Thursday 13 November 2014

Street Dawgz at Thought Bubble

This weekend I will be at Thought Bubble in Leeds at table 149 sharing with Joe Decie and Dorris McComics and hopefully I will have my new Street Dawgz comic for sale as well as Many Moons prints.

You can find our table in New Dock Hall if you print out and follow this simple map- enter at the door, turn right, go around Gandalf, follow the path to the right until you reach the robot then look out for Chewbacca, we are just there at number 149. 149. Remember that number, it's the only table you'll need to visit. One four nine.


My Street Dawgz comic is an experimental comic from the new humour outfit Lame Duck. I decided to try out an idea I haven't tried before which is to draw a comic and print it as it is with no corrections and no edits. I drew the comic over the course of 5 months and it reflects the mood I was in whilst drawing it so the style becomes wilder or calmer in different parts. I would usually draw a comic in rough then redraw it neater for print but this time I wanted to retain the original rough lines in the final comic which is why it is a bit different to things I have done before. This is the cover:


I also have these Many Moons prints for sale- they show the correct number of moons each planet has (not to scale)


I will be selling them both online soon but until then if you are not going to be at Thought Bubble you can join my Fun Club here where all $5 members will be getting a free PDF of Street Dawgz very soon!



Tuesday 21 October 2014

Limited Edition Print Offer!


For one week only I'm selling prints of ANY COMIC from my web-comic for only £10 plus postage (free post UK, £3 postage elsewhere) Just email me sushimonsters at gmail . com to place your order and I will get back to you with a paypal invoice. Prints will dispatch next week!

See here for the comics you can choose from!


Thursday 16 October 2014

LICAF

This weekend I'm a guest at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. I will be on a panel about humour in comics with Stephen Collins and Donya Todd, hosted by Nicola Streeton on Saturday 18th October 12.15-1.15 at the Brewery Arts Centre. I'm also signing in the Page 45 comics Clock Tower on Saturday 2-6 with Joe List and Sunday 10.30-2pm with Donya. More information here!


Friday 19 September 2014

Fun Club Exclusive Competition!

If you are a member of my Fun Club you can WIN THIS UNICORN!


"Win a unicorn! This month I will be placing all Fun club members names in a hat and picking someone at random who will win this unicorn! I made this as a mini prototype for my Lost Pets exhibition in Berlin so it is a one of a kind model, I won't be making another so you will own the only one in the world! You don't need to do anything other than be a member ($1 and $5 options, which is only 61p or £3.05 a month) and to mention the Fun Club online somewhere (instagram/twitter/facebook etc) be sure to @lizzlizz or hashtag #funclub #lizzlizz and you will have entered the competition. The winner will be chosen at the end of September. Good luck! :oD"

I've also just added some exclusive secret sketchbook pages to the members only section so it's a great time to join! And there will be lots more exclusive content coming soon...

Tuesday 2 September 2014

Big Brobot Exhibition Berlin

This Saturday I will have artwork in the Big Brobot tenth anniversary exhibition at Box 32 Gallery in Berlin. For more information see the Facebook event here! I'll put images of my piece online at the end of the week (unless you are a Fun Club member - who can see an early preview today...)




Big Brobot feiert seinen 10 jährigen Geburtstag und veranstaltet zum Thema "BIG BROBOT`S UNIVERSE" eine Gruppenausstellung mit über 40 Künstlern!

50% der Verkäufe werden dem Archiv der Jugendkulturen e.V. gespendet.

Teilnehmende Künstler

44 FLAVORS • ANDREA WAN • AW • B2302 • BASE23 • BERT VAN WIJK • BILLY • BONE • CUKE • CZARNOBYL • DAVE THE CHIMP • DAVID WALKER • DEER BLN • DEE ONE • DISTURBANITY • DSCREET • EILEEN WUNDERLICH • ELFRIEDE • ELIOT • ELMAR LAUSE ENUFF • FELIX GEPHARDT • FLYING FORTRESS • FORM 76 • FOXY • GFELLER + HELLSGåRD • GOLDEN GREEN • HAEVI • HOCUS • INK-A-ZOID • JENS BESSER • JOSEPH LOUGHBOROUGH • JOHANNES MUNDINGER • • JULES WENZEL • JUST • KACAO77 • KERS • KLUB7 LAKE • LINDA • LIZZ LUNNEY • MARKUS BUDDENBROCK / EVEIL • MARTIN KRUSCHE • NIELS DE JONG • OTTO BAUM • PAWLOW • PEKOR • PISA73 • POET • REKA • ROMEO ALAEFF • RYLSEE • SKOR • STEFAN MARX • TOBIAS KROEGER • UNDENK • VIDAM • WESR • WIUR • WOW123

Wednesday 20 August 2014

Glug Birmingham: Midland Masters tomorrow!



I have a stall at Glug Birmingham tomorrow! I will be there from 6 onwards selling comics, prints, badges, tote bags and more. For more information about the event and to buy tickets see the Inkygoodness website! Thurs 21st Aug, 6.00pm – 11.30pm

Friday 8 August 2014

Bicycle Bizarre Saturday!



Tomorrow (Saturday 9th August) I will be selling comics and gifts at the Bicycle Basket Bizarre in Birmingham as part of "Summer in Southside" I will be in the courtyard of the National Trust's Back to Back houses by the Hippodrome from 1-5pm

More info here and here!

