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12 Books in 12 Months

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Lunchtime Comics

All this time I have been bemoaning the fact I can’t do comics during my lunch break in the office in the same way as I can novel, having forgotten the existence of MS Paint.  That oversight is now rectified with one for the uni crowd…

How To Spend Ages Photoshopping A Falcon

It is 1.27am and I am about to go to bed, having spent the evening drawing and yet failing to finish another page of my hawk comic.  Below is one of the panels for your information / proof that I have actually been doing something.  I also had a few* photos to upload to the computator from Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles, some of which can be found here.

The main lesson I have learned from this book so far is that I can’t draw, work and sleep – there aren’t enough hours in the day.  Still, they say sleep is for the weak…**

*couple of hundred.  I did not upload them all, as many were poor.

** who are ‘they’? And what on earth were they thinking?! I’m awful without sleep.  Night night.

Interview: John Allison

I am mixing things up a bit and putting this week’s guest post up today.  After all, if you can’t go a little crazy at Christmas, you might as well be a lobster (or other secular life form / member of a non-Christian religion).  Also I had quite a manic weekend so I haven’t drawn anything…

Please put your hands together for the very talented web comicker John Allison, creator of Bad Machinery and Scary Go Round.

John Allison
image by @deadlyknitshade

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Flash Forward..

.. to the present day.

Who Do You Think You Are

Page 4, in which the falconer tells the falcon a bit about his parents, his roots, and his destiny.  He is old money, like the royals – a lot of responsibility is going to be coming his way soon.

In The Beginning

With page 1 and 2 I have got ahead of myself, so now, a flashback.  Baby falcon’s handler is based on my friend Ari, who is rather perfectly a writer and falconer by trade.  Have a look at her blog to find out more..

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