Showing posts with label Ryan is great. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ryan is great. Show all posts
Friday, 3 November 2017
Just like heaven....
Hurry chums - the good folk at Aces Weekly have some new Grace's Imaginary Menagerie in their latest issue. Go and get stuck in and enjoy some super comics why don't you?
Monday, 7 August 2017
Needles in the camel's eye
Evening chums - I hope that you're both well?
I'm not doing too well at keeping this blog-a-ma-tron thing up to date am I now? In truth I tend to put more of my sketch book stuff on twitter when time permits. Nonetheless, I'll rattle a bit here about what I've been up to recently.
So, first up is a super comic called Dead Silence where I've had the pleasure of working with one David Cooper. He does a far better job of telling you, my gentle reader all about it here than I ever could. Do check it out via his online store - I think it's a great little read.
I've also been lucky enough to paint a mini wolf for the splendid Wolves in Wolves art festival. I painted a wolf on behalf of the Howling Wolves Community Choir, and my humble painting is currently in Wolverhampton Art Gallery on proud display until the middle of September. Go say hello and remember me to him / her.
Now, I suppose that I ought to get doing some drawing eh?
I'm not doing too well at keeping this blog-a-ma-tron thing up to date am I now? In truth I tend to put more of my sketch book stuff on twitter when time permits. Nonetheless, I'll rattle a bit here about what I've been up to recently.
So, first up is a super comic called Dead Silence where I've had the pleasure of working with one David Cooper. He does a far better job of telling you, my gentle reader all about it here than I ever could. Do check it out via his online store - I think it's a great little read.
I've also been lucky enough to paint a mini wolf for the splendid Wolves in Wolves art festival. I painted a wolf on behalf of the Howling Wolves Community Choir, and my humble painting is currently in Wolverhampton Art Gallery on proud display until the middle of September. Go say hello and remember me to him / her.
Now, I suppose that I ought to get doing some drawing eh?
'Pah! Doomlord suspects that puny earthling Taylor is wasting time staring at the wall again when he should be drawing!'
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Dry the rain
Evening chums,
Are you likely to be stuck for something to do on Saturday July 9th? Why step this way, for me and various chums have organised an official Small Press Day event at Wolverhampton's very own Forbidden Planet.
In attendance will be myself and chums Laura Howell and Tony McGee, whereupon we shall be flogging our own comics and also running a few mini comic making workshops for your entertainment. 'Well, huzzah and hurrah indeed!' I hear you cry, 'That does sound a super and mildly interesting afternoon out.'
Do pop along people.
In readiness for the event, I was handily invited to run some mini comics workshops with a local school last week. We all had a great time drawing characters, daft stories and (even dafter) superheroes. Check a rare photo of me frantically drawing a comic on some new fangled white board device...
....what you can't hear are the twenty odd children shouting out ideas all at once.
'You were amazing with the children today and they really enjoyed it, thank you so much!' was the mighty kind testimonial from the teacher in charge.
I'd love to do more of these sorts of workshops and so if you are a teacher around Wolverhampton who's interested in inviting me to draw comics in your school, please get in touch via email, at theboytaylor at hotmail dot com
Cheers chums
RT
Are you likely to be stuck for something to do on Saturday July 9th? Why step this way, for me and various chums have organised an official Small Press Day event at Wolverhampton's very own Forbidden Planet.
In attendance will be myself and chums Laura Howell and Tony McGee, whereupon we shall be flogging our own comics and also running a few mini comic making workshops for your entertainment. 'Well, huzzah and hurrah indeed!' I hear you cry, 'That does sound a super and mildly interesting afternoon out.'
Do pop along people.
In readiness for the event, I was handily invited to run some mini comics workshops with a local school last week. We all had a great time drawing characters, daft stories and (even dafter) superheroes. Check a rare photo of me frantically drawing a comic on some new fangled white board device...
....what you can't hear are the twenty odd children shouting out ideas all at once.
'You were amazing with the children today and they really enjoyed it, thank you so much!' was the mighty kind testimonial from the teacher in charge.
