MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

WISHING MY FANS AROUND THE WORLD A VERY SAFE WARM AND BLISSFUL YULE TIME AND A BUDDHA-FUL NEW YEAR!

WONDER WOMAN MANGA-ISH PIN UP

Drew this for fun mixing Manga and Bruce Timm and Adam Hughes design elements, pleased with the end result a nice folio piece.

colouring by Jason Cardy

WONDER WOMAN COPYRIGHT DC ENTERTAINMENT 2011

TRIBUTE TO 50 YEARS OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR by Jolly Jon Haward and Sizzling Simon Williams

colouring Jason Cardy

FANTASTIC FOUR ,DR DOOM, HULK, SPIDER-MAN COPYRIGHT MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT 2011

BOY WONDER JACOB KING

I would like the pleasure to introduce you to young Jacob King a young boy who lives in Aberdare Wales in the U.K ,
he's super talented and a joy to teach , he has skills way pass his age and i teach Jacob what he wants to learn

He's only 10yrs old and i think he has a very bright future in Commercial Art .
Please check out his blog Jacobs doodle art blog

PERFECT GIFTS FOR A CHILD AT CHRISTMAS CLASSICAL COMICS GRAPHIC NOVELS

CLASSICAL COMICS WEBSITE
Classical Comics produce wonderful high quality graphic novels of classical literature for all ages of readership,
a great Christmas gift idea for a loved one.

It's been a pleasure and a honour to work for them, please support this small independent company
thank you.

COMMISSION GALACTUS VS ONE PIECE THERMAL MAN IN KIRBY STYLE

This commission was penciled in King Kirby style from the classic Fantastic Four cover 49, this was alot of fun to draw .
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GALACTUS COPYRIGHT MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT 2011

THE TEMPEST CHINESE EDITION COVER

So cool to see my art with another language on it, here's the Chinese cover version of
Classical Comics The Tempest my pencil art was inked by Gary Erskine and  coloured by Nigel Dobbyn 

JUDGE DREDD & BATMAN

Drawn for fun

JUDGE DREDD COPYRIGHT REBELLION A/S
BATMAN COPYRIGHT DC ENTERTAINMENT 

SLAINE NIGHT MOVES STORY FOR ZARJAZ FANZINE

Some behind the scenes stuff , one of the things to draw on my studio desk is a 6 page Rich Clements Slaine story for  ZARJAZ  called Night Moves where Slaine has to face some creatures of the night....Vampires , this will be fang-tastic to draw

so here's some character sketches and one of my page roughs as you can see my own page roughs are very loose not like the roughs i drew for Classical Comics which needed more details as another artist would be using them for ref.
hope you enjoy this behind the scenes exclusive

SLAINE COPYRIGHT REBELLION A/S 2011

ATTENDING AS A GUEST AT THE MALTA COMIC CON IN NOVEMBER

Very pleased to say i'll be a guest at this years Malta Comic Con on the 26th and 27th November , this will be my first convention outside of the U.K so i'm looking forward to meeting European followers of my art.
as you can see there are some great guests this year GUESTS

THE WORKS CARDIFF MARVEL POCKET BOOKS DISPLAY

My friend and fellow ace comic strip artist Simon Williams took photos of me standing next to displays of Panini Marvel pocket books at THE WORKS shop in Cardiff in Wales U.K on Saturday .
As you can see they are reduced from £3.99 to £1.99 so grab them while they are at cut price !

all the covers apart from the Spectacular Spiderman cover where penciled by me ,this cover was drawn by John Royle, but inside the Spectacular Spider-man collection was strip art that both I and Simon had drawn for Panini's Spectacular Spider-man Adventures comic if you read Simon's blog the shop even had the Spider-man annual and Marvel Heroes Annual 's that has Simon's art reprinted in them .

Simon's blog

 we asked the staff if it was ok to photo the covers saying we where the artists who worked on the books but they didn't seem to believe us , we chuckled and took some snaps on Simon's phone , here they are .

the dvd box collections of THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SPIDER-MAN and THE UNCANNY X-MEN
on sale in the shop even had Simon's art on the covers .
It was nice for both of us to see our work on display,
thanks Simon for the photos

SLAINE SKETCH FROM 1996

CLASSICAL COMICS GET RE- PUBLISHED IN CHINA !

John Freeman got the scoop on this yesterday here's the info ,
very exciting for everyone who worked on the books

http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2011/09/classical-comics-goes-chinese.html

And hello to all the new readers in China !

TEAM CALZAGHE BOXING LEGENDS AND TOP GUYS

Had the pleasure last night to meet the one and only JOE CALZAGHE  CBE, MBE

Britain's only undefeated boxing world champion,
Calzaghe was the longest-reigning boxing world champion of the modern era.
He has a fight record of 46-0, 32 of which by TKO and his father ENZO CALZAGHE MBE and his grand children when i attended their gym for a evening of entertainment and a demo of sparring .

my Father and I always enjoyed watching Joe strut his stuff in the ring , always nice to meet a icon who is down to earth and a easy going nice chap, no ego or body guards , his father was friendly and full of fun playing guitar he strutted out Johnny b good for the crowd and i really enjoyed my evening in their company.

http://www.joecalzaghe.com/

COSMIC EXCURSIONS

I've started a new blog showcasing my friend's poems which i'm illustrating
Paul Jonathan Stokes is a unpublished poet who i think should reach a wider audience i hope you enjoy the blog , any feedback or follow would be welcome. http://cosmicexcursions.blogspot.com/

I.T SUPPORT HEROES FOR NEW WEBSITE

I was asked by net communities.com to create the look of four new super heroes who would appear in a online comic , TEX, SUPER ADMIN, MOBILE AVENGER and DR RESCUE for this website    itsupporthero.com I drew 24 pages of comic strip art the colouring on the project was by my good friend John Charles

Here's my character designs i drew and coloured in markers

Here's my character pose rough of the characters in action

here's TEX in action drawn by me coloured by John Charles

Here's SUPERADMIN in action drawn by me coloured by John Charles

Here's MOBILE AVENGER in action drawn by me coloured by John Charles

and finally DR RESCUE drawn by me and coloured by John Charles i thought it would be cool if the character teleported to the rescue like the Doc from Star Trek's Voyager

here's a few pages drawn for this project , we didn't have alot of time on this job , but i think we did quality work on show ,the client wanted '' classic super hero '' so again i used alot of wizz lines and Kirby crackle in the art , i would like to thank Net Communities for allowing me to show this work on my blog.

KISS MY AXE

SLAINE MAC ROTH and his Dwarf  Ukko pin-up drawn for fun , basically how i would draw them , drawn late at night with a gale blowing outside in the Welsh valley of Aberdare.

Here's my rough doodle to get the composition down on paper

SLAINE CHARACTER COPYRIGHT REBELLION A/S 2011

MACBETH AND FRANKENSTEIN HARD COVER LIBRARY EDITIONS

you can now buy hard cover library editions of Macbeth and Frankenstein original text graphic novels by Classical Comics

MACBETH NOW PUBLISHED IN SWEDEN

Just recieved via Clive Bryant Editor and Publisher of Classical Comics a new foreign edition of Macbeth The Graphic Novel , its translated by Maria Froberg and published in Sweden by Argasso bokforlag AB.

so a big hello Swedish readers ! who might drop by and see my blog.

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TALES OF THE BUDDHA BEFORE HE GOT ENLIGHTENED

art copyright Alan Grant / Jon Haward colouring by Jamie Grant 2011

SLAINE SKETCH CARD ART FOR 2000AD FAN IAN LEONARD