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Friday, 5 September 2014

MINI-COMIC OUT NOW!

My first mini-comic, Patches McGinley 'When it all falls apart' is now available!

Please go to: http://morgangleave.bigcartel.com/product/patches-mcginley-when-it-all-falls-apart-mini-comic to order one.

Raising awareness of Mental Health issues. Supporting Blurt Foundation and Mind, and now only £2.00 including delivery. Personalised envelope sketches too!

Sunday, 31 August 2014

PATCHES McGINLEY MINI-COMIC

Out this week is a new mini-comic starring Patches McGinley, tackling the issues of depression, anxiety and stress. You can email me at morgan@morgangleave.co.uk if you'd like one. They will be ready to order and post out at the end of the week. Folded A5 black and white, £2.00 including postage.

Update! You can pre-order from: http://morgangleave.bigcartel.com/

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

FIZZ AND ARABELLA...

Also working on a zine starring our cat and dog as detectives. Black and white, hand-drawn and lettered, then photocopied. Back to basics and using Rotring pens again!

Monday, 7 July 2014

Kitty Cards

Last summer, whilst on holiday on the Isle of Wight, my grandson and I came up with 'Kitty Cards', a funny trading card idea. We came up with about a hundred kitties, and I sketched quite a few, including 'Cthulhu Kitty', seen here.

Recently, my grandson brought the idea of doing Kitty Cards up again. I've laid out most of what I have dubbed the first wave of 14 cards, and five, including Cthulhu Kitty here, are done as finished digital artwork.

The original idea was to make a small amount of the cards myself to give out free at art shows and events to kids. Kids love free stuff and collecting, and it's also a good way of getting my art out there too. I'm looking into getting the cards produced properly and how to get packages made like old-fashioned bubble gum and card packs. It's amazing that in this high technology world we live in, that a little bit of card with some funky art on it can still grab people's attention and imagination. If anyone has contacts in the trading card business... please let me know!

I am genuinely having a blast putting these cards together. If you see me at shows and events, please ask me if I have any left, as I think they'll go fast!

Thursday, 19 June 2014

YOUNG BOB TITLE PAGE

So, last week I announced that I'd finished storyboarding 'Young Bob', my comic about a young hero set in a funny version of 1950s London. I've laid out the first few pages already, and decided after trying some ink and digital colour panels, that the artwork is going to be digital full colour, working over my original pencil layouts.

I'm fairly certain I said it'll take a while to create (it's 48 pages of art, plus covers), but once a fair chunk is done, I'll be serialising it online with a printed version to follow.

For now, and to give a taste of the artwork style, I created a title page last night. Enjoy.

Saturday, 14 June 2014

BLIMEY! I'VE STORYBOARDED A WHOLE COMIC!

Afternoon all! After the shocking revelation that I’ve actually finished storyboarding my all-ages comic ‘Young Bob’ yesterday after originally writing years ago, my thoughts have turned to actually making the darned thing!

I’m starting from scratch in terms of drawing, deciding to go the digital route for finished artwork, as I want the colours to POP! There’s a long road ahead, drawing, editing, scanning, redrawing in Illustrator, lettering, and so on… I’m going to publish Young Bob on the web first, in weekly instalments, then hope to get him into print. He deserves it!

My questions to all you lovely folks out there is how to keep my copyright safe whilst publishing on the web (my wife is very keen on this part), and how to fund the printed version? After all, I’m an unknown quantity in the comics world, so why would someone trust me and invest in publishing when they don’t know me? The printed version is a long way off yet, and I should be able to fund part of it myself, but I’d like to have some other folks on board too…

Let me know what you think. Cheers!