Yesterday's Tomorrows.

Finally someone has collected up Rian Hughes comic work and gave it the hardback treatment it so richly deserves. The book is: Yesterday's Tomorrows.



Included in the book is the Dan Dare strip, originally published in Revolver and subsequently, Crisis. It is quite a while since I had read it(early nineties to be precise)and even though I actually remember liking Morrison's take on the character- it was the art that was the true star.

This was pre-photoshop/illustrator and yet Hughes art looks as if it was freshly digitized on a Mac. Rather than trying to emulate the classical style of Hampson, Hughes clean line, retro/fifties style still, quite strangely, sits comfortably within the Dare universe.
This is probably due to the sheer beauty of Hughes art and design, which in itself retains some of the clinical elegance(at least in tone)of the original.

Strongly recommended.

*Looks like this was released in June of last year...but hey it's new to me!

I hate being in front of a camera and I think it shows in this really quite "stilted" interview from over a year ago.


See how I start to drift at the end into a incomprehensible ramble, finally leaving the poor interviewer with a "Please just go!" look of exasperation.

Now my Mug is on bloody YOUTUBE, well that's just dandy!! Can I get an injunction? Please...!!!

As we are on the subject of Storm Hawks I thought I would add this:

Some people have just too much time on their hands!>

War is Hell!

Another quick sketch on the cintiq of Sgt Rock. Not the greatest but I thought I would post anyway.

My son has become a bit of a fan of Easy Company since browsing through my Azzarello/Kubert's Between Hell and a Hard Place. Since then he has picked up
the Showcase edition Sgt Rock, The Unknown Soldier and is also collecting
Wildstorm's Storming Paradise.

He was very interested in War Stories by Garth Ennis, but being only ten years of age - I had to draw the line. So as a compromise I gave him Veitch's Army@Love instead.

I kid, I kid.......!!

At least with Sgt Rock, he is being exposed to some fine comic art with the great Joe Kubert.

Hopefully he'll progress at some point onto Charley's War.

There Will Be Blood.

Finally got to play around with the Cintiq this weekend, so here is one of my first quick sketches.

The Punisher? Or is it just Bill Savage with a Punisher T-Shirt on?

Shark and Gorilla ...

High fiving!

Country Life Butter.

Woe is me!



Snatched from Piley's blog.

Sleeveface

Brilliant...

Halloween

The great thing about North America is the obvious love they have for everything Halloween. I took my son Trick n' Treating last night and the effort that was put into some of the exterior house displays was just fantastic, so much so that my son blatantly refused to enter some of them as he deemed them to be "Way too Scary!"



Tonight I went to Fright Night at Playland here in Vancouver. It wasn't the complete scare fest that I had hoped for (in reality it was just the usual rides re-dressed with a few skeleton heads and cobwebs added for effect) but it did have some really excellent horror displays and a few good haunted house set ups.


















I loved this Diner display...




Eyeballs and fingers - tasty!



I also took The Final Ride, which basically consisted of lying down in a closed coffin as some Hammer House of Horror type dialogue was piped in:

"This one is rather portly, the sooner we get him down the hole the better."

Cheeky bastards!

Then the coffin would wobble and lurch side to side as I was was supposedly lowered( more-so dropped) into the grave. It was kinda crap to be honest, but seemed like a rather fitting end to the night.




Happy Halloween!