Halloween Playlist Request.

For reasons I can‘t go into just yet, my Halloween this year is gonna be very busy and chaotic. But more on that soon…

For right now, I thought I’d just put a call out for Halloween tunes I could use for putting together a spooky playlist of terror. I would love to hear any good sinister suggestions for music to put on during this forthcoming Halloween season.

There might be a more professional reason for me wanting to put together a playlist this year… or it might just end up being a bit of fun and something for me to do for kicks this Halloween, we’ll see. Never the less, if people do wanna throw some song ideas at me, I’m all ears.

The only rule is the song has to be somewhat horror related. And if possible, a bit funky and not too downbeat. Something that would chill a room (in a creepy way), but not bring the vibe down too much. Also, fair warning, I’m not really much of a pop guy, although I have to confess pop music has got a lot better since I was a kid.

So if you’d like to recommend a sinister tune or two, comment below, Note me (on Deviantart), or send your picks to the usual Email address.

The Abomination On The Roof.

While I still can’t just yet give out too many details on the nature of this pin-up poster, I think it would ok to post a photo of the artwork itself for now. As it won’t remain a secret for much longer (and I will give one clue, this is a Halloween base project), and it would be nice to post some new artwork for the weekend.

If nothing else, I hope this photo goes to show I have big plans for this forthcoming Halloween, readers will hopefully be pleased to hear.

In The Works.

Jeez, just as I thought the busiest summer of my life couldn’t get any busier… it looks like something else big has come along to add to my hefty workload.

I can’t go into any details just yet, but here’s a sneak peek at what I’ll hopefully be inking up next week. Let’s just say my Halloween just got very complicated this year (but hopefully in a good way).

More details soon, folks.

New Babayka Fan-Art.

Thanks go out to James Holcombe (co-artists of SLASH-UPS) for this recent bit of Babayka fan-art. James has depicted Babayka no doubt in full attack mode, as he goes in for the kill. I also think the mouth and eyes are terrifying. A very creepy effort all round.

You can check out more of James’s artwork on his Deviantart page.

Just a reminder, I have started a Babayka-Lives fan-art folder on Deviantart, for those who wanna show this series some love via fan-art. Fan-art is the creepiest and purest of all love.

Brides Of Babayka: Out Today.

The Brides are back in the new and available from today second edition of Brides Of Babayka. Go on a deadly date with Yana and Co with this newly updated graphic-novel with new cover art and relive the terror of Book One.

I think if people knew the hassle that went into rejigging this new edition, they’d be both impressed and wanna give me a sympathy hug at the same time, (hence why it ended up going from taking a couple of weeks, maybe a few at the most, to taking months to be ready to be republishes). What I thought was going to be a few simple tasks to do quickly over the start of the summer, turned into a long ongoing nightmare.

But my recent pain is your gain, as I honestly think this new edition looks so much better than the first book. I’ve ironed out the kinks that were annoying me, and had some very nice feedback from people who have seen this new copy. For a start, people seem to like the new cover a lot more. As much as I liked the first cover, I have to agree. I think the original cover was maybe a little bit too subtle. The new cover sets the tone a lot better.

I also learnt a couple of new tricks while putting SLASH-UPS together that I wanted to use on this new edition.

Rerelease the beast that is Babayka.

On a different subject… is it weird that it’s only mid-august and I’m already stressing out about doing a Halloween Ecard again for this year? That’s normal, right?

A Little Bit Of Babayka.

The Babayka-less drought this summer will (fingers crossed) start to come to an end this week, as all being well, I should be dropping some big Babayka related news this weekend.

But to keep people ticking over until then, though, and to prove I am working on new Babayka related stuff, here’s a quick photo of a drawing of the creepy old man himself, to both delight and fright you. This is the rough layout of a Babayka sketch that was tidied up and light-boxes onto a page for a forthcoming pin-up.

It feels good to be slowly stepping back into Babayka territory, folks.

To Ease The Waiting Pains.

I know it’s been a long and Babayka-less summer so far. But I promise that will be changing in the coming weeks. It’s been nice working on SLASH-UPS as a side project and everything, but readers won’t have to wait too much longer for forthcoming news on all things Babayka.

So to hold people over until then, I’ve just uploaded three unlettered pages of art from the scene just gone over on my Deviantart page today:

HERE, HERE, and indeed HERE.

Also to fill the Babayka shaped void in people’s lives right now, readers are also very welcome to send feedback to the usual address HERE. All feedback really does help.