Tuesday, May 31, 2011
from the archives
A6, Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 10, begun 31st October 1997.
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Friday, May 27, 2011
ape
Thursday, May 26, 2011
spacemen
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
from the archives
A6, Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 10, begun 31st October 1997.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
the cover my book will have
Well, I'm going to refrain from posting the image directly here for now but, before I'm busted by a gaggle of Twittering Spartacuses, I will confess that the cover that my book will have is now up on Amazon.
Friday, May 20, 2011
covers my book will not have, part 11b
No, really, I'll stop fobbing you off with all these thumbnails soon but here they are all together, just to demonstrate how a bunch of them are just slight variations of one another in any case.
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Click for bigger.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
covers my book will not have, part eleven
That's the last two of the early thumbnails to show you. Thank heavens for that, you're probably thinking.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
from the archives
A6, Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 10, begun 31st October 1997.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
covers my book will not have, part ten
Quite like that bottom one.
Incidentally, I just heard that the marketing people all want to read my book now they've seen the actual cover we decided on in the end. And I'd thought they would see it as hugely uncommercial and hate it. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
covers my book will not have, part nine
covers my book will not have, part eight
That lower one's interestingish in its way but the bear turned out more like a mutant Roland Rat.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
from the archives
A6, Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 10, begun 31st October 1997.
That's another one from The Wrong Dog.
Whereas that's just a page of bad drawings.
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Monday, May 09, 2011
covers my book will not have, part seven
You know, a lot of the foregoing I never considered very seriously but something like this might have been a goer...
Sunday, May 08, 2011
covers my book will not have, part six
Saturday, May 07, 2011
full or half?
Not going to say much about this just now as I haven't done my bit yet (I think I get word of it in a week or so), but I shall be among the (many, varied, worryingly talented) contributors to Nelson, a multi-creator-ised single narrative graphic novel/fat comic/whatever you want to call them coming from Blank Slate in November. Further details of this ambitious and original concept (graphic) album - dreamt up by Rob Davis (who co-edits with me old mate Mr Woodrow Phoenix) - can be found here (from Rob himself) and here (from Blank Slate).
Apparently it's all going rather swimmingly thus far and the chapters so far produced are beyond splendid in appearance. Wish me luck that I do not fumble...
covers my book will not have, part five
Friday, May 06, 2011
news from our correspondent in Burkina Faso
Aha!
Word arrives from West Africa that friend of this blog, Mr Stephen Davies, has a new book for young adults out. Outlaw was published yesterday by Andersen Press.
According to the blurb:
Fifteen-year-old Jake Knight is an explorer and adventurer at heart but this often gets him into trouble. When a stuffy English boarding school suspends him for rule-breaking, Jake flies out to Burkina Faso where his parents are living. He is expecting a long, adventure-filled vacation under a smiling African sun. But what awaits him there is kidnapping, terrorism and Yakuuba Sor – the most wanted outlaw in the Sahara desert.
... which to be honest sounds all a bit ho hum to me. But have faith, gentle reader. Trust in the author and not in the publisher's blurb. I've yet to obtain a copy myself but if previous outings (and this glowing review on Bookwitch) are anything to go by then it will be original, proper exciting and with a brilliantly evoked sense of place.
I'll report back as soon as I know for sure.
Thursday, May 05, 2011
covers my book will not have, part four
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
covers my book will not have, part three
Another couple of thumbnails. These are all from a double page spread in one of my sketchbooks incidentally. Shown here somewhat enlarged. The originals are maybe a bit under an inch tall.
Neither were ever contenders, I was just thinking through my pen(s). There's a certain minimalist charm to that first one though.
Neither were ever contenders, I was just thinking through my pen(s). There's a certain minimalist charm to that first one though.
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
from the archives
A6, Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook number 10, begun 31st October 1997.
Ah yes, One of those houses on fire became an illustration in my small press mini-comic (well, actually, it was more a picture book I suppose) The Wrong Dog. Which is well overdue a reprint now I come to think of it. Maybe I'll get round to that someday soon...
Monday, May 02, 2011
covers my book will not have, part two
Sunday, May 01, 2011
covers my book will not have, part one
The Book ("Brilliantly funny and tender" apparently) has recently gained its cover (although it's not yet on show at that link). But before arriving at the final design (which is a brave choice - possibly to the point of being magnificent folly - on the publisher's part) many another option was toyed with on the way. So naturally, I thought I'd share some of them with you, dear reader, to take some of the sting out of the long, eager wait for publication day (January 5th).
Here, then, are a couple of the first batch of thumbnail noodlings that dropped out of my pen when I first started thinking about the cover really quite some time (and a change of mind concerning the title) ago...
Here, then, are a couple of the first batch of thumbnail noodlings that dropped out of my pen when I first started thinking about the cover really quite some time (and a change of mind concerning the title) ago...
