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Hope you make Lawless next year as Chimpsky wants to say Hi 😁

Certainly planning on it!

-pj

Dark Horizon's in Belfast, 1988. Saw a poster (drawn by a young John McCrea) and, after giving up comics when I was around 13-14 and still loving them, I thought this would be way back in "Noone will take the piss out of you for reading comics in a comics shop" I naively thought.

Anyway, that's when I met John, where Garth met John too, and here we all are.

Here's the poster (though the orange trimming here was a later edition in John's the Mighty World of McCrea book)

Keep forgetting to update this, but here's another (and you might have missed a few more too)

https://www.pauljholden.com/comic/the-ride-of-her-life/?sid=2347

One thing that has crossed my mind between the Dreddverse & the Rogueverse is that both have cloning tech and taking that in Rogue's world you can transfer one personality to a new body and therefore potentially living forever would this be a way of saving Dredd becoming a true Robo Cop!

Unless he visits Nu Earth and the neverglade's 😳

Wasn't mind / chips already part of Dredd's world? I seem to remember they existed prior to rogue who got the idea from a Dredd story.

we categorically don't need PJ back,

I wish people would be more specific.

Good interview here too http://homepage.eircom.net/~okku/scifi/mcmahon.htm

McM: Yes, it's to do with materials as well, what's available, I'd started using staedtler projector pens on Bristol Board, they worked really nicely filling in solid blacks on Bristol Board, and then when I was doing Slaine I switched to water-colour paper, I don't know why, and so I started drawing everything with these pens, but it didn't work at all, it was too blobby, but I liked the things I was doing with these pens, but they were to uncontrollable, so I started using Tombo pens.

I dunno what Tombo (could be Tombow) pens are, but I imagine they were an early japanese pigment pen or marker (the thought of using staedtler projection pens makes my skin crawl, but Mike is inhuman.

Interesting link :
http://adriansalmonart.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-i-planned-to-write-quick-post-to.html

After returning to comics with the THE LAST AMERICAN ( after a being ill) , his work had evolved yet again. Mick has said in interviews that though he wasn't drawing , he  still was in his head. TLA is a tour de force ( go get a copy of the ComX album) if you don't believe me. Pretty grim too. The art has a level of detail not seen in his work before ( okay maybe SLAINE is a contender) , marker pens on watercolour paper with Magic Marker colours were used ( I know I sold him some at a shop).

That's unfortunate. A bit of light fading doesn't worry me too much though - shows a bit of character in the art. It is a bit odd though. I would have guessed that Mick used India Ink back in the 80's and that is pretty much lightfast unlike all other colour inks which will fade quite a bit if exposed. Maybe he applied the ink quite thinly and you are just 'seeing through' it. The repro would have darkened that up for printing.
Or maybe he used a cheap non permanent ink - need a McMahon expert to tell us.

I thought mick was in the vanguard of artists using markers (iirc the story goes in Slaine that he used markers and tracing paper to fill in large black areas and when he saw the white bits that had got through then decided he liked them. and I think the art of last American was coloured with markers.

(Could be wrong)

Oops, I've missed a week, never mind, you can read the latest, by Gareth L Powell right here:
https://www.pauljholden.com/comic/comfort-viewing/?sid=2347

And if you go back one week you'll see a whole other strip!

I don't like the way PJ Holden butters his toast.

I knew there was something off about that guy.

Genuinely this was a constant complaint of my mother's.

Six Shooter is brilliant.  Short and sharp, and even the possibly ambiguity of it allows the reader to fill in some of the details.

I got that six was himself.  I took it that his wife and best friend were having an affair, hence four and five was him killing them both, followed quickly by six, him blowing his own brains out afterwards.

Thank you!

Pretty much. Sometimes I'll be fairly explicit and then see what I can remove to see how it works with that I had a last line but it seemed clear enough if I just left the word six there.

Oh man, Six Shooter.  Are four and five for the same reason, hence six?

Oh I just cocked up I think. Six was himself. (And five seems to have been for two people so that doesn't work!)

Good catch!

Blimey, a fourth issue (bringing the total number of scifi/genre shorts to 35 so far...)

https://www.pauljholden.com/comic/a4-issue-four/?sid=2428

Tried to keep it lighter... not sure if I succeeded.

Very grateful for any and all feedback!

This latest one might be a difficult read for some so comes with a content warning (body dysmorphia/suicide ideation) but I think it's an important and good read.

https://www.pauljholden.com/comic/dont-tell-my-therapist/?sid=2347