The Sharple Boone Conundrum

After a couple of months work and another couple of months of submitting it to publishers I've decided to upload a couple of pages from the comic I have been working on with the incredibly talented David Drake.

The Sharple Boone Conundrum is currently on pretty much every comic publisher's slush-pile so we'll see what happens there!

The rest of my website has had a little bit of a tidy and there's a few more recent bits of work up, so have a good look around whilst you're there!

I'd Like To Tell You About The Book I Read...

The start of a new series of work (it all helps to keep me off the streets) in which I avoid all that hassle of applying for actual work at a publishers and just pretend that's what I do anyway.

Well, sort of. As I read books I can't help images popping into my head that could be covers - especially so when the cover is crap. Far, far too much use of standard Getty Images photos for my liking these days. So what you have here is an indulging of that urge, coupled with what will hopefully be viewed as a tribute to some of my favourite writers.

The full set can be viewed on flickr at the above link.

The Rialto Cover!

The new issue of the fantastic Poetry magazine The Rialto is out now - featuring a cover by me!

Been a fan of the magazine for a long while now, and I'm over the moon to be the latest cover artist - pick up a copy now!

Tarot

Today I started a series of works based around the iconography and symbolism of the Tarot deck.

This all sort of spun out of an idea I had for a comic strip or at least a narrative series of work which was going to be themed around Tarot and how the iconography relates to current events, e.g. The Tower and it's application to the attack on the World Trade Center. All well and good, but I'm not primarily a writer and aside from a few snapshots of images I had in my head it was far from being anywhere near complete.

Time is money as some idiot said, and this is a bit of a pro-bono project, so I decided to use the snapshots I had prepared and directly apply them to the Tarot deck. Time will tell if I can get through the 21 Major Arcana (let alone the full 78 cards in the Tarot deck!) but already it would be nice to see these printed as a set. We shall see!

Penny Arcade Record Bags

These little beauties were hand-screenprinted to help promote the Penny Arcade night.

They're limited to a run of only 30, and some have already been given away as treats for people attending the night so don't delay if you want one!

Grab them via my Big Cartel store: http://petitmal.bigcartel.com/