I decided I worked too hard on LIME for no one to see any of it until at least November.
So here’s the first 7 pages for you to enjoy.
My thought process for this comic was basically just “what if I made a comic that was a love letter to Jet Set Radio” I’ve had it on the back burner for years but something arose that gave the chance to finally see it though.
Later in the year I’ll have some more news on what’s going on with this project, so sit tight.
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.
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.
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.
Zine made in a day from a combination of my drawings and found images.
In September I started my MA in Sequential Design and Illustration. One of the first projects I was tasked with was creating a visual narrative in response to Ursula K Le Guin’s essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. The final pages for this comic were produced in a week and looking at it now I’m not really sure how I managed to do that.
More experiemental work.
This is my final uni project; I wanted to make a sort of graphic guide to Guy Debord’s 1967 book “Society of the Spectacle”, taking critical parts from his writing and contextualising it for a contemporary audience. Above are some of the pages from the book. At this point, it’s “done”, but it is something I’d like to return to later in the year.
Sometimes it’s good to break away from the norm, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do as much as possible this year with my work.
I finally got the opportunity to make something with a Riso printer!
A small edition of 3 zines with a combination of original artwork, detournement, and passages from some radical books.
Again, this was another uni project. But it allowed me to get to grips with Riso printing and I’m eager to do it again in the future.
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