Doodle- Rogue Trooper

Doodle. Judge Dredd.

Yet another shot of old stoney face.

Doodle. Johnny Alpha

The main man himself from Strontium Dog.

Doodle. Dredd.

Today's Tharg.

Happy birthday mighty one.

Doodle Dredd.

Doodle time: Tharg

Daily doodle. Tharg the mighty.

From the pages of the galaxies greatest 2000AD I give you the main man himself.

Daily doodle- 15/11/2011

Today I give you a gift. The gift of death'as ssweet releassse.

Daily doodle. Rogue Trooper

Today I give you Judge Dredd.

Daily doodle- Middenface McNulty

Seeing as I'be now got me a smartphone I am going to be posting up more of my workplace sketches. All of these will be going out with comic orders in future, so this is my only record of them. Today, Middenface McNulty from the 2000 ad strip Strontium Dog.

New Strip: Captain Gallagher.

Coming soon is Captain Gallagher- written by Richmond Clements and drawn by me. This was a three page strip that I had a ridiculously short deadline for. Having achieved it I am now trying to keep the momentum going and the plan now is to complete a page of art each week for as long as I can possibly manage. Fingers crossed!

I'm alive!

Hello? Ahem. I'm Bolt-01 and I'm very guilty of being rubbish at blogging. Unless I'm trying to flog comics, that is.

I'm not really drawing much these days- the 2000 AD board comp to the left is first thing I've really done since christmas.

So- I'm trying to get back into things- I've accepted a quick strip for Dave McDonald and his Tales of the Emerald Isle written by Rich Clements that has a deadline of end April. Hopefully I'll be able to use that to get back into the groove and start making progress again. I've still got a half pencilled strip for Mike Carroll sat in my folder that I really want to have finished.

Phew! Been a bit busy, but next week is deadline week!

Next week sees the deadline for the new crop of titles, FutureQuake, Something Wicked, Dogbreath and Zarjaz. Zarjaz and FQ are already over page for their issues, with Zarjaz actually gaining 8 pages for the next issue in order to give the issue the chance to take shape properly, and Dogbreath & something Wicked both taking shape 'very' rapidly now.

The worst bit of the process is about to need to be done- the emails to tell folks that despite them hitting deadline- I'm bumping their strip to a later issue. I hae doing that- I've had it done to me, on several occasions and it always leaves a feeling that your work isn't as good as you thought it was. Of course the real reason for it is that I only have so many pages in each issue, and sometimes I struggle to actually fit the strips into 48 pages. Thankfully I've had a few shorter strips in, which make it easier to find room to manouvre. Still doesn't make it nice to have to tell folks that their strip is going to be another six months in the drawer though.

Anyway, what have I been Working On!


ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll Still storming through page 3, because I’ve had to take a detour to draw page 36 of Fractal Friction!

The final page has been coloured and lettered by Jim Campbell, and very well too.

Completed this Week!

Publishing:

FutureQuake 16 Strip in this week:

Something Wicked 06 Strip in this week:

Dogbreath 24 Strips in this week:

Sun & Moon: Hunters of Bounty- Brainspotting

Zarjaz 10


Lettering:

Average Joe.

Ongoing. This week lettered: Nowt. Got quite a few pages in- but until I get the new comics done they can wait.
Angels of the Somme for Timebomb comics
Writer Alec Robertson, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.
Red Sands for Starscape
Writer: Matthew McLaughlin, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

Working On!

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll

I’m now back into inking this and steaming through page 3.



Completed this Week!

Publishing:


FutureQuake 16 Strip in this week:

Robo-Sapiens

Something Wicked 06 Strip in this week:

The Curse of Rama-Set

Dogbreath 24 Strips in this week:

Damned Mutants

The Gronk- Small Universe.

Zarjaz 10

Lettering:



Average Joe.

Ongoing. This week lettered: Nowt.



Angels of the Somme for Timebomb comics

Writer Alec Robertson, Art Bruce McLaren

Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.



Red Sands for Starscape

Writer: Matthew McLaughlin, Art Bruce McLaren

Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

Friday 30/07/2010

Working On!

A quick piece for the 2000 AD message board comp this month. Based on an idea by Stephen Watson

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll
Still inking page 2. I hate losing momentum like this...

Completed this Week!
Publishing:

FutureQuake 16 Almost full. 1 strip out for final approval. 1 strip lost it's artist. Hopefully we can find a suitable replacement- but this is a big blow.
Something Wicked 06
Dogbreath 23
Zarjaz 10 BIG leaks about a certain strip and also the New cover too!

Lettering:

Average Joe.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 4 pages.

Angels of the Somme for Timebomb comics
Writer Alec Robertson, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

Red Sands for Starscape
Writer: Matthew McLaughlin, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

Working On!

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll
Still inking page 2. I hate losing momentum like this...



Completed this Week!
Publishing:

FutureQuake 16 Almost full. Room for 1 strip left…
Something Wicked 06 Did I say that I'd got the confirmation of the cover artist?
Dogbreath 23
Zarjaz 10

Lettering:

Average Joe for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 4 pages.

Angels of the Somme for Timebomb comics
Writer Alec Robertson, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

Red Sands for Starscape
Writer: Matthew McLaughlin, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

09/07/2010.

Over at 2000 AD this week, in prog 1692, I got a rather awesome surprise. If yo look in the BG of the panel above, you will see a S/D agant with a beak- that is Whistler, a character I created many moons ago to star in some fan fiction on the 2000 AD website. The reason for Whistlers awesome appearance- It is a thank you from John Wagner and Carlos for being the continuity nerd for the current Strontium dog strip. The actual image was sorted by my good compadre in all this, Richmond; and he had known about it for months, in fact it was all his idea. Friends are good. As for what happens in the rest of the series- that would be telling :)



Working On!

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll
I got righteously stuck into page 2 last weekend- pencilling most of it in a single 2 hours blur, I'm now decyphering my scribble and laying down the inks.



Completed this Week!
Publishing:

FutureQuake 16 Did I say that I'd got the confirmation of the cover artist?
Something Wicked 06 I've now sorted which strip is lead, and begun to arrange the cover artist for the issue.
Dogbreath 23 The Cover is now sorted!
Zarjaz 10

Lettering:

Average Joe for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 2 pages. Got another 5 to work on though.

Angels of the Somme for Timebomb comics
Writer Alec Robertson, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

Red Sands for Starscape
Writer: Matthew McLaughlin, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

02/07/2010.

Working On!

ABC Warriors: Mongrol- Blogging with David Withers & Mike Carroll
Page 1 Inked, looking at getting stuck into page 2 over the weekend.



Completed this Week!
Publishing:

FutureQuake 16
Something Wicked 06
Dogbreath 23
Zarjaz 10
Zarjaz 11 – The ABC Warriors special- We got a rather nice extra for this issue through. No spoilers yet though.

Lettering:

Average Joe for Insomnia Publishing.
Ongoing. This week lettered: 5 pages.

Angels of the Somme for Timebomb comics
Writer Alec Robertson, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.

Red Sands for Starscape
Writer: Matthew McLaughlin, Art Bruce McLaren
Ongoing. Nothing happening yet.