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More Moleskine Metaphor

wildman — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:36:45 +0000

Two up this time. A Moleskine spread. The left hand robot spider was an image in my head that I had to get down. Again, as with the others, no sketching or laying out, just straight onto the paper with an inkpen.
The one on the right? My phone was playing up. Couldn’t find the numbers or get it to do anything.
More soon.

Black Cat artwork for sale

wildman — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:30:29 +0000

Have just put 6 pages of Marvel Black Cat artwork up for sale in the shop.
Black Cat was the first ‘proper’ Marvel book that I had the opportunity to work on. Other books like Transformers and even GI Joe were based on toys and cartoons. Black Cat was a book that was part of the Spider-Man continuity. I also feel that it was some of my best work and some of the best work that myself and Stephen Baskerville collaborated on. Take a look at the art here and if you are interested in buying any of these or browsing some of the other stuff available why not take a trip to the SHOP.

Transformers Art and Spoilers?

wildman — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:09:39 +0000

Well not really but there is a great article on Comic Book Resources and an interview with Simon Furman where he tells more about the project than has so far been revealed and there are five YES FIVE! pages of art up there. Just to let you know that the pages were a first pass. Final versions by John Paul Bove below.

Finally The Frontier

wildman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:50:31 +0000

After much hard work by all concerned the FRONTIER books are now available. You can order your copy on Amazon or go to your local bookshop and ask them to order it. All being well it should turn up in your local bookshop anyway some time soon but don’t risk it, go ask them and give them the order info below. For anyone who is going to be at the conventions listed in the right hand column you may be lucky and catch either Jason or me or maybe both to get hold of a signed copy.

Its been a long journey to get to this point. Feels like we have trekked the whole way out west to the wild frontier to see this book appear but here we are. Many thanks to all our ‘pardners’ along the way. David Fickling and all the guys at TheDFC (now The Phoenix) who let us tell this story in the first place, Randomhouse for allowing us to get the book done, John Freeman and Ivo Milicevic at Print Media for publishing the book. But personally I would like to thank Jason for coming up with the idea in the first place. When we secured the rights to weave the discovered diary of Daisy Adams into a comic strip tale I always knew it would work. We have other big plans for Mitch and Daisy and believe me, you ain’t seen nothing yet

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HOW BOOK SHOPS CAN ORDER COPIES
• Print Media Productions books are available to order by bookshops through Gazelle Books: www.gazellebookservices.co.uk. Tel: +44 (0) 1524 68765 or Fax: +44 (0) 1524 63232. Email Customer Services: sales@gazellebooks.co.uk

ORDERING THROUGH YOUR LOCAL COMIC SHOP
• Print Media Production titles are available to order by UK comic shops through Diamond Comic Distributors, Canalside, Warrington Road, Manor Park Industrial Estate, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 1SN. Web: www.diamondcomics.com

Moleskine Metaphor

wildman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:37:34 +0000

Bit of a departure here. Who knows why but sometimes there is an image in your head that you just need to get down on paper. bzzz

Moleskine Metaphor

wildman — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:50:54 +0000

A big rumbling robot thing. Don’t ask coz I have no idea :-/

Moleskine Metaphor

wildman — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:44:41 +0000

Time for another. This one was less subconscious and more of a sketch of an idea I already had. That said… why did I have the idea? In my mind there was a robot with very long limbs and a small body and this is the way it worked out. I dont sketch these first then ink them, I just hit the page straight off with the inkpen and however they work out is how they work out. And what is going on with his arms? Sometimes I scare myself

More Moleskine Metaphor

wildman — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:57:56 +0000

What’s going on here then? Which one am I? hmmm

“I’ve cam t’ kill yoor Monstah!”

wildman — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:27:23 +0000

Finally got round to watching BEOWULF last night. Never seen it before. The Zemeckis ‘animated corpses’ version. All very interesting and incredibly well done but there is something about that style of CG that still isn’t quite right. They all look dead in the eyes. That apart it was pretty incredible. The ‘Monstah’ was incredibly well realised and creepy in such a tragic way. One of the things that seemed to stand out most was how Beowulf looked nothing like Ray Winstone. No reason why he should. After all its just a voiceover for an animation but they did make other lead characters look like the voice artist. So why not make Beowulf look like Ray Winstone? Its not like he is weird looking or anything. Far from it. Ok, so they may need to give him a different body. But they did that with Angelina Jolie. Curious.

Anyway. Seen it now. Might not see it again

Doing the funky Moleskine

wildman — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:24:36 +0000

Everyone’s doing it. I have had one for ages and it just sits in the bottom of my bag not being sketched in. A crime. Not one of those people who can happily sit in a coffee shop drawing people. So what to do in it?? Well I was on a train to Manchester and sure enough, there it was in the bottom of my bag. Boredom made me get it out and start doodling. This is what came out. Have done more since. Robots? kind of obvious but based on the premise of HORIZON it seems that whatever robots come out when I start doodling seem to say something about me or my day or somesuch. An interesting exercise. So here you are with the first. Will post some of the others soon. Not managing to do one a day but there ya go. I’ve got a comic to draw