really dynamic and showy, with the characters all racing towards us, lots of speedlines etc. But I feel like I do that sort of thing quite a lot, so I had a go at doing something a bit more thoughtful. A bit more - dare I say it - Alan Moore-y.

These heroes are, going clockwise from the left: Stardust, Moon Girl, Hydroman, Green Giant, Blue Fire, Doc Strange, Iron Vic (that's the guy with the cigarette - my favourite, as you can probably tell), Kid Tyrant (how about that name??), Black Cat and, in the centre, a guy called Strongman. As you can probably tell, I've worked out a whole backstory to go with this picture - I might work it up into a pitch sometime.

- D

Goin' Underground!

2011-09-09T15:47:00.002Z

My favourite panel from this week:

This is from TIME SHARE, coming soon(ish) from Oni Press!

D

Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with Some Cables

2011-09-03T15:03:00.002Z

This is the panel Doctor Who strip editor Scott Gray described as "Kurtzman-tastic". Shamefully, I know next to nothing about Harvey Kurtzman (and he's never been a direct influence), but I've been compared to him enough times that I need to find out more. Where should I start, gentle reader?

The panel above is from a recent strip I drew for Doctor Who Magazine, script by Johnny Morris (not that one. Or that other one. That one). Doctor Who has a beard now. Beards are not, and never will be, cool.

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Panel of the Day! (no. 6)

2011-08-30T23:46:00.006Z

I loved drawing this panel SO MUCH.

- D

Panel of the Day (no. 5 in an occasional series)

2011-08-25T22:18:00.002Z

This is my favourite thing I drew today:

This is from mine and Patrick Keller's TIME SHARE, coming soon from Oni Press. Watch out for it!

- D

BIZARRE!

2011-08-24T23:15:00.004Z

My friend Andy Suriano very kindly aksed me to contribute to his and Joe Casey's magnificent DOC BIZARRE, MD. And how could I refuse??

Slight departure in style for me, drawn quite small with a slightly chunkier, more precise line. The rest of the book is glorious, vivid SPACE-BUG COLOR, so I figured the only way to really stand out was to go for mono with a wee bit of fake zipatone.

Doc Bizarre, MD will be in comic shops everywhere on October 19th. Make a note in your diary, gang!

-D

BFF!

2011-08-17T15:11:00.007Z

Two more characters who will never turn up in an Avengers movie. Beast, cos he's also an X-Man, and they're all tied up over at EvilCo... I mean, FOX. And Wonder Man because he's... well, because he's Wonder Man. Ironically, Wonder Man in the comics is a semi-successful Hollywood actor. Pff, couldn't make it up, could you?

Regardless, they're two of my favourite Avengers. If they're in Avengers Mansion, then good times can't be far behind!

-D

The Doctor is IN!

2011-08-16T16:37:00.002Z

The chances of this doofus appearing in the Avengers movie - or, indeed, *any* movie - are pretty slim. But I sort of love him all the same.

Savage? Moi?

2011-08-16T15:11:00.002Z

Nailing my colours to the mast here: She-Hulk is the best female character in superhero comics, and if she doesn't turn up in Marvel's forthcoming live action Hulk show, then there ain't no justice.

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ME(N)TAL!

2011-08-15T12:44:00.003Z

A recent (quite mad) commission piece.

My undying love and respect if you can name all the robots in this picture!

-D

Screw HYDRA!

2011-08-14T21:23:00.003Z

I love the Black Widow! When I went to see Iron Man 2 at the flicks, there were audible sighs of appreciation (from both sexes) when Scarlett Johansson arrived on the scene. The only other time I've heard that at the cinema was when Chris Hemsworth took his top off in Thor. Phwoar!

Hulk Out!

2011-08-14T20:38:00.003Z

All A-Quiver!

2011-08-13T21:13:00.004Z

I have literally never drawn Hawkeye before. I am 34 years old.

Hail to the CAP!

2011-08-13T16:15:00.004Z

By Odin's Raven!

2011-08-12T22:24:00.003Z

Dear Thor - you're awesome. Signed, Everyone.

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THUNDER Struck!

2011-08-10T12:56:00.006Z

THUN-DER! DC Comics' fantastic THUNDER Agents 10 is out in all good comic shops today... and I drew a big chunk of it!

Thumbnail!

Inks!

Colours (by Brad Anderson)!

You'll recognise my bit - I'm squeezed between comics legend MIKE GRELL and modern marvel NICK DRAGOTTA. Hell of a thing.

Go buy it. Then go back and buy all the issues so you know what's going on. It's one of the best books out there, so... you know. Do it.

DO IT!

