Merry Christmas

Marley was dead: to begin with

The above comes from the cover of an edition of A Christmas Carol I illustrated a couple of years ago for St. Marks Press - now sadly out of business (the Langridge Curse strikes again, for which I profoundly apologise). Best wishes for the holidays, everyone.

Is it Christmas yet?

Here are a few of the cover ideas I submitted for the Christmas Carol edition I recently illustrated (out in June from St Mark's Press, I believe). The Doctor Who book I did a cover for is out now as well, and you should be able to order it from their website.

The Christmas Clown

Here's that Fred the Clown Futurama cameo mentioned last week, which Chris Reilly was kind enough to send me. What an odd feeling... in a nice way.


Nate Cosby at Marvel has suggested the extremely talented and wonderful Sonny Liew as an artist for my Spider-Man story, which is so great I could sceam. He's a fabulous artist, and I really hope he says yes, particularly as my entire story pitch is now based around the idea that he'll be drawing it.

And since this will be the last update before Christmas, let me just wish everyone a very merry one.

Was this your idea, Wilson?

Today's work schedule was shot to hell by the only vaguely scheduled arrival of Colin Wilson, New Zealand cartoonist now resident in Australia, who may be best known for his work on Young Blueberry in France. Never met the dude, but since he was in the country for a few days I didn't want to miss the opportunity to do so, so around for dinner he came. And a fine time was had by all (hic).

I managed to ink this week's Inside Soap and start colouring it before everything went Colin-shaped.

Here's a Christmas card from 2001 for no reason.