Recommended

It's not exactly news but I can heartily recommend the banal pig series of comics by Steve Tillotson. Top artwork, top gags, top characters. Particular favourites are feeder and wife (a few guilty guffaws there), hairy feller and fez man.

I think the best place to start would be the collected banal pig issues 1-3. It's a whopping 78 pages so it's something you can get your teeth into.

www.banalpig.com

Covered up

Accent uk liked the submission but asked me to cover up my cricket man (see post below). It's understandable as all kinds of people read the anthologies. This may not be the finished article but I think I'll go for this level of coverage, I suppose some things are best left to the imagination eh?...

Finished!

Finished my accentuk Victoriana submission in good time. I still need to mess about with it in photoshop but I'm chuffed to have done the hard bit. Here's a sneak peek, there'll be no more until it (hopefully) appears in the anthology. The character is Lord Whitethroat, a victorian adventurer and naturalist. And naturist by the looks of it too. In this image I tried to convey a mad look in the eye (making the batsman question whether he was just going to wang the ball at his head), a leg spinners googly handgrip, and the bouncing appendage.

More stuff, but no drawings

It's worthwhile swinging by Rob Jacksons website as a matter of regularity, his work on the pasty anthology is continuing apace with a great planet of the apes painting, erm with a twist. Still no new drawings from me yet but there will be soon.

Count Arthur Strong was great on Friday: Nicholas Parsons and his two big balls of Edam, Wilf Taylors quality meats and Malcolm pretending to be Barry Cryer. A veritable tour de france!

Forbidden Planet Review, and stuff

We like Richard Brutons review of Thomas Wogan is Dead on the forbidden planet blog.
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=11642

Things are a bit stoked at the moment, but some there will be some pasty related sneak peeks and also some stuff about Mr Ralph Kidson coming soon.

And I've got tickets to see Count Arthur Strong at the Brewery Arts in Kendal this Friday, it just keeps getting better and better!

Bog Wizards 2- Rise of the Elder Gods

Here’s the latest from the ever prolific Rob Jackson, apart from being a contender for ‘best title for a comic 2009’ it’s a good read. This fantasy comedy shows some classic Rob moments, from the polite monster living in the mountains (“In my thousand years of existence this is the most disgraceful display of rudeness I have ever come across” and “eat you? I can’t eat you….I only eat minerals of course”) to chortle-worthy moments where the main character hacks the wrong guy to death.

A top small press adventure.

Bog Wizards 2 comes with a board game, some assembly is required but you get great handy hints like: Stick the board onto cardboard such as old cereal boxes and put the board on a flat surface such as a table. I’ve not played this yet but it actually looks pretty well thought out, with twists , turns and collectable objects like in the old fashioned adventure games. ‘Pervert Elves steal your shoes, miss a turn’, ‘You suffer from Ennui go back 1 square’, ‘You find the goblet of Xanatu, pick up any items left on the board’. Fantastic.

Check out Robs website for purchasing details. His Random Journeys series is also recommended.

The pasty anthology

I'm pleased to announce that one man ideas factory Rob Jackson (not pictured) is doing a Greggs based anthology. This is a pretty exciting idea and contributing is next on my list, after finishing my Accent UK submission. It's an unfortunate fact that there is a Greggs near my place of work, which means I succumb to the delights of the cheese & onion pasty more often than is good for me. Thankfully I manage to resist the cream doughnut and 'millionaires' shortbread (£1.35each), which would top off this feast of doom for my entire cardiovascular system. Ho hum.