Here’s the first 10 pages of my upcoming comic STINKHORN CITY BATTLE.
This has been a project I’ve been chipping away at on and off for over a decade but I’ve decided I’m going to take everything I’ve ever made for it, smoosh it together and create something new.
As part of my MA I’m working on a graphic novel that will consist of various vignettes of the characters featured in the comic above.
I’ve been doing a lot of a research about the correlation between queer culture and punk and that research has been informing the basis of the this project.
At the moment I’m trying to flesh out the characters to work out how I want them to interact with each other and the world, so I’ll be making more shorts like this in the coming weeks.
Recently I’ve been experimenting with an idea for the book I’m working on for my MA.
The idea, in its current state, is a story revolving around a round a group of friends (who happen to be animals) exploring they’re local punk scene together. Maybe they form a band? I dunno. Either the way the book will heavily feature the crossover between punk and queer culture and sitting outside of societal norms.
Visually I’m playing around with a collage look, using photos printed on drafting film layered on top of one another. Over the next few weeks I’ll be working on a comic to decide how viable that is for a long form project.
Could I just replicate that effect on photoshop? Of course. But that’s not nearly as fun and I want to be more hands on with this project rather than it being solely screen based.