50 Percent More Ninja

November 2004

Driver

November 14, 2004

Decided last night to have a look back and see if there was anything on my hard drive that would lend itself to a ComicWorks treatment. So I dug up this ‘un. I haven’t included the whole page as it’s part of an ongoing project that’s being kept tucked securely under my petticoats, so it [...]

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Flickr ‘in

November 12, 2004

I’ve signed up to flickr, and I guess I’ll see where it takes me. I do have a photoblog on blogspot but I’ve decided to use that for uploading royalty free photos for texture and reference. Blogger doesn’t seem to have a limit on how much you can upload unlike flickr. By my reckoning I [...]

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Marc Almond Update

November 12, 2004

I don’t know if anyone who reads this would be interested.. but I was heartened to get the following email from the Marc Almond newsgroup last week. It seems that Marc is doing well, is out of danger and on the mend. I’m so pleased about this, it seems there’s been nothing but bad news [...]

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The Art of Walt Disney

November 9, 2004

When I was a mere stripling of 17 my mother bought me a book to help me with my second year thesis at college. That book was The Art of Walt Disney, by Christopher Finch. Described as the ‘definitive’ book about The House of Mouse, it was, and remains an authorized and non confrontational look [...]

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Hooooomm Too Hasty

November 9, 2004

My patience is not what it should be tonight. I started the sketch below with grand designs of drawing a wooden city built around an enormous tree, surrounded by a more conventionally sized forest. Unfortunately my attention span was not playing the game and by the time I’d been distracted by any number of things [...]

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Motivation

November 7, 2004

I find it quite hard to get my head down without a bit of motivation at times, so I’ve been nagging my other half to get some of his ideas down on paper (or the hard drive) to give me a bit of inspiration. Hopefully, some results should start to come through soon.. but until [...]

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Starlight, Starbright

November 5, 2004

Whilst preparing to write this review, the death of Christopher Reeve appeared in the news. It was sad moment in my life for me and yet, strangely fortunate in that it made this review more relevant to the premise and idea of the hero. Here was a man who epitomised the very meaning of this [...]

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