Violent! 4, 5 & 6

I've looked at Violent! before...

Issue #1 is here

Issues #2 & #3 are here

and now it's the turn of issues 4, 5 & 6 (the final issue I believe)

Violent! #4, Winter 2001, £1, A4, 24 pages, cover by Frazer Irving, B&W art throughout (apart from the cover)

strips as follows...

Rabid - by Jim Campbell

A mere maid - by Clow

Mitch Molotov - by Phil Nixon & Jim Campbell

Spare parts - by Jay Eales & Peet!

Knuckles - by Jay Eales & Simon Gurr

A killing in suburbia - by Mike Sivier & Shaun Bryan

Violent! #5, Summer 2002, £1.50, A4, 24 pages, cover by Paul Harrison, B&W art throughout

strips as follows...

Flatworm: The French connection - by Jay Eales & Paul Harrison-Davies

Mage works - by Jay Eales & Kelvin Cox

Spare parts - by Jay Eales & Peet! Clack

Rose-tinted spectacles - by Jay Eales & Peet! Clack

The Teksas chainstore massacre - by David Hailwood & Stuart Giddings

Violent! #6, Summer 2004, 28 pages, A5, cover by ???, B&W art throughout

strips as follows...

Flatworm 2069 - by Jay Eales & Paul Harrisom

Mageworks 2: Afterlife - by Jay Eales & Kelvin Cox

Achtung! - by Graeme Neil Reid

Spare parts - by Jay Eales & Peet!

The Teksas chainstore massacre - by David Hailwood & Stuart Giddings

The cut above - by Gary Wilkinson & PJ

Sherlock Holmes - a signing!

Just a reminder that this signing is happening this afternoon - I can't make it myself but have fun if you're going.

Just a quick shout out for the first great comic signing of the year at Gosh comics. 

It's a great opportunity to meet Frazer Irving, Barry Kitson & Joel Meadows. The image below is by Frazer,

Saturday 20th January - make a note in your diary!

Sherlock Holmes - a signing!

Just a quick shout out for the first great comic signing of the year at Gosh comics. 

It's a great opportunity to meet Frazer Irving, Barry Kitson & Joel Meadows. The image below is by Frazer,

Saturday 20th January - make a note in your diary!

UPDATED: Artist sketchbooks

I've enjoyed looking at the various programmes that have been produced to support all sorts of comic conventions over the years - one of the highlights for me in attending such a show is to meet the artists and to (just maybe) come away with an example of their art. If you can't afford a piece of original artwork then maybe a sketchbook from them is the next best thing? I've looked at many of these sketchbooks individually but I thought it was worth bringing all these posts together - and adding a few new images in too. Enjoy!

UPDATED - now with extra Frazer Irving sketchbooks

I've looked at the sketchbooks of Simon Bisley before (here) and I see there are some new sketchbooks to buy, here they are...

The current sketchbook (dated 2021) is for sale here

Warning these links may have expired...

This edition (limited run of 700 copies) is available here for $40 but hurry, there aren't many left

This version (limited edition of 150 copies) is available here for $50 but hurry, there aren't many left

This version (limited edition of 150 copies) is available here for $175 but hurry, there aren't many left

Previous Bisley sketchbooks...

Simon Bisley sketchbook - 2018, 64 pages, limited edition of 400 copies

Simon Bisley sketchbook - 2018, 64 pages, limited edition of 100 copies

There also seems to have been this version too...

Simon Bisley sketchbook - 2008, 32 pages, limited edition of 1000 copies

All previous mention of Simon's work can be found on the blog here

Glenn Fabry sketchbook 1

I looked in more detail at this sketchbook here and here

Glenn Fabry sketchbook 2

Glenn Fabry sketchbook 3

I've looked at Glenn's work a few times on the blog - check out all the posts here

New addition to this post - The artbook of Glenn Fabry - limited to 100 copies and with an original retail price of 100 euro

Also new for this posting - Monograph by Glenn Fabry

Duncan Fegredo

David Millgate

Art from Sinister Dexter co-creator and Judge Dredd artist. This high quality 48 page A4 art-book, featuring concept art, sketches, 2000AD art, pencil, colour and inked work, produced with permission from 2000AD.

The first print run was just 100 copies, retailing at £14.99 plus postage (£3.00 UK), it was initially on sale at ICE Comic Con in Birmingham on 9th September 2017.

Or you can STILL pre-order a signed copy via Baden James Mellonie via Paypal badenmellonie@hotmail.com (for £17.99 UK, please ask about non-UK postage before ordering) or contact Baden on Twitter @MelMellonie

Frank Quitely

widely available - 128 pages, the Amazon blurb says

With three decades of comic art behind Frank Quitely, Drawings + Sketches selects work from Jupiter's Legacy, Jupiter's Circle, WE3, Pax Americana and more offering insights into the stories and processes behind them. Comics were invented in Glasgow. It is fitting then that Glasgow should be home to Frank Quitely, known worldwide for drawing Batman, Superman and X-Men. A standalone beautiful and inspiring art book, a must-have for any fan or aspiring comics creator.

John Higgins sketchbook

I didn't get this from an actual comic convention in Moscow, instead I got it at the 2000AD 40th birthday event in 2017, A5 sized, 44 pages

Chris Weston sketchbook, US comic book size, 40 pages, colour plus black & white illustrations

rear cover...

I looked here at this sketchbook in some more detail 

Boo Cook sketchbook - A5 sized
As it says inside "...sketches from 32 sketchbooks over 27 years"

Graeme Neil Reid sketchbook (2010), US comic sized, 28 illustrations
limited edition of 30 copies

Graeme Neil Reid sketchbook (2008), US comic sized, 28 illustrations

Graeme Neil Reid sketchbook (2012), US comic sized, 28 illustrations

Gary Erskine sketchbook, A4 sized, 60 pages, colour 

Which was then reprinted (and enlarged) and looks like this...

You can buy it here

Cam Kennedy sketchbook 1

Cam Kennedy sketchbook 2

I looked at these sketchbooks in more detail here

Brian Bolland sketchbook

Only 500 printed (according to the seller on ebay where I've swiped this image from)

Staz Johnson

You can buy this here

Frazer's sketchbooks can all be found for sale here

Frazer Irving sketchbook #1

Frazer Irving sketchbook #2

Frazer Irving sketchbook #3

Frazer Irving sketchbook #4

Frazer Irving sketchbook #5

Frazer Irving sketchbook #6

Frazer Irving sketchbook #7

All sketchbooks can be found on the blog here

Lawless 2023 - original art

I've looked here at some of the photos from the convention floor of Lawless 2023 and now here are some of my photos of the original art that I saw there...

Keith Burns - cover from Out of the blue, volume 2

More Keith Burns art

Colin MacNeill & Richard Elson art

Even more Keith Burns art - from the cover of Battle Action #1

This is actually an A6 sized Green Lantern sketch by Frazer Irving

Zombo sketch by Henry Flint that I'm very glad that I waited around what like felt ages for

Mick McMahon was sketching Dredd heads