Off Life – issue four
Off life as published its latest issue. There is a bunch of talented cartoonist and me, with a two page strip titled Foul.
I will be at Comiket this weekend.
Pop by and say hello.
Comiket 2013
I will be at this weeks Comiket – details here. I will be sharing a table with Sally and Francesca. The event has moved to a new venue, I hope there is lots of space and punters. As of today there is no listing of exhibitors ( I may be looking in the wrong place ). I find it really poor when events promote themselves, the guests, but forget exhibitors. The people who actually pony up the cash. I hope this is not a return to a few years ago. ( Rising table costs, minimal publicity ). Getting people interested in reading comics is important, but so is selling. So come along and spend freely, there will be lots of amazing comics for sale. On my table will be Twelve Hour Shift, Dark Matter, Necessary Monsters 2, ( parts 1 + 2 ) Same Day Return, and Trees.
So drop by and say hello. It’s really welcome to speak to people in the flesh.
The comics season begins …
Return to school
( Skull sketch – brush and ink on paper. Previously blogged from a rubbish photo )
It’s been a bit of a break on this blog, I’m sure my exciting and interesting posts have been missed.I have recently had a trip to Chicago, then attended Comiket followed by a trip to Toronto. So it’s taken me a while to catch up with myself. I was going to write a long post about these events but it was so exciting I decided to just live it rather than blog it. I did write a report about TCAF for the Forbidden Planet blog, but I’m not sure I did the event justice as I spent most of the event behind my table. I have to give a nod and a thank you to Crystal For being a wonderful table buddy during the weekend. TCAF has had a massive impact on my festival/convention going experience. In the UK we have Thought Bubble which I’d say is the best event now, it has many many, plus points. Comiket is getting there, but the last one had serious venue space issues, that made it uncomfortable for exhibitors and punters. But is there too many now? Too many or just idiocy in trying clash against a ‘rival’ event. Having now entered the (Well) Seasoned festival exhibitor stage, I’ll be selective about events to attend and use the time saved elsewhere. I guess it’s a positive to have that choice. Waffle, waffle.
The important stuff is the work, and making the work though. I did plan to take a complete year away from all the festival stuff,to make masses of comics. Due to random events it hasn’t quite worked out that way. But so far this year i have been involved in an anthology, a book and making a sketchbook. There is a new issue of a diary comic that has been lettered and roughed out, similarly for Black Leather (I know, I keep saying this). Both these comics will be ready for Leeds. The diary comics will be collected into a book called ‘Three years gone’, it will be about 150 pages.
the main news for me is that the Chicago trip gave me and Daniel some time to talk about projects. We decided that maybe it was time to make another volume of Necessary Monsters.
From Chicago to Comiket
Back from Chicago report to follow.
Comiket tomorrow and looking forward to and catching up with friends. Interesting stuff happening. Marc and Adam have started a new venture called Great Beast – exciting!