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Panel of the Day (no. 4 in an occasional series)

2011-07-29T12:05:00.003Z

This was my favourite thing I drew yesterday.

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Back in ACTION!

2011-07-24T18:08:00.002Z

As of September, the Man of Steel is getting a makeover. In Superman comic, he's going to be all kneepads and seams, in Action Comics #1, he's going to look like the son of a farmer. I wasn't sure about this look at first, but after drawing him for myself...

I totally get it now.

D

Tales from the TWART - Space Ghost

2011-07-18T17:49:00.003Z

Had time to do a (belated) Comic TWART this week. Space Ghost vs. THE ALIEN:

Mmmmm!

Weapon X

2011-06-20T13:37:00.001Z

This just up on COMIC TWART:

I first read Weapon X round at my friend Alex Jamal's house. Marvel Comics Presents, issues... I don't know. Maybe from issue one onwards? I don't remember. What I do remember is having my tiny mind completely blown by Barry Windsor Smith's stunning, horrible, gorgeous artwork and - just as importantly - his spare, punchy, visceral writing (I probably wouldn't have used the word "visceral" back then. Then again, I might - pretentious child). For a while, I was fascinated by Windsor-Smith, how his art morphed from the early Kirby-stuff to the more delicate, art nouveau-inspired stuff. I even kind of got into Mucha cos of how much it reminded me of BWS.

I haven't thought about Weapon X and Barry Windsor-Smith much since the early 90s, so it was a real pleasure to go back to them for this Twart. If I have time, I might do a colour version of this.

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Nerdgasm!

2011-06-17T21:33:00.003Z

If you're in the vicinity of Glasgow tomorrow, why not drop by and see me at the GLASGOW COMIC CON? I'll be stinking up the Forbidden Planet table from about two onwards, making with the sketches and whatnot. Come along and ask me to draw the Punisher (no particular reason - I've just got a yen to draw the big angry bugger)

(The above pic, by the way, is from my forthcoming issue of Richard Starkings' seminal ELEPHANTMEN. Not much more to report on this just yet, but it's going to be VERY COOL INDEED.)

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WINK

2011-06-04T17:17:00.001Z

They're coming!

2011-06-03T23:09:00.001Z

Be afraid!

D

Back in Time!

2011-06-02T18:52:00.001Z

Hey you! I thought you might like to know that the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is out, and it features ten pages of utterly mental comic strip from Jonathan Morris and, well, me. Here's a snibbet:

Colours by James Offredi. Oh man, he killed on this thing. Wait till you see it!

Buy it and make my old man proud!

D

Console Yourselves!

2011-04-28T02:43:00.002Z

A sneak peek at what's coming up in my next Doctor Who strip. Coo!

Thumb of the Day

2011-04-26T02:01:00.003Z

No. 2 in an occasional series.

This is from Time Share, coming soon from Oni Press. Look for it!

D

Something something fezzes

2011-04-23T02:19:00.005Z

Doctor Who is back tomorrow - hurrah!

Maybe Amy Pond will start to grow on me?

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The War - in Colour!

2011-04-12T19:03:00.002Z

DESTROY! Colours by Sir Luke Pickett.

Extermineren!

2011-03-24T20:30:00.002Z

Boom! Dalek Tank!

Panel of the Day! (no. 3 in an occasional series)

2011-03-16T03:53:00.003Z

This is from that secret project I've got cooking over at Oni Press.

You're gonna love this - I guarantee it.

D

Never Mind the Boll*cks...

2011-03-04T20:37:00.005Z

Here's the Punisher!

(apologies for the ridiculous, made up gun)

WHO wants one?

2011-03-03T01:10:00.001Z

Prints of my Doctor Who/Doctor Doom pic are now for sale - huzzah!

Gloriously illuminated by "Debonair" Dean Trippe, this pic measures a little larger than 11x17, is matte printed on high quality paper, and would make an ideal gift for the Whovian/Marvelite in your life, probably, I dunno.

I'm selling them for 15 UKP (or $30) a pop, shipping included. If you'd like one, drop me a line in the comments section below, or email me at danmcdaid@yahoo.co.uk

ADVERTISEMENT ENDS

D

Who knows...?

2011-02-24T19:44:00.003Z

The Shadow Knows! *sings, does jazz hands*

This was another recent commission piece. Came out pretty well, I think!

D

Panel of the Day! (no. 2 in a series)

2011-02-11T22:14:00.004Z

Panel of the Day!

2011-02-10T17:41:00.001Z

Ladies and Gentlemen...

2011-02-06T20:45:00.002Z

I give you the most ridiculous thing I have ever drawn:

Ain't that something? This was another (completely mental) recent commission.

