It's COLD outside...

Portrait of Mr Freeze, done in acrylic ink and colouring pencil. Currently the property of one of my favourite comics writers, John Arcudi. 

Strange Visitor!

“Techno-Active”!

Batman and Superman take on a monstrous Darkseid at the Source Wall. I just found out today that the Wall was never depicted by Kirby himself, and instead is an extrapolation of Kirby’s “ultimate barrier” devised by Chris Claremont and Walt Simonson for X-Men/Teen Titans. 

Inks by me, brilliant colours by Jordan Boyd!

Mr Freeze!

Staying with the cold theme (it’s fairly chilly in Dundee at the moment... and they say there’s going to be snow on Tuesday and Wednesday. In April!) - here’s a Mr Freeze/Batman commission. I really went to town on Victor’s armour here, while also drawing a really muscular eighties-style Batman. 

More Dark Knight

Another Batman, drawn just a couple of weeks ago and flying solo this time. Exploring using shadows and tone to define shapes, rather than contour lines, a la art heroes Al Williamson and David Lloyd. It works pretty well, but requires a lot of patience 

Tooled up

An extremely well-equipped Batman from a few years ago... pencils by me, inks by a (pre-stardom) Chris Samnee. We make a good team!

ONE PUNCH

A Batman/Lord Death Man piece I just drew. Can you tell I had fun drawing this? I TOTALLY DID.

A Knight to Remember!

This was a recent commission piece. I never really thought about these characters before, I liked when they turned up in Batman or Batman Inc but found their own book a wee bit jolly hockey sticks for my taste. In't Britain marvellous? No, it's bloody horrible here, we're going nowhere, the weather's terrible, and the Royal Family has us by the balls for at least another hundred years. We're a nation of perverts and malcontents, and I would very much like to see a comic book that represents that. Stick your London buses up your arse.

What I was talking about?

Oh yes, Knight and Squire. Doing a sort of blood-soaked, black-as-night, Batman meets the Wicker Man type book really appeals to me. Remember how steeped in paganism and magic Alan Moore's Captain Britain was? That's kind of what Knight and Squire says to me. Crows, and palace guards and evil Royals and... that's a licence to print money as far as I'm concerned.

*activates wish machine* DC, please bring this book back and let me write and draw it.

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WHATCHA GONNA DO??

A recent commission - the commissioner wanted a Batman piece in the style of the cover to Bad Boys. Specifically:

So I swapped out Martin Lawrence for Bat-family aberration Red Hood, Will Smiff for Nightwing,  and er, Tim Drake for Tia Leone. What?

The Bat and the Banana!

The latest in a long line of increasingly bizarre crossovers from some weird alternative universe where all notions of good taste and sense are thrown to the wind, this sees DC Comics' and DC Thomson's finest united against the Clown Prince of Crime and, uh... well. See for yourself:

Yes, shark-infest custard. I can now die happy.

If you don't know who Bananaman is, here's the title sequence to his 80s TV show, moderately beloved by a generation:

And this is Batman:

Damn you, fall!

Superman and Batman kicking it Kirby-style with the Ultimate Bastard.

HIT ME!

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.