Unchronicled Final Stages | Ad-pages Available

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All art is officially complete for issue #1 of Unchronicled. I’m progressing with the lettering & formatting and will be sending it off to the printers in a week or so, which will mark the launch of the pre-order.

This also means that there’s still a week left to get in touch if you want to take up one of the available ad pages I still have left.

Any artists, writers & general creatives out there that would like either a half or whole page to advertise, get in touch via email or social media.

Ad pages are £15 for a half page, or £20 for a full page.

Stay tuned for the announcement of the pre-order, with details of the pre-order exclusive bonus and the official release date of the comic.

May 2016 Update: Bear Films & Comic Colouring

It’s been a while since the last update and anyone following my various social media feeds will have seen a mixed up stream of various project updates, so I thought I’d clear a little bit of that up with a nice and simple update summary.

At any given moment I’m working on several projects at once, but over the last month I’ve been particularly focussed on 2:

Bear for Hire – Short Film

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For anyone who didn’t see it, a couple of years ago I made a short film called Sincerely, Soldier Bear. It was made as part of a film contest to mark the centenary of WW1, and it won an award for Best Post-Production. The twist? The story was told using teddy-bears.

It was actually the second bear film I’ve ever made, the Youtube short ‘Lonely Bear‘ being the first. The itch to create a third led to the production of Hat Day Films’ current project: ‘Bear for Hire’.

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IMG_20160507_152239I’ve teamed up with cinematographer Matt Clegg and Sabrina Carlotti of BriiMassacre Costumes, to produce a short sci-fi/noir film about a teddy-bear mercenary out on one of his morally questionable missions.

Starring the vocal talents of Jason Bruce Farries, the project has been making great progress and should hopefully be finished over the next few weeks, with an accompanying behind the scenes video too.

Unchronicled Issue #1: Grab Your Skirts

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The finish line is in sight for my début comic book, with only a few pages left to do before I can send it off to the printers.

This means the pre-order is also imminent, with special pre-order-exclusive bonuses to be had. To celebrate the launch of the comic I’ll be spending the day down at my local comic shop The Grinning Demon, where you’ll be able to pick up your copy of issue #1.

Stay tuned on my social media feeds and check back here for the pre-order release at which point I’ll also set the official launch date.

Book Illustrations

Commissioned book cover illustration for writer Jemma Hill
Commissioned book cover illustration for writer Jemma Hill

For those who don’t know, November is NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – the month where writers of all kinds of works attempt a 30-day sprint to 50,000 words. As part of that I joined in on several write-ins; sessions in local coffee shops and cafes where writers would get together and use strength in numbers to smash out as many words as possible in a single sitting. However I used these sessions as an opportunity to draw, rather than write, making much progress on the first issue of my current comic book project, “Unchronicled”.

Another outcome of the month for me though was the commission of a book cover illustration for writer and regional municipal liaison Jemma Hill – who bested the NaNo challenge at 65,000 or so words – for her story “First Draft”. The intention may be to publish this story either online or otherwise at a future date, but this brings me to draw attention to the fact that I am happy to undertake commissions for this kind of thing.

If you’re a writer who is e-publishing or self-publishing their own short story or book, or even a professional publishing house and you require an illustration, please let me know, commission fees are negotiable depending on the illustration’s content.