FanWrks

I'm back, baby! After a full committed year of dedicated work I am back on the convention scene, drawing for fun and fans. Though, there won't be very many comics coming out of my little studio this year (comic work is focused elsewhere) I will be decorating tables at Supernova, Avcon, Manifest and other cons around Australia. Starting with Supernova Melbourne this coming weekend! Winning hearts and minds, letting my future subjects meet their overlord.

Big on the agenda this year is posters. The Chibi Lineup, big scale Zelda fan-stuff, the much requested Chuck Norris VS Jesus Christ poster and other small but tasty things to keep any fans I might imagine I have vaguely happy.  

Time to fire up the furnace, whip the slaves, prepare the shock troops and tell the sweatshop workers that their overtime is suspended. FORWARD WAR-MACHINE!

As annoying as it is, my evil immortality requires a year of deep slumber every decade to keep myself alive and youthful in appearance. Now that the year is coming closer to an end I find myself waking up and taking small walks around my basement dungeon to feed and stretch out my feet, arms and tail. The sacrifices and hibernation are paying off and I feel my fanboy powers slowly returning… I WILL be back to touring the Australian comic convention scene next year and there is nothing – short of a beheading, steak trough the heart or easy listening – that will stop me…

I'm in Canada. Still making comics. Still going to make New Way no. 3. Avcon. Manifest? Travel. Travel. Travel. Maybe I'll sell comics at sticky. L.A.? Dunno. I like getting better at drawing. Working lots. Indie release later this year. Tiiiired.
did a lot of snowboarding last week.

Woooot.


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I promised myself this morning that if I was good and spent the whole morning working (drawing for money) I would spend the afternoon outside, training and enjoying the sun. 10 min before I finished work the sky opened up. The rain nearly drowned my chickens and took down my gutters. Sunny afternoon outside was off and I now had to come up with a different plan. So, being the exciting person that I am, I decided to do more drawing… this time for myself and those who watch my page, not for money.

I wanna do some fan art. As I though about what I wanted to draw, it occurred to me that I’ve not at all been inspired by anything popular culture over the last bunch of months. Video Games are still letting me down… I haven’t played anything good since Galaxy 2. Street Fighter 4 is officially boring. There hasn’t been any ground-breaking anime titles in ages and even manga is pretty unexciting of late. There have been some good comics… but none that I feel like I can tribute without coming off as indie-snob-man 2010.

So? Where do I go from here? Exercise is out, being productive is in question… Fuck it. I’ll go order fish and chips, buy some beer (little creatures would go down nicely right about now) and chuck on a film. Maybe inspiration will strike.

What would you suggest? There’s got to be something good out there I’m missing.

The shitty weather doesn’t help.

The Fulx Capacitor project has been a total success.  We got the schematics by freeze-framing Back to the Future 2 and, after some tinkering, we were able to build our own time machine. Naturally, there were a few hiccups. Over the last few months time has been unintentionally accelerated.

Avcon came and flew by at break-neck speeds. Loved it, the Adelaide guys were great as always. I got the second issue of The New Way done just in time, releasing it exactly one year after the release of issue one. Then a surprise, I got a table at Manifest after all! Got straight back to work – posters, bookmarks and the ever-growing chibi-lineup. Barely registered the weeks between these two cons and suddenly, I was at Manifest.

It was cold there. And fun. Actually, these two cons made me realise that there are a few people out there who actually follow all my work. I have fans… PLURAL! Holee crap, the time machine must have jumped me into a parallel universe by accident! I think I like it there though. It's encouraging, makes me wanna make more stuff.

Finally, time is slowing down again and maybe we can get back to regular updates and new artwork. This whole thing has made me realise what the Doc was right: time travel is too dangerous and unpredictable for any mortal to control. I'm going back to the labs to dismantle this infernal machine so I can return to making comics in real-time.