Box

Last night William sorted out his wooden box full of bits.
There were quite a few bits I'd like to steal...

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Comics I've Read Vol.2

The other day I was sorting and throwing out a load of stuff that should have been sorted and thrown out years ago and I realised that when I said Tank Girl was my first proper venture into comics it was kind of a lie. When I was at high school I started reading Kerrang magazine and from my very first issue I started cutting out and keeping the Pandora strips. As my tastes evolved I stopped reading Kerrang and after a few years Pandora-less it turned out a friend of mine at uni bought it every week and my love for collecting Pandora strips was fuelled once more when he offered me the strips when he was done with the magazine. I haven't seen her in a while but I hope she's still going.
Ray Zell is one of those typical art types that doesn't update his website but there is quite a bit on there.

More recently, I've just finished the Best of American Splendour.
Having never read any of it before it took some time before I stopped expecting a typical ending and just accepted that they were snippets of life rather than made up stories that end neatly and ended up really enjoying it.

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New Zine!

The zine is now available in the shop!Some of the illustrations for this I think will end up available as prints too, I'm really proud of it.
Hope you like it :)

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Sketchbook

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Shop Update

I've been listing things in the shop this past week (a few of which are pictured) and there's still quite a bit to be added this coming week too.
Hope you like it.

All the drawing/painting for the zine is almost done. I've spent the afternoon on photoshop fiddling with page layout and such like so that once all the drawing is finished there is less to do all in one go. I really don't like using photoshop, it bores me half to death.
I think I'll make up for it by spending the rest of the afternoon working on a blanket I'm in the middle of making.

Hope your weekends are going well :)

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Seeds

Working on the Spring zine.

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I Made Muffins

Banana muffins with a topping of Nutella.
Seriously tasty and possibly the best looking thing I've baked.

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Comics I've Read Vol.1

I always find it interesting to see what other people have been reading or watching or listening to and I have an odd fondness for keeping record of the things I have read etc so I figured I would start putting some of it on here.

A little background info. I adore Tank Girl. As simple as that. I started on comics a lot later than I'd like to admit but I'm not one to dwell on such things. As far as I recall Tank Girl was my first proper venture into the comic book world, maybe at the end of college/start of uni, with the collections of the Martin/Hewlett era. I have the 3 collections in the image and love them.

I now also love Rufus Dayglo, the current artist for Tank Girl but these days I'm restricted to what the library has on offer due to being poor and such like.

I bobbed around a bit dipping in and out of things not really knowing where to look for other comics I might enjoy because the world of comics is so vast but I think in using the library I've overcome my fear of ending up with something rubbish because I don't have to pay for it and can just give it back, which is brilliant.

Anyway, here are the 2 I have read most recently so as to not make this too long.

I don't like Superman. Never have. He's far too pompous.
But the basic idea of this story is 'what if Superman had been raised in Russia rather than America?' and it's genius.

I wasn't sure about reading this and after reading it am still not sure of my opinion on it. I think I liked it as a comic but if it had been a book I probably wouldn't have read it all.
I think I'm going to try another of Posy Simmonds' out of curiosity.

If you've read anything good recently or know of something I shouldn't miss then please let me know.

I'm going to go get back to the drawings for my next zine.

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