I'd love to do more of these sorts of workshops and so if you are a teacher around Wolverhampton who's interested in inviting me to draw comics in your school, please get in touch via email, at theboytaylor at hotmail dot com
Cheers chums
RT
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Inner city blues
Evening chums,
You may have noticed (or equally you may have not) but I've designed the poster / flyers for this year's Birmingham Beer Bash. It promises to be a top wheeze and do feel free to buy me a gentle ale should you see me there cowering in the corner. I don't get out much you see.
Anyway, if you're one of the weirdos who like seeing the process for these things then I shall attach pencils and finished poster below.
Hurrah for beer.
RT
You may have noticed (or equally you may have not) but I've designed the poster / flyers for this year's Birmingham Beer Bash. It promises to be a top wheeze and do feel free to buy me a gentle ale should you see me there cowering in the corner. I don't get out much you see.
Anyway, if you're one of the weirdos who like seeing the process for these things then I shall attach pencils and finished poster below.
RT
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Monday, 18 January 2016
Monday, 23 February 2015
(The Angels Wanna) Wear My Red Shoes
Evening chums,
A gentle note to inform you that my well-I-think-it's-amusing-comical-strip, Grace's Imaginary Menagerie will be making it's triumphant return to the always splendid Aces Weekly next month. It'll be appearing in issue 15, starting on March 2nd.
If you've not yet checked out Aces Weekly then shame on you! You're missing out on a super, super digital collection of comics fun. Go there now, and tell them that I politely sent you.
(Don't forget, you can also grab my comics through my comicsy store here)
RT
A gentle note to inform you that my well-I-think-it's-amusing-comical-strip, Grace's Imaginary Menagerie will be making it's triumphant return to the always splendid Aces Weekly next month. It'll be appearing in issue 15, starting on March 2nd.
If you've not yet checked out Aces Weekly then shame on you! You're missing out on a super, super digital collection of comics fun. Go there now, and tell them that I politely sent you.
(Don't forget, you can also grab my comics through my comicsy store here)
RT
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Time of the season
Evening folks,
I'm quite determined to use this blog a bit more to promote my work in coming months. Looking through it, there seems lots of mildly interesting content, but precious little in terms of finished pages? Let's put that right shall we....
I'll paste a few selected black and white pages from various bits and pieces what I've done in the past year or two for your collective perusal....
First off, one of my fave pages from Rol Hirst's super 'Too Much Sex and Violence'
How's that?
RT
Monday, 17 November 2014
Black Sheep Boy
Once again folks, I have returned from Thought Bubble and feel compelled to say how absolutely super it is. I have just spent a weekend surrounded by some very inspirational people and really can't compliment the organisers and volunteers enough on putting together what has (for my money) got to be the UK's best comics show.
If you've never been before, then you really owe it to yourself to get along next year. I can't quite frankly imagine how the team will top this year's event, but nonetheless I'm confident that they will.
Can you tell that I had a super weekend of it?
I was happily debuting the 4th issue of the Grinning Mask which seems to have gone down very well with the comic buying public. If you missed it, then I've updated my Comicsy store where you can order stuff and read freebies PDFs. Go seek.
Amongst other scribblings over the weekend I was jolly chuffed to be asked to do a commission of that super character the Shadow. Being rather unsure how to tackle this one, I actually did two piccies - a comical version and a more serious one. See if you can tell which is which and then go and visit the comic art gallery where these now hang in pride of place amongst some other very talented artists. Do take a browse and see the fantastic body of work that is being collected here.....
(If you're interested in commissioning me, then do get in touch at theboytaylor at hotmail dot com)
A great weekend, and here's to the next one.....
Your chum
RT
If you've never been before, then you really owe it to yourself to get along next year. I can't quite frankly imagine how the team will top this year's event, but nonetheless I'm confident that they will.
Can you tell that I had a super weekend of it?
(Obligatory photo of my table before the show)
Amongst other scribblings over the weekend I was jolly chuffed to be asked to do a commission of that super character the Shadow. Being rather unsure how to tackle this one, I actually did two piccies - a comical version and a more serious one. See if you can tell which is which and then go and visit the comic art gallery where these now hang in pride of place amongst some other very talented artists. Do take a browse and see the fantastic body of work that is being collected here.....
