Sneaky Peeky

Here's a brief first look at my 24 hour comic, MIKE NEVILLE FOREVER!

What's that? Big Triangle and Terry Futuro... working together?! I think Mike is in some serious trouble here kids... :)

All will be revealed at Thought Bubble!

It's 24 Hour Comics Day!

All around the world a bunch of crazy people are making entire 24 page comics in the next 24 hours, and once again I'll be one of them! I was going to be joining my friends from the Paper Jam Comics Collective at their 24 HCD shindig at Heaton Methodist Church, but in the end decided I'd better do mine from home, there's a small boy who needs his milk regular, dig?

So keep an eye out here and on the Newcastle 24 Hour Comics blog through the day for updates, photos and sleep deprived nonsense!

Ben

9AM It begins! Here we go folks!

3PM It's going really well so far! I've only had six cups of coffee so far too! Got 7 pages in various states of completion, and the whole silly story worked out in my head. Having a break now to have tea andfeed Dylan and stuff...

7PM Flagging a bit. Ninth cup of coffee almost gone...
Likelihood of Hitler appearing in my comic now almost certain.
Dylan's just gone to bed, now the real work starts!

8.30PM Displacement activity. Need break, reading Gods of Riverworld by Philip Jose Farmer.

10PM Page 14 begun. Chocolate spread on toast. Hitler.

2.30AM Dylan wants his milky. Lost count of how many coffees I've had. Not making much progress.

7AM Gah! Fell asleep on Dyl's playmat. Not sure if I'll have time to finish now.

9AM Just about salvaged things. The last four pages exist in sketchy form only, and there's still a bit of work to do overall, but I have the basis of a pretty good comic I think.

THE VERDICT: Moderate success!

It'll be out in time for Thought Bubble folks, and it's called...

MIKE NEVILLE FOREVER!

Thanks for all the support and that, and if you've been 24 hour comicing yourself, I hope it went well!

Now sleep...

Ben

Attic Attack

It began way back in the second episode of my webcomic The Spine Chillers, and now at last the awful truth can be told! Just what is Mrs P up to in the attic? Ambrose Bierce has been obsessed with finding out, and now Bingo night approaches, and Bierce and the boys have put Project Rhubarb into action...

The culmination of more than a year of stories, dare you discover the secret?!

http://renegadeartsentertainment.com/spinechillers/comic-strip

Leeds Aftermath

I had a great time at the first (hopefully of many) Leeds Alternative Comics Fair last weekend. It was the first comics event I've been to all year, I sure did miss Jo and Dylan but I had a great time. My new comic Space Dracula seemed to go down well, and overall I had a superb day saleswise, selling out of three different comics!

It was great to see lots of friends for the first time in ages and to make some new ones too. As usual I spent everything I earned on more comics, including the fantastic Sherlock Holmes Vs Skeletor by Gareth Brookes. I'm already looking forward to BICS and Thought Bubble, and I'll have new books out at both so hope to see you all there!

Leeds Alternative Comic Fair

Next saturday sees the first Leeds Alternative Comics Fair, and the Magic Beans roadshow (me and a box of comics) will be there in force! This is the first comics event I'll have got to all year so I'm looking forward to it greatly, to see some old friends and make some new ones, and of course to talk a load of old crap about comics.
I'll also be debuting the first new Magic Beans Comic for quite some time, it's called Space Dracula and I canny like it.
Its on Saturday 18th of September, between 12 and 6 at A Nation of Shopkeepers, next to Leeds City Art Gallery. Hope to see you all there!

Comicspace woes

Comicspace are going through A mega-revamp at the moment, and all of my comic galleries seem to have disappeared! I'm reliably informed they will all be back up and running soon though, I'll keep you informed and sorry if you can't live without the beany goodness for a while.

Dylan,Dog

It's been a while since I posted, I hope you can forgive me chums. As you can see I've been canny busy. This is my son, Dylan. He likes milk and smiling and looking out of windows, and he watched Scooby Doo the other day. He is amazing and the best thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life. You'll get to meet him at comic events in the future, because he has literally no choice about whether he's going to like comics or not :)

He has decided to let me start working again now though, so expect to see some new comics up soon, and I'll be out and about at most of the comic events on between now and the end of the year. And The Spine Chillers is back following my paternity leave, special thanks to everyone who filled in with guest episodes during my sleep deprived absence!

Keep watching the pies,

Ben