Hello there! :D Long time no post! But I have been BUSY. On what? I hear you ask! On this! You hear me yell excitedly! :D

As many of you know, I work at kempt.co.uk making video games! :D For the last few months we've been working on our own IP; it's Stunt Guy, unsung hero of explosions and injuries, movies and possibly actual robberies!

http://www.stuntguygame.com

We're releasing two games (both free!) featuring him today; Stunt Guy : The Getaway http://j.mp/GuyStunt is a dodge'n'smashemup where Stunt Guy's hanging onto the roof of a speeding car, evading police and wrecking shit! Go check it out! :D

The second game we're still working on, it's called Bar Fight Live http://j.mp/BarFight
We're developing it right now, and the app will be updated regularly to show our progress. There's votes and stuff so people playing the unfinished game can yell at us and tell us what to do, it's gonna be pretty sweet! :D There's also a video in the app featuring me highfiving a programmer, and busking with cardboard box drums on the streets of Canterbury, if that's interesting :D Also in the video is Fan Buddy! I love fan buddy and his flappy arms.

Yeah! In these games I've been responsible for some of the game design & feel, some animation, sound, some art direction and general STUFF. My job description is pretty much "a bit of everything", I flit about! :D I drew the explosions! heehee :D I also did some of the music! http://soundcloud.com/stunt-guy/barfiiiight

The main character designs & artwork are by the awesome Kit Wallis; http://kitwallis.blogspot.co.uk/

But yeah, go check 'em out, they're FREE, it'd mean a lot to me and us! If you feel like leaving some nice comments, reviews, cake that'd help us out a lot, this independent developer thing is a scary new adventure for us (we've always been work-for-hire before this), so we need all the help we can get! xD

Yeah! So that's what I've been working on these past few months. I hope you enjoy it! :D

Post-Expo Pre-ThoughtBubble

Hello!

Just a quick note to say HI to everyone who came by our table at the MCM this weekend. I had a bit of ill and was kinda incoherent and glaring at everyone, but you were all nice so hopefully it's okay! And nobody caught what I had. Thanks also to Claude and Dev and Jess and Joss and Thegirlsbehindus and Tom and Katie for totally putting up with my grog all weekend.

I'll also be at Thought Bubble in Leeds in a week or so. No new stuff I'm afraid, I'm still kickin' the crap out of Rockfall#3! Just trying to get as much cool stuff in there as possible, I think I've been "two thirds done" for the last three months. So hopefully when it's done it'll be six thirds awesome or something, maybe that's how it works.

But yeah! Hi! Hope you're all good. And reading DC's Action Comics! And Hemlock! And Journey Into Stupid! And Saturn Apartments! And End of Days (No Arnold, just Dinaosaurs)!

Ghostly Goings-On

...the ghostly comic that is suspiciously missing from my site! I'm working on putting it up in the shop, should be up in the next few days. Sorry!

Thanks to Mr Monteith again for the plug :) :D

Thought Bubble was awesome by the way, thanks to everyone who came by our table you were all so damn nice, you rock! :D

New Dig It!

Also, thought bubble is next weekend and I'm gonna be there!

http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com



that's it!

I GOTTA SHOP!

Following on from Mark Pearce's lead, I went and got myself a Folksy account and chucked some comics on it! So if you wanna buy a comic and have me scribble in it (and probably all over the envelope too), check it out! I haven't had any orders yet, be the first! :D It's UK only at the moment I'm afraid 'cos the only way I can set it up for international orders is to charge a fortune, so I'm holding off on that until I find a way to charge what it actually costs to ship. BUT! UK is all good, and pretty cheap! :D
www.folksy.com/shops/greatvagueness

ALSO! I've read some amazing comics lately, and I wanna share 'em with you.

First and foremost is Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore; it's been knocking around for a long while now, about as long as Bone I think, but for some reason I'd never heard of it until I got into his current series Echo, and delved into his old stuff. And it's awesome! Why have I not heard of it before? I thought I was into my indie comics, it's like knowing the Alps reasonable well and not noticing one of the tallest mountains. ANYWAY. It's about Katchoo, and her best friend Francine, who Katchoo is secretly in love with, despite her being in love with a male fleabag. They then meet David, who falls for Kachoo, and then they get hunted by the mob and have lots of fights, it's great. :D Terry Moore's artwork is stunning, the characters are written and drawn like real people with all the imperfections that entails and it's made it the best book I've read in YEARS. And the best thing is, there's 6 massive volumes of it and I have 4 more to go! :D Man, so excited. So yeah! If you haven't read it, check it out!
http://www.strangersinparadise.com/

Second! Saturn Apartments! It's a story about Mitsu, a kid who wants to find out what happened to his dad who disappeared CLEANING THE WINDOWS ON THE OUTSIDE OF A GIANT SPACE STATION RING THAT ENCIRCLES AN UNINHABITED EARTH. And it's beautiful, real laid back and just lounges around in its futuristic setting, which is my favourite way for scifi stories to be. It's more about Mitsu fitting in, cats in spacesuits, and just...work, really. There is some mystery, and potentially some romance I guess, but I really liked the muddling through life feeling. There's no grand opera, just Mitsu and the things that happen to him. I wanna visit him and give him a perk up sandwich or something. But yeah, the art is great, way cuter than I expected for this kind of story. Highly recommended, again! :D

