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Sunday, 10 December 2017
Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Friday, 13 October 2017
NEW THINGS!
i'm currently working on a full issue for my football hero johnny kickfoot (written from the perspective of someone ignorant/ disdainful of the kicking game) and as such here's a few cigarette cards of some of his team mates at north town united
Sunday, 24 September 2017
Thought Bubble 2017
So I wanted to write a few words about Thought Bubble.
The weekend has just finished, the stock has returned home
and needs putting away and the biggest comics’ event of my year has finished
until next autumn. It’s always fun, but it’s also… a lot more than that to me.
Thought Bubble was when I first decided to try and do comics again back in
2010. It’s where I first did a show. It’s always the one big event I do
because, frankly, dragging all my stuff
from Todmorden to Leeds is exhausting enough without adding my fear of,
say, London into the mix.
It’s always a hard work weekend for me, not just because of
how busy it is and how many people come by my table. I’m not a sociable person
you see. It’s not just that I’m shy, although I am, I also have Asperger’s
syndrome and as such gauging customer interest, doing chit chat and promoting
myself comes with all manner of extra stresses: am I boring this person? Am I hard
or soft selling? Should I eye contact? Am I over sharing? Is this person just being
polite? All these are concerns I have on a day to day basis, let alone at a
show like Thought Bubble. They are just amplified on a stage like this show.
This year I’ve had the added stress of anxiety at high
levels. My cat was shot a few weeks ago, and although she’s doing fine, I’m not
always doing so well especially as she stars in a couple of my comics which
kind of hammers home how horrible a thing the shooting was. My wife came with
me this year to support me, but she has MS so she found it exhausting as well.
It’s been a tiring weekend.
But… but… I’m so glad I made and make the effort. Thought
Bubble can be bloody hard work but it’s also the only show where that hard work
is worth it because of the huge range of people who come in and show off their
stuff and those who come in to buy it. It’s a broad, beautiful church and it’s
one that made me think that I may have something to say and a way to say it. It
fills me with enthusiasm and ideas and possibilities. I’d love to be able to do
this stuff for a living, but that’s a long way off… but every time I do Thought
Bubble I feel I get better , I make more connections (seriously, the amount of
people who came in to thank me for Grey Fug would have made me cry on a normal
day which, thankfully, Thought Bubble very much isn’t) and feel a little closer
to my goal.
So yeah. It’s been a weekend and a half (at least) but by
God it’s been worth it.
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Thought Bubble!
sorry for having been rubbish updating the blog: i went on holiday for a blissful week in norway back in august, and then on the weekend that i came back my cat got shot by an utter (and still unknown) bastard. she's slowly getting back to health but my anxiety has been all over the place...
still. thought bubble is coming up this weekend, 23rd and 24th september, and me and my long suffering and ever patient wife, are going to be there selling my wares. i'll be at the millennium square/ comixology marquee on table 212b. come! see us! say hello! buy things! i'll have this peculiar new item ready to buy... as well as the usual rubbish
still. thought bubble is coming up this weekend, 23rd and 24th september, and me and my long suffering and ever patient wife, are going to be there selling my wares. i'll be at the millennium square/ comixology marquee on table 212b. come! see us! say hello! buy things! i'll have this peculiar new item ready to buy... as well as the usual rubbish
Thursday, 17 August 2017
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
Thursday, 10 August 2017
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Mr Pepper...
Well this time I've got the plot all sorted out, so let's hope when I say I'm intending to finish "The Eyes of Mr Pepper" I mean it
Tuesday, 27 June 2017
it'll be going online in my shop later this week. and i'm even sending out review copies which for me is... unusual to say the least
Monday, 30 January 2017
Film Diary!
(From the top: "Crimes of the Black Cat" (1972); "Death Walks at Midnight" (1972); "Don't Talk to Strange Men" (1962)"; "Terminus" (1961))
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