tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73685478356791160612024-03-16T08:32:49.974+00:00Nigel Parkinson CARTOONSThat's what he does. Cartooning in comics for 44 years this year, should be getting the hang of it anytime now...
NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-24831296962884215282024-03-07T13:10:00.004+00:002024-03-07T13:18:10.847+00:002024 Upcoming dates!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJu0kigmwDiCrT2iWZ92gkmcl_LqRKbrr2llLZ0Gv5lWpK536cqFpyVIChZbcKh03aWxeTjrKedzJ5OMUkQilF5JB-gDRpdKjZw_mM03dBZFXXrpEcxFuW2ZJisq1GmeQBjegTcvuO_vTtYn5xNZzuQOfdrKtH_B8FyILGa8Nc267MT3X7QSKMFMCRRM/s1551/NP23%20C.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1551" data-original-width="1339" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJu0kigmwDiCrT2iWZ92gkmcl_LqRKbrr2llLZ0Gv5lWpK536cqFpyVIChZbcKh03aWxeTjrKedzJ5OMUkQilF5JB-gDRpdKjZw_mM03dBZFXXrpEcxFuW2ZJisq1GmeQBjegTcvuO_vTtYn5xNZzuQOfdrKtH_B8FyILGa8Nc267MT3X7QSKMFMCRRM/w242-h281/NP23%20C.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: x-small;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhP7VQEDWPi_oNk3RPwB7C1N_5pvuE2pMlByrzmtGQHPIZNJlN3xTvWhIheMP4PvuXecHr-vTaHfWkg-57gGtj0nwFqDk_UcxQjcEUaI5tHJIixYjdUhqf1N4Q5lc7_KdpmZ_1Qt6L9S43ZjMFleuy-L6hKeMWrdhrMioV_5KuY6yXDGhXVRuVo4qXeOE/s1061/niki.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="1061" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhP7VQEDWPi_oNk3RPwB7C1N_5pvuE2pMlByrzmtGQHPIZNJlN3xTvWhIheMP4PvuXecHr-vTaHfWkg-57gGtj0nwFqDk_UcxQjcEUaI5tHJIixYjdUhqf1N4Q5lc7_KdpmZ_1Qt6L9S43ZjMFleuy-L6hKeMWrdhrMioV_5KuY6yXDGhXVRuVo4qXeOE/w231-h231/niki.jpg" width="231" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">** shows with Nika !</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Back on the road again! More to be announced later!<br /><span style="color: #f1c232;">2, 3 March</span> London Olympia</span><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">9, 10 March</span> Westpoint, Exeter **</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">23 March</span> Carlisle Comic Con **</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">20 April</span></span> <span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">Northwich, Cheshire **</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">27, 28 April</span> Blackpool Winter Gardens **</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">6 May</span> (Bank Holiday Monday) Buxton **</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">18, 19 </span></span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">May </span> Barry Island Comic Con **</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">24, 25, 26 May</span> London MCM Excel</span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: right;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">1 June</span> </span><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: right;">Nantwich, Cheshire **</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">22 June</span> Brighton</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">5, 6, 7 July</span> London Olympia</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;">** <span style="color: #f1c232;">13 July </span> Gloucester Comic Con **</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">3 August </span>Neston, Wirral</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div></div></div>NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-55968522382204213622023-03-20T12:24:00.022+00:002023-11-06T16:46:10.315+00:00Back on the road- on the rails- in the air- on the water<p>So far this year we've done Glasgow Paisley, Bristol*, London Kensington (twice), London Battersea, London Excel (twice), London Islington Design Centre, Crosby Liverpool*, Cardiff, Glasgow ACME*, Dundee*, Morecambe, Blackpool, Derby, Warrington*, Manchester, Bowness-on-Windemere*, Stockport*, Enniskillen and Exeter* (twice*)- but that's not all!<br />Here are our upcoming shows, asterisked ones feature Nika my colour artist too!<br /></p><p>More to be announced in 2024!</p><div style="background-color: #0c1a22; color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #0c1a22; color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11-12 November Harrogate</span></div><div style="background-color: #0c1a22; color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">18-19 November *Telford</span></div><div style="background-color: #0c1a22; color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1-3 December Birmingham MCM</span></div><div style="background-color: #0c1a22; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-44511124625758670262023-02-04T08:27:00.003+00:002023-02-04T08:37:18.845+00:002023 Update<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLeRjLWUuWWoqUVDAy_foppA8pTkqGTc_CLbEmpmI7DjW3FDFTrXLofNTJwg3Prn4IT_xfwjn6DK8jWB6I_ZQSFHu_zYDiqFQoeHZM2AD2i4RVsrFerOce4Ln2unYBatfsWwnRpwi9KOOp8h5nb9CJ69Fj12o3RSEhqRSsAeATvJy2DhRtj-3Ufvp/s1102/0000000000--.