It's here!

Finally, The Bizarre Adventure of Gilbert & Sullivan is back from the printers and winging its way to bookstores as we speak. If you can't wait for Amazon's stock to come in, you can order it from here in the meantime:

http://www.comicsy.co.uk/soaringpenguinpress/store/products/the-bizarre-adventures-of-gilbert-and-sullivan/

Contains 100% of your recommended daily dose of daft!

I'll also be selling a limited number of copies at Manchester MCM Expo this weekend, along with prints, magnets and assorted other nicknacks. See you there!

Angry Birds hits the shelves

Angry Birds comic, that is - Angry Birds themselves are all about hitting pigs and chunks of rock. You can find a six-page comic strip drawn and coloured by my good self in this month's issue (#7), which also comes with a magnificent free giant pen. Who wouldn't want one of those, eh?

If you aren't lured in by the Pen of Awesome I'm also in the next issue, out March 4th. Who knows, maybe that one comes with a giant pencil. Here's a sneaky peeky:

Good Mornin'!

So I mentioned on Facebook a while ago that I was working on an exciting thing, but couldn't say exactly what. Well, here it is! I've been writing and drawing short comic strips for BOOM! Studio's new Uncle Grandpa series, based on the demented Cartoon Network show. If you haven't seen it, you should - it features a Giant Realistic Flying Tiger. Literally.

Issue one should be out now ((EDIT: looks like it's been pushed back to October 15th. Close enough!))

http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/07/10/boom-studios-announces-uncle-grandpa-comic-launching-in-october/

Northern Expo-sure

Very quick one folks - I'll be at the Manchester MCM Expo on July 19th and 20th, doing the usual  selling and drawing things duties. Come to my table and say Hi!

The Moosekid Cometh

So excited to (finally) be able to officially announce this! Friday June 20th sees the launch of Moosekid Comics, an all-new all-ages comic anthology featuring 36 assorted comic strips by a host of artists and writers, including Andreas Schuster, Gary Northfield, Jessica Bradley-Bove and Chris Garbutt amongst many others. Lovingly conceived and assembled by Brit comic legend Jamie Smart, issue 1 will be digital-only and COMPLETELY FREE. We hope to see big and exciting things in Moosekid's future, but for now check out the website on Friday and prepare to have your tiny mind blown by pure weapons-grade comic awesomeness.

(Here's a wee look at the stars of my strip, Flora & Fauna. Yes, they are a stick of celery and a deer. Why not?)

Feeling Expo-sed

Not good to be exposed in this freezing weather, eh chums? Seriously though, I have a stall at the MCM Midlands Comic Con in Telford tomorrow, where I'll be selling comics, posters and suchlike, and drawing portraits and any old random doodles you fancy. Although I've been to MCM events before - I'll also be at the one in Birmingham on March 25th-26th, by the way - this will be my first Telford show. I gather it's quite Anime/Manga/Gaming oriented, which suits me just fine (unless someone expects me to do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm SO. BAD. at that). Come along and say Hi if you're in the area!

http://www.mcmcomiccon.com/midlands/

What time is it? 2014 you say?? Think I hit the Snooze button a few too many times...

Heeyyy look what I found hidden under a pile of dust and old pants - it's my blog! Good thing this isn't a pet or a houseplant, because it would be seriously brown and crispy by now. But! But! Apply a little water and boom, it's alive again! And I shall be trying very hard to keep it alive this year because, well, it seems like the appropriate thing to do. It's not that stuff hasn't been happening in the last almost-two-years (oh GOD that long??), I've mostly been newsing about it on Facebook. Or not at all, because I tend to forget that people might actually want to know these things. If it looks like I'm forgetting again, someone  please prod me. Thanks.

Soooo... want some news? I recently completed volume 2 of my Gilbert & Sullivan comic series, entitled "The Sound of Music" on account of it being themed around composers (I mean, besides G&S themselves). I'm shortly going to be opening a new Comicsy web-based shop to sell my newer comics and things, but in the meantime if you want a copy please email me and I'll give you the details. Here's the cover - and yes, Sullivan does appear in drag in the comic. Of course. If that isn't enough to tempt you, Richard Bruton over at the Forbidden Planet Blog has written a review of it that you can check out (spoiler alert - he likes it).

http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/review-the-bizarre-adventures-of-cilbert-sullivan-volume-2-this-time-its-musical/