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Advice for Cartoonists #1

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If you’re thinking about drawing a comic book, it might be a good idea not to spend several months on the first panel drawing EVERY SINGLE BUILDING IN GLASGOW.

I never was one to follow advice. At this rate, expect issue 1 some time around about my 80th birthday.

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11 2010

ADITM Artwork

Death and Sam at the Botanic Gardens

Magpie at Kelvingrove

It’s been a long time coming but finally, here’s the first few glimpses of artwork for the comic book I’m working on. Neither of them are finished. I’m not especially happy with the way Sam looks. He needs a bit more development stylistically I think, but I’ll be putting the artwork on hold for the next few months, so decided to put up what I have so far. Read the rest of this entry →

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08 2009

a Death in the making

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A few years ago, I had no desire to be a writer. I envied people who could but didn’t think I had it in me. I’m certainly not one of those people who always wanted to write. I may have loved reading since before I started school but always had the assumption I was neither original or insightful enough to write anything that anyone else might want to read. That all changed in early March 2007, when, as hackneyed as it sounds, I had a dream. Read the rest of this entry →

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03 2009