News

A young boy i've been passing on advice and skills to Jacob King recently got featured in a Welsh newspaper here is the article link Jacob King newpaper article

on Tim Perkins blog he's started his blog on last year's wonderful Malta Comic Con ,one of the best weeks of my life wizards-keep.blog

currently reviewing coloured Buddha pages for the collection, TALES OF THE BUDDHA BEFORE HE BECAME ENLIGHTENED , also still art directing Hamlet for Classical Comics, drawing a Slaine cover for Zarjaz so far the reception for my Slaine art has been very positive.

A BIG THANK YOU viewers my blogs count now is nearlly 86,000 hits amazing.

Next weekend is

i'll be there sketching and signing Saturday and Sunday plus for sale prints and original art plus im on a panel noon on the Sunday looking forward to this convention as it's my first for my 25th anniversary in comics so come along and celebrate with me .

JOHN SEVERIN R.I.P

Sadly another artist i liked growing up has just passed away the great John Severin ,

 he was a great all rounder he could draw really well and he could ink other artists work really well ,

superhero action, westerns, war , humour and caricature John was a master of them all.
he has left us with wonderful memories and great entertainment thanks John.

ZARJAZ SLAINE NIGHT MOVES COMIC STRIP OUT IN NOVEMBER

Currently drawing the cover for Zarjaz with Slaine featured on it , really enjoyed this story written by Richmond Clements "Night Moves" as it features Slaine and Ukko fighting Vampires.

I can't show full pages until the story is published but here's a selection of a few of my favourite panels , and as you can see i had alot of fun drawing this as you'll get to see my version of Slaine.

I hope Pat Mills Tharg and the readers of 2000AD and Zarjaz enjoy my efforts.

SLAINE ,UKKO COPYRIGHT REBELLION /AS 2012

MIKE WHITE R.I.P

A great U.K comic artist passed away at the weekend Mike White.
A solid professional who worked on loads of British titles downthetubes.net and Mike Perkins and Lew Stringer have all written wonderful tributes to Mike, i grew up looking at his comic strips , i always admired his draftmanship, his style .

Mike had the knack to draw anything and draw it well be it trucks, horses, football players, army commandos he could do it all.

in the 90's we both had the same Agent at Temple Rogers Agency the wonderful Pat Kelleher and i used to phone Mike and chat about Sonic the comic and other work Mike one time illustrated The Bible and he painted wonderful images for it.

 Mike drew and coloured the wonderful Golden Axe for Sonic the comic while i drew Shinobi master ninja , he was always relaxed and plesent to talk too, he just saw his job as a way to pay the bills and never took himself seriously he was a humble guy well to me anyway , he has left wonderful work which i'm sure will be always remembered be it via Sonic the comic , Roy of the Rovers, 2000ad, Action, Commando so many titles the list goes on and on he entertained thousands and thousands of kids ,several generations i for one won't forget him
all the best Mike and thanks for all the entertainment.

a great cover by Mike White for Sonic the Comic Sega /Fleetway editions

Happy 35th birthday 2000ad mini interview for Downthetubes.net

down the tubes mini interview with me

25th Anniversary limited print for Cardiff Expo

Drawn this for the Cardiff Expo ,only 25 will be printed and the print will be coloured by good friend Nigel Dobbyn

 Nigel Dobbyn's website

 this was a nice walk down memory lane for me , this is a photo of the art from my mobile phone.

this art will also feature in the 20th Anniversary issue of Tripwire  a magazine i've enjoyed buying on and off for the last 20years .

CARDIFF INTERNATIONAL COMIC AND ANIMATION EXPO NEXT MONTH

HOLLAND HOUSE MERCURE CARDIFF 25-26TH FEB 2012

SAT 10am - 6pm

SUN 10.30am - 5pm

great news guys a new publishing agreement has been signed for Tales of the Buddha !

Jon Haward will be attending the Cardiff International Comic and Animation Expo on both days to sign and sketch plus sale art and prints to start celebrating his 25yrs in the business of comic art , and on the panel Sunday will give details of the new publisher for Tales of the Buddha before he got enlightened.

Noon Sunday at the expo

NEVER MIND THE QUALITY

The British Indie comics scene is currently busier than it has

ever been, and it seems that every month new small

publishers and titles are announcing their arrival. But is this

really a good thing? Now that anyone with internet access

can publish their work worldwide does that mean there are

now more creators with less raw talent producing British

comics than ever before? Join Peter Rogers and creators

Michael Carroll, Chris Lynch, Steve Tanner, and Jon Haward

in this spirited debate!