Why pork chops?? A conversaton with GarethJam, led to his producing a pork chop from his fridge freezer which he showed off with great pride, and no plate.
175: Pork Chops II
176: Pork Chops
Today, I’m sharing with you the sketches that started this attempt to pull myself out of the malaise. Create something new, whatever it takes. No matter how silly, stupid, pointless or futile, create. And do it regularly. So, I decided, I’d draw some pork chops.
The last sketch came about because I was entering internet webcam chat rooms and asking people to bring their pork chops to the camera so I could draw them. Oddly, I didn’t get any masturbators, nor did I get any pork chops, but vegetarians making themselves known, in a way that suggested I had just punched their mothers in the ribs. That sketch is for them.
177: Slaughterhouse – Behind the scenes..
I nearly boked a half dozen times while drawing my first zombie for all the people. Sources were Channel 4’s Anatomy for Beginners, and a Graunidad website film-through on abattoirs.
Incidentally, Reggie Chamberlain-King, the model for the Sir Reggie story was interviewed on BBC Arts Extra yesterday to talk about his work with The Wireless Mystery Theatre.
And I’ve been asked to mention ‘Ghost in the Glass’, a book by the Belfast Writers Group. They’re having a ‘book bomb’, which you’d think would be trouble around here. Great bunch of writers with rome proceeds to Action Cancer. Pitch and ordering details are here.
178: The Super Science of Sir Reginald Part 4
Last September I began work full-time as a script-writer for visual arts, specifically comics. Placed on the mandatory steps for work scheme for the jobless, I took the option to register as self-employed, formulating business plans, recording balance sheets, sourcing funding…doing everything but creating. Then, I met The Asshole. The Asshole could well exist in every career. I’ve spent many years around, and I’ve met The Comics Industry Asshole one too many times. I loved comics, but I lost compassion for The Asshole.
I’m not attempting a career path with this Sir Reginald piece. If I was working professionally, I’d not want to draw a strip, about a zombie or adventure fiction generally. We can tell it’s not pro quality, I tell you I am not comfortable labelled ‘illustrator’. What I am doing is co-creating and developing something with a very special friend. Co-working from social relations, it’s what Bernie DeKoven calls fun theory when he talks about playing well together. Ben Stone is a self-made creator with a cult following: that’s probably the bonus that makes this more sense.
You can read Parts 1-3 of the story from this link. End nau, the kan-klu-zen,
Links:
More Sir Reginald at Benjamin Stone’s Livejournal feed, more about Stone Robot Enterprises at Nadja’s, and my thanks again to surprise model, Reggie Chamberlain-King.
179: ALEX JONES MUST FIGHT
I’m not quite sure how Sontaran/Alex Jones mash-ups came about, except Geoffrey D. Wessel told me to do them.
And because it’s all too easy to have a go at him:
“Andrew Neil was one of Fleet Street’s most controversial figures with a hard-won reputation as an abrasive egomaniac.” – The Guardian, 25 April, 2005
You can still buy ‘Hold the Phones, It’s Alex Jones!’ by Geoff, myself and a whole buncha talents.
Sir Reginald continues tomorrow.
180: The Continuing Adventures of Sir Reginald Part 3
Today, I’ve mostly been creating a birthday card for Dawn. You get this:
181: Sir Reginald and the Zombie Part 2
You can read Part 1 of this tale here.
Today’s new creation by me is the fab logo I created simply from some sketches I’ve been putting together from autopsy and slaughterhouse films.
I had been really enjoying the exploration of biro, the confidence in knowing the next pen won’t cost a half day’s income. Biro goes everywhere, can do anything, it’s wilfulness to mercury can help spoil a background page, or pull a Steadman/McKean/Sienkiewicz grace dance. Paddy Brown‘s biro comics convey spontaneity first. Though also the zine-comics movement, which deserts the pretension of blatant-commercialism. Though sell the fecking feck out of this if you’re sufficiently motivated.
182: Let’s Have Some Fun
I’m thirty minutes from completing Page 2 of the Sir Reginald strip, but it’s suffered. The barking dog blazing sun street lashed me with pain, making for a horrible day. So rather than bring something strained, here is some fun instead.
183: Surprise Comic Part 1
Waay back (maybe) in 2008, popster Ben Stone’s livejournal got an open source script for his character, Sir Reginald. Eric F Myers beat me to this comixing by a few years, but I dug the script out while house cleaning, and so….
Reginald, to my mind, is Thomas Carnacki by way of John Constantine, or perhaps Malcolm Tucker. Visually, my new interpretation of him is not too far from Ben’s if I recall, and it so happens very similar to Reggie Chamberlain-King, Belfast writer and member of Northern Ireland’s fine edutainment export, The Wireless Mystery Theatre.Not so much coincidence as ELDRITCH.
Also starring Vinnie Jones and the Oxford Natural History Museum.
Pages 2-3 are almost done, will up them tomorro!
184: Joy of Sound
Joy of Sound is a London-based project made up of volunteers and utilising the pesky emptiness of churches mid-week to provide community fun therapy. I hoped to do a comic based on their methods by first-hand observation last year. I couldn’t secure funding, but while I was thinking about it:
It’s very worthwhile stuff William and his team are doing. If you’re in the London area, call in and play with them.
I’m creating something new each day, and sharing something I create online.
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