Flyer for Carol Swain book

Invasion of the Mind Sappers was published by Fantagraphics Books in 1996, and was I think Carol Swain’s first book for them. I reviewed it for the Comics Journal. This is evidently a promotional flyer produced by a PR agency in London, judging by the old phone number.

Chris Reynolds and Mauretania

I received a copy of this new Chris Reynolds hardback book at the beginning of June this year. It’s from the French publisher Editions Tanibis. Chris’s stories from the 1980s and 1990s have been translated into French, and the presentation is immaculate; looks gorgeous, doesn’t fall into graphic novel design cliche, and has a suitably…

Dilworth Does Drake

The UK cartoonist Ben Dilworth sent me the artwork for these two pages in 1985. I see from the letter he was living in Clacton, Essex at the time, although I seem to recall he was associated with small press artists in Bristol. As it happens, Ben’s story is his continuation of the ‘Unnatural Disasters’…

The End of Dead Duck

Here are two drawings by me of the Savage Pencil character, Dead Duck, dated 1995. I collaborated with Savage Pencil on two serial stories published by the English comics magazine, Deadline, under the editorship of Frank Wynne at the time. I did the writing on the stories, and later on provided Sav X with rough…

Drake and the Concrete Collapse

Here you may download the complete story of Drake Ullingsworth and the Concrete Collapse, originally published in 2010. All around him the city is apparently crumbling away; buildings falling down, homeless people roaming the streets and turning hostile, while his own Dog alternatively reprimands him or ignores him in a drug-addled haze. Drake the detective…