New York Comic Con - February 6-8, 2009.
Well, I’ve taken that leap and booked my flight. New York in Feb - it’ll be bloody freezing. This year, in my challenge to spend a night with every comic creator based in the UK, I think I’ll be sharing a room with Kieron Gillen (that there Phonogram guy). In, possibly, the cheapest hotel in NY. Which is fine - when I go to NY with my wife, I like a nice hotel, when I go with my celebrity comic book chums I’ll sleep in any old dive.
I intend to get around with my portfolio and talk to as many peeps as possible. And, I may even have my iPhone with me, showing off the little comic app that could. Hopefully by then infurious will have something major to talk about (I know, I know, it’s been quiet… we’re cooking something up - I swear…)
Anyhue, if you’re there I’ll see you then, if you’d like to meet up, drop me an email.
I’ve known Colin years - that is to say, I first met him years ago, and then again fairly recently. In my head Colin is a stick thin 17year old, which is why this one was so hard I had to do it twice… (the scruffier one is more accurate..)
Photo by Chris Heuer
Here’s Mark and his nieces, there’s something fishy about the C/Kardwell fella’s likeness…
(Also: nieces was NEVER misspelt. It was always spelt correctly. Further, we are not at war with Eurasia, and we have never been at war with Eurasia. Double Plus Good.)
I’ll get a photo of this guy up once I have his ok; quiet a fun face to draw and I think I’ve captured it well… (Course Geoff may disagree… but I find the victims models for these things tend to disagree while those around them guffow…)
Done as a Chrimbo card last year, and posted in celebration of the new Dr Who, Matt Smith (not to be confused with Matt Smith editor of 2000AD). I’d love to draw the new Dr Who - he has a brilliantly bumpy head.
-pj
Done as a favour for a friend of mine, who needed something in lieu of a photograph.
Mr & Mrs. Edward Kaye (done as separate drawings) (Also, if you go here you can see Ed’s original photo he sent - I’m drawing this stuff by displaying it on the computer and then drawing on photocopy paper - spending about 5 minutes pencilling and then 10/15 minutes inking. Usually that’s it, occasionally, I’ll use a little Acrylic white ink to touch up and inked lines that turn out a little too thick…)
(Also: I’d love to colour some of these, I think they’d look pretty cool - but time is the enemy…)
15 minutes, brush & indian ink on photocopy paper. (Blue lined and then pencilled normally) (reference photo above was one of two photos the second had him playing the keyboards - hence the fingers…)
Long term visitors to the blog may know that for the past few years I’ve started idiotic projects meant to run through the year (but, typically, lasting about a month). These have included, so far, weekly essays, daily sketches, podcasts, video blogs and all sorts dotted throughout the year.
This year I’m gonna try and hone my caricature abilities - I used to be reasonably proficient at it (and I’m still, I think, good at capturing likenesses with economy, especially in the pub when people are too drunk to know any better).
If you’d like to take part in this weekly feature - just email me directly with a decent photo (pjholden at gmail dot com) or reply, s’all good.
You’ll probably get a decent sized b&w image for your own use on your blog, and, if you want the original artwork… well… we can come to some financial arrangement…
-pj