D

GIANT!

2011-02-01T18:23:00.003Z

Hey! Just a quick reminder to high-tail it down to your nearest supplier of comic books tomorrow to buy this year's Superman 80-Page Giant. I've got my comp copy already and it's really, really good. Pretty much every story in it is a wee gem, but look out especially for Neil Kleid and Dean Haspiel's belting Perry White/Wildcat story, a terrific Lois Lane short from Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover, and a Jimmy Olsen story from Abhay Khosla and Andy MacDonald which I'm calling the short comics story of the year (even though it's only Feb).

There's also more of this sort of thing from Steve Horton and me:

I hope you love it!

D

Terry and the Pirates...

2011-01-25T15:45:00.004Z

...and some sharks, a few seagulls and a dolly bird.

I put off drawing this for ages, cos I had no idea how to approach the subject matter, and (shamefully) I know almost nothing about Terry and the Pirates. I also know how beloved Terry and (creator) Milton Caniff are in artist circles. So yeah, daunting.

Hope I didn't botch it too badly.

D

Doctor Who vs...

2011-01-19T00:34:00.003Z

The Riddler!

With added Robin and Ace!

This was a commission piece for awesome Twitter pal Billy Tournas, who has just a dozen crazy ideas like this up his sleeve. Lots of fun!

Of course, as any true Whovian knows, the Riddler is quite mad to go up against the Seventh Doctor in a game of chess. I mean... this guy played Fenric and won, right?

God, what have I done with my life.

D

Doctor Whoooo (hey!)

2011-01-13T15:35:00.004Z

...Doctor Who

The new Doctor Who Magazine is out today, and I drew ten pages of it! Pretty mad, huh? The story is called The Screams of Death, it's by Jonny Morris, and it's a seedy, horrible tale of demons and divas in 19th Century Paris. I had a whale of a time drawing it, and James Offredi has coloured it up just right.

See?

I have to be honest, I was a bit worried about drawing this one. I always get a bit of stage fright before doing Doctor Who - he's been a part of my life since I was a wee nipper, so I always feel like I have to really raise my game for him. That probably sounds a bit mental, doesn't it? Anyway, as I've sort of mentioned in interviews before, Matt Smith is a tricky bugger to get right. He's got that Peter Davison quality: distinctive, but mercurial (translation: he looks different from every angle, and he has no eyebrows). I think I nailed a passable caricature, but I don't think I quite got him right till part two (which you'll have to wait till next month to see, you lucky bastards).

Before I got cracking with drawing the actual strip, the chaps at DWM asked me to design a few bits and pieces. And here they are (only look if you don't mind being mildly spoiled for the story):

And that's yer lot. I hope you enjoy the strip!

D

Bizarrogirl!

2010-12-16T19:29:00.004Z

Friend-of-the-blog Marco Magallanes delivered a cracking inked version of my Bizarrogirl sketch. Here's the pencils:

And here's the inks (click to enlargen):

Lovely, no?

I seriously dig it when talented people play around with my pics - that's what it's all about, really, for me. So, Marco - thanks, man!

Bizarro Superman - sneak peek!

2010-12-14T20:56:00.002Z

Roughs!

Inks!

Colours!

Mum's the word, right?

Doctor Doom v Doctor Who!

2010-11-29T20:59:00.005Z

Title says it all, really!

Pencils!

Inks!

Logan!

2010-11-26T18:49:00.003Z

Watercolour pencil and brush pen, took about twenty minutes.

We love you, Logan!

D

I Was Working in the Lab Late One Night...

2010-11-22T19:41:00.004Z

I was a bit late delivering this commission, so I decided to do a bit extra for the client. The brief asked for an A4 pic of Frankenstein (that *is* his name!) with maybe something a bit World War II-y thrown in. The only way I could make that work well is to come up with a mini-narrative, which meant going up a size as well (11x17).

Pencils!

Inks!

And it looks pretty nice, I think. Hand-lettering FTW!

Bizarro #1 - in Black and white!

2010-11-17T03:36:00.001Z

Goodbye!

2010-11-14T21:49:00.006Z

Me always not loved Bizarro.

He am not favourite part of Superman mythos - me prefer Terra Man. Or Conduit.

Me am no have story in February Superman 80-page giant from DC Comics. Click here if not want more info, but do want virus: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-february-2011-solicitations-101115.html

Hello!

ZAP!

2010-10-25T16:03:00.002Z

Another panel from that secret project I'm working on for Oni Press. This is such a bad-ass idea for a book, it's all I can do not to spill the beans right here. But you'll just have to wait!

D

Doctor Who and the Dialects!

