A Jedi, a Superhero and a Judge walk into a bar: Commissions

Some recent commissions. These were custom drawn to be comic book interpretations of the clients.

I've started a Tumblr blog for rough and work-in-progress images, and you'll see the rough stages of these pieces over there at Downey Doodles.

2D Festival

Another fanastic year at the 2D Festival. Plenty of sketching, selling, drinking and even a little bit of dancing. I didn't brig my camera for fear of losing it, so all these photographs are lifted from the Facebook pages of Ciaran Flanaghan and Phil Friel.

 Sketching on the festival floor. Might be Hellboy for Ron.

 I think think was the busiest year of the 2D festival yet. 

 

More sketching. Looks like Venom.

 Tommie Kelley and I staring into Space.

 Being very professional and taking notes before the Sunnyside Comics presents: Piracy, Creator owned and digital comics.

 Slaughterman's Creed cover painter gets close and personal. No, we're not lovers and no it wasn't 'that big'.

Aimee and I enjoying drinks.

 Lily Daniels and Daniel Clifford flew over from England just for the dancing.

 And they took full advantage when they could.

Roll on 2D 2012.

Slaughterman's Creed FP Belfast Signing

To celebrate the launch of Slaughterman's Creed I'll be signing copies at Forbidden Planet Belfast on the 11th of June. Slaughterman's Creed inker Andy Brown and cover painter Ryan Brown will be there also.

If you come along there's a free sketch with every copy bought on the day and Andy Luke will be signing and giving out FREE print copies of our Absence comic.

Hopefully see a few of you there and spread the word if you can.

Slaughterman's Creed: Video Nasties

I got my hands on a few copies of Slaughterman's Creed on the Sunday of last weekend's Bristol Comic Expo, and it's so good to see another year of work held in my hand.

I was suprised that the pages, and Vicky's colours especially, look even better in print than they do on screen. Mr. Green's tattoo's stand out fantasticly well on the glossy paper.

A real life Green: Scott Grandison, who was crazy enough to get his face painted as Mr. Green to host our panel: The Task of Blood: Creating Slaugherman's Creed.

A photo from the panel itself, which went down really well with a healthy audience listening in. You can download the audio, posted under Scott's podcast 'Comicbook Outsiders', here, and if you want to see the presentation slides you can download a PDF here.

I spoke a little about uising reference and models, which included a short 'reference to final pencils' video which you can watch below.

The whole Bristol weekend was a fantastic launch for the book, with lots of people coming by to pick up a long list of pre-orders. Together with sales on the day we shifted over 100 copies which is by far Markosia's highest ever selling convention book.

Next up is the 2D festival in Derry where I'll be on the Creator owned/Piracy panel on Friday 3rd June at 8:30pm, then selling Slaughterman's Creed and sketching at the Comic's open day on the Saturday.

Hopefully see a few of you there.



Ps. Thanks for the photos Vicky

Absence - A comic about Epilepsy

Absence is a comic written by fellow Belfast creator Andy Luke about his experiences with epilepsy throughout his life and drawn by me at the start of this year. Absence is a touching, informational, funny and maybe most important of all, FREE comic funded by Unltd. Its drawn in quite a different style for me to suit the A5 print and was really fun to draw.

We're having a launch party this Thursday, the 21st April, at Catalyst Arts, 5 College Court, Belfast. Free comics, free entry and maybe even some free nibbles and refreshments. All welcome so come along for the craic.

If you prefer to read your comics digitally, absencecomic.com has just launch and hosts the entire comic, with details to get free copies delivered right to your door. The site will be updated with details of our Apple Store launch via Oxicomics in a few weeks.

I'll also have some copies on our table at the Bristol Comic con in a few weeks time, so pop along for a free comic.

Kapow! Sketches

I had a great time at the Kapow! comic con in London last weekend. The room was buzzing the whole weekend and my table was constantly busy. I only had a few copies of Cancertown (as much as my hand luggage could hold) but sold out by noon on Saturday and just about all my prints were gone by closing time.

I was constantly commissioned for sketches, with a small queue forming at a few points, and I've seen a few pop up online that I've posted below.

Daredevil for Stew

The Shadow for Alan

Iron Fist for Luke

Venom for Ben

I'll be at the FanSciCon in Dublin this Friday selling Cancertowns, prints and hopefully doing some sketches. I've added a little 'upcoming events box' to the left sidebar so you can keep up with my con season schedule. FanSciCon Sounds like a fun day, so I'll hopefully see a few of you there. 

 

Jennifer Wilde Cover Art

Jennifer Wilde is my latest project, created and co-plotted by Rob Curley with a fantastic script from Maura McHugh. The book will be published through Atomic Diner and draws from Irish history, with ties to the great Irish writer Oscar Wilde, to tell a supernatural pulp noir tale that starts in 1920s Paris. 

#1 Cover art:

"At the start of the Jazz Age in Paris in 1921, young French artist Jennifer Chevalier becomes embroiled in death, espionage and revolution which takes her across the three nations of  France, England and Ireland - ably assisted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde." - Jennifer Wilde Synopsis

I'm half way through drawing the first issue of the 3 part miniseries and I think you can tell by the description above there is so much fun stuff to draw and play with.

 There's a Facebook page here, where you can follow the creative process.