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Here’s Henrietta, The Pirate of Love in full colour. This is a 36-page story I wrote and drew between 1992 and 1995. It has never been published or seen anywhere before. The original artwork is A3 size and I’m providing quite large scans – each file is about 6-7 MB apiece. Please note the story…
Here you may view selected pages from “The Factory of Death”, a mini-comic from 1984. The script and idea for this slice of black humour came from Gary J. Brady, fellow Liverpudlian; we were both working for the Rescue Archaeology Unit at the University of Liverpool at the time, on one of the Government’s job…
Here you can download three separate drawings for an unfinished and unpublished comic strip, from around 1988. I had just come back from a comics festival in Treviso, courtesy of Paul Gravett who kindly asked me to join him at this amazing event, and I met some friendly artists and lovely people. I must have…
Here you may download a PDF of this story in full colour. Primitif In The Land Of The Dead (65 MB) Primitif in The Land of the Dead was written and drawn in 1990-1991. It was the first time I tried drawing a story for this character in full colour; the second was the Revenge…
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…
Here you may download a PDF of this 1987 mini-comic. Download PDF of Volcano Mask (17 MB) The story follows a simple rise-and-fall theme, showing what happens when Primitif gains a magical power by accident, and immediately abuses it in order to seize power in the village. As usual, it turns into a private struggle…
Here you can download a PDF of Ioren and Marja (1985). Download Ioren and Marja PDF (4 MB) A strange and sad story. The look of it was directly influenced by a Lorenzo Mattotti story shown to me that year by Paul Gravett; the story was in Italian and I couldn’t understand it, but I…
Here you can download a PDF containing all five of the original Astorial Stories. This is one of many books formerly available on Scribd. Download Astorial PDF (44 MB) These five stories were written and drawn fairly quickly over a few months in 1986. I had just moved to London and was finding the experience…
Here you can download a PDF of this story which originally came out as a small press comic in 1987. Bone in Heaven is one of my “poetic” stories, by which I mean it doesn’t make much narrative sense, but it does follow its own internal logic. The main character is a nameless undertaker, apparently…
