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A Couple o' Drawins

Hello out there,

Here are a couple of new drawings I've done. The first is a self portrait made for the website to Solipsistic Pop (www.solipsisticpop.com). Solipsistic Pop is the title of an up coming anthology from the man behind Art School Scum, Tom Humberstone. It promises to be a good book. In the next few days sample pages should appear on its website, so keep looking for sneeky previews.

The other drawing posted here is one I made to mark the 30th birthday of my very dear friend Jack Southern (www.firestation-artists.org.uk/artists/current/jacksouthern/).

News News News New Stuff

Hello there fellow travellers,

These past couple of months have been crazy busy. I've been working on a lot of interesting projects from comic strip film reviews to appearing on a TV show. Here's a few of the images made and links to the projects themselves.

The panels above are taken from a strip I illustrated for Paul O'Connell called 'Grandad'. It features along side other great stories by Paul and other creators (such as my good friends Lawrence Elwick and Richard Cowdry, check out the links bar below) in issue 6 of the Australian anthology of short fiction Torpedo.

Here's the link:
www.falconvsmonkey.com

And here's what the cover looks like:

As well as the strip I worked on with Paul I have a slightly longer piece all my own work. It's called 'No Word Of a Lie'.

This image is taken from a comic strip review I was asked to make by the good people at Electric Sheep Magazine. The brief was to review a boxset of DVD's by Brazilian Director Jose Marins AKA Coffin Joe.

Marins is a horror director and being a bit of a wimp I don't often like horror films. Having said that, after sitting through eight of his movies I ended up enjoying them. He is a completely mad individual who made movies that are unlike or predate anything I've seen before. Check them out.

Here's a link to the magazine:
www.electricsheepmagazine.com

And here's one to the boxset:
www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/9069972/Coffin-Joe-Collection/Product.html

The image above has been taken from a 12 panel strip that will be included in the up coming issue 2 of Brooklyn's Comics Newspaper Smoke Signal. I'm thrilled to be in this comic, it will include the work of some of my favourite artists, people like Leon Sadler, Gabrielle Bell, Dash Shaw, Matthew Thurber, Ron Regé Jr. There are so many more. I can't wait to read it myself.

Here's a review of the first Smoke Signal:
http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/05/new-york-smoke-signal.html

This is the ident to the U.S version of the Endomol TV show I've been working on for Living TV in the UK. I'll write further about it in a few days time.

I hope you are well and thriving.

The Alternative Press Fair MkII

Hi,

Just a quickie to let you know that I'll be selling my work tomorrow at the Alternative Press Fair. Here's all he info:

Some Stuff What I Done

Hello there,

Here's some news about to what I've been up to lately.

Richard Cowdry (see Love the Line in the links bar at the bottom of this page) and in have been working on a weekly comic strip. It's called 'Somersault' and the kind people at Forbidden Planet International have seen fit to publish it on their blog every Tuesday.

Here's the link: http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/07/turning-somersaults/

For the past few weeks my work has been serialized over at Blurred Books (www.blurredbooks.com) by the charming Kevin Mutch (you can see his own nice comics on the same site, as well as a couple of bits by the fabulous Mr O'Connell) I'm really excited about being part of this project, they've had some great work there in the past and it's cool to make my own humble contribution.

This one's a little late in the reporting, but here it is none the less; I have this illustration in the current edition of Electric Sheep Magazine (www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk).

I highly recommend this publication to those of you who love films. The thing is lavishly illustrated and full to the brim with intelligent articles.

And finally I had a couple of books for sale at the Tokyo Zine's Mate last month. I couldn't go but having seen the photo's since I really wish I'd just sold a kidney or something to afford the air fair. It looks as though it was really nicely staged and full of interesting work.

Banal Pig Landscape Anthology

Hi there,

The Lovely Steve at Banal Pig has given me the heads up on where to get hold of copies of the brilliant Landscape anthology he's published. It includes work by lots of great artists including a really good piece by my friend Paul O'connell of Sound of Drowning fame. Go get yo' selfs a copy now!

http://www.banalpig.com/blog/?page_id=592

Have a good day now,

Dan

Aliens, Ghosts and Real Scarey Stuff!

Why hello there,

Here's a couple of stories I did for two fine projects earlier this year. The first was made for Steve Tillotson's excellent The Banal Pig Landscape Anthology (http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_2&listing_id=26232860).

And the second strip was made for the Polish anthology New British Comics.
P.S. Click on the images to make them bigger!

Green Sea Days

Hi There,

I'm sorry for the lack of postings of late. The truth is that I've been really busy working on new projects. So in a little bit I'll have lots of news for you, and lots of new things to point at and show you.

For the time being I thought I'd publish the content of the strange but beautiful little project I completed earlier this year with Paul O'Connell, Green sea Days. Paul and I are almost out of the toblerone/scroll bound comics we made this into so we agreed that its time to put it on the net. I hope you enjoy it. If you would like to purchase a paper copy I still have a couple and would be more than happy to post one of them off to you.