Hi Folks  I've just recently resurrected a few characters from my first gn SPIRIT OF THE HIGHWAYMAN, this is for a short story for David Lloyd's ACES WEEKLY, slated to go in Vol 4, which is currently available to subscribers. This is a strange one, in as much as I have absolutely no idea how it ends yet ;) anyway, here's a taster.

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How are you all? I've been fairly productive just lately, despite upping sticks to a new (ancient) house, with stone walls so thick no modern communication device can penetrate. So apologies for delays in posts, at least now I have an excuse. The Batman pic was produced for a German collector who has a perchant for battle damaged heroes, and the first time ever I get to draw Daredevil, albeit it in London as opposed to Hell's Kitchen. Whilst composing this peice it suddenly occurred to me that it would be a nice nice touch to include the Old Bailey in the background. Pop back for more soon. 

Hellboy peice

I have many artists that I really admire, and this recent peice encompasses two legends. Arthur Rackham, the victorian children's book illustrator is a major influence on me, although I dont think it shows in my work so much. Mike Mignola is a current master of composition and creepiness currently back on his Hellboy series. For this illustration I thought it would be visually interesting to include Rackham's signature 'humanised' trees, with everyone's favourite red devil getting to grips with the root(s) of the problem. Talking of problems I have a huge one with my car, major league bill of £600 :( so really struggling to try and get some cash together, may have to sell this peice if you are interested, just let me know-either of Facebook or this dusty ol' blog. Back again soon...

Hello all---Well, over a week ago already since LSCC. What a great show it was, sold all the pre-con painted sketches which paid for the rather expensive weekend. Sadly I didn't get to even see any of the major names due to the enormous queues that were a permanent fixture of the show. I was on David Lloyd's ACES WEEKLY table and the sketchcards went like proverbial hotcakes. It was a great idea for people to be able to take away a tangible item (with a free sketch from any creator no less) and get access to the entire contents of ACES WEEKLY vol 1 at the same time.  It was great to meet other Aces conspirators Bambos, David Leach, Kev Hopgood and loads more coming and going over the weekend. I've signed up for another  ACES stint (or could it be two? one with a named writer attached, stay tuned for more). Our table neighbour was a Belgian creator Ivan Petrus who was promoting his WW1 book The Gathering, a superb read, with a colour sketch in every book. There is a possible project which may bare fruit here also, but more on that later. I had the chance to have a quick chat with Jeremy Bastian (Cursed Pirate Girl) who was not that far away, I bought three of his fantastic prints and picked up my pre-convention commission-----heaven's to betsy, here it is in all its glory. I asked Jeremy if he could produce a Springheeled Jack peice, and just by looking at a few images online, he came up with this jaw-dropper....

Batman commission

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Ages ago I was asked to do a 'Batman on gargoyle' commission for a collector over on Comic Art Fans website. He collects art from many top rank artists, so I knew had to go to town on this one. I started it last weekend, but only got to do the figure, so spent time during the frozen nights this week building the rest...brick by brick.

In other news my pitch for Springheeled Jack is in the first stages of decison-making at a US comic company, it will be a few weeks yet, but you will read the outcome here. Don't forget to pop back soon.

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Looking round my spare room, I see that there's no that much room spare at all. So, I'm going to delve deep into my archives and start selling some original art. Currently I've got well over 200 A3 pages, propped up against the wall. So, anyone who might want original art pages from Springheeled Jack (only a few left), The Sixpenny Murder (8 page story), Mother's Love (a 16 page horror tale for Split Lip webcomic), Paradise Mechanism (22 pages) Madam Samurai (160 pages, both books) an abondoned 'FAIRIE WARS' story, written by New York Times bestseller Herbie Brennan (fantasy type thing) and other odds and ends---- please message me via Facebook in the first instance, make an offer for your favourite page, and you just might snag it. Pages start from as little as £10. Obviously they will vary a little depending on how long that specific page may have taken me to produce. I'll attempt to set up some kind of gallery if I get chance...

Hello guys and gals

2013 is on the horizon so I thought I'd better do a little update. I'll make it a new year's resolution to post more on here...honest. In this post I'll show you a couple of pics (for you dedicated blog readers only). A coupla months back I was asked to produce a few character sketches/designs for comic book writer and all-round good guy RAFAEL NIEVES. He has worked at Marvel and done a slew of his own fine self-published work, along with artist Dan Dougherty. I'll not mention the title of this character through fear of possibly jinxing the whole thing (if indeed it does come my way), but suffice to say it's for a US comicbook company :)

This image is copyright Rafael Nieves.

The other pic is from the Dickens short that I'm illustrating between things. Adapted by Jason Cobley, I hope to get a head of steam up on this and put my neck on the block and say...out 2013 ;)

Have a good few days of 2012...and all the best for the new year.