Because It's There

Art Attack

Now is a very good time to mention that I've added a huge amount of new artwork to my Art For Sale page at the good ol' website. The reason it's a good time to mention it is because it wasn't there yesterday and it is today. Taken me the best part of four days to do, and there are stil some pages uploading even now, but the bulk of it is available for purchase right now.

And now, apropos of nothing in particular, here's James Offredi's spectacular colouring for that Doctor Who page I posted a few days ago.

Things to Come

I suppose now would be a good time to let you know what I've been working on that has been keeping me too busy to maintain a blog. Well, there are a few things coming up:

(1) The Goon Noir - a five-page story in #2, written and drawn by me, which should be out this month.



(2) A Howard the Duck story for one of those Civil War things Marvel are chugging out - script by the simply brilliant Ty Templeton, and I only wish I'd had a bit more time to do it justice.

(3) A story for the next issue of Doctor Who Magazine (#377), featuring David Tennant as the Doctor, plus Rose, Mickey and Jackie. Called "The Green-Eyed Monster", it's written by Nev Fountain and it's loads of fun.



(4) A story for the upcoming Marvel Holiday Special, sort of a follow-up to last year's Fin Fang Four, called "How Fin Fang Foom Saved Christmas". Script by Scott Gray.



I'm going to appear really, really busy for a month and then disappear off the face of the earth...

Back from the Dead

Well, not quite - the daily update thing has long since been abandoned, as you can tell from looking at the date of my last update. This is going to be a sort of news dump for now until I figure out what to do with it.

First on the agenda, and my mind may well change about this before we get there, but I've abandoned plans to do more Doctor Sputnik cartoons for the moment and am instead running some old Fred the Clown stuff, which doesn't appear to be on Modern Tales any more - not sure what happened there, I confess I haven't been paying attention. I blame the children.

Anyway, current plans are to run a few weeks of "Classic Fred", updating every weekday, and then start a new weekly strip on Mondays while continuing the old Fred cartoons Tuesday through Friday.

Got that? Good. So nice to have cleared the air.

I'll leave you with a couple of stray links (plugarama!):

The Louche and Insalubrious Escapades of Art d'Ecco is still available. You can order it online from Fantagraphics, Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

And the Indie Spinner Rack interview with me isn't linked anywhere else at the moment, so I'll leave it here for anyone who's nutty enough to want to listen to it. And so I can find it again.