Neon Hentai Sword.

Probably the weirdest thing I got for Xmas this year was this duster. It’s for keeping my A3 scanner glass spotless. Even though my scanner does have a lid, for some reason dirt and rubber rubbings still manage to get in there some how all the time. They show up as marks and strange little spots on the final art when I’m scanning work. It drives me mad. I have to spend ages in photoshop painting them all out, so they don’t show up on the printed page. Hopefully this new duster will be the answer to this annoying problem. It will slay the dreaded beast that is mess. 

I think with its tiny little felt finger tentacles down one side, and its odd shape and sickle high-vis colour, it looks like a neon hentai sword or something. If I was marketing this product, that’s what I’d call it. I think it’s got a nice ring to it, no?

Merry Christmas 2014.

Well… updating this blog will be my last chore before stopping for my Xmas break. Skyfall’s on TV tonight, and in a few more hours, I’ll let myself start drinking booze and eating Xmas snacks, and disappear into my festive cocoon, before emerging around new year as an out-of-shape, hung-over beautiful butterfly. The next few hours are merely a waiting game.

I can assure you, there’ll be no Xmas break this year over on Babayka-Lives, however. Page 70 will go up as usual on the 27th. So tune in on Saturday to see if Santa comes and rescues Kevin Moon from his awful fate as an Xmas special treat (Spoilers: It’s very unlikely.) But tune in anyway.

Again, a massive thank you to everyone who’s been checking out Babayka-Lives over the last year. I don’t wanna jinx it, but it’s looking like December may be the site’s most viewed month of 2014, which is a nice treat to end the year on. Nothing says Christmas like a guy getting his brain squashed against the inside of his skull with a inflated bladder, huh? I didn’t plan for such a gruesome part to be happening during the one year anniversary and Xmas period this year, but it’s just worked out nicely that way. Hope writing and drawing that scene doesn’t get me put on Santa’s naughty list this year… yikes!

So Merry Christmas and hope you all have a good one this year.

Merry Meth-mas.

This is how I’m planning to survive the Christmas period. A seasonal stash of Blue Sky Meth.

The amount this gag gift cost online to get for a friend, it might as well have been real Meth. Jeez… smells nice, though. They’re meant to be raspberry flavoured rock-candy (I’m not allowed to try any, as they’re a present, and Santa will get mad if I do. Like really mad… Walter White mad.)

Babayka-Lives First Anniversary.

It in no way feels like a whole year, but it’s true, Babayka-Lives.com went live one year ago today. It was never the plan to launch four days before the biggest holiday of the year. In fact it was meant to start in late November 2013, but if I remember rightly, there was just one problem after another in late 2013 (including having to build the whole site again from scratch, and a few problems with my web-hosting services that took up a fair amount of time.) So the 20th of December it was. A big thank you to everyone who has checked Babayka-Lives out over the pass year. It’s a huge buzz to know people are tuning in week-after-week for the next instalment, and hope you’ve enjoyed the past year’s storyline and artwork.      

To mark the occasion, it seems fitting to do a pin-up as a thank you to all readers. Since we’ve had two Yana pin-ups in a row already this year, this time I thought I’d do a one starring Vera. I just one day had this vision of a Bride in a bloody onesie, and thought it was too funny\morbid not to do. I think the concept fits with Vera’s personality quite well, so I choose her. Annoying fact is I thought this would be a fast, fun shot to do, but ended up taking me twice as long as I thought it would. Maybe a bit longer than that even. Vera in a onesie joins Yana’s selfie as pin-ups that will probably feel very dated by the time Book 2 is finishes, and they’re printed in the back like with Book 1.You can also find copies on the Babayka-Lives Message Board and my Deviantart page (while you’re on my deviantart page, you can also check out pages 67 and 68, which I also posted up today to mark this event.)

So here we are one year on… and on today’s instalment over on Babayka-Lives, we rejoin Kevin Moon, as he finds out the hard way that messing with The Brides Of Babayka gets you on the business end of a knitting-needle, large bladder and foot pump. Can he escape before the New Year? Keep reading to find out. Also plenty of spooky teddies action going on today, over on the web-comic. I got a lot of mileage out of Yana’s bears. Their cold, dead button eyes silently witnessing evil deeds being done, for some reason intrigued me. There’s even a rumour they may make a return in Book 2, but no promises.

So just to sum up… A massive thank you to all of those who have been checking Babayka-Lives out during 2014. Hope ya’ll all stick around for 2015. It’s gonna be bloody… awesome.

Tooth And Claw Inked.

Since I spent today inking the page that contains the panel from my last post, I thought people may like to see the inked and finished result.

Hope you enjoy it, and remember, it’s Babayka-Lives first anniversary this Saturday, so tune in for a new pin-up done to mark the occasion. It’s gonna be bloody… awesome.

Tooth And Claw.

I don’t really plan to post too much from Babayka: Book 2, because of spoilers, but since I haven’t updated my blog in a couple of weeks, I felt I should post something. So here’s a photo from my phone of the latest panel I‘ve just drawn. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say things get very primal in Book 2. Moral of the second book is simply ‘Nature’s the true villain in life.’ I’m half being facetious with that line… Half being deadly serious…  

Also, I’m pleased to say that there will be a pin-up done to mark Babayka-Lives turning one on the 20th. My recent scanner problems have been a massive pain in the arse, but happily the image is done, scanned, and now sitting on my desktop waiting for the 20th to roll round so I can post it. I currently have a love\hate relationship with the first anniversary pin-up. Sometimes I look at it and think it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever drawn, while other days I’m not so hot on it. Never the less, hopefully readers will get a kick out of it. I get the feeling Yana Selfie is fans favourite pin-up so far, and the one to beat.