Drawing of John Barrington OBE

 

Drawing of David Joyce

 

AZAD

 

Here's a very rough pencil drawing for the first panel from a four page short story I'm currently working on called AZAD. I hope to have the story completed by the end of next month.

 

 

 

"Rebirth"

 

Here's a panel from a three page story I've just completed with the theme of "Rebirth".  I wrote and drew the story for inclusion in the booklet for this year's CAPTION SMALL PRESS & COMICS FESTIVAL in Oxford this coming August.

LOST IN SPACE 2: Commentary corollary 5 (of 5)

 “Charley says..."

 

 

When I was working on  Lost In Space 2 I showed a friend of mine one the above pages from Barry The Alien and The Messenger in The Black Hole Bar and Comedy Club. He then asked me if I had stolen the idea for the language difference from C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars.

 

 

 

Nope. Barry The Alien’s first comic book appearance came in my 1995 mini comic The House of Hatch, the inspiration for which came from one of those public information films aimed at children which were on the telly quite a bit in the 1970s. In Barry’s case it was “Charley says…” an animated cat warning kids of the dangers of messing about with everything from a box of matches to strange men in the local park asking if you’d “...like to see some puppies?”. The complete “Charley says…” can be seen on YouTube here. My 1995 Barry The Alien strip was basically “Charley says…” in space.

 

 

Having just read all 26 volumes of the utterly brilliant series The Complete Peanuts by Charles M Schulz it’s certainly worth mentioning that Schulz used the same conceit back in 1967 when he introduced the character of Woodstock to Peanuts. Whether this was a first in comics or not I don't know, but Schulz certainly used it to great comedic effect.

 

 

TOKEN GESTURE... IT'S ALIVE!!!

Copies of my latest comic TOKEN GESTURE arrived at THE HOUSE OF HATCH from the printers yesterday and they look great! Certainly the most childish, immature and embarrassing comic I’ve ever done so obviously I’m pretty pleased about that. But don’t take my word for it! You can judge for yourself for just £6 incl p&p! Buy here Read more here