2010-10-22T22:20:00.003Z

Below is a recent commisson piece, set in my home county of Cornwall (aah, I bet you all thought I was Scottish, didn't you?). The client wanted to see himself and his wife in a thrilling adventure with the Tenth Doctor the Daleks. So, like Jim'll Fix It, I fixed it for him to have just that!

I'm particularly chuffed with the Dalek in the bottom right there - he just came together really well.

The pencils! This was the piece which finally convinced me to go back to using a mechanical graphite pencil after a couple of years of using blue pencil. It was fun, blue pencil, but mechanical graphite pencil is just more... flexible.

I loved doing these - Daleks, South Crofty Tin Mine, girls in chains - it was like my teenage years all over again.

Fancy seeing yourself tangling with, I dunno, the Drahvins or somebody? Drop me a line!

D

DOOOOM!

2010-10-14T16:08:00.002Z

Hellboy/Ghost Rider - now in mono!

2010-10-12T23:40:00.005Z

I normally hate to, as it were, double dip on a pic I've done (and how dead is a phrase when even politicians have started to use it? That'll the be the first and last time I use that phrase, promise), but I was rifling through my sketches folder and came across the inks for my Hellboy/Ghost Rider mash-up thing. Looks better than I remember, so I decided to stick it up in here. That's okay, right?

D

BOOM! THOOM! CHOOM!

2010-10-12T15:23:00.001Z

CHOOM! - The Wallpaper!

2010-10-11T19:12:00.000Z

Mr J Torres - of whom I'm a massive fan - commented on Twitter that he would quite like to see my recent blog post as a desktop wallpaper. So here it is, in a number of handy sizes!

1600x1200

1024x768

480x320 (for yer iPhone, check it out)

There was also some talk of t-shirts - the wheels are turning, J!

Dan

CHOOM!

2010-10-11T14:48:00.001Z

CHOOM!

Who Forgets The Elephantmen?

2010-09-28T15:27:00.002Z

Me, that's who. Not sure why I didn't make a bigger deal of this at the time - maybe because I was in deadline hell with the end of Jersey Gods, or maybe 'cos I didn't want to gazump the issue before it came out - but I contributed a page to Richard Starkings' utterly fantastic Elephantmen. And here it is!

From thumbnail...

...to final piece.

I have to admit, I kind of panicked when it came time to draw this, and I think it shows. Rich has been a hero of mine since I was a nipper, one of the hallowed bullpen at Marvel UK in the eighties, and therefore involved - in one capacity or another - with some of my favourite things. Doctor Who, Transformers, Thundercats... I was even pretty nuts about The Real Ghostbusters for a while. So when it came time to draw something for him, I probably froze up a bit (bear in mind, this issue also featured pages from other industry legends, not least Dave Gibbons, Steve Pugh, Gary Erskine, Dougie Braithwaite and Paul Grist... No pressure, then). And while I'm quite pleased with how this page came out, I really would like another go...

Hide and Peek!

2010-09-24T16:56:00.002Z

Another snippet from my forthcoming Doctor Who strip. The Doctor and Amy Pond lurk (almost) out of sight, while a villain sets about his dastardly plan...

"Halt! In the name of Emperor Bonaparte!"

2010-09-20T22:38:00.002Z

Another little teaser from a forthcoming Doctor Who strip (art by me, script by Jonathan Morris).

I thought it might be fun to do the portly police officer in an Adventures of Tintin style - he's exactly the sort of huffing, puffing, humourless bureaucrat Herge liked to send up in his stuff.

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A Night at the Opera!

2010-09-15T20:43:00.004Z

Click through for the bigness!

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Jersey Gods - ORIGINAL ART SALE/BABY NEEDS SHOES

2010-09-12T21:33:00.004Z

Hi gang! If you like me - and you surely must - you might be interested to know that I'm selling some artwork from JERSEY GODS!

This is from issue 7...

This is from issue 9...

And this one's from issue 11:

Here's the LINK - why not have a look? And keep your eyes peeled - there's more to come.

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SHAZAM!

2010-09-06T21:45:00.002Z

This is my submission for last week's Comic TWART. The subject - Captain Marvel!

And here he is without the inks - I kind of prefer him this way:

The Deep Hereafter!

2010-09-02T16:44:00.003Z

DOCTOR WHO FANS! You might be interested to know that Rob Davis has posted our DWM strip over on his blog. It's called The Deep Hereafter, and it takes the Doctor (and his then companion Majenta Pryce) into some distinctly Will Eisner/Spirit-ish territory.

