Now we are running...

Here is the cover to "Now we are running...", my new comic book. A collection of pop-culture spoofs n' goofs with a little violence and bad language thrown in because I think it's big and clever.

Learn! The stories behind some of Spielberg's greatest movies. Discover! The legend of the Vangrooover brothers, three body-building triplets from a German muscle-family. Enjoy! The sensuous feeling of silky paper all over your soft soft hands...

The book will be available at this year's Bristol International Comic and Small Press Expo on the 14th-15th of May, then afterwards available via my blog. My hope is that you will purchase it and upon looking at the pages, do some kind of laugh. Thanks!

Yo Teach!

I'm currently teaching classes in comic book art and illustration for the ICIA at Bath University. Its a new experience for me but pretty exciting. If I'm going to yakyakyak about anything in front of people it might as well be comics and drawings and that. So far my lectures have gone well, a little dry mouth and the odd brain fart but nothing too bad. Although I seem to be unintentionally channelling Alan Partridge, which IS a worry.

As a quick first lesson exercise I got my students to look at the "American Elf" diary comics of James Kochalka and see if they could take a tiny moment from their recent lives and turn it into a journal comic. Above are the two example I did, recent moments from the hectic roller coaster ride I call JAMES.

Is he a pig? He sure eats like one.

I get choked up at the end of E.T, I'm not ashamed to admit. But I've never started crying on the theme park ride, when you go to his home and see all the other E.Ts and help Botanicus heal the Green Planet...and anyone who says I did is a liar...

Lets go to the Mall!

Score this design: "Lets go to the Mall!," to help it get printed on Threadless!

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Hey I've got another tee design up for votin' on Threadess, this one is 1980's themed and is inspired by the music of Robin Sparkles!

Check it out!

Cereal:Geek issue 8! Pre-Order now!

(preview images by me, cover art by Adam Moore)

Issue 8 of Cereal:Geek, the only magazine in the galaxy dedicated to eighties animation is available for pre-order now! As always it features loads of awesome articles and artwork dedicated to some of the most POWERFUL cartoons of all time! Issue 8 continues the theme of the previous issue, looking at the animated movies that were released throughout the 80's.

This issue includes a thunder-punching SIX pages of artwork by me so I'm looking forward to seeing the magazine in all of your Snarf-loving hands!

Check out Cereal:Geek here!

No one calls Lester Sludge 'Slime'!

Page 1 of my MASK comic for Cereal Geek issue 7 (out now! Buy here!)

A scene from the episode "Demolition Duel to the Death!" that I recreated in comic-book-style for my (adjusts bow tie) regular feature in Cereal Geek; "Stayte Of The Eighties!"

Check out the original clip here...
And check out Cereal:Geek here...

To The Rescue returns!

Artwork from the latest issue of Storm Force, the RNLI club magazine for children.

I was so unpopular in high school, the crossing guards used to lure me into traffic!

Annie Edison (as played by Allison Brie) from the excellent Community.

More characters from Community to come, next: El Tigre!

Troy and Abed in the morrrrning!

Troy and Abed from Community. If you don't watch it then get watching it, because its probably the smartest comedy on tv at the moment. Sure, none of the characters are played by millionaire coke addicts who slap porn stars (and were in Hot Shots part deux) but don't hold that against it. I'm going to pay tribute to all the other characters soon but I wanted to start with T-Bone and Cool Abed. UPDATE! Check out my picture of the whole Community cast here!

Holy Shirt!

More Threadless designs ( "Crush Your Paperwork" & "Comix R 4 Dorks!" ). Always fun to do, even if I don't get great scores every time (tiny violin for James). Holding off on submitting any more designs until I get that killer idea that'll blow your mind like a rocket shaped like a t-shirt.

Hire The Barman.

Storyboard artwork for Hire The Barman (London Cocktail Barman Hire).

This was a cool project to do. The most fun part though was posing as a Tom Cruise style cocktail barman for reference photos. I make a great, fake martini!

Check out the full artwork on the site here.

Workin' overtime, fightin' crime!

A preview panel from my MASK (MOBILE ARMORED STRIKE KOMMAND!) comic pages as seen in the upcoming issue 7 of Cereal:Geek. If you're interested in the history behind the classic animation of the 80's its an amazing read, full of great articles and awesome artwork. You can pre-order issue 7 right here!

Monster Mash

From my laboratory in the castle east
To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes

Artwork for DJ Moneybags

Zombies...for godsake they can use doorbells now.

A 2 page comic I did for my upcoming Bath Uni ICIA comic book art workshop to illustrate my process when drawing a page. At some point I'll post the sketches, pencils, inks e.t.c.

Details for the workshops can be found here!

The futher adventures of To The Rescue!

More artwork from a recent issue of Storm Force, the Royal National Lifeboat Institute magazine. Its always a lot of fun to do and recently I've been drawing centre spread action shots of the various boats the RNLI use too.

(Pssst! The children being saved in the comic are dressed like the kids from South Park. I am easily amused.)

Unity...

This is a business card design for a friend's hair salon, Unity (Walker Hall, Market Place, Evesham, 0138648100!)

(The artwork is based on a photo by Tore Gardner. Check out her work here!)

Cereal:Geek issue 7 now available to pre-order!

Issue 7 of Cereal:Geek, the excellent 80's animation magazine, is now available to pre-order here.

Featuring artwork by myself along with many more illustrations and articles by some incredible artists and writers. If you're interested in the classic animated series of the 1980's like Masters Of The Universe, Thundercats, Transformers, M.A.S.K and more then you should definitely check it out. Catch the Cereal:Geek fever!

(cover illustration by Nathan Baertsch)

Bath University ICIA: Comic book art class!

Hey everyone, from October I'm going to be teaching a course in Comic Book Art at The University Of Bath. Its my first time teaching and I'm really excited about imparting my knowledge of sequential art!

You can find details about the weekly course here: and the one day workshop classes here: . I'll update my blog with more news soon!

NERRRRRRRRRRRRDS!!!

Wraparound cover artwork to 'DJ Moneybags + DJ Tuck Present College Years Beer Pong Edition'

Check out DJ Moneybags here.

'Buster Move!

Hey everyone! I've got another t-shirt design up for voting on Threadless. This one is based on that film about ghosts, and how people feel good when they bust them! Check it out!