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40 Days and 40 Nights

KLJ3 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:36:00 +0000

Give or take a few days but I like to feel this has been some kind of blogging related lent for any one who visits this site. This blog will hopefully fill in that month and a half gap and assure you I have been busy. First all if you aren’t being fed this through a web syndicator then you’ve probably noticed the redesign from the standard template which was more than over due.

Back at the beginning of February I was approached by indie horror director Stacy Davidson to…I’ve said too much. Here is a link to Stacy’s film company Odyssee Pictures and an article on his blog and below is the trailer to his latest film Sweat Shop. Just as tantalizing tidbits.

After spending almost three years as an idea somewhere in the back of my mind and on various scraps of paper around my desk I have finally started work on Obscura. This is a small comic I hope to finish and self-publish before Bristol International Comics Expo in May. Here is a glimpse at some of the early artwork.

As if the above wasn’t good enough. I’m also going to be contributing artwork to AccentUK‘s 2010 anthology Predators. I’m providing the artwork for Mark Clapham‘s words. It is a really great story entitled The Beast Within with an equally great script and I can’t wait to get started. It’s going to be so much fun.

So there you are a pretty busy and productive forty or so days. Told ya.

PS. Kevin Barry has started up a blog over at http://www.kmbarry.blogspot.com. He has posted some of the intial art for his comic Undying Faces. You really should take a look.

Listening to: ‘Barefoot Tonight’ by Miss Kittin

Dr. Von Schmerzen’s Surgical Dingbats

KLJ3 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:35:00 +0000

Its been a weird week. Full of happiness and sadness. Friends coming and going. Things working out, others falling apart. Comedy and tradegy. Therefore I’m in a very weird mood. I think that requires a bit of a weird project. It is strange what comes to you on your car drive home. Just finished my latest font; Dr. Von Schmerzen’s Surgical Dingbats. Twenty seven tools used by doctors and surgeons, past and present. The implement on the far left is a Victorian tonsil guillotin. God bless the NHS.

I’ve set myself the assignment of watching at least three new films a week. The first week I saw Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. However, the last two weeks I have faultered having only seen The X-Files: I Want To Believe and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. I’m off to rectify this by the end of today.

Listening to: ’10 Years Later’ by Mates of State

Dodger! #1

KLJ3 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:11:00 +0000

Well one of my New Year’s resolutions was to post on here more often but my best laid plans were ruined by a burnt out hard disk and the loss of about three months work. Occasions like this are what 300GB external drives are for but hadn’t quite got into a routine of regular back ups. Unfortunately unlike Warren Ellis, I’m not writing three ongoing titles for Avatar and have not been given a nice powerbook with which to work. Instead I have had to suffice with grabbing a computer where ever I can to write my next script. Despite this I’ve finally finished my script for issue #1 of Dodger!.

To celebrate I’m off to watch Planet Terror on DVD. I always forget how much I love Robert Rodriguez films. Always thought a comic title about Sands and the Chiclet boy from ‘Once Upon A Time In Mexico’ would make for an interesting concept.

Listening to: ‘I Lust You’ by Neon Neon