I Bring Sutekh's Gift of Death...

...to all humanity!



Another brilliant commission idea from Kevin Moorhead: Doctor Who meets Quatermass... in the tomb of Sutekh! I decided to present it as a still from a non-existent documentary on horror films of the seventies. Fun stuff.



YOUR EVIL IS MY GOOD!


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BOOM!

If there's one thing I love drawing, it's explosions.



This is from that secret project which I'm working on for SPOILER Oni Press. I drew it (and the other five pages I've done for this instalment) on the worst paper I could find: real thin, coarse rubbish, three pounds per pad from Staples. Why did I do this? Cos I've noticed my work tensing up a little of late, and I wanted to work on something where I felt I could cut loose, mess about a little, and generally loosen up. And it worked! The paper is barely suitable to wipe one's arse, but I'm doing some of the best work of my life on it. Go, as they say, figure.

So that's fun, isn't it?

Anyway, look out for this, hopefully, early next year. And look out for my co-creator Patrick Keller - dude's going to be HUGE.

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Into the Abyss!

Sometimes you get a weird commission which you just can't resist. My other half (as some of you might know) teaches English, which means she get a lot of kids coming up to her with their novels wot they've written. Pretty cute, right? Anyway, this one kid heard that I drew for a living, so he and the missus hatched a plan where I would draw his book's "cover" for him.

This was the brief:

A fireball in the middle of the page, stone above, water forming a loop around the side and something suggestive of wind at the bottom.

And this was the final thing:



It's not as finished as I would like, but I was advised by smarter heads than mine not to work too hard on it, as it was supposed to be a bit of fun. Which it was!

He's going to see this pic tomorrow - hope he likes it.

I think the lightning is a nice touch.

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C-C-C-Call the Cops!

I'm unaccountably pleased with this modest wee panel. There's not much going on in it, but it's pretty well drawn!

And I think the cop on the right looks a bit like Louis CK - but maybe that's just me!

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Thunder Road

Cracking bit of Jersey Gods fanart from "Majestic" Michael Rooth (are these smarmy nicknames getting old, yet? I think I might drop them). Anyway - it's a stunner, isn't it? And a great way to send off the series.

There's also a lovely interview with me and Glen over at Comic Book Resources. I really should thank CBR - they've been great supporters of the book since day one (when they did a wicked video interview with Glen, with gorgeous animated inserts), and they've gone out of their way to keep tabs on us as the series has gone on. Thanks, chaps!

Anyway - LINKAGE

And a BIG splash from issue twelve - the spoiler sensitive should look away now (everyone else should click to OMAC-size it)!

SECRET PROJECT 01

This a panel from **** *****, an upcoming strip for *** *****.

I'd love to tell you more, but I've been threatened with punches if I let too much slip. Sorry!

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Silver Nemesis!

Commission piece for Matt Zitron, inks n' brush on Bristol board.

Silver Nemesis is not a particularly popular Doctor Who story. It's not even particularly good, if I'm honest (too many limp jokes about social workers, a guest appearance from the Queen, a cameo appearance from a mostly forgotten Hollywood star... all bolted onto a plot used two stories earlier by Remembrance of the Daleks). It *does* feature the Cybermen, but it's the silver giants at their most useless - standing around waiting to get shot, falling over at the slightest whiff of gold... sigh.

BUT! It also features a brilliantly evil 16th Century witch, Sylvester McCoy at his most puckish and entertaining, and the awesome Sophie Aldred tearing shit up. Seriously, look at this:



"So who'll be next... and who'll be lucky?" It takes balls to talk to a Cyberman like that. Ace rules.

And that's why I love Silver Nemesis.

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The Silver Surfer vs... The Daleks!

Pen, black ink and wash, then I applied a blue filter in Photoshop. Galactus was entirely done in wash.

