Speed Date Page 2 - sort of!

Just finished page 2 and here's a little taster of things to come!

The complete Cosmic Excrement

Here's the full story of my first published comic strip... Cosmic Excrement. Written by Matthew McLaughlin, artwork by yours truelly and lettered by David Evans which was featured in the first edition of Dr WTF 2011. Enjoy!

Anyone fancy a bit of Speed Dating??

Last year a small press publication called Hallowscream featured a story called Speed Date which was written by the very talented Dirk Van Dom and illustrated by the enigmatic Ghostpockets.

Now Ghostpockets style is very unique. I can see a little bit of a Mike McMahon influence in his work, (after Mr McMahon mutated his style again) which isn't a bad thing.

Anyway, due to other commitments Ghostpockets wasn't available to illustrate the second part of Speed Date - Speed Date 2 - Cruz Control (cool title or what!)  So after the work that I had produced for Dr WTF, Dirk asked me if I would like to take over the mantle of drawing the final episode of the story. After reading the script how could it refuse!! Expect, blood, snot and a hot bad-ass chick!

Below is the first page of the second episode. I'm wanting to keep the continuity going buy using Ghostpockets colours, but try and make it a bit more grittier as the story does become quite dark.

 

And below is the final page of the first episode.

And finally (because I'm waffling) is the initial concept sketch of the main character 'Tucker'

Horrible Histories.... Frightful Futures

For this months 2000ad Forum competiton

The Brief: A Children's book adaptation of 2000 ad.


"Choose a well known children's book and adapt it to a 2000ad story or character. You could draw the artwork in the style of a certain children's book or pick a scene in a children's book and change it to suit the 2000 ad universe. Anything goes... the sky's the limit."
I wish history was taught like this when I was at school. And probably the funnies program on TV... Horrible Histories.


So I give you not just a single book, but a whole frickin series.... Frightful Futures!! I could have gone on and on with Dastardly Droids, Galactic Gladiators, Barmy Berserkers , etc etc.

Hellboy

There a brilliant new blog called 'The Weekly Themed Art Blog' which basically does what it says ont he tin!

This weeks theme is Hellboy.....

Exterminate, Exterminate... ermm no you won't!

Some more concept work for the Cosmic Excrement Dr WTF!? story.

Even as a kid, Daleks never really scared me. The just seems like a large upturned bin with a sink plunger sticking out of it. Obviously, with Davros being the star villain in the story, we had to have Daleks or Dalexxx at Matt has called them.

We decided that there would be two types, your bog standard Dalexxx and the Sado- Surgeons. I had a lot of fun with these. The tentacles were to give them a bit of a HP Lovecraft feel. I thought it would be cool (in a sick sort of way) if the Sado-Surgeons actually had their surgical instruments grafted to them by Darvos.

Dr WTF!? - The Who and the Villian of this piece

Now that the story is going to print very soon, I thought I'd show some of the original concepts that I did for 'The Who' and the main character of the vile little tale... Davros

The Who.

Over the last few years there has been a few changes to who has played the Doctor. Whilst playing around with a few ideas, I though 'why is the 'Doctor' always white?' Why not Chinese, an Aborigines or a black Rastafarian! I like the idea that the Doctor is always quite eccentric in the most English of ways. I wanted to keep that element in the character.. This is where the initial 'By Jove, What What!' phrase came from. Matt has done a cracking job with the script, building the above element into the dialog. And why the blue eyes??? You'll just have to buy a copy and find out!


Davros

Whilst Matt was polishing the script it came quick obvious that our is a blatantly homosexual with distinct homoerotic undercurrent. It's a love story..... honest!

Why not join the Dr WTF!? facebook page to see some teasers of other tales are to be told?