Lakes International Comic Art Festival Sketch Roundup

 

Autumn Sketch Fest XVII

Autumn Sketch Fest XVI

Autumn Sketch Fest XI

Autumn Sketch Fest VIII

Autumn Sketch Fest VI

Autumn Sketch Fest V

Autumn Sketch Fest II

2019 Convention Schedule!

It's my great privilege to be attending Wellington's ComicFest 2019 this coming weekend! Incredibly, it will be the first convention I attend in New Zealand EVER, despite having grown up there (they weren't a thing in my day). Big thanks to the festival for inviting me and to Creative NZ for covering the cost. I'll be doing some panel discussion things, doing a presentation where I'll be wanging on at tedious length about my career, and running a workshop based around the idea of creating comics from an arbitrary set of formal constraints. Because that's how I roll.

Next up will be Macc-Pow! in Macclesfield on June 22nd, who were also kind enough to invite me, except this time no planes will be involved.

Then there's a small flurry of the things around October-November - first will be the Lakes International Comic Art Festival on October 12th-13th. I found out yesterday that my application was approved, so hooray!

Following that a few weeks later is Thought Bubble, in Harrogate this year, on November 9th-10th.

And last but not least, one that's a short bus ride from my house, so it would be daft not to go: the London Winter Comic Con at the Olympia, on November 22nd-23rd.

Given the geographical spread of this year's appearances I'd be absolutely flabbergasted if anyone managed to see me at all of them, but I very much hope some of you can be at at least one.

Ideally I want to have a new self-published comic out for the end-of-year shows, which I've managed to do three years running now (one Fred the Clown book and a couple of Zoots). Nothing even slightly ready at this point in time, though, so if I manage to pull that rabbit out of a hat it may be a delightful surprise to both of us. I'm not quite at the "better pull my finger out" stage, but teetering on the edge of thinking very hard about pulling my finger out. (Which, as we all know, is a tale as old as time itself.)

Anyway, comics!

Lakes Sketches VIII

Lakes Sketches VII

Lakes Sketches VI

Lakes Sketches V

Lakes Sketches IV

Lakes Sketches III

No idea what this one was about, but I'm very accommodating.

Lakes Sketches II

It's the Boopster!

Lakes Sketches I

Here's the first of a run of sketches I drew at the Lakes Festival last weekend. Thanks to everyone involved – organisers, guests, exhibitors and visitors all – I had a great time!

Lakes International Comic Art Festival!

I'm going to be at LICAF this weekend! Here are just a few of the books I will have for sale there:

ABIGAIL AND THE SNOWMAN

This is the book of the series Boom Studios published early last year, now finally collected in a single volume - the form I originally wanted for it. I'm not even sure it's in comic book stores yet, so this will be your chance not only to get it before anybody else, but to have it signed and sketched-in by the author.

BETTY BOOP #1

I only have a limited number of copies of this, written by me and drawn by the very talented Gisèle Lagacé. Grab them early!

FRED THE CLOWN in "THE IRON DUCHESS"

My latest self-published effort, 100 pages of wordless silent movie-inspired shenanigans with the Fredster.

THE BAKER STREET PECULIARS #1-4

Again, very limited quantities of these. My most recent series from Boom!, drawn by the amazing Andy Hirsch.

I will also have many of my other books (all three volumes of Snarked!, The Show Must Go On, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Popeye, etc.), minicomics, original artwork, and will be drawing custom sketches for visitors throughout the weekend for a modest fee.

Last year was my first Lakes Festival and I had a great time. I'm sure this year will be no exception. Hope to see some of you there!

LICAF Sketches XVII

Last sketch from the Lakes Comic Art Festival. Tomorrow I'll start a short run of sketches from the Nottingham Comic Con, then we'll see what I managed to drag back from Thought Bubble.

LICAF Sketches XVI