Frightfest 2026.

 An old friend - with a fresh new look - makes a return this year.

Title card/online art for this years festival.

 Full line up art to follow as I complete it.

 

The Bowie Annual.

 The 10th (and final) Bowie Annual (for which I produce the visuals each year - not as dance-able as the music I know but it stops me getting bored over Christmas) is upon us! This year I decided to play around with animating my illustrations too.

Pretty pleased with the results so sharing a wee sample here (alongside some of the original art used for the project).

 

The Avengers.

 

First broadcast on 7th January 1961....The Avengers.
 

For me the Steed and Mrs. Peel pairing is TV perfection!

Poor Things/Lanark.

Work in progress.

A set of illustrations for the Alasdair Gray Archive exploring Gray's work through an Autistic lens. 

The Poor Things cigarette cards are based on the idea of the book being filmed by RKO/Universal in the 30s with a cast including Charles Laughton as Goodwin Baxter, Colin Clive as Archibald McCandless and Kathleen Burke as Bella (it's the same fictional film universe where I imagine Orson Welles making a Batman film in 1973 starring John Cassavetes as Bruce Wayne and Malcolm McDowell fresh off A Clockwork Orange as The Joker, it's a hobby I guess). 

Poor Things (Inspired by Bride of Frankenstein) with a Letraset and Tippex title card.

 

Whereas the Lanark illustrations are a take on the original art for Book III and it's inspiration.

 

Dave Ball.

A tribute to Dave Ball - producer, electronic musician and co-founder of my favourite band Soft Cell.

 

3 May 1959 -  22 October 2025 

 

 And you can read more about why Soft Cell are so important to me here (if you're interested).

Tall in The Saddle.

 

The person who gave me the big push to start drawing seriously again (then years later slagged me off for listening to him when drunk!), the guy who gave my wife and I our 'comic bonding' experience and the co-creator of the character our wee boy-child is named after.

 

Remembering Steve Dillon on The Anniversary of his death. 

 

 

Daniel Clowes.

 Slow work time at the mo' so getting to doodle for myself - a portrait of the American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter Daniel Clowes.

Been a fan since I picked up my first issue of Lloyd Llewellyn on an art school trip to London in 1987.