Sour and Crispy in space.

Sour Rabbit and Crispy Duck in space.

A quick drawing because I found these hubble space photo wallpapers and thought they would make nice character backgrounds (like my bookmarks). The background above is from here where you can get free space images thanks to NASA.

I might add some downloadable wallpaper background designs to my website when it is finished being re-designed...perhaps...

Solipsistic Pop and Paper Science 2!

AHHH! LOOK

This Wednesday evening I hope to make it to the very exciting launch of Solipsistic Pop 2! It looks amazing from the photos on the blog which I will now steal and put below...



The book features work by loads of great people- check the website for the previews and list of contributors. It includes a 5 page Sour Rabbit and Crispy Duck story by me which is an exclusive intro to an even longer story I'm working on. It comes with a newspaper funnies insert (which features a Depressed Cat strip too) and an amazing tote bag to carry your copy around in designed by Philippa Johnson!

You'd be crazy not to buy one.

I'm also excited about this Saturday's FREE COMIC BOOK DAY because the We Are Words + Pictures team have put together another brand new FULL COLOUR newspaper print Paper Science! The last issue was brilliant so this one is sure to be great too. I sent them a couple of colour strips for it but I won't say what they are- you'll have to go along and get a copy. Check out the amazing cover by Philippa Rice!

CIB + CHERRY CHERRY AWESOMENESS!

I just took new comics into the awesomeness awesome CREATED IN BIRMINGHAM shop in the Bullring. I then spent money on some of the great badges and zines and cool stuff they have for sale there. Go check it out if you live in Birmingham (and buy tons of stuff to support local artists oh yeah!)

I also just sent new stock to most stockists including the brand new bigger Cherry Cherry shop that had their opening a week or so ago. I'm totally in love (yep, actual love) with their shop decor and contents and now i really want to go to Norwich to check it out and buy loads of the amazing stuff they sell there. I wish it wasn't so far away from here!! I would seriously spend a fortune there...and look at the amazing furniture used for the displays ahhh ♥

NEW COMICS IN SHOP!

You can now buy my new comics in the online shop! They will be in stockists within the next two weeks (some are sent out already the rest this week!)

buy buy buy (if you like) I will send extra gifts too as usual!

Wizard Bath!

I like to keep a stash of Lush products in my bathroom and today when I was looking for one to use I found a Christmas bath bomb- Jingle Spells (pictured above) which makes a purple bath water with glitter stars that float around! It is the exact bath water that I imagine Keith the Wizard has so I drew a really quick comic of this eventuality-

I found this video too, I find it very strange how so many people on you tube film bath bombs but they do... this one keeps going in and out of focus for that extra special dreamy bath video experience-


I think Creepy Garden Elf would bathe in Magic Mushroom bubble bar-

These are both limited edition Lush bombs/bubble bars but you can get them at certain times of the year on the website.

In other bubble news I came across these online today-

WOW

Rambling review of The Thing with photos!

I had a great (but tiring) day at the Thing on Saturday, I didn't get chance to take many photos (I forgot) but here are the couple I took and a few I managed to borrow from other people of the weekend...

Friday Morning: Here is the mystery machine packed full of comics and ready to go! It topples over really easily so that made the journey to the train and across London a bit tricky. Next time I'll buy a more practical case...

Saturday Morning: I arrived at the venue (feeling rather ill boo) with my bro who helped me on the stall and brought me tea- without which I wouldn't have made it through the day! I set up and then went round to hand out Dino-Saw-Us passports with Timothy Winchester of People I Know comics. On the way round I was presented with a handsome and muscley CARDBOARD CARL from Phillipa of My Cardboard Life fame!!! ahhh!! Here he is enjoying the day-

Here is a photo taken by Dan Berry of me at my stall with Carl-

I was on a row next to Adam, Kayla and Marc (who had exciting new tote bags that I saw lots of people carrying around!) I managed to leave the stall for a bit to collect a few stickers for the Dino-Saw-Us game, do check out the Dino-Saw-Us blog where we will be adding photos and reviews from people who enjoyed collecting the stickers too, I was amazed by how many people joined in!-

Here are the Anthologies that I drew the cover for (it doesn't appear to credit me for this though! They made badges and stickers of the design too...)


Thanks to everyone who bought my new comics! Do let me know what you think of them! (They will be added to the online shop this week for anyone who couldn't make it and in stockists from next week)

Sunday morning: There was just time on Sunday for some pancakes with dreamy Carl before catching the train-


Here is all the stuff I came home with (more than I usually manage to get!)-

I Love Pie and I Love Rapping necklaces from Tuck Shop, Enviro-Cat tote from John Allison, animal badges from Tpcat, millions of awesome postcards from Adam Cadwell, Paperlillies and Jess Bradley, brand new comics from Cute But Sad, People I Know and the wonderful people of Zettgeist, a cool card from Darryl Cunningham, brilliant dinosaur gift from Tanukitsune and top of my want list for the day was GUTS by Joe List (I've been wearing my GUTS badge with pride) WOO!

All of these things pictured above are well worth getting- go and visit all those website links and buy them too! It was really great to see everyone and to meet people I've only known via twitter at last...although also quite a lot to take in on the day so sorry if I missed anyone out or anything. I feel like I dashed round and didn't get chance to go back for things I intended to get at the end of the day (as usual) but will have to add them to my list for next time...

SLEEPS

BIG CAT PARADE!

IT'S A PARADE OF BIG CATS PARADING ALONG!

WOOOOO!

WATCH THEM ROAR! no that's stupid. But DO BE EXCITED because it is a brand new 40 page comic packed with all your favourite characters and LOADS of new ones too.

AHHHH!