This is an additional colour image produced for the Primitif In The Land of the Dead story. This may have been used when I prepared a one-off “artist’s book” edition of the story, and needed a cover image for it. But it wasn’t much of an artist’s book, to be honest – just colour xeroxes…
A colour painting of Primitif, undated, prob. from the mid-1980s. I used this image at least once inside a Primitif anthology book, but it’s never been printed or seen in full colour. Gouache, or water-soluble acrylic paint, with indian ink on top.
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 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…
Primitif Revenge Mask Out today! A new Primitif Story, written and drawn summer 2014! The artwork is all full colour. It was produced through a labour-intensive method – the gouache colour painting, the ink outline and the lettering all exist as separate artworks, assembled in the computer. I think the last Primitif story I did…
Available from print-on-demand service lulu.com From 1996, here are two chapters of an unpublished Primitif story. Completely unlike other Primitif adventures in that the hero does nothing at all; the story sees him drowning in a pool of mud, tormented by vague memories and hallucinations. The ambiguity of the situation contrasts strongly with the clear…
One of four covers I drew for the exhibition A Mini History Of Off-The-Cuff, Handmade Mini-Comics curated by Les Coleman and Paul Gravett in 2004. Almost a panel from the Sting of the Arrow book.
