Sarah and I are going on an amazing trip with a crew of cartoonists! We’re touring round north-eastern USA and popping into Toronto, too. Store events, festivals, some comics jamming. It’s gonna be GREAT. Hopefully we’ll make some new friends, meet up with a couple old ones and just blow minds generally. I don’t doubt…
Tag: Comics
The Stanleys 2011
or, What it is to be a cartoonist Cartoonists don’t travel through physical space, only through time. Even when the cartoonist looks, to an observer, to be travelling; on a plane, say, or a train – they are bent over their Spirax #534 pad, scratching away at a sketch of a fellow passenger. Desperately trying…
Bret Braddock beer mats
I like drawing on beer mats, a.k.a. those disposable cardboard coasters you get in pubs. Always a bonus when you go to a pub and they have some beer mats there with BLANK BACKS! Some beer manufacturers get coasters made with their bullshit advertising on both sides. They are jerks (hello, jerks). They don’t understand…
This one’s done
Bret Braddock comic book on sale
Want a printed edition of the Bret Braddock Adventures, Vol. 1? Want it as an eBook for your iPad, etc? Either way, you can be helped! Just go to Docklands Entertainment to purchase. By doing so, you are supporting the artistic endeavour of somebody who’d be making this strip anyway, even though each one takes…
“Bret Braddock” drafting
I spoke on a panel at the Emerging Writers Festival last week and gave a little presentation on how I draft an episode of The Bret Braddock Adventures (a weekly webcomic about a lousy workplace you should really be reading). They let me put up some images of the stages in doing one of these…