Saturday, 5 September 2009

New Worthing comic shop!!!


Uncanny Comics
Originally uploaded by Welchtoons

It isn't very often that a new comic shop
appears on the high street but Worthing
has had something to celebrate over the
last few weeks. I had the pleasure of
visiting this shop the other week and
had a whale of a time. Sadly I didn't
have much money available to me at
the time so I wasn't able to support their
cause that much but if I had there would
have been no stopping me. Rather spiffing
collection of Silver and Golden age comics
as well. Very nice!!

Check them out...

Uncanny Comics
3 Station Parade (opposite West Worthing station)
Tarring Road
Worthing
West Sussex

Tel: (+44) 01903 500888
Website: www.uncannycomics.co.uk

And if you're wondering what I bought...

...I've got a bit of a thing for Gold Key at the mo.
It's a nostalgia thing!!



Marilyn Manson


Marilyn Manson
Originally uploaded by Welchtoons

Shock Rocker in cartoon shocker!!
(Try saying that 10 times quickly!)

The Flying Man


The Flying Man
Originally uploaded by Welchtoons

Strange bit of animation
inspired by david lynch
I did a few years back.

(Its ok...
...you can slag it to bits if you want to!)

It only took me a couple of hours to
do on a Saturday afternoon.

I just did it for kicks really.
This was created using a mixture of
After Effects, Photoshop,
Videoshop and Poser.

The music is mine too.
Check out
Lava Banana
for more musical atrocities!!

Thursday, 3 September 2009

New Lucinda Rosa art...

Lucinda Rosa are a music project
that I have become involved with.
They are heavily influenced
by the likes of..

Joy Division,

The Pixies,

The Cure,

Depeche Mode,

early U2

and

The Smashing Pumpkins

among others.

They are friends of mine and I will
be doing a lot of artwork for them
and a bit of marketing as well as helping
them build a website presence.
They were formerly known as
Black Mountain College
and played quite
extensively around the
south of England including
London and Brighton.



They were also,
as Black Mountain College,
championed by
Steve Lamacq of Radio 6 music
for a while.
Anyways I'm currently
putting together some bits
of artwork
for their Myspace site.

www.myspace.com/lucindarosa
(music coming soon)

Here is the latest piece of art...

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

I'm Back!!!

Ok...so...no one really reads my blog, do they?
Ok I have one comment from Mr Petch
and a number of page views but, to be honest,
I figure that's mostly just me and I'm mostly alone in
this part of cyberspace. No worries though as
I kinda like it like that weirdly. More space for
freedom of speech and all that. Anyways if you
have popped by to see me here you may have
noticed that this blog disappeared for a bit.

I'm not sure why.

Actually Google completely disabled my account
for a whole week. Again not sure why. Actually I
was racking my brains trying to work out if I'd
broken any of the laws of blogging on Google but
the few blogs I've written on here either just link
to my artwork (which is obviously all mine), my
websites or other legitimate websites. Paranoia
was starting to set in and then...
...as if by magic...
...its all returned to normal!!
No explanation just 'normal service has resumed'.
Not complaining though...its good to be back. I
don't write much on here but when it disappeared...
...I missed it!!



In the meantime I have a new toon.
Another zombie pic this time of Will Smith.
It's kind of a play on the 'I am Legend' film.
My interpretation...'I am Zombie!'.

Thursday, 23 July 2009

Mark Kermode, David Cronenberg and David Lynch caricatures















Just recently I've become addicted to
Mark Kermodes film reviews that feature on
Marks blog on the bbc site....
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/

and also the show with Simon Mayo on Radio Five live....
www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/kermode.shtml

For this reason I figured
I'd do a toon of Mark.

I thought the idea of a toon
featuring a film critic and two
directors would make a good
subject.

The fact that two of Marks
favourite directors, David Lynch and David Cronenberg are actually two
of mine makes no odds to nobody!!

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Phantasmagoria...

I
don't
want
to say
to much
about this
as I just
happened
across it when
I jump linked on
Youtube.

I love where this
is coming
from even
though it
wears its
influences
on its sleeve.

I love the fact
I don't
really know
what its about.
Most of all
I love the
atmosphere
and the style.

It's intense.....