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="1102" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLeRjLWUuWWoqUVDAy_foppA8pTkqGTc_CLbEmpmI7DjW3FDFTrXLofNTJwg3Prn4IT_xfwjn6DK8jWB6I_ZQSFHu_zYDiqFQoeHZM2AD2i4RVsrFerOce4Ln2unYBatfsWwnRpwi9KOOp8h5nb9CJ69Fj12o3RSEhqRSsAeATvJy2DhRtj-3Ufvp/s320/0000000000--.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>BBC Breakfast on January 21st had a tribute to the late David Sutherland OBE and, as the only available-to-go-to-Salford Media City at 6am on a freezing cold Saturday, I was selected to appear live. <p></p><p><br />Back to normal the following weekend, when some of we Beano cartoonists and writers had our annual Christmas dinner, traditionally a month late, in Birmingham.</p><p><br /></p><p>And soon I'll be out in the world again doing conventions and signings and talkings and drawings and so come along if you want, I'll be there. </p><p><br />As dates are officially announced, I'll link to them but in the meantime, pencil in these towns and cities and these Saturdays and or Sundays (and a Friday or three) just so you don't miss anything!<br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">18 February Glasgow </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">4-5 March London </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">11-12 March Exeter </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">18 March Bristol </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">25 March Liverpool</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">10 April Morecambe </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">15-16 April Blackpool </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">28-30 April London </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">13 May Manchester</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">26-28 May London </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">3-4 June Enniskillen </span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">7-9 July London</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">6 August Derby</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #0c343d; font-size: medium;">...and others, to be announced later! </span></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-33073842558749535672022-05-13T16:03:00.002+01:002022-06-01T21:51:27.199+01:00Back In The wild<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9wqjT9XD_bMqJBsrBFoQEfbXgqMEIInGlUVgACloOoY6XA4Fn1sZvWT42Il2I6qq92vAdq0M_7pbKc57rb0fAQ-Fq881zTysMVGH6ceGBcNamKTY7LSvCC_gRQxAjlNPkF3sJCE6jGEfM6R8wBPXWMb_RgN3p91iC-iDp9bIIh8E0M0uG6zEA97Hg/s922/54515.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="922" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9wqjT9XD_bMqJBsrBFoQEfbXgqMEIInGlUVgACloOoY6XA4Fn1sZvWT42Il2I6qq92vAdq0M_7pbKc57rb0fAQ-Fq881zTysMVGH6ceGBcNamKTY7LSvCC_gRQxAjlNPkF3sJCE6jGEfM6R8wBPXWMb_RgN3p91iC-iDp9bIIh8E0M0uG6zEA97Hg/s320/54515.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>We started back out into the Comic Con circuit back in October last year and have already been to Bristol, Bath, Exeter, London, Hull, Telford, Portsmouth and Stockport. This summer, we are pleased to be able to announce these upcoming appearances, and many more will be revealed for September, October, November and even December as the year goes on!</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">27,28,29 May</span> MCM London Excel</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">25,26 June </span>Shrewsbury Comics Salopia</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">8,9,10 July</span> LFCC London Olympia</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">23,24 July</span> Cleethorpes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">30, 31 July</span> Truro</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">6 August</span> Wigan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">14 August</span> Buxton</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">20 August</span> Stockport WOW</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span style="color: #f1c232;">10 September</span> Birmingham</span></div></div></span></b></div><div class="i4vd5e" style="display: table-cell; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></div><div class="G1Rrjc" data-ved="2ahUKEwjUtebn2tz3AhWGTcAKHUDMC68QrwYoAHoECAkQAw" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"></div></div><p></p>NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-76344791656187083342021-05-27T21:24:00.006+01:002021-05-27T21:53:33.867+01:002021 - We're (Probably!) 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<div style="text-align: justify;">Before we were so rudely interrupted, we had plans to visit Brighton and Bath and other places and now we may very likely be back, double vaccinated, with fresh paper and marker pens!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Watch this space for updates as I add dates (I'm negotiating 12 months in advance so with luck we'll be down your way before long!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Masks on, hand gel, no handshakes, no coughing, sneezing, come along and say hello!</div>
