"Ahoy, Ahoy!": Covering Zarjaz

Been sitting on this one for a while, but, now The Quaequam Blog have broken the news, I can finally talk about it. As I've already mentioned, Zarjaz #14 will feature Devlin Waugh: A Night In Casablanca by me and Jaye Franklin (with Bolt-01 on letters), and the guys at The Galaxy's Greatest Fanzine chose ol' Devlin to be the cover star for the issue  - and they only went and got Colin MacNeil to do the art for it!

Looking at that cover, I kind of wish I could write a whole new Devlin Waugh strip to accompany it... Anyway, this is the second cover the lads at Zarjaz have had from Mr MacNeil, the first being for #5 - the first issue under the FutureQuake Publications banner (which you can still buy from the FutureQuake Shop):

I'll post more about the issue - and the Devlin Waugh story - closer to the final release.

Into The Cover

Blimey! 2012's barely even started and it's looking like I'm going to have a fair chunk of work appearing in various anthologies being released over the next twelve months. As much as I'm chomping at the bit to show off some art for them (and spill the beans on some new projects), I'm having to restrain myself and keep things under wraps for the minute. So, in the meantime, here's something I can share: the cover to Stacey Whittle's long awaited anthology, Into The Woods:

Art for that cover is by Andy Bloor, with colours by Steven Howard.

Myself and Simon Wyatt (with Filip Roncone on lettering) are doing a version of a Northumbrian folk tale, The Lang Pack, a weird little tale that's kept people fascinated for years. If you want to know more about the original story, Linda Stratmann has a detailed version on her website here and England's North East has a slightly different version here. Alternatively, you can buy Joseph Crawhall's book about the story from Amazon here.

The collection features work from Rich McAuliffe, Sarah Dunkerton, Matt Gibbs, Alice Duke, Scott Harrison, Daniel Clifford, Bevis Musson, Alexi Conman and Connor Boyle.

Into The Woods will be getting its official launch at the Cardiff Comic Expo in February of this year.