Talking talking!

Hello. Hay fever permitting I will be chatting about how I make work this thursday 24th June from 6.30 Pm at Nobrow HQ (62 Great Eastern street). I will explain how I mix paint, my favourite pencil brand and snacks I eat while working. Or more likely I'll be showing photos of boxes full of cut-out bits of paper and saying "Here is a box full of cut-out bits of paper. And here's another"

I will also be signing copies of 'People I've Never met & Conversations I've never had' after the talk.

To RSVP go to Nobrow's Facebook page or if like me you're not on Facebook i'm sure you can give 'em an email or write them a letter or leave a post it note somewhere with your name on.

Non Narrative Drawings or Comics what don't make no sense.

I've been thinking recently about making some comics and so I started writing out some ideas but they quickly turned into just me writing out conversations similar to the ones I've never had featured in my book. Which in itself is fine, I can draw some little people chatting with speech bubbles above their heads quickly realising they have misunderstood what the other is chatting about with hilarious consequences. However there wouldn't be much to draw apart from a scene / background to place them in. So instead I decided to just start drawing / painting anything I could think of but place them in panels to see if at least I could make something that looks like a comic even if it doesn't really tell a story. Below is what I came up with. Some parts work, some don't, some I like, others I'm not too bothered about. I'm sure if I wanted I could try and figure out a narrative from it. Perhaps by covering up some sections or reordering it. I even tried to start a very simple panel narrative with some small guys wearing pointy hats but the first panel I drew was the one in the middle and then drew characters leaving to the right and left forgetting the first rule of comics being you read from left to right. Oh well, it's a start of something even if I'm not sure what.

From the looks of this post my favourite word is some. I think used it at least 28 times.

'People I've never met and Conversations I've never had!'

Holy Moly! 'People I've never met and Conversations I've never had' is the name of my first published book and my debut solo show.

The book is a 32 page hardback monograph featuring all new work and is published by the great people at Nobrow. The guys have done a great job putting it together and I'm real excited for people to see it. You will be able to buy it at their website very soon and at....

The Private view / launch on Thursday the 17th September at Concrete Hermit (5a Club Row, London, E1 6JX) from 6.30pm - 9pm.

To run alongside the launch of the book I will be exhibiting the original artworks from the book, a number of Limited edition screenprints / posters and several hundred heads. The show will be on from Wednesday 9th September to Saturday the 19th September.

I just finished putting up the show and am pretty darn pleased with the result. I'll post some pictures soon. I was helped out with the install by the Gent that is Sam Bevington who has been interning at Nobrow. He was indeed a great help as i'm pretty sure I would still be sticking Heads to the wall now.

As you can see the Launch / private view is quite a bit after the day the show opens, this is because the books are only being sent over from Belgium this coming weekend. Therefore the book will not be in the gallery / shop until at least Tuesday the 15th Sept. Fingers crossed sooner!

See you at the Launch I'll be the one smiling lots and posing next to the pictures and making sure no ones knocks anything over.

Below are some sneaky peeks at the inside of the book.