Hey hey hey buddies and fwendy bears, one of my new Twisted Tales is in this weeks 2000AD. Got my name on the cover which is big deal for me. Here it is

A bloke in work gave me 1000+ issues of 2000AD in cbr format and I’m working my way through them. Blown away by the early issues, such tight writing and fucking deadly art. Absolutely crammed with goodness and excitement. The modern trend for decompression of stories so that they can get the all important trade paperback out really shows compared to these gems.

Started to fall back in love with Dredd and am drawing him a fair bit now in my doodle time. What a great character.

Just sent off two new Twisted Tales to 2000AD and they are doozies. Really happy with them. My favourite is one called The Trapper which has a fair bit going on in it, revenge, benevolence and the duplicity of man. Here’s a pic of the grizzly old dope himself

Again, these stories are all told silent with no words, THE WAY COMICS SHOULD BE!!!. I ‘ve just finished an interview with a lad doing a media project where I spout all my lame theories about silent comics which I’ll post next week if he has it.

The next one is called The Prisoner and this is the one that Dec did the breakdowns for. First time we’ve worked together since we held down that lad and smeared— can’t talk about that here.

That’s a pic of the nasty little brats at the centre of the story. I used old school tones on this one and it’s a sweet looking effect. Don’t know when they’re running but I’ll put a post when I know.

Hey Darkies! That’s white mans bandwith you’re stealing. Been getting three new Twisted Tales together for 2000AD and to speed things up and to make up for the fact that I can’t draw I’ve enlisted Declan ‘Rimjob’ Shalvey to polish up my scribbles for me to scribble over them again.

Dec is my only friend in the biz really and we’d deffo be pals even if we both didn’t draw comics. Maybe not. I don’t know. He’s a bit light in the loafers. Nah, I love him and he knows it. Check out his blog for which I can take all the credit, some really amazing shit, especially the life drawing. Here’s the first collaborative test. The first row is mine which was accompanied with a text description, the second is Dec’s breakdowns and the last one is me again. Too much tone in it but I was just mesing.

Here’s a funny one, when I went over to him for the Tequila Launch, my story about the kid cheating in the exam was just out in 2000AD and I had named the school ‘Shalvey High’ to give him a shoutout but they moved the Twisted Tales logo over it! I’ll post that page next week. Still have unposted pics from the ill fated Galway signing too which I must share.

Right, I’m off to shit on to a Rusk.

First off a big congrats to Dec and Andy for scooping an Eagle Award for Hero Killers in Bristol over the weekend. Big thanks to you all if you voted through here. Seems like a lifetime ago that he timidly dangled a copy of it at me at the Irish Comic Showcase thing, now we’re bumchums and even going half on adopting a little black kid.

Here’s a page from an upcoming Twisted Tales in full jaysis colour. Still don’t know if they’re running back to back but they’re running and that’s all that matters. I’m moving house tomorrow so prolly no posts for a week or two.

Just got word from Tharg that my first Twisted Tales will be in the next prog; number 1536 bitch. I’m doing a signing in Sub City next week on the 11th or the 12th I think so come down and get a back rub off me. There’s another signing in Sub City Galway in June too for Freak Show.

Going over to Aberdeen this month for a launchy signing thing with Dec for Your Round too.

It’s all good

So here’s a taster of the first Twisted Tales. I’ll let you know when it’s out. Once it’s published I won’t be able to post it here so don’t miss it. Technically I shouldn’t even be showing this but since it’ll pull in a bunch of new readers I’m sure its cool.

I didn’t explain in the last post that the stories are self contained silent stories like Amperduke. I have 8 great stories worked out. My biggest concern is that I’ll paint myself into a corner like M.Night Shamalan, that dude was the biz straight out of the trap but steadily fucked it up for himself and now he’s a joke.

I’ve been working on the two new ones constantly for the past couple of weeks and they’re looking swell. One of them is in colour. Hopefully the fans will like them, Future Shocks were always my favourite because you got a full story into you and weren’t left hanging. They have the contents up the top of the cover now so you can see which stories are running which is a great idea.I always said they should have a symbol on the cover to say there’s a self contained story in the Prog because when I stopped buying it in the mid 90’s, I wouldn’t buy it if I saw it because I knew it was full of serials and hard to jump in to a story that’s 6 instalments old.

Check out the previous post, my first submission to Galaxy’s Greatest back in 2000(AD).