Yesterday a bunch of us made our way to Oxford to shower kisses on our long-time comics editor, Ben Sharpe. Ben edited me when I wasn't even sure I could make weekly comics, through all my Vern and Lettuce strips in The DFC comics magazine, and then did it again with its reincarnation, The Phoenix Comic. He's moving on now, but he's done an amazing ( Read more... )

Last night my new book Vern and Lettuce was well and truly LAUNCHED! Yay!!!!


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I submitted this coloured mockup version of the Cheltenham BookIt! illustration, and just heard back from festival co-ordinator Nicola Tuxworth that she really likes it. Whew! I always forget how long it takes to colour these images, this one is 45 layers in Photoshop, even though I'm sure other people could do it with a whole lot less layers. (You ( Read more... )

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For a daily warm-up, I thought I'd try to draw all the different characters in Pickle Rye, the home of Vern and Lettuce (my comic book coming out on Sept 30th). I present to you... the moles! Feel free to colour them in, if you like!

Find out about the first three books in the DFC Library here.


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See that little silver-coloured box that Ben Haggarty's holding? It's a piece of natural cube pyrite, and when Ben found it, he wondered what people would have thought if they'd come across it 10,000 years ago... and then the stories of Mezolith began to uncoil in his storyteller's brain ( Read more... )

And the inhabitants were friendly! Stuart and I headed up to Scotland for our first-ever visit to the Highlands International Comics Expo or Hi-Ex. It was also Stuart's first experience of running a festival table, and I think he's still decompressing from the strange voyage.

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Congratulations to Dave Shelton on the launch today of Good Dog, Bad Dog! You may remember the comic strip running in the Guardian newspaper and in the DFC... now it's a book! It's the very first in the DFC Library series, and you can read a preview of it here.


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The other day I went for sushi in Soho with the marvellous Emma Vieceli and magnificent John Aggs. Our DFC characters, John's Robot Girl, Emma's Violet and my buddies Vern and Lettuce came along, too. (We didn't invite the bunnies, they just showed up.) Robot Girl was a right pain in the backside.


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Gary and I were whinging across the studio how we've fallen behind on coming up with new stuff for our blogs. So we decided to herd Derek the Sheep and Vern into one ongoing comics jam. We'll move Derek to Vern's cosy block of flats, and thrust Vern out into the wild of Derek's field. (Vern was getting a bit chubby from Christmas, he could use some ( Read more... )