I had a ball writing this one. I'd planned my tenure on the strip like a season of the show - start off with a speedy romp to introduce (or in this case reintroduce) the companion, then a couple of small adventures where we seed in some of the arc beats; a tentpole story with a returning baddy (a la The Sontaran Strategem, Daleks in Manhattan). Follow that with a couple of weirder, more experimental instalments, then back in time for tea and doomsday. The Deep Hereafter, as you can probably tell, was one of the weirder ones - a love letter to noir in general and The Spirit in particular. It's one of my favourites, not least because Rob Davis produced such stellar visuals. He grabbed the Eisner idea and ran with it as far as it would go.

Ah, it's a lovely looking thing. Thanks, Rob.

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Out of Office

2010-08-28T20:04:00.005Z

I had an idea today.

More to follow - stand by!

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Sherlock and the Doctor

2010-08-20T16:41:00.002Z

The brief for this commission (c/o Neil Davidson - thanks Neil) was pretty straightforward - Sherlock Holmes meets the Tenth Doctor. I wanted to go a little further than that, and came up with a little snippet of an unseen Holmes adventure. Let's call it, I dunno, The Automatic Man.

It was nice drawing David Tennant again!

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GALACTUS!

2010-08-19T18:38:00.002Z

I kind of love drawing Galactus - hope I've done the big fella justice.

This was a recent commission piece. Which reminds me - I am available for commissions! Let me know what you fancy either in the comments box below or at my email address to the right. My rates are here: CLICK

Enter: Sandman!

2010-08-11T17:41:00.002Z

This is this week's Sandman TWART, without colours and before I fixed the values in photoshop.

I really enjoy drawing Spider-Man, but I *love* drawing Sandman. He's big and he's blunt and he looks like he's falling apart. And the stripes are a deceptively simple design element which help define his physique and make him pop. After years of being ambivalent about Steve Ditko, I'm coming round to the idea that he is probably a genius.

And this is the drawing I did to warm up for the Flint Marko piece. I botched the gun, unfortunately, but I enjoyed drawing this austere, 1930s version of Morpheus, a contrast to the be-robed, Robert Smith-esque version of the nineties.

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Return of the TWART

2010-08-05T20:42:00.004Z

I've been away from ComicTWART for a while but I couldn't resist coming back for this week's subject - FRANKENSTEIN. Or, more specifically, Frankenstein's Monster (although I've always maintained that, as he's effectively the son of Victor Frankenstein, he has as legitimate a right to the name as his creator. But I digress). This was a lot of fun - I liked sticking this shambling wreck of a man inside some fancy Georgian finery. Mr D'Arcy eat yer heart out.

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Thor vs. Karate Kid

Happy Birthday, Woodgod!

In the clearing stands a boxer...

Does Whatever an Iron Can

I Drawed the Law!

HIT ME!

Knock, Knock!

FFed!

Snippet!

Me and Batman

Home and Harley!

Drawing Tom III

Out of the Sketchbook...

Superman is "TECHNO-ACTIVE"!

I've got TB!

Drawing Tom II

Drawing Tom

Who Killed Cyclops??

A perfectly good FF cover...

The Funk of Forty Thousand Years!

Batman, She Wrote!

...With a Bullet!

Hercules - After Dark!

Big Green Love Machine!

Kirby-gasm - THE "LATINO EFFECT"

OMAC-Colour!

One Man Apple Core!

Kirby-gasm - INKED!

Kirby-gasm!

Harry Potter on a unicorn, flying out of the TARDIS

Enter: Sandman (literal version)

The Crimson King!

Absorb THIS!

The Golden Age!

Goin' Underground!

Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with Some Cables

Panel of the Day! (no. 6)

Panel of the Day (no. 5 in an occasional series)

BIZARRE!

BFF!

The Doctor is IN!

Savage? Moi?

ME(N)TAL!

Screw HYDRA!

Hulk Out!

All A-Quiver!

Hail to the CAP!

By Odin's Raven!

THUNDER Struck!

Panel of the Day (no. 4 in an occasional series)

Back in ACTION!

Tales from the TWART - Space Ghost

Weapon X

Nerdgasm!

*WINK*

They're coming!

Back in Time!

Console Yourselves!

Thumb of the Day

Something something fezzes

The War - in Colour!

Extermineren!

Panel of the Day! (no. 3 in an occasional series)

Never Mind the Boll*cks...

WHO wants one?

Who knows...?

Panel of the Day! (no. 2 in a series)

Panel of the Day!

Ladies and Gentlemen...

GIANT!

Terry and the Pirates...

Doctor Who vs...

Doctor Whoooo (hey!)

Bizarrogirl!

Bizarro Superman - sneak peek!

Doctor Doom v Doctor Who!

Logan!

I Was Working in the Lab Late One Night...

WINK