Bristol and Death

Here's an illustration I did recently for a book called Machine of Death, co-edited by David Malki! (who does the very funny strip Wondermark). The piece it's illustrating is called "Prison Knife Fight", written by the brilliant Shaenon K. Garrity.


Newsy news: it looks like I'm going to be a guest at the upcoming Bristol Comics Expo on May 9th and 10th. Normally I go the whole hog and exhibit as a small press publisher, but this year it looks like I missed the booking window, so I thought, why not see if I can blag my way in as a guest for once? And, in an interesting development, there's something called the Small Press Expo (not to be confused with the identically-named American show in Bethesda, MD) happening in connection with it this year, so I'll be involved with that as well, doing children's workshops and a bit of sketching and what-have-you. So that's all worked out rather nicely.

Here be Beasts!

The magnificent new BEASTS! book, BEASTS! II, arrived in the mail this week. It's absolutely beautiful - a beautiful object containing beautiful things. I did Spring-Heeled Jack for the book, as seen here:


The original artwork for this piece, as well as many, many more by the other contributors, is on display at Giant Robot in San Francisco right now - well worth checking out if you're in the area.

Finished inking Muppet Show #1 last night, just in the nick of time. Now I've got to start #2. How dare they put these things out once a month!

Tough Pigs

One for the Muppet watchers among you: there's a brief Muppet-themed interview with me over at ToughPigs.com this week. Thanks to Joe Hennes for conducting it.

Meanwhile, back here at the Hotel Fred, I thought we deserved a splash of colour for a change, so here's another one of those Disney Adventures credit-box masthead illustrations I did a couple of years back.


It's only just occurred to me that the Hotel Fred website is probably overdue for a redesign - the black-and-white theme was concocted when I was doing a weekly colour Fred the Clown cartoon, and since switching to black and white for Mugwhump it's been looking a tad drab. Might have to give this some thought over the next little while. Watch this space! But, er, don't forget to go away and have a cup of tea and a biscuit every once in a while. Otherwise you'll just starve.

End of Chapter One!

Mugwhump Chapter One concludes this week over at Act-i-Vate (and at the Hotel Fred next week). Time to panic as I try to figure out Chapter Two. I've got a plot written down but not a single word of dialogue. Watch this space as I fly by the seat of my pants, very probably into a cliff.


Here's another Kirby-themed convention booklet page, by popular demand (if two people counts as popular - as a proportion of my readership, that's probably about right, actually). I suppose it's a sequel of sorts to Kirby Planet a couple of weeks ago. These things were always auctioned for charity, so I tried to get some Marvel and DC characters in there each time to bump the bids up a bit, while still doing something identifiably Langridge. You have to pay a fee to be in the convention books these days, and the artwork doesn't go to a good cause any longer, so I've kind of stopped caring. I'll shut up now before my true age of 112 becomes even more obvious.