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NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-8887479561585507092020-09-08T14:01:00.010+01:002020-11-15T16:37:31.706+00:0021,914 days later -or How I BeganAll my life I've had a very accessible memory. That is, I remember things very easily and vividly and can place them in my time line and a general time line. It's not 100%, It's a mild version of "hyperthemesia" and usually it's pleasant enough to be able to recall what was in the charts and in the news the day you had a nice trip to the coast and what comics you bought and what you saw on TV. Mundane or significant, I seem to remember it.<br />
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I've mentioned on here and on Facebook and in podcasts and broadcasts and print interviews that I remember my grandfather who had been a draughtsman, a stonemason and a sign painter for the council, showing me for the first time how to hold a pencil and that the first things I drew were cars, vans and buses on a long straight road, which he looked at and said "that's very good" And as he died when I was just 2 and was ill for a few months that this moment must have been when I was no more than 18 months old. </div>
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Well, now you can judge for yourself whether he was right to suggest I was very good at that age- on Sunday, I found that first drawing I ever did. And I was 16 months old.</div>
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Background to the discovery: My dad loved magazines, newspapers, books, etc. So much so he made his own! He'd cut out photos and jokes and interesting stuff and make a scrapbook with his own drawings. In one book dated 1936 (he would have been 19) there were a few blank pages left and it was on a couple of these I made my first drawing attempt with his and his father-in-laws encouragement. This was in October 1960, in other words, 60 years ago.<br />
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My mother was adamant no paper should be kept in the house unless it was a book. Out in the bins went practically every drawing I did in my younger years as it was all on loose paper. My dad unfortunately died while still a youngish man at 46, just before I was 5. My mum did keep three of his scrapbooks. Including this one; by sheer chance although she thew out 99.999% of everything I drew in the 60s and 70s (and I drew every day, all the time,) she had unknowingly accidentally preserved the very first time I ever drew anything.<br />
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I opened the book and looked through it a few times marvelling at how tuned-in to the times dad was in the 1930s and what an eye for design and content he had. And it was only on the fourth or fifth flick through that I saw these 'scribbles'. Looking closer it was quite a jolt to see these were not from the 1930s but 1960, and I had done them myself- they were those first drawings on that first day I held my first pencil- and they were exactly as I remembered them. </div>
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On page 1, I start with a circle. A few attempts. I was trying to draw a wheel. Then I start to draw a car. It doesn't go well, I lost track of what I wanted to draw so over to page 2 (on the right hand side I went back later that day and added a more acceptable vehicle!)<br />
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On page 2, I draw a van, bonnet up, spark plugs exposed, starting handle ready. Excited by how easy it seemed, I drew another van, back door open, wheel nuts out on the side of the road, and now with a sign on the side- although I couldn't read or write! I remember doing that and being so pleased it looked like a real sign (with the benefit of hindsight I can accept that was youthful excitement at finding a new skill!) And a little angry driver. The first character I ever drew.</div>
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Most editors like a writer to write a script which he or she can then pass on to an artist to draw it and send it back and everyone knows what they're doing. I never found it easy to write like that. Over the last ten years I've occasionally written scripts but they are usually written after I've drawn the page. In 2015 I was suddenly informed that we needed a two page Minnie the Minx urgently. Over lunch, myself and fellow cartoonist/writer Paul Palmer, who came over once or twice a week to help with backgrounds and frames and inking, and run scripts past me or ask for ideas, came up with this story and I started drawing it before we'd worked out the details. In the end, we just strung a load of old gags together but I think it suited Minnie!<br />
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As a child in the Soviet Union and then as a teeenager in Greece, Nika dreamed of drawing, colouring, comic books and comic strips. And quite by chance, she came to live in England when she was 21, and the city she chose was Liverpool. Which is where I am.<br />
