Doctor Who vs...

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.

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Doctor Whoooo (hey!)

...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!

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Bizarrogirl!

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!

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Bizarro Superman - sneak peek!

Roughs!

Inks!

Colours!

Mum's the word, right?

Doctor Doom v Doctor Who!

Title says it all, really!

Pencils!

Inks!

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Logan!

Watercolour pencil and brush pen, took about twenty minutes.

We love you, Logan!

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

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!

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Bizarro #1 - in Black and white!

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Goodbye!

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!

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!

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Doctor Who and the Dialects!

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!

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DOOOOM!

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Hellboy/Ghost Rider - now in mono!

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?

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BOOM! THOOM! CHOOM!

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CHOOM! - The Wallpaper!

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!

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CHOOM!

CHOOM!

Who Forgets The Elephantmen?

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!

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!"

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!

Click through for the bigness!

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Jersey Gods - ORIGINAL ART SALE/BABY NEEDS SHOES

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!

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!

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

I had an idea today.



More to follow - stand by!

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Sherlock and the Doctor

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!

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!

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

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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