This was another commission for "Masterful" Michael Rooth: the Silver Surfer vs the Daleks! I decided to throw Galactus into the background, so I didn't have to paint lots of stars. And who doesn't love that big, purple, planet-eater?

Daleks aren't necessarily the most fun to draw - lots of straight lines, no expression, they're basically just tanks - but I had some fun throwing in a few different types. We've got a couple of Sixties Daleks, a seventies model, and a new-Who version, all in their trademark hoverbouts!

I'm not sure I would class this as an unqualified success - I wish I'd done more Daleks for one thing - but it was fun. And I LOVE drawing the Surfer!



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"I Shall Become... a 4!"

Having missed the last few weeks of Comic TWART's, I decided the only way to catch up was to do a mash-up type thing. So here we see the all-new Fantastic Four: The Thing! Hawkman! Belit, Queen of the Black Coast! The Batman!

God, I love comic books.

This must be the unluckiest picture I've ever worked on. EVERYTHING went wrong with it - it got dropped on the floor, I drew a rubbish Batman (now patched over and made invisible by a much better Batman), I drew extraneous legs and wings that needed whiteing out and... God, a myriad other tiny problems.

BUT! I'm incredibly proud of how it worked out. And I'm hoping I can get the lovely Debs to do me some colours - fingers crossed!

EDIT: Faster than light, fellow TWARTist Nathan Fairbairn has coloured the pic. Debs will not be pleased - but I'm thrilled!


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BOOM!

A Blastaar commission for "Mighty" Mike Rooth.

Click to Kirby-size it!

Kneel before...?

From Jersey Gods #12

They Bang the Drum...

From Jersey Gods #12

"Come With Me If You Want to Live..."

From Jersey Gods #12

RIP

RIP

Johnny Recon - now in DEBBIECOLOR!

Late TWARTer!

I've been insanely busy the last two weeks, but I HAD to make time to catch up on the last two weeks of TWART. This is Mitch Gerards and Scott Dillon's sharp-shooting space goon Johnny Recon. Tomorrow (or maybe the day after - I'm waiting for the lovely Debs to put some colours on the pic): Clara de Noche!

Promethea!

This was a commission piece I did for Michael Rooth. He's a cool guy - and incredibly talented too. Check out his WEBSITE.

Drawn and coloured with a Wacom tablet and Photoshop. Here's the mono version.



Alan Moore is GREAT fun to draw.

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My name is Abslom Daak...

Dalek Killer!

(Click for maximum Dalek damage!)

For those of you who don't know, Abslom Daak is what happens when you take Conan the Barbarian, give him Han Solo's blaster and moral outlook, and shove him into Doctor Who. I was mildly obsessed with him for a while in the late 80s, after DWM reintroduced him for their blockbusting Nemesis of the Daleks strip (and gave away a promotional "square" single featuring the big man's theme, by the, uh, Slaves of Kane). There's a school of thought that Daak doesn't belong in Who, that his modus operandi is too brutal, too *macho* for the Doctor's world. But I think that's balls. It's a big universe that the TARDIS is travelling through, and if there isn't room in it for a sweaty, pony-tailed, chainsaw-wielding maniac, then, well... that would be a shame. My run on the strip (which I wrapped the other night - please send condolences to the usual address) definitely takes place in the strange, mono world of Daak, Frobisher, Shayde et al.



Plus, he was created by Steve Moore and Steve Dillon, which gives him an impeccable pedigree as far as I'm concerned.

Mind you - he doesn't just kill Daleks...



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The Ring - Now in Colour!

Followers of the blog may remember this pic from a way back. Debs (my better half) put some wicked colours down on it, so I thought I'd share:



Pret-ty nifty!

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TWART week 3 - TORPEDO

A terrible scoundrel, as immortalised by comics greats Alex Toth and Jordi Bernet. GREAT fun to draw.

There's another version - with colours by Debs - on Comic Twart!

Edited to add - I also did a halftone version that I think looks pretty nifty (click for the full effect):



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