I also picked up Sky Doll! And I really like that too! Ok, so I'm a sucker for amnesiac robot girls trying to work out what their purpose in life is (Battle Angel Alita kinda left an indelible mark on my brain, like a barcode), but man that book's beautiful. Such a mash of styles, it's like western layouts with eastern art and disney expressions. Chuck in some religious totalitarian government conspiracies, boobs and a manic sense of humour and yeah, you got a pretty good book! mmm, euro-book :D

Finally I got Ryan Armand's Great! book this week! Man I hope it ends well, going through that whole rollercoaster again was tough XD but yeah, wicked book. :D

Yeah! That's whay I've been doing then. Stuff! :D Tomorrow I'm gonna do MORE stuff, probably put more books up for sale, do some comics, laze arouuuunnnnnnnd :D Oh and watch Spain win the World Cup of course. C'mon, Spain! I've got a fiver on ya! I'm playing in defence, #3, see if you can spot me! Cheer me on! :D

Yeah! Rock awwwn!

- pf!

New DIG IT, and BROOMSQUAD pt1 in print!

Yeah!

Nick's done the next page of Dig It!, our collaborative archaeology comic, so the ball's in my court now. Sweet! :D I have so many comics to draw these days XD

Also I just got my copy of Non-Repro (which Broomsquad is in!) and it's looking pretty sweet! We'll have some copies at the Japanese Art Festival :)

Also also (and I'm a bit late on this, sorry!) I've got a page in the nu-earth 2000Ad fanzine run by Will, it's a future shock thing I though of in the park getting heatstroke. There's stuff about the fanzine here, scroll down!

Thassit? yep!

Eeeeeeeemaaaaaaaaiiiiillllll

It's been brought to my attention that I'm nigh-on impossible to get hold of. I'm scared of robots, so putting contact details on the internet kinda scares me a bit. BUT! If you are a human, and you want to say hello, my email address is now on the About Me page bit. It's designed to be invisible to robots! Humans (like, hopefully, yourself!) should be able to decipher it without too much difficulty, as us humans have something robots can never have!

"NOUNCE"!

So! Use your nounce and send me an email! But don't tell any robots what you know. Viva la resistance!

Dinosawus!

Getting some stickers together for http://dinosawus.blogspot.com/ in time for the London Expo! Really excited. :D If you come by, make sure you get your sticker passport!

ROCKFALL#2!

It's at the printers now, and will be on sale at Unicon on Saturday!


GO TO UNICON!!!!

uploaded some dig it

More Dig It >>>>>>>>>>>>>
It's pretty old, I just remembered I hadn't put it up. ^^;;

Also, nearly finished Rockfall#2. 2 pages and 2 covers to go! I was due to go to L.A this week, but it didn't pan out. But i guess I would be stuck there anyway, so maybe it's for the best! I can get more comics done :D Every volcano cloud has a silver lining.

Yeah, I guess that's it. Unicon's gonna be cool this saturday. :D

wE ArE ThE DaAaLeKs AnD We WiLl MaTcH YoUr KitChEn UteEnSiIiIlLlLs!

Unicon, MCM Expo!

YEAH! Hi! :D hope you're good! This is an important announcement!

Octopus!

Also;

I'll be exhibiting at Unicon in Hatfield (at my old university! Nothing ever happens there EVER, so yeah! let's make stuff HAPPEN!) on Saturday the 24th!

And THEN I'll be at the London MCM Expo 29th - 30th May with the dashing Dr. Claude TC Gorfschnieder, Professor of Mischief!

I'll have Rockfall #2 done for unicon, I promise! Pencilled up to page 20 now, got a week off next week reserved for flat-out inking and bookmaking. GOooooooooOO!!!!!

Cancelled Webcomix Thing table next weekend

Hi!

Yeah, I've had to cancel my table at the UK Webcomix Thing. So if you want a table, go grab it!! It's there!

But yeah, work has really kicked my ass over the last few months and I haven't been able to get anything ready, and rather than just sell the exact same stuff I was selling last year I'd rather not exhibit. To put this in context, I'm working now, and will be for another few hours, and this has been going on for getting on 3 months now, weekend included sometimes. Right now I'm in Macclesfield, near Manchester! That's like, a whole other planet for me! Crazy. It's not like I haven't done anything, Broomsquad will be out in the next few months in a magazine, and I've made headway on other stuff, but nothing's ready. So yeah, I'm bailing, and I'm totally gutted about it 'cos it was promising to be my favourite con, like, ever.

So! I'm still going! But just as a punter. :) Hopefully a combination of work cooling down in a few weeks and the shame of attending a con but not selling will propel me into producing a shitload of stuff, right? :D Yeah!

If you're going, seeya there! I'll be the one laughing at Claude for BEING STUCK BEHIND A TABLE FOREVER. :I

:D

But yeah, sorry guys. :(

Broomsquad & Rockfall#2

Hi! Yeah! I've been up to stuff, for once, and this is what it is.