(If you're interested in commissioning me, then do get in touch at theboytaylor at hotmail dot com)
A great weekend, and here's to the next one.....
Your chum
RT
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Oh you pretty things
Quick note for you chums.
Following a handful of requests, I've started to put together a pre-show commission list for Thought Bubble. If by any chance you'd like to pay me to draw you something ahead of everyone's-favourite-Leeds-based-comics-show, then do drop me a line at theboytaylor at hotmail dot com, and we can have a hopefully pleasant chat about the whole thing.
I shall leave you to it then chums. Some exciting news about the next edition of the Grinning Mask will be appearing here in the coming weeks.....
RT
Following a handful of requests, I've started to put together a pre-show commission list for Thought Bubble. If by any chance you'd like to pay me to draw you something ahead of everyone's-favourite-Leeds-based-comics-show, then do drop me a line at theboytaylor at hotmail dot com, and we can have a hopefully pleasant chat about the whole thing.
(Ziggy commands you)
I shall leave you to it then chums. Some exciting news about the next edition of the Grinning Mask will be appearing here in the coming weeks.....
RT
Monday, 5 May 2014
Happy Shopper
What ho chums!
In honour of the recent Free Comic Book day, I've updated my digital comics store over at the very lovely Comicsy site with freebie digital downloads of a couple of my comics. That's right, you can believe your ears....
Pop over there now and grab some free comics why don't you? I'm not planning on ending the super sale any time soon.
Your chum
RT
In honour of the recent Free Comic Book day, I've updated my digital comics store over at the very lovely Comicsy site with freebie digital downloads of a couple of my comics. That's right, you can believe your ears....
Pop over there now and grab some free comics why don't you? I'm not planning on ending the super sale any time soon.
Your chum
RT
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
The wage don't fit
Oh fiddle de dee eh gentle reader? My once-mighty blog is getting more and more neglected with each passing week.
Whilst I seem to struggle to find time to update this part of the web, rest assured that I'm still fairly active with my ramblings on curtain twitcher.
To you, my dear reader, I shall update you with what I'm up to over the coming months.
I shall be sharing a table with pesky Bolton at Thought Bubble in Leeds on 23rd-24th November 2013.
I shall also be sharing a table with pesky Bolton at the Volume book fair at the new library in Birmingham on 5th-7th December 2103.
AND.... I've just booked a table at this very lovely looking show in Birmingham in August next year....
It's all go.....
RT
Whilst I seem to struggle to find time to update this part of the web, rest assured that I'm still fairly active with my ramblings on curtain twitcher.
To you, my dear reader, I shall update you with what I'm up to over the coming months.
I shall be sharing a table with pesky Bolton at Thought Bubble in Leeds on 23rd-24th November 2013.
I shall also be sharing a table with pesky Bolton at the Volume book fair at the new library in Birmingham on 5th-7th December 2103.
AND.... I've just booked a table at this very lovely looking show in Birmingham in August next year....
It's all go.....
RT
Monday, 15 April 2013
I love my shirt
What ho gang.
A quickie for you today. The following be a table centre piece that I got asked to do AGES ago for a (similarly obsessed with comics) chum. The table theme was 'Marvel loves Disney', and I got asked to draw a Gene Colan-ish Iron Man trying to woo Tiana from 'The Princess and the Frog'. I figure that as the wedding has now passed, and the happy couple are safely off on their honeymoon, I should be safe to post this.
I'll also sneak in a quick piccie that I've done as part of a children's book pitch for another chum. It's a couple of kids from the book sentenced to a hard dinnertime litter picking. I was quite chuffed with how this one turned out.
AND the Grinning Mask #3 is safely inked. The excitement reaches fever pitch.
RT
A quickie for you today. The following be a table centre piece that I got asked to do AGES ago for a (similarly obsessed with comics) chum. The table theme was 'Marvel loves Disney', and I got asked to draw a Gene Colan-ish Iron Man trying to woo Tiana from 'The Princess and the Frog'. I figure that as the wedding has now passed, and the happy couple are safely off on their honeymoon, I should be safe to post this.
