HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY HARRYHAUSEN 90 TODAY.

Happy birthday to the genius Ray Harryhausen ,as a young child i was hooked on his movies of fantasy and high adventure .

my all time favourite film is one of Ray's Jason and the Argonauts i must have seen it dozens of times but i still have goose bumps watching it.

he's a master craftsman of special effects and stop motion animation a one off and i would just like to thank him for all the wonderful entertainment that he and Charles H Schneer produced they enriched my life with their amazing films.

JIM STEWART'S GANJAMAN PRESENTS ISSUE 2 PLUG

I've known Jim Stewart for 15 years we first met at a Glasgow Comic con in 1995 at that time i was still working for Sonic the Comic drawing Shinobi Master Ninja .

anyway I've just read issue 2 of Ganjaman Presents by Numbskull comix it's adult humour for £3.50 full of sex and drugs and rock and roll so not for young kiddies

if you love VIZ ,WASTED you'll like this mag some top draw talent GILBERT SHELTON, BRYAN TALBOT, HUNT EMERSON, ALAN GRANT, DAVE ALEXANDER, PUDSEY MORRIS, BOB BYRNE have there work inside my favourite strips in this issue :

THAT WACKY RECESSION
DER WRECKED BARON
SPLIFFY
GANJAMAN IN THE VALLEY OF THE GWANJA (great spoof of the Fantastic Four)
PILGRIM
UNCLE SPUNK NUGGET
PUDSEY'S SINGLE SKINNERZ

IF YOU WANT TO EMAIL JIM FOR CONTACT OR COPIES HIS EMAIL IS jimstewart65@googlemail.com

i love Ganjaman he's a great character and it's as funny as hell
i drew a pin up for Jim of the green leaf wonder a few years back so here's the pin-up and the cover for issue 2

A FISTFUL OF BELLAMY

Frank Bellamy from a 1973 interview with Dez Skinn and Dave Gibbons

''I'd love to draw the Sergio Leone Dollars films in strip form. Not just the Dollars films because they where big successes but any Spaghetti western''

in 1976 Ally Sloper magazine issue 1 printed a three page strip by Frank of a western strip called Swade inspired by Sergio Leone

it was sadly one of the last things Frank drew so as a tribute to these visionaries here are the 1960's movie posters of the Dollars movies,

like Frank i love these movies for the style the music and the characters all three films are brilliant the movie posters are great too all painted and still look great to look at.

A FIST FULL OF DOLLARS 1964
A FEW DOLLARS MORE 1965
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY 1966

and Frank Bellamy's Swade

i love this work for it's design layout use of shadow and action there are no word balloons or thought boxes just art ,these pages still show what a great craftsman Bellamy was my thanks to the The Frank Bellamy Checklist's Norman Boyd who was kind enough to send me the Swade pages

the dollars movies copyright MGM Studios
Swade copyright Frank Bellamy

FRANK SIDEBOTTOM R.I.P

Frank Sidebottom has died from cancer. Chris Sievey was his real name under the huge over-sized, papier-mache head, he was part of my youth i loved his wacky tv show and his fun comic strips in Oink comic Lew Stringer gives a great tribute to Frank on his blog and so does Rich Johnston on bleedingcool.com

a sad loss to British comedy and entertainment

AL WILLIAMSON R.I.P

sad to hear another giant of the art of comics passed away at the weekend
Al williamson aged 79

I loved his work with John Romita Jr on Daredevil , his Flash Gordon work and Star Wars...well basically anything i saw him draw i liked.

my thoughts are with his family and friends

ART WORK BY AL WILLIAMSON FLASH GORDON

NOT FUNNY TO RIP ME OFF OR BADPRESS LTD

just found out today some scumbag has lifted images of my art from my website and used them on t-shirts the art was from two Tales of the Buddha pin-ups that had the copyright symbol on the art
this guy claims to be a fan and has had the nerve to link to my website
the art on the t-shirts are not fan drawn they are direct copies of my work I've passed on the info to Bad press that publishes Buddha and i hope we can stop this person making money from our copyrighted character to say I'm angry is underplaying it.

UPDATE THIS GETS MENTIONED ON BLEEDINGCOOL.COM SWIPE FILE HERE'S THE LINK

http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/showthread.php?18910-Kobe-Bryant-And-The-Stoned-Buddha-A-T-Shirt-Swipe-File-Special

UPDATE 21.6.2010 GLAD TO SAY THE THE MATTER HAS BEEN FIXED AND THE WORK HAS BEEN REMOVED

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Frank Quitley, Alan Grant, Jon Haward, Jamie Grant photographed at the Forbidden Planet Mega Store London 2008

JUDGE DREDD FAT FATHERS IN 2000AD MID JULY SNEAK PEEK

The Mighty Tharg has allowed me to show a page from Judge Dredd Fat Fathers story written by John Wagner drawn by me colouring by Chris Blythe as you can see i was drawing in in a tribute style to Mick Mcmahon this page took me three days to draw but was such a laugh drawing it see if you can spot Buddha in the crowd this story was drawn 12 months ago.

JUDGE DREDD 2000AD ARTWORK COPYRIGHT REBELLION A/S 2010

TIM BURTON'S ALICE IN WONDERLAND FILM

Alice in Wonderland for me is a wonderful magical ride of the imagination ,I've loved Tim Burton's work since i first saw BEETLEJUICE
Alice is a masterpiece
i just saw this film on DVD last night and it was a pure joy experience for me ,i also saw in the credits that ex -2000ad artist Dermot Power was concept artist on the film
he has a fantastic website worth checking out

http://www.dermotpower.com/

RETURN OF THE KING: NEAL ADAMS ON BATMAN

Well this is my 300th post ,so i thought would share the fact that I'm a huge Neal Adams fan have been since i saw his Uncanny X-men work reprinted in black white Marvel U.K comics in the 70's
like a lot of fans I've waited a long time for Mr Adams to return to the Dark Knight and judging by these pieces of art he's showing all the pro artists out there he's still got the guns to produce exciting entertainment!

These images are from the Neal Adams "Batman: Odyssey" series which will be 12 issues in all published by DC COMICS

THOR MOVIE DESIGN

So Thor looks like the ''Ultimates'' version with a cape a few elements from Olivier Coipel's version of Thor with the arms i have a feeling he'll not wear the winged helmet time will tell i guess.

image from bleedincool.com

CAPTAIN AMERICA MOVIE DESIGN

JUST SAW THESE ON AIN'T IT COOL NEWS THE DESIGN FOR CHRIS EVAN'S CAPTAIN AMERICA , I LIKE IT ALOT VERY ''ULTIMATES'' IN DESIGN AND SHOULD LOOK VERY COOL ON SCREEN
I DON'T KNOW WHO DESIGNED THE COSTUME OR DID THE GRAPHICS BUT THEY LOOK GREAT