If you're at Salute, please say hello - I'm at stand TE05 - and check out the limited Zulu sketch & print packs and my other comics. If you can't make Salute, my 2024 schedule is filling up with a few other appearances around the UK, hopefully see you at one of them!
Moments of Adventure
Indie Comic Artist Colin M's musings on Comics, History, Art & More
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Onwards and Salute!
Sunday 31 March 2024
Sale Comic-Con!
Sale's line-up is shaping up very nicely with several other comic artists and actors already announced - check out their page links above for more details and if it's anyway as fun as last year's other WOW event, Bury Comic-Con it promises to be a great day out for everyone.
Col at attention at Bury Art Gallery! |
Oh and as you'll see in the links to the right, I've had a few other events confirm recently both local(ish) and not so local as this year's calendar of events starts to take place, hope to see some of you around this year for a chat or two :)
Sunday 10 March 2024
"Is it Dusty in Here?"
We made several comic strips inspired by the people we met at the UK's (and arguably the world's) largest steampunk festival, the Asylum, held annually late August in Lincoln and this comic page is from the second of them, titled Heart's Desire about a romance which may or may not run smoothly.....
Colours again provided by the excellent and adaptable, Matt Soffe.
All the characters in the comics were based on real people and their respective steampunk personas encountered at the festival and used with their permission. We were always though a little nervous anticipating their reactions when the comics were released, but luckily everyone seemed to enjoy them and were pretty pleased seeing their alter-egos in the comic spotlight!
The comics were published by Accent UK under various 'Asylum' titles and became nice little souvenirs of the event. The first one quickly sold out and I have limited supplies of the second and third titles available directly from me - see convention appearances on the right, or from contacting or visiting Scott's Pops & Comics comic shop in Warrington, UK.
Sunday 3 March 2024
"Spy Stories, stirring them up!"
Here's a page from my National Army Museum commission for their Society gallery a couple of years ago. The gallery was one of the new features of the museum's major refurbishment telling the story of how the army had been portrayed by Society over the years and how these views changed with the times, highlighting movies, posters, souvenir commemorations etc.
My brief was to show how comics had similarly changed over a broad 100 year timeline from the early Victorian story papers and their celebration of 'Boys Own, Death or Glory' type adventures to post World War One paranoias and subsequent 1970's realities creeping into the comics of my youth, changing my art style, layouts etc to match each era's publications.
This is the 'Inter-war' period between the world wars when paranoia and threats of foreign invasions were rife, contrasting with glorifying stories of WW1 heroes as a way perhaps of maintaining or manipulating moral, depending on your perspectives.
Glorious colours provided by the excellent and adaptable, Matt Soffe.
It was a fun and almost perfect project for me and my interests but with a punishing deadline ahead of the Queen's official opening!
Still a project I'm particularly proud of and received many fine comments about. The full project was displayed as a comic 'flip book' for permanent display by the Gallery's entrance. I've not visited since covid, but understand there have been further changes made to the galleries so not sure whether it is currently on view or not?
My own comics are currently only available direct from me - see convention appearances on the right, or from contacting or visiting Scott's Pops & Comics comic shop in Warrington, UK.
Sunday 25 February 2024
"Maybe I Should Just Give Up!"
A re-worked page from my quirky and troubled escapologist character, The Curious Chancer and his debut in the short Special Performance story from my own M56 JUNCTION COMICS.
The story touches on our own expectations and those placed on ourselves by others and the difficulty sometimes in how these are or aren't met. This can be particularly true for all those in a creative or performance field where often unexpected and hidden challenges can keep you from meeting those expectations.......
Wednesday 21 February 2024
"That Wasn't Very Nice Michael!"
Sunday 18 February 2024
"You're Lucky We Found A Log!"
A page from 'Pointy Heads', the epilogue story in my ZULU: WATER CART RESCUE graphic novel, about a couple of Zulu children making the dangerous journey to Rorke's Drift, looking for their missing warrior fathers, who haven't returned from the battle there....
The graphic novel is currently only available direct from me - see convention appearances on the right, or from contacting or visiting Scott's Pops & Comics comic shop in Warrington, UK.