The Midland Lo-Operatives Alternative Art Market

Thanks to everyone at The Midland Lo-Operatives Alternative Art Market at The Hare & Hounds yesterday. It was a quiet afternoon, but still lovely to watch live art progress and hang out with other Artists from the local area who wouldn’t normally at the same sorts of events. There were talks about growing the event and the next one falling some time in June so look out for that! Special thanks for Olly for inviting me along. It was great to meet Lewes Herriot who designs great posters for This Is TMRW - a lot of my gig sketches are from their events. You can find more beautiful fantasy/adventure illustrations on his website. 

My next booked event isn't until May - I'm hoping to book a couple more events in the summer so check the blog sidebar for an up to date list. Don't forget I have an Etsy shop which ships worldwide. Thanks!

Thought Bubble, Birmingham MCM and Grimes Fanzine

 

Thank you so much to everyone at Thought Bubble this weekend! I had such a awesome time in the Royal Armouries Hall with my table neighbours A Little Lost Caterpillar, Ink and Booze,  Paddy Johnston & Samuel C Williams.

Special thank you to Charlotte from Laydeez Do Comics Birmingham for watching my table so I could visit the other halls and pick up some beautiful comics!

The last convention of the year will be Birmingham MCM Comic Con this weekend! You’ll be able to find table CG4 in the Comic Village section of the hall. I will be taking all the comics, zines and merchandise in the Thought Bubble photos along with a folder of original drawings. Please come and say hi and pick up a FREE MINI COMIC!

Yesterday I announced a Grimes Fanzine with open submissions! Please visit www.thatmusiczine.tumblr.com/grimes for more information!

Webcomic Update Friday 6th June 2014

http://giantrhinos.smackjeeves.com/comics/1962338/chapter-2-page-45/
Giant Rhinos In Space webcomic just updated. Click the link to read 2 new pages! Thank you :)

Gorillaz - Stylo

I'm organising a Gorillaz Fanzine to take to Manchester MCM Comic Con. There is roughly a month until the deadline. The full call for submissions can be found on tumblr or facebook

Leamington Zine & Record Store Day!

I contributed a comic to the latest issue of Leamington Zine - the theme was music to coincide with Record Store Day. I also drew an illustration of local band The Rosenberg Appeal.You can find a list of their stockists on their Facebook page and read past issues online here. A limited amount of physical copies are available from Head and Seismic Records in Leamington.

Don't forget that Giant Rhinos In Space webcomic will be returning shortly ...

Chapter 2 will return on Friday 2nd May 2014 with the first 5 pages

The webcomic will then update with 3 new pages at 12noon* every Friday!

Music Zine #3 and Ink Blazers

The webcomic is on hiatus while I work on smaller comics for zines and anthologies. I make a music zine with my friend Sarah Fogg and we release it whenever we have enough work to compile a new issue. So far I've finished a couple of music comics, incuding a 3 page comic about a Franz Ferdinand gig I went to in March. Old issues of the music zine are still available from Etsy.

Giant Rhinos In Space is also now being uploaded weekly to Ink Blazers (formerly Manga Magazine). Eventually Ink Blazers will catch up with Smack Jeeves so you'll be able to read chapter 2 on the host site you prefer.

Digital Zine Production

I've been placing the comic pages into a In Design file as I finish them. I know it's not very hip to use software at this stage but its a really easy way to get the booklet printed ready to be photocopied.

I'm hoping to print the comics next week which is pretty exciting! I need to choose how many copies to print

 

Beck - Defriended

Most the songs left on the playlist are not actually very close to the theme but I picked because of how they sound or because I listened to them a lot when I was the same age as the characters. This is a new song by Beck and I was pretty disappointed when I found out that there wasn't a full album to go with it. I bought a copy of Guero back when I didn't have a large CD collection and carried a portable CD player. The disc got a dent from a chair leg and still worked fine.

But for on theme music - Today I heard that Kiran Leonard used a radiator as percussion on his album. I'm not sure if it's on the songs which you can stream on band camp at the moment, but it sounds kind of interesting. (He is also only 17. That's the same age as the aliens who are making music in my comic.)

This Is Not A Serious Music Publication

Sarah Fogg and I have been working on a music zine. It contains articles, illustrations and comics featuring Blur, The Kinks, Everything Everything, Peace, Gorillaz, De La Soul, Little Dragon, Helen Arney, Bellatrix, Gil Scott-Heron, Ghostpoet, DANGER DOOM, The Subways, The Clash, Elastica, Phillipa Hannah, The Unthanks and Young Knives. It also contains an exclusive Giant Rhinos mini comic. We're realising it tomorrow at the Birmingham Zine Fair and it's available to buy through my etsy shop.