This is a short comic about intergalactic diplomacy that I did nearly a decade ago for the now sadly defunct app-based comic anthology Scrawl. The magazine folded before my issue could be completed, so this just sat on a hard disk for years hoping to one day see the light of day. I found it the other day and it still made my laugh so here we are.

All Scrawl comics had an interactive element to play with the digital format and this one was intended to have a sort of game-based approach to the handshake in the middle (hence why the artwork is so repetitive). I’ve had to make it more linear in this version, but I think it still works.

I was asked to do portraits of all the contributors to the first issue of The King Ink Collection, put out by the King Ink poetry group, based out of Pop Recs in Sunderland.  It’s the first time I’ve done caricatures in a while, so it was scary, but fun.   The collection launched on Friday and will be available to purchase online soon.

I hit one of my bucket list illustrator achievements when the amazing/deluded Allan Verth got my Fourth Doctor little portrait tattooed on his body. I'm sure this happens to successful illustrators all the time and most are blasé about it, but it's mind-blowing to me that anyone could like my work enough to get it permanently stained onto their skin. Absolutely incredible.

I made this print for my wife for our 10th wedding anniversary. I'm not the most demonstrably romantic individual so this was my way of showing her how much I care. She loved it, so I think I did good.

It's a 4-colour risograph print using Black, Green, Fluorescent Orange and Flat Gold. I wanted to work in a clean ligne claire style for aesthetic reasons, without thinking about the "tin anniversary"/"Tintin" link there. So if anyone asks it was totally intentional (in-tin-tional).

2024 is about upskilling and seeing whims and ideas through instead of just sitting on them. After years of dancing around the medium, I've finally knuckled down and actually learned how to use a riso printer. These are just experiments using my old Evil Dead II poster, but they've come out beautifully and I know the dos and don'ts for producing something bespoke next time. I’m proper buzzing now.

A massive thanks to the1000eyez for being patient with me.