The Finish Thing.

And just to bring things full circle… here’s the finest panel. After being cleaned up, scanned and cleaned up again in photoshop.

It’s only a screen grab, but hopefully people can still make him out in all his turtleneck and battle scar glory.

How did Katchalov get his battle scar? I’ll probably leave that one to fan fiction.

Returns Soon.

I’m also gonna post Babayka-Lives return date here as well, if only as a reminder to myself, as I keep forgetting the date I said it would return.

I get the feeling May is going to be a crazily busy month for me.

Weekend Reads.

I've finally defeated the beast that was my 1166-page copy of IT. At times the girth of that book felt like the real monster that needed slaying. I do feel a lot better for manning up and finally finishing it, though. It was a great read with a great monster.

I had a thought today that clowns are the new zombies. There's usually some craze going on in the horror genre and a monster or monsters people can't get enough of. For ages it was zombies, but slowly I think it's shifting more towards clowns. 

I'm moving onto comics and Werewolves now with volume one of Moonshine this weekend.

Violent Femmes Art Show.

These last couple of years have been crazily busy for me. I don’t know why, but stuff always seems to happen all at once in life. I’ve had three books come out pretty much back-to-back, a Halloween art show last year with illustrator James Holcombe, and now…

Yep, like some kind of ghoul, I’m heading back to the crypt (well… the crypt gallery in St Mary In The Castle in Hastings) for a new show.

Violent Femmes: An Art Show Of Dangerous Female Comic Book Characters. This art show will be aim more towards Femme Fatales and bad girls, but still with a pinch of horror.

The official show’s blurb reads:

“Violent Femmes is an art show celebrating all things Femme Fatale in comic books. We bring you a show featuring some of the meanest, sexiest, and most dangerous female comic book characters of the moment: There are wives with knives from Spanish comic book artist Maria Osuna Marcos' blood thirsty "Killer Housewives" series; there are the beautiful but sinister underwater Mermaids of Juliet Brando’s haunting "Land Creatures"; and the murderous misadventures of Yana and co, the deadly Russian Brides of Andrew Reed’s ongoing horror webcomic "Babayka-Lives". 

Join us if you dare, as hearts will be broken (as well as various other body parts), as we celebrate the deadlier of the sexes in this alluring new sequential art show, bringing together some of the most formidable female comic book villains from three very different modern creators.

This exhibition is dedicated to temptresses, villainesses and bad girls, with high heels and even higher body counts to their names. They are currently spreading terror in the world of comics and online, and this show will get your heart racing with both temptation and trepidation.

Violent Femmes: An art show of dangerous female comic book characters.

They’re not really bad… they’re just drawn that way.”

I think my love for all things ‘Femme Fatale’ is well documented, what with drawing a comic that’s full of them. This show will feature more Brides heavy related artwork this time around. I won’t be re-hanging any bits of work that were in the SLASH-UPS show last year, it’ll be all new stuff, that focuses more on Yana and the other Brides, rather than Babayka.

The show runs from the 19th of May, till the 10th of June, with an opening night party planned for the 18th of May (more details on that to come).

I hope to maybe see some of you there.

And speaking of ‘Yana and Co’… for those waiting to hear the return date of Babayka-Lives before it’s summer break this year, I’m happy to say it’s now up on the main site.

Happy Friday The 13th.

Much like Homer Simpson, I’ve “finally harnessed the awesome power of the hook”.

Yep, to celebrate this Friday The 13th, I’ve proudly hung up my two Hockey Masks today in celebration of this special day.

I’m now just trying to decide which Friday The 13th movie to watch tonight… Weirdly, I’m really starting to lean towards Part 5. I film I use to hate (because of the lack of Jason), but I’m starting to warm to more in recent years.

Freshly Inked.

I almost forgot… but I’m happy to say here is a photo of the panel from last month now freshly inked. I’ve been doing some serious inking over the last couple of days, and here are the results above. This photo is so new, I haven’t even had time to rub out the pencil marks yet.

I have to say, this is my favourite drawing of Katchalov I’ve ever done. He’s not a likeable character, but I enjoy drawing him.

Also in other news, for those waiting for an update on the return of Babayka-Lives… I would very strongly recommend tuning into the webcomic this weekend, where I will be posting the date of the comics return this Saturday.

A Sad Fact.

I’ve recently had to restock up on a few art supplies in the last couple of weeks, and realizes the depressing true fact that there is now no local art shops or stationery stores for me to get my much needed  materials from, and I’m now solely dependent on Amazon for all my art equipment needs.

I find this revelation incredibly sad. I don’t wanna go too much into my Rock-N-Roll lifestyle on here, but I use to really like a good potter around an art shop or stationary store.

It just feels wrong that I’m no longer in walking distance of art supplies.