Comics

Slabs

SLABS: a very peculiar practice The meaning of the term ‘slabbing’ in comics is not immediately obvious ~ and, maybe, neither is the purpose.   In a nutshell, you take a mass-produced comic book with a print run in the thousands and pay a commercial company to assess the physical condition of your copy (graded …

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Redacted-Alpha

Redacted Comics: Alpha 36 pages. US Comic. £0.00   FREE DOWNLOAD Redacted Comics are a place where I enjoy bits of pre-existing works ~ but maybe not in the way their creators intended. This issue is appropriated from Alpha Flight 40 (published by Marvel Comics in 1986). The original work was by Bill Mantlo, David …

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Triptych

DC Triptych : three 1m canvases. Acrylic and enamel paintThree pictures ~ Menace, Desperation and Peril ~ recalling the halcyon days of this artist’s childhood.BACK TO WORK BACK TO WORK blogmy workpresentingconsultingshopabout metalk to me blogging & blagginglatest blatherings and writings here DC Triptych : three 1m canvases. Acrylic and enamel paintThree pictures ~ Menace, Desperation …

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Utgard-Loki

Utgard-Loki : A4. Pen and ink Útgarða-Loki, lord of castle Útgarðr in Jötunheimr, called himself Skrýmir when he met Thor, Loki and Thjalfi on the road and used his magics to bamboozle the small gods. A very early lesson in things not always being as they seem… BACK TO WORK blog my work presenting consulting …

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Threepenny

BACK TO WORK BACK TO WORK blogmy workpresentingconsultingshopabout metalk to me blogging & blagginglatest blatherings and writings here BACK TO WORK blogmy workpresentingconsultingshopabout metalk to me blogging & blagginglatest blatherings and writings here Threepenny Novel : A4. Pen and ink. Watercolour and bleachThe oldest drawings I still share are from Bertolt Brecht’s 1934 prose variant of The Threepenny Opera …

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Theseus

Theseus’ Black Sail : A4. Pen and ink Theseus never paid any bloody attention when his old dad was talking ~ after slaying the poor Minotaur, he splashed back home without changing his black sail as King Aegeus (sketch below) had told him to do so the lookouts would know he still lived… thinking his …

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Eclipse

Mistermind : A3. Digital drawing When Original Boy’s school class said they were learning about an upcoming solar eclipse, I found a diagram-like comic to be the best way to explain how the sun can hide behind the moon.   BACK TO WORK blog my work presenting consulting shop about me talk to me   …

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Fundamentally

Fundamentally Speaking : A4. Pen and ink It’s amazing how much trouble a simple typo can cause… BACK TO WORK blog my work presenting consulting shop about me talk to me   blogging & blagging latest blatherings and writings here

Mistermind

Mistermind : A4. Pen and inkJust a bit of fun, appropriating the style of various Superman artist over the years and having pun with their names…BACK TO WORK …the drawing stage.BACK TO WORK blogmy workpresentingconsultingshopabout metalk to me blogging & blagginglatest blatherings and writings here Mistermind : A4. Pen and inkJust a bit of fun, appropriating …

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BORDERx

The New Colossus : A4. Pen and ink A comic rendering of the poem by Emma Lazarus that adorns the Statue of Liberty ~ drawn for Mauricio Cordero’s BORDERx anthology highlighting the terrible situation many innocent people suffer at America’s southern border (buy it from all good bookshops, or online HERE) ~ and below is …

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