More Li’l Guys

Still going with this little project.

I’ve not really been feeling comics lately but I still want to create. I’ve been enjoying making these… rigs? Puppets? I could technically use these for very basic animation (but I won’t)

Goz Wants a Hug

I wrote a kids book. It’s a sorta first draft and I’m gonna read it to some focus groups (kids at work)

It was just supposed to be a story about being kind but it’s also accidentally an allegory for being queer?

Brilliant Brighton

Earlier in the year I applied to work with Brilliant Brighton for some artwork that would be on display on banners spanning North Street (and some other places)

I didn’t get the gig, sadly. But here’s some of my proposed illustrations. There was some more but they’re super rough so I’ll just shared the finished ones.

STINKHORN CITY BATTLE 2

Work has begun on issue 2 of STINKHORN CITY BATTLE. I was planning for a late May release for MCM London but I didn’t get a table this time round!

I’m still aiming for a May release but it looks like it’ll be coming out online before I make it to any other conventions this year.

You can follow more progress over at my patreon!

Incomplete

In 2019 I made an artist book for the first year of my BA. I was really in to using textures (I still am to be honest) and found objects at the time so I made an A4 size zine full of photos and collage.

I got a bunch of them printed then just sorta forgot about them because COVID happened so I wasn’t able to go to any cons or zine fairs to sell them. Recently they’ve been added to my table at events and on reflection I still really like them. I’d like to make more stuff like it in the future.

This is almost a spiritual prequel to This Comic Hasn’t Actually Got a Title Yet (the final outcome for my MA)

Here’s some spreads from it.

October 2019

I’m currently working on a massive collection of diary comics from 2019-2025. As it stands it’s looking to be a book of around 250 pages (at the very least!)

Here are some from the before times. I’ve had to remasters these ones, as well as a few others, as I went through this weird phase of not using panels in diary comics. I’ve been shuffling the art around and putting it in panels to make it a bit more user friendly.

Lime Time

This Comic Hasn’t Actually a Title Yet

In September, after what felt like a lifetime, I finished my Masters in Sequential Illustration.

Here’s the zine I made for my final out. An autoethnographic comic about my personal experience with punk and queer identity.

Cat Comix

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.