I was commissioned by Hull Council to design a second set of sleeve design for signal boxes.
it’s part of a trail scheme to reduce tagging and painting on these boxes. My first set can be viewed here .
Thank you HCC for getting me involved in a fun project.
I am a guest of Gosh/Bf as part of the awesome drink and draw. Join me and Natasha on Thursday – pencils at the ready.
For more info go to the Broken Frontier website
I have self-published my own comics for nearly Twenty years. A good portion of these are what is generally termed autobio, short for autobiography, Ten years in the making I have produced eight comics centred around my personal experiences. I had the gauge idea of the BIG BOOK, collecting these comics and working towards 600 pages. This was with one eye on Eddie Campbell – The years have pants and building a legacy work. But drift set in and I was lost as to what direction to lead the project.
Strip for me steps up
It was Douglas Noble that suggested that I should collect them under a working title and he would publish them on Strip For Me/ComiXology. He suggested Life’s a party. I was quite resistant to this title at first. It’s a play on my surname and I’ve heard most versions including ASSPARTY ! After a while I came round to accepting the title as a thing.
Why do you need to know this.
Basically all my back issues are out of print, and I have no intention of reprinting any of them. New comics will be published and if I ever get to the end of this project I will try to get a complete book published. But until then, digital is the way to read the back issues.
So where can I buy these ?
Life’s a party/Strip for me/ComiXology is the place to go for back issues.
For my current print comic, Last Orders click through to the shop.
Necessary Monsters is a collaboration between Sean Azzopardi and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. Starting out as a web comic in 2008, Monsters was then published in 5 self produced mini – comics. It has an interesting publishing history, resulting in two trades published by 1st Publishing. A third volume, On bloody foundations is in the process of being published, date TBC.
Blurb from volume one. There exists a world of horrors beneath the one we know, where the creatures of our nightmares stalk amongst humanity. The Chain polices this world, a covert agency -of killer monsters keeping the human herd from growing too thin. With an Introduction by Kieron Gillen.
Necessary Monsters: Murderbox is a spy thriller where the world is awash with beasts and monsters, dark things that cut, bite, slash and generally kill you. Daniel Goodbrey twists and turns the plot around, following all the rules of thriller writing, throwing in some grotesquery and trimmings of weird, shadowy worlds, but playing up to the clichés, luxuriating in them, even, adding a knowing twist to the thrills – Forbidden Planet. With and introduction from Si Spurrier.
On a cold, bright December morning in the 1970s, the rock star Wallace Sendek vanished. Since then, he has been seen dozens of times around the world, by old fans and strangers to his work. His silhouette is etched in the lines of every map, his shadow at the corner of the street, reflection in every window.
Wallace Sendek has disappeared; this is record of his sightings.
The Ziggy Stardust myth as imagined by David Lynch,
from two of the titans of the British small press” – Kieron Gillen.
“…a mystery done properly” – Forbidden Planet International
“…one of the greatest horror comics you will ever read” – Broken Frontier
Life’s a party, a collection of self published autobiographical comic books. Written and drawn by Sean Azzopardi and published by Strip for me. It all started in 2010 with a collection of work titled 100 days of Winter.
Ten years later there are now eight issues with a further two in development. The intention was never to make a large work, or to continue beyond the first comic. But I’m inspired by collections such as The years have pants, (Eddie Campbell) or American Splendour ( Harvey Pekar) and have decided to continue. The parts published or in the process of being completed are as follows.
Strip for me are publishing digital versions via ComiXology. It was Douglas ( Noble) that came up with the title and the idea of collecting everything together into a single volume.