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<span style="text-align: right;">And back on the unseen weekly work of preparing comics, Nika is invaluable, taking the vaguest instructions from me and presenting the finished product I had in mind! See this 2016 Minnie the Minx which I wrote and drew and she coloured and fixed up for a good example.</span></div>
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NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-73813621559609377982020-06-17T23:34:00.001+01:002020-07-01T08:45:59.625+01:00I Will Draw For You!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45Bm9eAoHudVeOp6cOm8EfR4ja5CMGmrmpEyO_0i-QtugVib7wVBWOXN6ORGHgFllXPsO2nBi-7uACL-JAIog68SmCMXX12GibKtaqcbNgap14AdJL79oR0TmeEGoITtOaFPIhekkVo8/s1600/Nigel+Parkinson+m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="264" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh45Bm9eAoHudVeOp6cOm8EfR4ja5CMGmrmpEyO_0i-QtugVib7wVBWOXN6ORGHgFllXPsO2nBi-7uACL-JAIog68SmCMXX12GibKtaqcbNgap14AdJL79oR0TmeEGoITtOaFPIhekkVo8/s200/Nigel+Parkinson+m.jpg" width="196" /></a>From July 1st to August 1st I will be accepting commissions for drawings, in lieu of attending comic cons, so now is your chance to get a bespoke illustration! Prices start at only £15 for a nice black and white (and a bit of red) A5 and go up to who knows what!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #999999;">2019 saw me finally get to more than wave at, for example </span><b><i>David Leach</i></b><span style="color: #999999;"> (I supported his successful attempt to meet one of his heroes!) </span><b><i>Mike Collins</i></b><span style="color: #999999;"> (he does more shows than I do, and he has a big friendly family!) </span><b><i>Sonia Leong</i></b><span style="color: #999999;"> (the heart and soul of Manga in a sharp suit) and </span><b><i>Paulina Vassileva</i></b> <span style="color: #999999;">(who could have predicted that late night chats in hotel bars in Heathrow and Cardiff would be real highlights of the year?!) </span></span></div>
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NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-67390913372247740312019-07-22T15:42:00.000+01:002019-07-22T15:42:18.340+01:00Big Big Big Day Out<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAxEbqHgEpSqZ7cHNbWUN1kixBsBqXe2tB7v8yyDSuQNJl2iU0a6vZcXK8l4Skv1iXzpfu8JWrpXtHH-uefoJyHWXcmnp-PRSw0grjBjACSyLZswx3RpiY-bh3ATbrXAP4acGudpijDA/s1600/67471993_2330666693646387_2554900345868255232_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJAxEbqHgEpSqZ7cHNbWUN1kixBsBqXe2tB7v8yyDSuQNJl2iU0a6vZcXK8l4Skv1iXzpfu8JWrpXtHH-uefoJyHWXcmnp-PRSw0grjBjACSyLZswx3RpiY-bh3ATbrXAP4acGudpijDA/s320/67471993_2330666693646387_2554900345868255232_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>In the middle of a frantic summer of events, here's a quick look at something I did in May but which was only 'published', as a one-off colossal wall fixture, on Saturday! It's part of the Beano Time Travellers Exhibition and Trail at Mottisfont Hall, Hampshire. Here's NT person Helen proving just how big it is!<br />And here's one of the pictures from it, and a close up of me next to Dennis's head, if more proof were needed just HOW BIG the whole thing is!!<br />
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By the end of 2019 if everything goes to plan, I will have done 67 Comic cons or other Comic-related events since Sunderland in February 2015, most with Nika.<br />
Some places we've done more than once, so you can tell we must have left the place tidy. London, we did events in Baker Street, Kensington High Street, Waterloo and Olympia, and even all the way over in Docklands. Manchester saw us at Trafford Park, at Central, and I did a solo one at Manchester Library while Nika was in Greece letting the grandparents get to know her new son. In Liverpool we did the hotel where I had met my brother for the first time (true fact) and at the newly built Exhibition Centre, a 10 minute walk from home for me. This summer we'll be doing some places we've been before, like Blackpool, Macclesfield and London, and a lot of new ones like Shrewsbury, Norwich and Sheffield. You'll notice we haven't done any in North Wales, or way out West, so, if you're thinking of having an event, why not ask us! We're always very popular with the public!NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-62910601805838064702019-03-09T22:20:00.003+00:002019-03-16T22:25:05.323+00:00Untold, But Not For Much Longer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hope to finally bring Part 4 of my untold secrets blog posts very soon- I've been negotiating. Stay tuned.NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-37936233007004186732019-01-30T09:50:00.000+00:002019-01-30T09:50:35.380+00:00And on Monday I Drew...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We nearly had Sam Emms (Spectra), Tommy Donbavand, Andy Fanton, Hugh Raine, Leslie Stannage, Duncan Scott, Steve Bright, Nika Nartova and even Dave Sutherland too, but they all had to decline for various very good reasons!<br />Maybe next year we'll have all of them and even more.<br />
