Crazy Sky, Giant Balls

More China Photos

1- the Great Wall (2000)
2- my hotel bedroom in Shanghai
3- me, Tiannamen Square (2000)
4 & 5 - Shanghai street scenes

More China Photos

1- fancy new buildings Shanghai (also used in 'Train to Shanghai') I was planning that comic while I was there and took loads of photos and did sketches too.
2- a theatre in Shanghai
3- ancient Chinese KFC in Shanghai
4- Shanghai
5- taxis in Harbin (can you spot this picture in 'Train to Shanghai' too?)

China - 10 Years Ago This Week

I heard from my friend Eric that it was ten years ago this week that I went to China for the first time to teach English in Harbin. Bloody hell, ten years. It does seem a very long time ago. Here's some of my best China photos to celebrate this event.
1- skyscrapers being built in harbin
2- view from my hotel in Shanghai. I used this view in 'Train to Shanghai' my very first comic
3- view from my bedroom in the school in Harbin
4- street scene from in front of the school in Harbin

Photo Reference

Here's a couple of the photos I used for important references for 'Great Deeds Against the Dead'. The top one is the evil amusement toy thing from the cover which I spotted near the beach in Dubrovnik, and the second is 'Colonial Amusements' in Lancaster.

I am busy drawing Great Deeds 2 still, I have made the last two pages very difficult for myself by filling them with rectangular tables. Aaargh the angles...

Foto AG

I was just thinking that I haven't put a post on here linking to my good friend I met in China, Eric Giemza. His awesome photography website is here...............
That's him on the bottom photo sitting by a lake.

Here's a few cool photos he sent me while I was in Korea of his holiday up in the north near the Mongolian border in China (scans haven't come out too well i'm afraid). He stayed in a yurt. And there's the envelope covered in Chinese stamps. It had been opened by the suspicious Korean authorities by the time I got hold of it, and carefully looked through for Communist propaganda...