Introducing Fever Scream Comics, a broadsheet comics project

Now back from a short hiatus of personal work, I'm happy to announce my next personal comics project. Fever Scream Comics will be a small collection of 4 part stories presented in the broad sheet newspaper format. Heavily inspired by the works of Windsor McCay and the fantastic broadsheet collection from DC: Wednesday Comics. I want to use the board sheet format because it's an approach to comics thats foreign to me, and that can lead to interesting forms of storytelling compression that results in a tight,  concise narrative sequence.

The image above is the first page for a 4 page story to be featured in Fever Scream, I wanted to use the space to create a flowing sequence that I otherwise might not have done given a different format.

I'll post an update when the first issue is ready.

Anglepoise Living Lamp: one of the winning books

Living Lamp was a professional brief set by British lighting maker Anglepoise® for final year BA Illustration students at the University of Portsmouth. Over 40 students were tasked with bringing an Anglepoise® lamp to life by exploring the narratives around their anthropomorphic qualities through a single concertina sketch book. Each concept was kept under wraps until the end of the campaign, when all the sketchbooks were presented simultaneously. 9 winners were selected by Anglepoise® Brand



My Narrative was selected as one of the 9 winners, It was an exciting experience working in secret from my piers and the Anglepoise company, which made the big reveal event both tense and exciting. 

An update on current projects

The Southsea Arts Fair went fantastic, we received a great turn out. It was great to meet such talented contemporaries as well as get a chance to sell sketches to the fair goers. My favourite part of events like this isn't only the chance to meet other artists and illustrators, but having an opportunity to talk with the people attending the fair whilst preparing their sketches, talking comics and animation is a great way to know who your drawing for. i'd love to do more events and conventions like this in the future.

  

here is a small piece from a current side project with the working title "Rodent Warriors", working on a short narrative using anthropomorphic rodents, something like "is Watership Down was a martial arts film", taking inspiration from graphic works such as Lone Wolf and Cub, i'm excited to see how this develops and what form it'll take.