I'll also sneak in a quick piccie that I've done as part of a children's book pitch for another chum. It's a couple of kids from the book sentenced to a hard dinnertime litter picking. I was quite chuffed with how this one turned out.
AND the Grinning Mask #3 is safely inked. The excitement reaches fever pitch.
RT
Thursday, 10 January 2013
On the road again...
PHEW.
Can you Adam and believe that I have neglected to update this blog for nigh on two months? Shame on me.
So in an unexpected twist from my usual hastily-scanned sketches, I shall update this blog with some exciting news - I shall be making a rare appearance outside this flat at the Bristol Comics Expo on 11th-12th May 2013. Hurrah indeed for me.
I shall be sharing a table for the entire weekend at Brunel's Old Station with the very pleasant Mr. Adam Bolton. I'm reliably informed that we've booked a 6ft table and so here's hoping that we don't get on each others nerves too much eh chums?
We're both promising to bring some tip-top comics along with us, as well as any old tat we can fill our table space with. I am of course joking and can assure you, my two gentle readers, that only goods of the finest quality will be on sale from us during this hopefully spectacular weekend.
Now then, with a good wind behind me and nearly four months, I am planning amongst other things to get another issue of the Grinning Mask ready for the show. Expect this blog to be full of curses as my artistic temperament grows ever larger as deadlines loom over the next few months.
AND....while you're at it, why don't you go follow me on Tweeeeeeeter here? For some reason, the 'gadget' I pasted to the top of this blog appears to have fallen out with me and so has been banished from these pages.
Happy new year one and all.
Your chum,
RT
Can you Adam and believe that I have neglected to update this blog for nigh on two months? Shame on me.
So in an unexpected twist from my usual hastily-scanned sketches, I shall update this blog with some exciting news - I shall be making a rare appearance outside this flat at the Bristol Comics Expo on 11th-12th May 2013. Hurrah indeed for me.
I shall be sharing a table for the entire weekend at Brunel's Old Station with the very pleasant Mr. Adam Bolton. I'm reliably informed that we've booked a 6ft table and so here's hoping that we don't get on each others nerves too much eh chums?
We're both promising to bring some tip-top comics along with us, as well as any old tat we can fill our table space with. I am of course joking and can assure you, my two gentle readers, that only goods of the finest quality will be on sale from us during this hopefully spectacular weekend.
Now then, with a good wind behind me and nearly four months, I am planning amongst other things to get another issue of the Grinning Mask ready for the show. Expect this blog to be full of curses as my artistic temperament grows ever larger as deadlines loom over the next few months.
AND....while you're at it, why don't you go follow me on Tweeeeeeeter here? For some reason, the 'gadget' I pasted to the top of this blog appears to have fallen out with me and so has been banished from these pages.
Happy new year one and all.
Your chum,
RT
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Stop Making Sense
....or how I've tried to make a 'Talking Heads' page more interesting. I'm sure that I'm not the only comics artist out there who struggles with making panel after panel of folk talking look interesting? Please tell me I'm not?
This is a layout page from the mini project I'm working on which I mentioned here previously. I imagine that I'm fairly safe to announce now that it's with writer Stephen Aryan and fabbo artist Adam Bolton. Hurrah indeed. Go check out their stuff and hunt down a copy of Adam's rather lovely looking 'Where's My Shoggoth?' book what he has created with Ian Thomas.
This mini project is currently being worked up into a pitch and rest assured my gentle reader, that I'll keep you posted about this one as it nears completion.
Toodle pip chums,
RT
This is a layout page from the mini project I'm working on which I mentioned here previously. I imagine that I'm fairly safe to announce now that it's with writer Stephen Aryan and fabbo artist Adam Bolton. Hurrah indeed. Go check out their stuff and hunt down a copy of Adam's rather lovely looking 'Where's My Shoggoth?' book what he has created with Ian Thomas.
This mini project is currently being worked up into a pitch and rest assured my gentle reader, that I'll keep you posted about this one as it nears completion.
Toodle pip chums,
RT
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