Merry Christmas

Space

But more precisely a little piece of rock we call the moon. People are going crazy over the fact that forty years ago we put a man on the moon (allegedly).

Well woopdefuckindo. What have we accomplished since then?
Jack shit is what.

Everybody knows it was done just to prove that America was better than the USSR and when that threat evaporated, so did the space race.

Guess what, now there are five nations clamouring to put a base on the moon, so that astronauts get a chance to play golf or something. And all of a sudden the space race is alive again. Great! I hear you cry. A bit fucking late, is my response.

It took nine years for America to put someone on the moon, by now we could have at least reached Saturn! We're living in 2009 for gods sake and I haven't even got the 2001 lifestyle that was promised me.

So for all present I'm posting this celebratory sketch of a still from 2001 A space odessey ... get a move on guys.

Star Trek

Not bad, not bad at all.

stop inviting me!

I'm constantly getting invited to be a contributing artist in art books, museums and what not. But guess what, I have to pay a motherucking godamn fee for the privelidge. What a bull$#!+ moneymaking scam! It's bad enough that the art world is saturated with talent and it's nigh on impossible to get noticed without being preyed upon by unscrupulous nobends.

You should never have to pay to get in a mag so don't fall for it guys. Watch your backs.

Dead DFC

So sad to see that the DFC (David Fickling Books) has ceased production.

Double oh seven

Issue 007 is all about spies. If you've got a secret agent strip hiding in the corner then send it in by top secret email. Make sure to mark it 'for your eyes only' and please don't include any self destruct protocols.

If you choose to accept this mission you'll have until the end of April to complete it.

Good luck, our Majesty is counting on you.

Phoenix

Suikakajiu

Xabungle

Here's another tshirt I did, this time of a massive fighting robot. His name is Xabungle, unfortunately I never saw the anime so don't ask.

Yamagata's t-shirt

Remember that guy Yamagata from the film Akira? Of course you do, he's Kaneda's friend and gets killed in the bar by Tetsuo.

Well I loved his tshirt so much so that I copied the image and got them printed onto some tees. I did three different colour versions to depict the lighting in the film, here are two of them.

They look so good on black or white tees. Unfortunately this version is pretty low res but feel free to convert it to vector and slap it on a piece of that cheap transfer paper and iron it on one of your spare t shirts.

I loved doing these but it was back in the day of video cassettes when fast forward and pause were a pain. You kids don't know how lucky you are!

Submit! for 6

Submissions are now open for issue six. What are you waiting for? Stop reading this and submit your strip NOW.

Understanding comics - Scott McCloud

Learn from everyone.
Follow no one.
Watch for patterns.
Work like hell.

A great talk

But I can't for the life of me find the last two strips that he features:

"Pop contemplates the heat death of the universe" by Drew Wine
or the comic by Daniel Merlin Goodbury

If anybody knows where they are please post the link in the comments. Google skills at -5 today.

Commercial ripping rears it's ugly head

I was in a shopping centre when I spotted a pretty illustration on a shop window. I don't know why or how but a couple of days later I was surfing on the internet when I came across the same picture on the artists site. There were a few differences, the main one being that the original on the artists site had been produced for a company, complete with company logos, which had no affiliation with the shop where I saw the picture. I thought it was a bit strange that the same image (minus logos) was being used for two different companies. So I sent the artist an email with a picture of the shop window. Unfortunately it turned out the artist had no connection with the second company and they were using the image illegally (all over their website too).

It's such a shame that this is happening. Someone had to go into the image to remove the original logos and change the background. I really hope the artist manages to resolve this. But, honestly, it was pure luck that it was discovered.

All I can say is that if you find yourself in the same situation then please send an email to inform the artist. It doesn't cost anything and an artist doesn't necessarily know everything that their image is being used for. I happen to be living in a different country to where the artist was based so they would have probably never been alerted.

Happy New Year

To all a y'all.

What? You want me to draw you a picture?

Merry Christmas Yo!

Be safe this christmas.

Don't accept any presents from aliens.

Particularly if they look probe like.

Submissions closed for issue five

Were you too late to get into this issue?

No worries. Get your strip ready for issue six.

D Knight

I am vexed.