First off I've finished part one of Broomsquad, serial story that's running in Non-Repro magazine. It's about witches solving magical crimes and kicking the shit out of things. I like it! I don't know when it'll be out yet, but I'll post when it is. I've been talking about doing this for ages, so it's good to finally get something done about it. Witch SWAT! YEAH!

Also in preparation for the UK Webcomix Thing in London I've been working on Rockfall#2. Holy shit! It's a short one, but a good one I reckon. So far I've done 3/4 of a page out of about 16, so it's gonna be tough, but not as tough as doing a con a whole year later without a continuation of the story, so I'll get it done, deffo! :D People have been very nice about the first one so this year I'm getting right on that to try and make up for that year's gap. Not cool. I wanted to start earlier than like, now, but my day job has exploded (in a good way! :D) so I've kinda been putting it off. I'm typing this now at >9pm from work in my noodle break! :D But yeah, I'm tired of putting one thing off in favour of another so I'm doing both, in UNCOMPROMISING STYLE. So yeah, chances are at the Thing I'll be some kinda charcoal-coated husk, incapable of conversation and barely capable of respiration, but I'll be happy. :D Go go go!!

finally check out claude and elliwiny's Ebon Spire OCT comics, it's STILL awesome and it's on the last leg! One of them is on THIER last legs, but WHO?! Oh no!! Seriously guys, doing these comics in the quantity and quality that you have for the last year is downright freakin' HEROIC. :D

Sticks art! :D

YEAH!!

I got some fanart from the awesome shape-throwin' pen of Will Kirkby! :D I've been a fan of Will's work since we met at Caption last year, so to get unsolicited art from him is such a great thing for me, I just keep squintin' at it. :D



I love Will's stuff, his art style is epic, he writes from the heart and I totally envy his drive and enthusiasm for drawing new stuff. I mean, his stuff is so distinctive you'd know it was Will if you only had like the top left corner of a panel. If there was something in the top left corner. I'm not sure I could get it from just the border. Right.

Anyway, yeah! Thanks Will! :D

Also, thanks to Paul for chucking me a link! I'm a massive fan of Freakangels (dude, Friday is FREAKANGELS day. :D) and Paul's art in general, so yeah, thanks man, I'm glad you liked it. :)

As for me, work's been mental this last few weeks (wor + MCM Expo + perparation pretty much wiped me out!) but hopefully I can get on with the next Rockfall very soon. I'm aiming to get it done by the Webcomix Thing in March! That's it! That's when! I can do it! :D I've got a... rough... plot... outline...

:I

GTG! :D -pf!

@ Comiket this Sunday

Yeah! I'll be sharing a table with Kaz and Gwen at Comiket at the ICA in London this Sunday 8th Nov, selling Rockfall, Sticks, and maybe Ghostly Goings-on under the table. (there's not much room! :D)

Seeya there!

-pf!

Sticks cover!

All ready for The Expo on Saturday! :D

Well, the cover is. The front cover. The rest of the comic still needs some work! XD

Kit wants to come to the Expo too! Hooray!!!! :D
If you're going, seeya there!

Gotta run! :D

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

DIG IIIIIIIIIIIIT

Two more pages on Dig It!, one by Nick, one by me. Yep!

Also, it looks like someone's bought doodleshed.com and is using it to recruit designers to work for the possibility of money. I lost that domain to an unscrupulous hosting company so it's weird to see someone else using it, I never really had the opportunity to grab it back. :( The Doodleshed is at the top of my garden, it's the shed I doodle in! Still, doodleshed.co.uk is still me, so I guess the doodleshed lives on. :D

Still want my dot com though dammit XD

London MCM Expo 24-25th Ocober 2009

Yeah! Didn't think I was going to this, but now I am! Hooray! :D:D:D I've been looking forward to going to this ever since I found out there was a wee little comics village. I like the idea of that. I know, in my head it's all mudhuts and Smurf houses and in reality it's tables, but I still love those images. :) So yeah! Now I'm going! In.. 5 weeks? You better be gettin on with some comics then youngfellamelad :D

so excited XD

FORUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Yeah! I've been kindly loaned some real estate over at Traum4's forum, hooray! They pretty much taught me everything I know, so I'm made very happy to live in a little corner of it! :D It's probably gonna be mighty quiet, I don't get much traffic at all, but if you feel in the mood to chase down some tumbleweeds, be my guest! :D Hurrah!

------------------Forum!

I'll be attending Thought Bubble in Leeds

http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/

Yeah!! I've just booked a table. Kit Wallis may be there too, woOOooo! And we'll have new comics!

I'm all excited already. :D YEEEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

RE: Sticks, it's going well, but there's a page I couldn't ink because I pencilled it on the wrong side of the paper and the ink was BLLLLEDING EEEVERYWHERE. Well, it was bleeding a bit. So I have more than 2/3rds of the comic done now, except for one vital page right near the beginning of the second third, hence no update! :( I have a plan, though. And it will WORK! :D