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An angular sketch of a sketboarder. Pen on paper (leuchtturm1917)

Sunny out, busy canal, getting novel drawn! (Taken with Instagram at kleine wharf)

Graphic Novels: Short Reviews

Ron Wimberly’s ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’, probably my favourite of the bunch in terms of storytelling. It’s a quick paced adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s original novel.

 I really love Wimberly’s angular style, the facial features are full of character and quick accents. The story is a classic too, the choice to keep it in the original setting works well I think although I would’ve liked to see what wimberly would’ve done setting it in the city.

 On a side note, I watched Ray Bradbury’s commencement speech, cool fiction writing advice http://bit.ly/Hb5flP Funny stuff and wise words, although I disagree with his views on modern tech.

King City - Brandon Graham, Oh man, this stuff is intense… the cityscapes have so much depth and there’s not much about it that isn’t sitting on the edge of pure awesome. 

You can’t really turn a page without some sort of ridiculous pun either, which is kind of what comics are all about I guess. The most interesting character is a user of a chalky drug that turns the user into the drug itself, and 

Orc Stain - James Stokoe,  To be honest I haven’t really read this properly, I just love the pictures. They’re like a case study of density but what I think I like most about this is that it just looks like the dude had fun, whacking dongs in the mix just ‘cause and you can tell he gets seriously lost in his art. I’m looking forward to his Godzilla stuff.

Just a mashup of more drawings

Sketching (Taken with instagram)

A page from a piece of fiction I’m working on. 

inking a still from superbad

Just a guy exploding… definitely a work in progress.

So I see King city collected edition is out now, which has got me in the mood for preparing my graphic novel again. It’s all set to start this weekend… so I’ve got my provisions and last minute character devs (the girl here is kinda the love interest). I took these right outta my sketchbook. 

I designed a cover for Frostbyte’s ‘Chip for Cancer’ compilation, Not sure if it’ll be used on the final release but when it comes out I’ll link to it, it’s for breast cancer… so a very good cause. 

So I got my tattoo finally, been sitting on the idea for a year and I’m really stoked with it.