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On November 1st 2000 I had an idea! For some reason, my sister's favourite song went through my mind, the Doris Day song, Que Sera, Sera. And then I imagined if Bea was asking her brother instead of Doris asking her mother, and voila, a 2 page feature for the Dennis the Menace Annual 2002, published in September 2001.<br />
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Fewer Comic Con appearances this year for me and Nika- I've already done the first one, at Liverpool Exhibition Centre.<br />
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The next one is March 31st in Northwich, in Cheshire, nothing in April yet, let's see how this one goes.<br />
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Then we're doing Blackpool and Oldham in May, and in June, Macclesfield and a special event in Bradford which includes an appearance by just me at the Bradford Literary festival on 30th June. And in July we'll be somewhere or other.<br />
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There will be others, but for now that's the list. Nika fans should know she may not be at all or indeed any of these venues, as she now has an 11 week old to look after!NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-82484180873306208772018-01-07T18:24:00.001+00:002019-01-30T19:29:56.628+00:00Cuddles and Dimples, Snot Fair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The final page of an unpublished three page Cuddles and Dimples from 2007. Yes, it's just what it looks like, they're knitting a snot jersey at Granny's house. Who knows why. Colours by Ruth who replaced Nika for a year or so.NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-69169416592059969452018-01-05T09:20:00.001+00:002018-01-05T09:23:06.758+00:00Channel4 News: Dennis Still a Menace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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comic strip, was not used anyway. So here it is, exclusively. Written by Nigel Auchterlounie, drawn by me.NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-33635296528207550722017-11-09T09:53:00.001+00:002017-11-09T09:54:10.751+00:00Revealed: Secret of The Pencil!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4lyf7-FTTMxyYYcL36lFgLjZvqm1179uytZWguFwmrKPHYOusT-qSvC41rz7yrby5pPga7_Pzqtbr2nBkiuXaaz25PuXnmGjbgblHcUWquEX5577Go3Pz0YO6oU_AkPJwaL0XWILl7h0/s1600/DENNIS+1+and+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="445" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4lyf7-FTTMxyYYcL36lFgLjZvqm1179uytZWguFwmrKPHYOusT-qSvC41rz7yrby5pPga7_Pzqtbr2nBkiuXaaz25PuXnmGjbgblHcUWquEX5577Go3Pz0YO6oU_AkPJwaL0XWILl7h0/s320/DENNIS+1+and+2.jpg" width="228" /></a>The Secret Life of The Pencil was published last week- a hardbound book of super-close-up photos of PENCILS! Not any old pencils though, these belong to artists, photographers, architects, designers, writers, why there's even a cartoonist or two. (Yes, I am in it, on the same spread as Peter Blake!) Most of those included you will have heard of; Gerald Scarfe, Paul Smith, William Boyd, Anish Kapoor, David Bailey, Tracey Emin and so on. And there are brief interviews and doodles and stuff. Who would have thought huge blow-ups of pencil tips could be a) so intriguing and b) all look so different!<br />
These photos were in an exhibition in London a couple of years ago, and seeing my little pencil at the GIGANTIC size of 3 foot by 2 foot in the foyer was quite something!NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368547835679116061.post-73118501439698960742017-11-03T22:19:00.004+00:002017-11-03T22:19:33.326+00:004,000 Holes, 1 Comic Con<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuH9tGUYhiknjb-YAxYdOmhtrrPIPLfHrLub71nz7BKy6qDCBen7Dy78NXG_h6Z39Jz4MUl77bnvw6pgs7rDUTSLiFGDq7b8_ZDctb1Q8r48vpOj70cKmkWdmlIHvvgto-5SUqnRLlQw/s1600/Nigel+Parkinson+m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="264" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuH9tGUYhiknjb-YAxYdOmhtrrPIPLfHrLub71nz7BKy6qDCBen7Dy78NXG_h6Z39Jz4MUl77bnvw6pgs7rDUTSLiFGDq7b8_ZDctb1Q8r48vpOj70cKmkWdmlIHvvgto-5SUqnRLlQw/s200/Nigel+Parkinson+m.jpg" width="196" /></a>It's Saturday, 4 November, and I'm at the Blackburn Comic Con! But it's just me this time, Nika can't go because of a reason.<br />Anyway, come and see me, get a free badge, this is my final Comic Con of 2017!<br />
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A few years ago in 2011, after a 15 month run in The Dandy, I said I'd finished drawing Harry Hill and he wouldn't be back.<br />A few months after that, I drew him again in a Dennis the Menace story in The Beano.<br />In December 2012 I drew him again in the final print edition of The Dandy.<br />
And now, he's back, in The Beano for one week only!<br /><br />But never again!<br />
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Until...NPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11576357868923002621noreply@blogger.com0