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Sci-fi!

Witchy shenanigans.

Thanks everyone. 

Molch-R, send some of your droids down here for a visit!  We promise to make them welcome..!

Get one of your cons to pay for us and we'll be there like a shot

You sure? I believe they have really venomous bugs over there...

It was interesting chatting to (Mick McMahon) in the pub about the early days, though, especially his story about how his approach to Slaine came about that I'm not 100% sure I believe.

More than just "I'd lost my nerve a bit, and found drawing on tracing paper with overhead projector markers helped get me out of that rut"?  Spill, Jon, spill ...

Ha, no, it was largely along those lines. Maybe it was just the embellishments, or the idea that you could get to the end of a stack of pages without checking the final outcome with only minutes to spare to the deadline and the denouement of, "I got sick to death of having to draw that way".  I dunno, something about it smacked of a kernel of truth long since spun into a story.

I grew up copying his stuff, so there may have been more than an element of awe there.

Hi Ghrendal, welcome and all that. 

Out of interest are these presented as pencils or final panels?

The studio I used to work for employed Mick McMahon for a time as a concept artist (before woefully misusing him). I was working on a different project, and I knocked up an illustration based on the game characters and sent it round as a Xmas card. I ended up in the lift with Mick, who told me he liked my card. I think I reacted coolly and professionally, while inside thinking, "I can die now, my job here is done." He was probably just making conversation. It was interesting chatting to him in the pub about the early days, though, especially his story about how his approach to Slaine came about that I'm not 100% sure I believe.

I had quite a long and drunken conversation in a pub in Dewsbury with Kev Walker including how he wasn't all that good when he started. Amazed I got away with that one. He was brilliant.

The whole Ron Smith thing was great, agreed.

Quad biking in Essaouira with Boo Cook. To be honest Boo was a bit secondary to that experience, though watching him conquer his fear of sand dunes was pretty extraordinary.

Any Thought Bubble party (and introducing people to Whitelocks beforehand).

Oh, bombing quite badly at the Thought Bubble "Draw for 2000AD" competition panel, with a massive hangover and a very dry mouth in front of various droids. Strangely, I still have fond memories of that.

I don't know what that means but your pic is the finest thing I've seen on this thread. Wow.

I think it means add more Cthulhu (it was a mere Kraken before - I think the previous incarnation of this image is somewhere buried way earlier in this thread). So, anyway, I added more Cthulhu.

Thank you, that's very kind.

An older piece which I was asked to "Cthulhu up". So I did.

Some lovely sketching going on there, sir.

I done a turtle...

This is just the best thing. 

By accident rather than design, another member of the Angel family.

Is this a new club? Where do I sign?

I too love City of the Damned!

Jon - I'll email it to you. Do you want it sent to the address on your website?

Oh, hi, yeah. That, or the one on my profile. They all get to me.

Thanks!

also, I think that if a tablet has a proper wacom digitizer, any proper wacom pen works with it too. so youve got a choice of professional grade styluses there if you dont like the bundled stylus.

It may well be different now, but I've been unable to use previous Wacom styluses across newer/ different graphics tablets in the past, so I'd definitely double-check that.

I wouldn't mind a look at the ghost story in a school, if I can manage to get my outstanding Something Wicked stuff finished this week...