January 2012
14 posts
Everything's Exciting And Nothing Hurts.
Sometimes I get asked advice about drawing comics. The benefits you’ll get from asking are akin to shouting your own name into a bin, in so much that it’s probably not going to change anything about your current lifechoices. I can give you all the advice in the world but it’s not going to give you the heart and fire you’ll need to already have. Dancers act like they have all this passion burning...
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Sherlock clues.
HELLO SO I enjoyed the end of Sherlock as much as anyone and the chatter about it has been fun. I’ll confess last night I went a little bit mad and started picking up on some extremely tenuous links, and following them for miles and miles and so everything here is kinda batshit stupid. But it was fun to find some weird coincidences, and if nothing in here lines up then at least it’s a...
This is my reply to the rude email a kid sent to...
To: findchaffy@yahoo.com
January 15th 2012
LISTEN YOU I HAVE EMAILED YOU LODES OF TIMES AND YOU HAVE NOT REPLAYED SO HEAD MY WARNING IF YOU DON`T REPLY THEN THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.
Jamie M*****
In reply:
January 17th 2012
Dear Jamie,
Thank you for your email. I must apologize for taking so long to reply, we do get a lot of mail for Chaffy and try to reply to everyone, but it can take a...
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December 2011
8 posts
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Win a Chaffy for Christmas!
Here’s a quick competition! We have three Chaffy toys to give away, and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one is draw a christmas card wishing Chaffy a happy christmas! It can be whatever you want, just as long as it shows a Chaffy or Chaffies, and is all christmassy. However good you are, wherever you’re from, however old you are, everyone’s welcome! Send...
November 2011
7 posts
October 2011
6 posts
Hairy Steve - only a few hours left!
We’re nearly there. Just a few hours left to throw a few dollars towards Hairy Steve, the comic written by me and drawn by Steve Bright. In return, you could grab a load of swag from signed copies of the comic, badges, stickers, bottle openers, original artwork (from both me and Steve) and of course getting your own personal zombiefied portrait. http://www.hairysteve.com <— Click...
Finding your place
I remember quite a few years ago reading an artist’s blog about how he was an outsider at school, rejected by society, and because he didn’t conform or fit in, that’s why he was such a rad artist now. And I remember thinking, you prick. You don’t choose to be an outsider, you become one because you’re awkward and find society hard, just like the rest of us, only...
Oh, nothing, just MY DOCTOR WHO BOOK IS OUT NOW.
Very, VERY proud to say a Doctor Who book bearing my name is out to buy now, wherever you get books, or online (bookdepository do free worldwide delivery). Inside Doctor Who - Where’s The Doctor (penguin books) you’ll find 12 picture searches where you have to find The Doctor, Amy, Rory, and the Tardis, amidst a whole slew of meanies. From Adipose to Daleks, from The Silence to the...
September 2011
5 posts
The Flugglegroog
(click for bigger version)
I often get asked to design tattoos for people, usually i’ll try and do it because i find it quite an honour to be asked. Most of the time, I’m asked to draw my own characters, but in this instance my brief was merely to draw something disgusting.
So I drew this. Once drawn though, it became clear it wasn’t really a tattoo design, more just a silly...
An open letter to the internet.
When The Dandy relaunched last year, it caught a lot of attention. As Britain’s oldest comic institution, it had the weight of history behind it and any attempts at revitalising the form would naturally take some punches. What it did was quite daring, it scrapped the magazine format it had been slowly creeping towards, and instead declared itself a bona fide comic once more, filled to the gills...
August 2011
8 posts
Brand new Bear strip!
click for bigger version (contains swears and violence)
Wow, I haven’t drawn a new Bear strip for ages, but this was really fun. A bit more one-shot than the normal Bear comics, but nice to stretch those psychopathic muscles once more. Hope you like!
(if you’re new to Bear, there are hundreds more comics, just have a look round the bearfoo.com site) ^_^ ps if by chance you...
Our new webcomic gives you badges!
Hairy Steve, the hairy antihero comic written by me and drawn by the awesome Steve Bright, is now online as a webcomic, and already four pages in! Click the banner to come and have a look (contains a little swearing and violence). Some of you reading this may remember years ago when I first mentioned Hairy Steve, and we showed samples of the character art Steve had done, so it’s...
July 2011
9 posts
Hairy Steve, funding, and building worlds.
I’ve written a few blogs recently about art and the internet, such as the trials of promoting your art online, and trying to get the internet to play nice. To make this a triad of blogs, I just wanted to write a few thoughts down about where to go with it all.
HAIRY STEVE the webcomic begins on Monday. It is drawn by Steve Bright, and written by me (usually, i’m too self-obsessed to...
