Martin, Crowman, Frank, Gusano, and I all look forward to the pleasure of your company, October 4th and 5th, at the Birmingham Think Tank!

Contrary to what the lack of updates here might suggest, I haven't been completely indolent since finishing Chickenheads Book 2. Nope, as mentioned before, my next story, 'The Hack' has been taking up alot of spare time, as I've been steadily compiling a body of art which will play a vital role in the main events of the story.

The end result is a dozen or so seemingly unconnected finished pieces, and while it's mostly taken me away from sequential artwork for a month or two (although there's actually a couple of strips among the collection) the benefits of sketching have been apparent as each new piece has become freer than the last. It's been rather like keeping a regular sketch book all over again, something I haven't done for a long time now, as churning out C2D4 strips has taken over. My life-class teacher, Jimmy Johns, has often suggested that I spend a few hours here and there, just to sketch, without all the pressure of getting it right, while being able to experiment more than I normally would. Well, this is a combination of both approaches I suppose, because the finished results are just that...polished, finished projects in their own right.

So, why have I been doing this, instead of just cracking on with the script/ art for the graphic novel? Ah, now that would be telling, wouldn't it? :) In the meantime here's a taster of the art of 'The Hack'. I'll be putting up a proper gallery soon, with bigger images, so -- please check back soon!And finally, a flyer design I drew for my friend's 40th birthday:

With only a few weeks to go until Martin and I hit Birmingham International Comics Show 2008, I've been working on some promo stuff for our table. The above KFH art is the end result, minus the final text.

We've had a bit of a result, as Gosh!, the London comics store, have offered to take all our titles. So you can now walk into the UK's best comics store and buy C2D4 comics. Please make sure you do! :) We'll be approaching many more stores off the back of this, and hopefully we'll be in the position to be selling our titles between comic conventions, and to a nationwide audience.

Finally:'The Hack' is in pre-production. While that might sound a little pretentious, as if it were some stupendously high budget movie or something (which one day I hope it is...LOL!) this project is a little different to any I've done before. There's a lot going on, and preparation of certain source material is key, before final scripting can even commence. I can't go into it too much without accidentally giving the plot away...sorry!

Right, better get back to pre-producing 'The Hack'. :)