I won a Silver Medal in the 2014 Society of News Design Awards.

It's nice to know someone appreciated the headache that was the Walking Dead graphic. A project that was equal parts fun and frustrating. The print version only covers up to the mid-season finale of season three. I actually continued this graphic up to the end of that season with some extra bits and pieces and a composite image by Richard Johnson using all the little zombies that filled the rest of the piece which you can find here: The Stopped Dead: A Statistical Look Back at the Walking Dead So Far.

Dead By Dawn: Thirteen Nightmares, coming Halloween 2013

The new album from the English horrorbilly band Dead By Dawn. Cover art by me! The album will be  available on Halloween through iTunes and Amazon. You can find some of their music at Reverbnation and there will be videos to be found on Youtube. They're also on twitter @dbdofficialuk.
Dig ’em, I do!

They move around in the dark ...

I don't know what these things are. They just showed up while I was on the subway this morning.

Some fine people.

Some portraits of some folks I've recently met. I guess that's what comes from listening to "Welcome to Night Vale Radio."  And now a drawing of one of my favorite characters from one of the best zombie flicks ever. "Return of the Living Dead"

Art for sale!

Swing by my Etsy shop where you'll find the first four Halloween fiends available for purchase. I'm selling the original artwork, not prints. These are the real thing, real ink on real paper, if you look close you can see the pencil work under the ink. Each one is a one of a kind piece of art. If you buy one you'll be the only one who owns that particular piece of art.
Below you'll be reminded which four monsters are available for sale so far on the etsy store. But if you're interested every fiend drawn for the Countdown to Halloween: Halloween Fiends is for sale. If there's one on the blog that's not at the Etsy store and you want to buy it. Let me know.

Giant Monster Menace

Decided to update this graphic I did along time ago for the national post. It originally ran the weekend "Cloverfield" was released. Its interesting that there really hasn't been any giant monster movies since then. I don't really think the one in Super 8 was big enough to bother caring about. Click on the image to see it bigger.

You were warned ....

one more of the Chicks 'n' Monsters series. Probably the final one. At least for now. I hope you dig it.

BEYOND TERROR, BEYOND REALITY!

A new entry in my famous "Chix'n'Monsters" series. Hope you like it.
Oh and here's the other ones.

Frankenstein and a werewolf were walking through the woods ...

Just sketchin' monsters, its what I like to do. Anyway I made this one huge so you can use it as wallpaper for your computer, if its not so scary.
In case you're wondering "what's up with the werewolf's ears?" I've always found the ears on the werewolves in "The Howling" hilarious so I drew hilarious Howling style ears on the werewolf.
I also like how unimpressed Frankenstein (cram it that's his name, the doctor's name was Victor Frankenstein) looks with the werewolf's attempts to be scary.
I hope you enjoy this pic since you'll probably be seeing more monster drawings in the coming days/month/years since, like I've said, I like drawing monsters.

Sketchin' while commutin'

Doodling in my Molskine this morning on the way into work. Drawing monsters first thing in the morning is fun. That top guy you might recognize from the Blind Dead series of films. Saw them for the first time this year and fell in love with the look of the evil knights templar. I saw the second Blind Dead movie first and couldn't believe the series wasn't more popular the undead templar's looked really cool, the movie was creepy and strange in a good way. Then I saw the rest of the series and understood. If you haven't seen them I recommend "Return of the Evil Dead" the second of the Blind Dead movies and then ignore the others they're no where near as good.
I'm not really sure where this other guy came from. I was listening to the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' album "Shadow Out of Tim" at the time so maybe that's the influence. 

Bunch of evil guys.

Doodling on my way to work.

Dead Projects File: MONSTER BAITERS

First page of Tim Seeley and Andrew Barr's Monster Baiters.

A long time ago I got in touch with Tim Seeley, creator of the comic Hack/Slash among others, to tell him how much I enjoyed the book and jokingly point out the similarities the first issue of the comic had with one of my self published Something-a-Go-Go comics. We had a few laughs. Eventually he got involved with a comic anthology project with Troma featuring short stories by a bunch of different artists, he asked if I'd like to be a part of that so I said sure. I did the art for a Toxic Crusaders story in that book in a totally digital style, just as an experiment to see if I could. I thought it turned out pretty good. 

Any way a short time after that Mr. Seeley asked if I'd like to collaborate on something. Since the Troma thing was kinda fun I said sure. Tim started working up a script about an island inhabited by B-movie style monsters and a sleazy director who films his movies there to save on special effects. There was some time travel involved an evil genius from the future, most of the characters had dark secrets or strange pasts and it all sounded really fun. Unfortunately due to a lack of a publisher and other projects I had on the go at the time the Monster Baiters ended up on the back burner and slowly disappeared from both our RADARs, although there was talk about selling it to a movie studio or something. 

Fortunately some of these ideas survived and made it into a recent story arc in Hack/Slash. (issues 12 to 14 of the current series) Since my local comic shop seems to only get Hack/Slash sporadically I never got to see these issues. If you are into horror flicks and comics you should be reading Hack/Slash its a great book.

What you see in this post is the extent of the work I completed for Monster Baiters. I still like most of these characters, but after all this time I don't think I'd ever want to do an entire comic in this style. The short Toxic Crusaders thing was tough and it wasn't even 10 pages long. Hopefully Mr. Seeley and I will get a chance to collaborate again one day (may be the terrifying Hack/Slash–Something-a-Go-Go crossover [which will never happen]) but until then, enjoy this peek into what could have been. Thanks again Tim for letting me show off these designs.

 

I still love this drawing of Rudy.

 

wow, seven years ago.

Monstars: 1922-2011. How many can you recognize?

 FanExpo tomorrow. I'm gathering up all the art and comics and stuff I'll be taking so I thought I'd share share this. A full set of Monstars that covers a bunch of Sci-Fi and horror movies from 1922–2011 that's almost 90 years of creeps (strangely most of them seem to have come from the 1980's) this isn't the end of drawing up Monstars, I'm planning on expanding the series (monsters from the 50's aren't represented enough) by doing some of my favorite movie heroes. Until then enjoy this small version of the collection, I'll have prints available at the Convention swing by if you want one.

The End.

Monstars: The Classics...

So some Classic Monstars this time. If you don't recognize them I don't know what you'd be thinking of some of the other Monstars that have been here. Anyway if you dig these guys and would like to have them on a shirt or some drinking glasses or something check out my Cafepress store. I'm thinking that at the Fan expo I'll be selling a print that has all the Monstars I've done by the time I get around to making the print.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Due to a weird combination of laziness and busy-ness I never got around to doing up a christmas image this year. So instead I'll just post some christmas Images I've done in the past. if you've never  seen them before they're new to you so enjoy and have a Happy Christmas and all that.

Still one of my favorite christmas images

Martians like Christmas too!

What's christmas with out some sex appeal?

Famous Monsters

Just felt like drawing two of my favorite monsters of the Universal Monster Clan.

Frankenstein and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Again these were done while commuting in to work.