Portraits

April 8th, 2011
Ink on Bristol, Photoshop

Ink on Bristol, Photoshop

This was my second comic with Cloudscape Comics, published in our third anthology: Funday Sunnies.  It was a humour issue, but since I am very bad at “deliberate humour”, I tried to figured out what the most “deliberate” kind of humour there was.  The black-and-white inks are here.

Followers of Ludd

April 8th, 2011
Ink on Bristol

Ink on Bristol

This comic was the first comic that I published with the Cloudscape Comics Society, for our second book: Historyonics.  It was a real challenge, because I have never been to England, and yet here I was writing a comic about its history (in a rough approximation of the style of political cartoons from that era, no less).  That’s why the dialogue is so forced.  Pages 2-6 after the jump.

Read on…;

Teutonic Deathsquad

June 16th, 2010
Ink, Photoshop

Ink, Photoshop

The full title of this piece is “Fake Bands that should be Real Bands: Teutonic Deathsquad”.  It’s the first in a series (hopefully!) of fake concert posters for made-up bands.  Each poster will reflect the genre of the bands (and the style of posters that often goes with those genres).

For what it’s worth, Teutonic Deathsquad is a Crusade-death-metal band from Manchester.  They are Christian, but (as their sub-sub-genre suggests), they hold a rather antiquated view of the religion.  No black metal kids would dare to burn down the Deathsquad’s church – they’d wind up with a sword in their guts.  Despite views that differ from most of the metal scene, Teutonic Deathsquad is well-respected in the underground.

Zygote Humanity play a kind of sludgy grindcore, focusing on existentialist themes.  Their music evokes the sheer terror of being alive.

Lucifer’s Hooked Sceptre (three guesses as to what “hooked sceptre” is a euphemism for) are still finding their niche, and have only recently started touring.  They are a fairly run-of-the-mill gory death metal band (with aspirations of one day warranting the label “technical”) but they are young and dedicated, with growing potential.

CARS ARE THE NEW CIGARETTES

April 27th, 2010
Ink, Photoshop

Ink, Photoshop

Bruce Sterling has said “cars are the new cigarettes” on his blog a few times (though I’m sure he wasn’t the originator of the phrase) and I liked it so much that I decided to make a poster out of it.  I’m not happy with the type, but I don’t have many fonts on my computer and, more importantly, I am bad at typography.  I am reading my Bringhurst, though.

What I like about this poster is that it’s subtle.

The Illusion of Passivity

February 21st, 2010
Ink, Watercolour on Paper

Ink, Watercolour on Paper

Once again escaping representation.  I’m doing more art lately, but I really can’t commit myself to a specific style (although, in broad strokes, this is very much the same kind of thing I’ve been doing for a couple years now).  I can’t really afford to quit doing representational stuff, though, especially since I’m trying to boost my craft.  This was a birthday present for Erica!