Monday, 4 September 2023

'Crowthorn' Comic Now on Sale

 My latest comic 'Crowthorn' is back from the printers today and is now on sale. It's a 36 page A5 black and white comic. This comic tells the story of Crowthorn, a small village near my house that was built by orphans in Victorian times. It's more history based than my Croal comics. I went for a walk round the village as it is now, and drew most of the buildings and views. 

It is priced at £4.50 with free postage in the UK. If you live abroad please buy it in my shop on the blog here, and click the overseas postage button right at the top of the page. Thanks! 


Here's the cover and the first couple of pages. 





Front Cover For My 'A Dragon So Stupid Looking' Comic

 Here's the front cover for my dragons comic. It's called 'A Dragon So Stupid Looking'. It still needs some more work on it, once I get some new black ink for my brush pen. 

My 'Crowthorn' comic is on it's way in delivery, it's in Ramsbottom at the moment so it might come today, or tomorrow. I'll put it on sale once it turns up.



Thursday, 31 August 2023

'Snkt'

 Here's another row of panels from my dragons comic. It's going to be called 'A Dragon So Stupid Looking'. I've been drawing the front cover this week so I'll put that up next week, unless my 'Crowthorn' comic comes back from the printers.



Monday, 28 August 2023

'This Adventure is a Lot More Scary'

 Here's another row of panels from my dragons comic in progress. I've finished drawing it now, its 36 pages. I'll do a front cover this week. 



Thursday, 24 August 2023

'Hello' 'Hello'

 Here's another row of panels from my dragons comic in progress. 



Tuesday, 22 August 2023

Proof Copy of my 'Crowthorn' Comic

 I got the proof copy of my 'Crowthorn' comic today. Everything looks good so now on to the printing. I am getting near the end of my dragons comic now, it will be a short little one. 




Monday, 21 August 2023

Dragons on the Trail

 Here's another half page of my dragons based comic in progress. 



Thursday, 17 August 2023

'Whomp'

 Here's another two rows of panels from my dragons comic in progress. I'm up to page thirty of this now, hoping to make it about thirty six pages long. 



Monday, 14 August 2023

Dragon Training

 Here's two rows of panels from my dragons comic in progress. 



Thursday, 10 August 2023

Chores of the Dragon Riders

 Here's another row of panels from my dragons comic in progress. 



Tuesday, 8 August 2023

'Crowthorn' Off to the Printers

 I've sent my 'Crowthorn' comic off to the printers now. Next step is to get the print proof and then the printing. It's going to be A5, 36 pages, black and white.



Monday, 7 August 2023

'Isn't He Beautiful'

 Here's another row of panels from my dragons comic in progress. 



Thursday, 3 August 2023

'I Wonder What Kind of Dragon It'll Be?'

 Here's a full page of my dragon comic in progress. I'm up to page twenty four of this now.



Monday, 31 July 2023

A Sleeping Dragon

 Here's a row of panels of a sleeping dragon from my new comic in progress. The character is nervously trying to steal its egg.



Thursday, 27 July 2023

Dragons

 Here's a big panel with lots of dragons. Up to page fourteen now of this new comic. I'd have liked to have sent my Crowthorn comic to the printer this month, but due to all the rain I've not made any money at my markets. Maybe next month? There's still that space comic I drew as well, but that one is longer so it'll have to wait. Any eccentric millionaires fancy printing them for me?



Monday, 24 July 2023

'Gulp'

 Here's two rows from my comic in progress, first sighting of the dragons. 



Thursday, 20 July 2023

First Page of My New Dragons Comic

 Here's the first page of my new story. 



Monday, 17 July 2023

A Fancy Map for a New Comic

 I've started drawing a new comic, it's a fantasy one, with dragons. I started by drawing this fancy map for the story. Drawing maps is fun.



Wednesday, 28 June 2023

'Medieval Comic' Now on Sale

 My new comic, 'Medieval Comic' is just back from the printers and now on sale. Here's the cover and the first three pages so you can have a look.

It's A5 sized, 48 black and white pages, with colour covers. It's the story of a monk who has a vision of the place where the bones of a lot of holy martyrs have been buried, and goes to dig them up. 

It is priced at £4.80 with free postage in the UK. For elsewhere please go to my comics shop on the blog and click the add postage button at the top.






Thursday, 15 June 2023

Crowthorn Memorials at Edgworth Methodist Church

 I was on a walk round Edgworth the other week and went into the churchyard at the Methodist Church to see the Crowthorn related memorials. Here they are - there's the mass grave memorial and the War Memorial with all the NCHO men who were from the Childrens Home. 







Monday, 12 June 2023

Crowthorn Front and Back Covers

 Here's the front and back covers for my Crowthorn comic, unless I change them later. I have scanned all the comic, redone all the wonky lettering, which was annoying me, and now I'm cleaning all the pages. I would have got it printed soon but I had to get a bunch of plumbing fixed in my house, so now it'll be a while.




Thursday, 8 June 2023

'Medieval Comic' Proof Copy

 I got the proof copy of my 'Medieval Comic' in the post today. Everything looks good so now for the printing! 



Monday, 5 June 2023

Margaret Jackson - A Retrospective - Exhibition, Hive Gallery, Bolton

 My Dad organised a retrospective exhibition for my Mum's paintings. It's at Hive Gallery, the Market Place, Bolton. I went and looked round yesterday, it looks really good. The Opening is next Saturday afternoon so I'll go along to that. Lots of the little paintings have sold so thats very nice. Paintings should be up on many peoples walls instead of being stored. Thanks to Julie and everyone at the gallery for hanging the paintings so nicely and organising a lot of stuff. 

Here's lots of pictures of the gallery as I want to keep them. 

















Thursday, 25 May 2023

Crowthorn 11

 Here's a finished page from my Crowthorn comic in progress, now you can see what it will look like. In other news I've finally sent my Medieval Comic off to the printers. 



Monday, 22 May 2023

Crowthorn 10

 Here's another couple of drawings from my Crowthorn comic in progress.