When Worlds Collide

It's been a while since I posted one of my illustrations for Inside Soap magazine, so here's one I did this week with a vague connection to my current comics work. The scenario was suggested by the editor and I'm pretty sure he's not aware that I'm doing Muppets and vaudeville puppetry elsewhere, so this is a complete coincidence. But it felt nice to think that all my work had a kind of thematic coherence for a brief moment.


Always with the puppets, Langridge. You want to get out more.

Oh, yes - while I think of it, it looks like the first of my Captain America short stories is out now, in Marvel Adventures: Super-Heroes #8. Lead story scripted by Scott Gray, backup scripted by me, all beautifully drawn by Craig Rousseau. Further installments to appear at three-month intervals, so I think that makes the next one issue #11. Anyway, cover reproduced below for your convenience.


Coming up in the next installment: PRODOK! How's that for a teaser?

Rehearsal Time is Over!

As I write this, the first issue of the Muppet Show comic is getting ready to go to the printers. This week I've been doing a few last-minute art fixes after Disney finally got back with comments - nothing too drastic, they seem pretty happy for the most part. They wanted Animal's hair a bit shaggier, that's about it. So shaggier it shall be.


Nick Mag's Nickelodeon Comic #33 (February 2009 issue) arrived in the post this week with a "Back to the Barnyard" story I drew, so I guess that's out around now. Oh, and Cthulhu Tales #11 as well. I have very mixed feelings about how I can work for months with nothing coming out, then everything hits the stands in a three-week period... it makes me look like a very lazy man with an occasional amphetamine habit.

The Ultimate Answer

This week I turn 42. When I was 22, my then-flatmate was turning 20 at around the same time, so we threw a 42nd birthday party. (So I've done this before, you see.) Anyway, one of the presents I received that year was this strip by Dylan Horrocks. I guess this is my last good reason to share it, so here it is.


I've been asked to write two pages for an X-Men title. I know next to nothing about the X-Men -- haven't even seen the movies. Ha ha! So of course I said yes immediately. But probably the highlight of my comics week was being befriended on Friendface by Fred Hembeck. When I was ten I wanted to be Fred Hembeck. And now he's my Friendface friend. I've arrived!

Mangled Manga

Not quite a week old: there's yet another Newsarama interview, this one focussing on the Muppet Show comic, over here.


Almost finished with these old Disney mastheads now; just a couple more left. I was asked to do this one in a Manga style, except I can't do a Manga style to save my life -- so what you get is more or less 100% Langridge with a few big eyes grafted on top of it. Sorry, Manga fans.