Nika's back!

Hip-hip hooray! Nika is back at work in the old place for the first time in seven and a half years! Here she is this evening working on a Christmas Dennis the Menace story!

The Return of the Enigmatic Eleven

Back! Two popular Dandy stories, "The ****** *****" and "******* and ******" have just left my drawing board, destined for... ah, who knows what, where, and when. More news as it happens!

Update

I'm aware some people are waiting to read my fascinating insights into the comics world, and I am working on it. Unfortunately, circumstances are proving a little tricky, but I'm sure all will be resolved before long. Anyhow you'll read all about it here!


In the meantime, here's a photo of a Dennis figure that I helped design from a few years back, to cheer everyone up!

The Avengers, Diana.

Another great page from D C Thomson's 'Diana' comic, specifically issue 222 in May 1967, drawn by Emilio Frejo, and most likely Juan Gonzalez Alacrejo. Beautiful work. Time we had this short run published in book form, surely?

Be Seeing You...

You'll never guess who's back in a little over three weeks... go on, have a guess...

Alternate Universe

This week's Beano has a shiny Robot cover- but that was only one of the options. Here's an over-the-top colour version I did for fun, but offered The Beano anyway just in case they liked it, but of course, it wasn't very Beano-like! I had in mind those 1960-63 Monster comics by Jack Kirby! Who, interestingly, I discovered this week, has another famous fan!

Bid for a Beano

Your chance to own an actual painting by The Beano Artists themselves! And all  for a good cause!! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151794160764904&set=a.443017789903.215507.93648394903&type=1&theater

Hold Everything!

I've just been informed that I can no longer make the announcement on August 27th. Sorry about that, but it's out of my hands. As soon as it becomes possible to mention it, I will, factors permitting. But I am looking forward to it very much, and let's hope it won't be long delayed.

Starting soon!

I've been a bit nonplussed at the strangely hostile reaction to fact and revelation about comics by 'comics fans' on the internet. Not all, by any means. But a few seem to be under the impression that their supposition about a comic strip that, for the sake of argument, let's say I draw, carries more weight than anything I might say about it. In this topsy turvey world of 2013, opinion and speculation is worth the same as documentation and information.
Well, as some corners of comicdom clearly have a very unsure grasp on how, why, where and when comics are made, I thought I'd share a few valuable insights into what goes on, what went on, and what will go on. All for free. Ready? OK, let's go!

Today started with Channel 5 turning up...

First thing this morning, Channel 5 turned up and set up a huge hot arc light and asked me to 'just act natural' while taping me for their feature on the 75th anniversary of The Beano. Channel 5's Ruth Liptrot went over to the Beanotown exhibition at Southbank, London at the same time, while I made her into a Beano character.

 So that's what I did today.