More From the Vaults - Birthday Card

Today is Milady's birthday so, to celebrate,

here is the very first birthday card I made for her.

THE DISNEY-FYING OF FRIENDS – Beauty and the Beast

T'was John and Claire's 30th birthdays this week so, lovely people both joint and several as they are, I decided to draw them a joint birthday card. John isn't really a beast, in fact they are both beauties, but someone had to draw the short straw and I felt it would have been ingallant to portray them the other way round.

Scotland is Over a Barrel

Sure she is. Wanna fight about it?

A satirical cartoon, after Gillray.

More from the Vaults

So remember a while back I said I was sad because there were pictures I had done years ago and they were corrupted and I couldn't post them? Yeah, it was a real bummer.
Anyway, I FOUND THEM!!!
All from about fourteen years ago. Amazing that I could do stuff back then.

This is my version of Ghost, a Dark Horse character.

The Three Wise Monkeys, done in Illustrator.

WONDERWOMAN!!!

Britain's (Comics Scene)'s Got Talent ... or something

So I entered this competition run by 2000AD, the UK's premier weekly comics anthology, to submit artwork for scrutiny by the editor. The winner gets to have his or her artwork grace the pages of said publication.
I tooled along to the Though Bubble Comics Convention in Leeds where the competition was being held.
I showed my artwork to the editor.
I did not win.
I did not even make the cut.
Oh.
Given that this is my first attempt at anything like this I was not surprised but I was still a little crest-fallen. Especially since I had pulled an all-nighter the previous day to get the artwork finished, so I was a little spaced out.
The critique was firm and swift, much in the way of tearing off a sticking plaster, something for which I was grateful. I couldn't disagree with much of what he thought was either wrong or lacking and it ultimately had the effect of making me determined to keep trying and improve my skills. Gerry from the past may not have been so upbeat. Gerry from the present and, dare I say, Gerry from the future are going to work together to make serious improvements in technique and execution.
Anyway, without one single ado being furthered, here is what I produced. Flawed but, in its own way, beautiful.

The Purple Pandas of Patchouli

The aforementioned never-really-got-off-the-ground comic concept.

One from the vaults - well, four actually

These are probably all from the late nineties or thereabouts.

Aw, this was my abortive attempt at my own comic. I've still got some cover art somewhere. I'll post it next time.

Wonder Woman, obv. Believe it or not, I was going for a "realistic" approach, as opposed to "pneumatic".
There was a painted version of this but it's lost now. :(

Now, if you are British and of a certain vintage, you'll remember a weekly TV science programme called "Tomorrow's World". It was live, low rent and often obscure. It was how we did geekery back in the seventies.

Anyway, here are a couple of attempts at humour based on that show of shows.