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Hi all! weeel, due to circumstances, I'm not going to be at Bristol next month. I was REALLY looking forward to it, however... I won't be there now.

A "silver lining", as it were, is that I'd already booked my room at the Ramada and now there is a room free. I think the hotel had been fuly booked. However, because of the special con rate, I can't cancel the booking. I pay whether I go or not. grr! So there is a room up for offer. Friday and Saturday nights, £124. So, anybody looking for a room at the con hotel?

Hi all,

Here's a link for you. www.bydandy.co.uk

I wrote and drew a wee comic for the Gordon Highlanders Museum, in Aberedeen.
It's a bit different to my usual stuff, but you might find it amusing and informative. The physical comic is only available at the museum, but you can look at it online.

Cheers for reading this and hopefully looking at the website. It's all about raising awareness of a great regimental museum.

Hi ho, chaps!
I thought I'd let forum members know that I'm doing a couple of events on Sat 2nd and Sun 3rd of April in Aberdeen. I'll be appearing at Asylum Books and Comics in Aberdeen on the Sunday. Just the usual sort of thing, signing, sketching, selling artwork. It'll be from midday onwards, finishing around 5/6 pm.

On the Saturday, I'll be appearing at The Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen. I've been working on a wee project for them for the last few months and this is it's launch. They asked me to draw a short comic about the history of the Gordon Highlanders for kids. The hero of the comic is a character called "Bydandy", who is a young stag who has dreams of playing the bagpipes like his father, "Pipe Major Dadandy". As I said the comic is for kids, so is quite different to what people might recognise as my usual styles.
Anyhoo, the comic will be given away free at the museum (Viewfield Road, Aberdeen. Just google it) on the Saturday (maybe the Sunday as well, but I can't remember. I'll post again when I know) and I'll be there to sign them. On Saturday and Sunday, admission for kids will be free (adults still have to pay), so might be a cheap day, out as it were, for those who have kids. I'll be there pretty much all day, 10am onwards.
There'll be colour and paint sessions featuring Bydandy for the younger kids, get the chance to get up close to uniforms and weapons used by the Gordon Highlanders in World War One for the older kids and an old time fire engine outside for the kids that never grow up. A 1915 vintage engine! They also have an excellent cafe there too, for resting the legs after an afternoon of fun.

That's it for now, hope to see some of you from the North East at some point over the weekend. If you don't manage to make it please do and try and go to the museum at some later time. It's a great wee museum and well worth a look and well worth supporting too.


Cheers

Colin

Hi there folks!
I'm going to be doing a signing in Aberdeen, this Saturday (ie the day after tomorrow), at Asylum Books and Games. I just realised I hadn't let the boarders, in and around the environs of Aberdeen, know about it. So now you know.

Cheers

Colin

Hello hive mind! Can I get your help?
I'm looking for recent visual ref for Judge Logan. A prog number would be sufficient, though any of you super dooper folk want to post a pic then that would be terrific!
Thank you Hive Mind, only you can save me now!

Was just flicking trough the channels and came across "A Night of Heroes - The Military Awards" by The Sun. I don't know about anybody else, but, this makes me really angry. It seems, to me, like an excuse for "celebs" to jump on the band-wagon of "supporting our brave troops" and give themselves some good PR. Are they not the same celebs who whinge and moan about the extortioate taxes they have to pay and find ways NOT to pay them, offshore accounts, swiss bank accounts and the like. If they really want to support their troops get them to pay all their taxes here so the money can be used to buy the best of equipment, more equipment, better medical and welfare facilities etc. Give the hero a rub and his luck will rub onto you, you'll get an even better deal at the next round of contract negotiations cos you'll be seen as a caring real person, not like the self centred moneygrabbibg tossers they really are.
The awards! Good grief! Best sailor, most outstanding airman, best reservist, etc. The winners are all courageous people, anyone is who chooses to do a dangerous job like they do. But c'mon, let's be real, they all already got their rewards. Whether it was a medal, the appreciation of their comrades, the satisfaction of a job well done or just simply to survive! What awards are they going to give next? Best sniper? Highest bodycount? Most spectacular bomb run?
I have always had a deep and abiding respect for those who serve. From my relations who served in the first and second world wars to those old men and women who abounded when I was a child. To friends who served in Northern Ireland and who fought in the Falkland's War. They all saw far too much than any young person should ever see, their friends dead, crippled in body and mind. They fought nought for awards and plaudits but for each other and the fact that it was their job. A job they had pride in, and no matter where life took them, nothing could ever take that away from them.
Finally, it seems to me that this kind of paparazzi-celeb awards ceremony is just the sort of thing that denegrates the nature of soldiery and really needs to be stamped upon. War. This is a very serious business. The need of celebs, and the public, to be seen to care is too much. What day is Remembrance Day? The answer is everyday. They don't need no steenking awards. They have each other. And they have our respect, if only we'd show it with the dignity and honour that our forebears did.

Rant over.

Hello all.
I've been approached by several folk, who aren't able to make it to any of the signings I'm doing this year, to get an opportunity to get their mitts on some of the art from Insurrection. (by the way I've had a look at what everyone's said about it. And I want to thank you all for your kind comments, and to those of you who had reservations about it. Dan and I will try to take some of them into consideration when we start the 2nd series. (hopefully in the not too distant future!)
Anyhow, anyone interested in puchasing pages, please just "pm" me with a list of their preferences (as some pages have been sold already!) and I'll "pm" them back with info on the cost of pages, postage etc.
In the interst of fairness, I'll do it in a "first come first served" way.

Cheers

Colin

Just to let everyone know.I've been asked to take part in a signing at Deadhead Comics in Edinburgh on Saturday 22nd of August. It's really an Underground comics signing, but Gaf at Deadhead has kindly asked me to attend. It's from 1pm till late. There will be a fair few folk there from the Scottish underground comics scene, including - Dave Alexander (Viz, McBam Brothers), Jim Stewart (Ganjaman), Curt Sibling (Total Fear, Nexion), Dave Gordon (My Excess, Nexion, Dema), Rob Miller (Khaki Shorts, Nexion), John Miller (Khaki Shorts, Nexion), Adam Smith (Khaki Shorts) and Graham Manley ( who's been around for ever but people might know him from Juliet November in the Meg and from his work in The Dandy). I've also just heard that there might also be a theatre performance as well going on in the shop, it is the Edinburgh Festival afterall!! (something about Superman in 10 minutes!)
Anyhow, I'll be there from about 1pm and will be signing, sketching and selling bits'npieces, including art from Insurrection, along with generally having a good time. If anyone is about Edinbugh on Saturday then just pop in and sell hello!

Hi all! I'm Colin MacNeil. I hope you don't mind if I join the forum! I'm sure some of you know who I am.     After doing a signing at Kingdom of Adventure recently( Hi Dave et al! ), I realised that apart from Hiex in 2008 I hadn't been out of the studio for about three years. (professionally speaking that is! I still find time to go to the kitchen for snaxs!!) So I just wanted to say hi and hope you don't mind if I stick my Lawgiver in from time to time.