Bicycle Basket Bazaar

Summer in Southside
Saturday 9 August, 12pm - 5pm
Back to Backs and Inge Street


POD Projects and Eye Candy bring together an incredible line up of the artists and makers that reflect the best in the region as part of 'Summer in Southside’ event organised by the Birmingham Hippodrome.

This BBB will take place in spaces surrounding the Hippodrome theatre on Inge Street and the courtyard of the National Trust’s ‘Back to Backs.

Ben Javens,
Sonny Ross,
Lizz Lunney,
Suitcase Sounds,
Working Clasp,
Lov Li,
Endfile,
Ken Hurd,
More By Design,
Column Arts Agency

www.summerinsouthside.com

www.eyecandyfest.tumblr.com

Wednesday 30 July 2014

One-A-Day August!

This Friday is the start of my One-A-Day comic for August! And this year you can join in! I will be taking suggestions for comic themes- you can either tweet @lizzlizz using the hashtag #oneaday or you can comment here or on facebook. I will try and draw every suggestion during the month and if I get more than 31 suggestions I'll keep them going into September if I can!

You can support my online comic by joining my Fun Club here! Thanks so much to those who do so already. Your support means I can spend more time drawing comics and less time worrying. Just $1 a month gives you access to the secret club area and $5 a month patreons get an exclusive Fun Club members pack. Thanks again! Enjoy the comics!


Tuesday 17 June 2014

Comic Salon Erlangen


This weekend I'll be in Erlangen for Comic Salon 2014, I'll be hanging around at the Zwerchfell table which is stand number 97 in Hall D, come and say hello!





Thursday 12 June 2014

#PictoplasmaLostPets Process Blog

This is a process blog post about the making of my pets for the #PictoplasmaLostPets Exhibition. I'm going to write a bit about how I went about translating my drawings into 3D stuffed creatures and some of the methods and materials I used.

Initial Designs

The very first thing I did was draw some designs for the animals I wanted to make. In the trial version of the exhibition I had drawn onto fabric to make the "pets" as giant pillows as you can see here. This time I wanted to make three dimensional models instead so I drew up some ideas for how they could look....



Prototypes

The next step was to create some mini prototypes to test out how I could make the shapes. I made a small bison and small unicorn:




Fabrics

I knew I wanted to make the "pets" out of fake fur because I wanted them to be a bit like those cheap toys that can be won in seaside crane machines. Birmingham has some awesome suppliers of fabrics where I bought materials from two stall holders- one in the permanent indoor market and then most of the main furs from an amazing fake fur stall in the Birmingham Rag Market. It's probably the most fabric I've bought in one go. Here's all the fabric piled up and then the cut out shapes. I didn't use templates for the body shapes, I just cut into the fabric wildly like a maniac. There is no time to be careful about these things.





Sewing

I have a sewing machine but because the pets were mainly made from fake fur I had to sew them all by hand. This took a long time and so I did a lot of sewing in my favourite cafes and on trains. Here are some photos of times I took my sewing to Cherry Red's in Birmingham with my friend Evgenia and another time when I was sewing the face and arms for the monkey. I often did sewing at home while watching documentaries with my cat as you can see here too.




Stuffing

I bought lots of cheap cushion filler bags to stuff the pets and each pet was stuffed via their bums as you can see here. The final pets were quite large, see the photos below for size comparison between me, the test unicorn and my cat, Lion. So, in order to transport the pets to Berlin I had to un-stuff them, flat pack them in a vacuum storage bag, carry them in my hand luggage and then in Berlin I bought more stuffing with the help of my friend Frauke to re-shape them and do the final sewing.













Posters

Frauke also provided translation for the posters so I could do both English and German text versions. I photocopied and laminated these posters in Birmingham so they were ready to be put up around Berlin in the Character Walk area.





Adoption

You can read a photo comic about the exhibition: part one and part two... and see more photos of the exhibition and the process on Flickr.

I have been sent the most amazing photos of some of the pets in their new adopted families. Here are my favourites:




And I have written a BONUS MONKEY COMIC which you can read over on my website here!

Thanks for reading, I hope this was interesting to some people.

It was tiring work for all humans and pets involved! -





Monday 9 June 2014

CRINGE



I have a comic in this upcoming anthology which you can pre-order on Kickstarter, I'm also offering original artwork for one of the supporter tiers. Here is some more information:

“Cringe: An Anthology of Embarrassment” collects over twenty stories of personal humiliation, shame & awkwardness from a variety of indie cartoonists.

Contributors include Cara Bean, Box Brown, Jeffrey Brown, Chris Carlier, Peter Conrad, Chad Essley, Andrew Farago, Shaenon Garrity, Delaine Derry Green, Sam Henderson, Victor Kerlow, Steve Lafler, Lizz Lunney, Fred Noland, Stephen Notley, Adam Pasion, Sam Spina, Geoff Vasile, Jamie Vayda & Alan King, Chad Woody, Jess Worby & J.T. Yost.
Front cover by John Kerschbaum, back cover by Danny Hellman, title page by Gabby Schulz and spot illustration by Noah Van Sciver.
Edited by Peter S. Conrad

"Cringe" will be a 112-page 6" x 9" perfect-bound softcover book with color covers and black + white interior. None of the comics contained within have been previously published.

 View a preview of my comic for the anthology over on my website here where I have uploaded the "Diagram of Embarrassment Levels" You can also view a BIG VERSION here!