Category: Blogging

The Studio

Posted on 3rd May 2021 by PJH

I’ve started obsessing over my studio shelf space. Generally I’m a pretty lazy collector, I’ve books going way back to the dawn of my interests in comics (specifically copies of The Dark Knight Returns), books that I bought to read
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A week of blogging

Posted on 4th April 2021 by PJH

Last Sunday I decided – over on that there twitter – that I’d blog for the entire week. No rhyme or reason for it, just a sort of wistful wondering if I could do it. What I find with these
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Achilles Heels

Posted on 2nd April 2021 by PJH

All artists have their weaknesses, they follow them around from year to year, tripping them up in ways that they’ve tripped them up since they were formative little artlettes doodling in their maths books.

All The Wrong Moves

Posted on 29th March 2021 by PJH

We have a family chessboard. Handed down from my dad. I remember the scant occasions it was taken out, and it’s only now, with the wisdom of age that some things have become apparent to me.

Superfocus

Posted on 24th March 2021 by PJH

Superfocus. Superprocastination. Sometimes there’s things I’m so desperate to put off I will literally ink an entire comic to get out of doing it. i mean, I need to do both jobs, but drawing is just, fundamentally, the easier of
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The Archive Project Volume 1

Posted on 18th March 2021 by PJH

Finally got the first of the 2000AD “Thrill Power Containment Vessels” (ie Binder) filled up – from Prog 1233 (March 2001) to Prog 1522 (Jan 2007) one entire volume of about six years worth of work. Doesn’t look like a
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