Tag: Comics
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The Hexham Heads
For the Paper Jam Comics Collective’s 20th Anthology, Mythology and That, myself and Brittany Coxon wanted to make a comic about the Hexham Heads. It was proving something of a struggle since we were trying to tell the reasonably authentic story of the history which Britt had extensively researched and provides links to many sources…
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Two Titans – Terry Wiley and Craig Puranen Wilson
Going to start 2019 by remembering my friends Terry Wiley and Craig Puranen Wilson. Newcastle lost two creative and cultural titans last year. Craig Puranen Wilson Terry Wiley
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Summer 2018 Events (May to August)
Sunday 12th August: Paper Jam Comics Collective: Tynemouth Book Fair Weekend 4th and 5th August: Paper Jam Comics Collective: Get North Family Expo We’ll be bringing the Comics Robot Go to St James’s Park as part of the Great Exhibition of the North. Saturday 28nd July: Exchange Free Range Myself, Britt and Alex will be DJing at…
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Comics Robot Go!
This is a Comics Panel Drawing Robot i’ve built for the Maker Faire 2018 and Paper Jam Comics Collective. Music in the video is by Mister Fusty The Paper Jam Comics Collective presence at the Maker Faire was really well received. We were awarded a Maker of Merit ribbon – these are awarded to Makers…
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Bad Decisions
This was my submission for the Paper Jam Comics Collective anthology Bad Decisions …and that. I think we can all agree that some questionable creative choices have been made here. Lacking inspiration, I called the above mess ‘Something Something Fish Quotas’ I did a little design work for the cover of the Comic (which was…
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Some keys to Plato’s cave
(and the goths who live there) I’ve been writing and drawing comics over the last few years, sometimes I think a bit about that. …and one of the things I think is that there is sometimes a tendancy, when deciding what a prop or background character looks like to go for the platonic archetypal ideal…
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Horror Comics panel at Hi Ex
Horror Comics panel at Hi Ex Last weekend, I attended Hi-Ex. I’ll write about it’s wonders more generally shortly (which are already very well documentedelsewhere). This post is specifically about the Horror Comics panel on the Saturday afternoon. These people took the stage: Al Ewing, writer of Judge Dredd, Zombo and Desolation Stationfor 2000AD Charlie Adlard, artist on The Walking Dead John Higgins,…