After spending an age on this piece, from drawing to photoshop, and liking the end result (which doesn't often happen). I put the lo res on deviantart and then my computer went up in smoke. All I'm left with now is this small size, which doesn't show any of the lovely details.

Sometimes, just sometimes, computers are more trouble than they're worth.

Baraka Obama

If you can think of a better caption I could be persuaded to do an edit.

Submit! for 5

Submissions are now open for issue five. What are you waiting for? Stop reading this and submit your strip NOW.

Carnaval - Japanese style

There is a very large Japanese community living in Brazil so we get a lot of Japanese related programmes and news items. This morning I found out about the Kishiwada Danjiri Festival. What began as a dedication to Inari, the fox god of the harvest, has turned into a completely crazy race.

The different neighbourhoods of Kishiwada spend a year creating intricately carved wooden floats and then spend two days tearing round the streets of the town on these moveable shrines that weigh 4 tons. They are pulled by as many as 500 to 1000 people. The best parts are the high speed accidents that occur as they are dragged around narrow roads and street corners, crashing into buildings and sometimes completely falling over.

Kishiwada Danjiri festival accident '97- 岸和田だんじり祭り　事故集

I haven't found a decent video from this years festival and this one from '97 doesn't really do justice to what I saw on TV. Guys falling off the roof and carts knocking over telephone poles.
Excellent.

(more info for the hardcore)

Just get off your arses and do something! - Ralph Bakshi

This is a great clip.

His advice can also be applied to the comics industry:

Don’t work for the big studios, work for yourself.

Technology allows you to take on the big guys.

Develop new markets for your work.

Creatively zig when everyone is still zagging.

What’s been successful for years can become stale.

Starcraft

Posted yesterday on the blizzard weblog:

Send us your StarCraft-themed comics and we'll choose the funniest or most interesting to be showcased on a special gallery page. Remember, we're looking for the best StarCraft humor out there. You can submit comics created in any medium, just make sure they're relevant to StarCraft II, original, and make us laugh.

For the first month, our winner will receive an 8GB Blizzard Branded iPod Nano, a copy of the StarCraft board game, a StarCraft Battle Chest, a shirt, and a copy of the StarCraft cinematics DVD. Two runners-up will also receive prize packages. Two runners-up will also receive prize packages. Please submit your entries by October 4th, 2008, to be considered for the first month's prizing. See the official rules page and contest page

Good luck y'all.

Submissions closed for issue four

But don't fret. Issue five is just around the corner.

Soda Ninja

Submit! for 4

Submissions are now open for issue four. What are you waiting for? Stop reading this and submit your strip NOW.

Apologies

Apologies for the disruption in service. Mainly due to a catalogue of errors when my host attempted to conduct interdimensional engineering. Anyway, while the site was down, I took the opportunity to get back my .com been a long time but it's finally mine again.

Submissions closed for issue three

Yeah, that's right.

Be ready for number four.

Fluff

Liveline

Panels from issue two of krazybov comics will be appearing at the Liveline comic art exhibition. It's at the Riverside Gallery in Richmond from 1 March until 12 April and admission is free. For opening hours and address you'll have to dig around a bit on the Richmond Galleries website. Just follow any links that say Riverside Gallery exhibitions or Liveline: Comics open. There will be work by thirty of the best UK based indie comic artists so get your arse down there!

Submit!

Submissions are now open for issue three. What are you waiting for? Stop reading this and submit your strip NOW.

Tomorrow, the World!

The krazybov bid for World domination starts here.

Ninja

Bruce Lee

Cloudrider

Flaming skull

The Look

Catwoman

Deadlock

Kendo

Denim girl

Ms Sledgehammer

I can't point you in the direction of her mountain retreat as her sisters would be most displeased with me. Oh and thick coats of watercolour are not a good idea, they crack.

002

The second issue of krazybov comics still had just one story, this time by Tek Swan and jumping to a colossal twenty pages. The strip is a monologue detailing the terraforming and colonisation of Mars.

Only two hundred and fifty photocopies made and handed out at London Comic and Card Events.

001

The very first issue of krazybov comics had just one eight page story in it called PSK starring a frog, a fly, a driver and a builder. Written and illustrated by Elvis Brillotto.

Just a hundred copies made by photocopier and stapler and handed out at London Comic and Card Events. I even printed up a couple of superminis (A6) and gave them out too.