Whilst sifting through boxes of comics at my parents I found this issue of Manga Mania with an interesting cover, It features a picture of the Manga character Grey painted by one of my favorite comic artists Kev Walker

I re-watched Brad Bird’s Iron Giant movie last night, It’s one of my favorite animated films!

It took me a while to get round to watching it as I had initially written it off as your usual bad Hollywood kids movie gunk ( I think this may have been down to a bad marketing campaign by Warner Brothers which sold it as “bad Hollywood kids movie gunk”).

I ended up catching it on TV on a quiet sunday and was absolutely gobsmacked at how good this movie was. The storytelling, animation and design all amazing. It’s a real shame that very few people watched this on release this is something I would love to see on the big screen!

Anyway as you can see I have knocked out a quick doodle of said Iron Giant, though I may redo the shading as I have seem to gone a bit screen tone crazy! If I have time I may draw him a body and give him a lick of paint.

If you never seen it I suggest you go to you local video shop and rent it (amazon also have it for very cheap).

This is a rough doodle I’m doing of Briareos Hecatonchires from Appleseed, It was inspired a drawing that Brandon Graham posted on his blog.

I don’t normally get to flex my Sci-Fi/Manga Muscles as I tend to focus on more cartoony style stuff but I’m having a lot of fun with this image. As you can see I have yet to finish his legs and the shading is very rough, I will post the finished Image soon!

I found this on Paul Popes blog - the image below is only part of a Frank Herbert Dune inspired comic page.

Click on the link to see the whole page http://pulphope.blogspot.com/2009/10/muad-dib.html

I just got Manga Studio EX4 and its very good as you can see by the results below!

I will make more posts as I get to grips with the software!

This made me laugh a lot!

The latest ImagineFX is an illuminating video games special go and have a look here (It also has my latest comic strip, always worth a read!).

This is Bit Trip Beat my favorite game out on the wii.
Check out the developers site http://www.aksysgames.com/bittripbeat/

The best bloody film I have seen in a long time, watch it now!

An ironic variation of a Snow-Man!

Photo taken in Clisshold park sometime around lunchtime.

Read Andi Watson’s comic books they are ace, I’ve been a big fan for a long time now.
He is one of my favourite comic artists and writers, his comics are full of lovely artwork and stories!!!

His website address is http://www.andiwatson.biz/

His comics have been published by slave labor publishing, Oni Press, Dark Horse & Image Comics (Glister 1, 2 , 3 & Princess at Midnight ).

Poking around Dark Horse Comics website I spotted this nice stationary set designed by Andi Watson, It looks lovely I may have to get one as a Christmas present to my self!

To see more of Elizabeth’s work check at her website http://www.kikutowne.com

Go and look at the Totoro Forest Project website you will find lots of beautiful art Like the image above by Katsuya Tereda.

The Totoro Forest Project raises money to support & protect the Sayama Forest in Tokyo which was apparently the inspiration for Hayao Miyasaki’s animated film “My Neighbour Totoro”.

http://www.totoroforestproject.org/

I have been doodling robots, transformers mostly!

Sara ( my better half!) Has a T-shirt on Threadless, go have a look its covered in cats!

Cats are my 2nd favourite thing in the world ( Tea holds joint first place with Sara ).

Please vote for it, so it will get made into a wonderful T-shirt, and leave comments if you have them time, click on the conveniently placed cat faced link thing below this sentence to have a look and vote for the fabulous feline themed short-sleeved casual top!

I love drinking tea, it is one of the finest things to grace this world.
Occasionally I will be using my blog to write about teas that I like and recommend , and if you like drinking tea as much as me then this might be interesting for you!
Make us a brew is a company founded by DJ, Cartoonist and Tea connoisseur Mr Scruff, at the moment he has four teas in his “make us a brew” line, My favourite is the english breakfast tea.
It has a strong sturdy flavour perfect to help you wake up in the morning make your monday morning commute to work slightly less painful! Even though it says english breakfast on the tin its suitable for drinking all day long and brews particularly well in a teapot, one to serve your friends!

You can get it directly from the make us a brew website and quite a few good food shops dotted around the UK and as you can see it comes in a rather fetching tea caddy covered in some rather fine Mr Scruff cartoon magic!

My house mate Jamie is running a half marathon, thats 13 miles!
He is running to raise money for Leukaemia Research

The picture below is of Jamie in action, as you can see he is doing the 100 metre Dash.
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My flat-mate Jamie made a wonderful bread-crumb art installation in the kitchen, the masterpiece is called
"the sorrow of the gingerbread-man's wonky wand" .

It looks like a willy !!!!

I have added a new comic strip to the comic strip gallery called "My Many Nightmares", Its got pensioners turning into Leeches and Carnivorous Bug men... Enjoy!

Also check this out its called a Synclavier it looks amazing



It was used to compose the music for "Flight of the Navigator"
which is a terrible film might I add!

Things have slowed down a touch ever since my flat-mate jamie purchased a Nintendo Wii!

We have been playing loads of "Sin & Punishment" which you can download from the Virtual Arcade!
Which Is ace because I nearly shelled out allot of money to buy a japanese import copy, Its stupidly hard but I wont let it beat us yet!



Aside from all the frantic button bashing i managed to paint another bag



This bag is available to buy from the shop page!