Goodies! Giant Monsters!

I know, I KNOW! This site is like half excuses, half actual content. If anyone is wondering what my lazy ass is doing instead of drawing comics.. I’m wrestling Giant Monsters all the live-long day– teaser trailer is out!
In grovelling recompense, I give you: Wallpapers!

Click on any of those to pick [...]

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Happy 20th Birthday Wallace and Gromit!

Cracking cheese, Gromit!
Hi-rez by request! 200dpi, should print at 5×5inches-ish.

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The Style Edition

Man, you know everyone on earth gets their fifteen minutes of fame when even lowly cartoonists get interviews.  My Deep Thoughts on steampunk and the universe, over at Tor.com!
I make one extremely contraversial statement in that interview that is bound to set off a firestorm.  That is:  the fashion of the 1830s is hideous. Here [...]

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Ada Film Needs Your Support!

Here’s something I’m sure we’d all like to see– an Ada Lovelace documentary! In order to afford the visual effects necessary for the action-packed Salamander People sequence (addendum: JOKE), the filmmakers are undertaking a spot of the old fund-raising, for which your help is needed– no, they don’t need you to throw cash at them, [...]

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Steampunk in Oxford!

Whooo! The Amaaaaazing Steampunk Exhibit at the Museum of the History of Science is now open! Behold (good thing I went for the 600dpi..):

There’s 3, count ‘em, 3! ways to see the comic.
1.The best way to see the comic online is at Tor.com, the Sci Fi Supersite!  which has kindly up it up [...]

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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Welcome!
If you are new you probably want to start with Lovelace: The Origin. You can then read the episodes/half-baked ideas/pointless ramblings chronologically by clicking on the link to the next post in the upper right of the post pages.
At present the complete comics are:
Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Economy.
Lovelace and Babbage Vs The Client
Depending [...]

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Updatey Update

Despite the blog silence I have been drawing comics!!   The Museum of the History of Science Steampunk Exhibit opens on the 13th of October– the comic is  a 2-page insert for the Broadsheet . Thoroughly intimidated by the epic lineup of actual artists…
Giant monster conditions:  severe.  Comic output will continue sporadic.
Waiting-for-renders activity:  cataloging the [...]

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Thrilling Adventure! Treasure Discovered!

So here’s a little tale for you.  As it features ME, it is of course a gripping, hair-raising story of FUN and COOL and… okay, it’s a tale of.. LIBRARIES.
So I’ve been tromping all over London in search of a few bits and bobs of books on Babbage, and a public library catalogue search for [...]

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Miscellany

Long renders and an itchy Google finger turn up a strange, sudden little window into the past:
So, what DID Babbage talk about when he talked about Ada? WHOA.
I found that little story amazing for a few reasons-
-I’m kind of staggered by the fact that Babbage is telling this stuff to a complete [...]

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Process

Did I say two weeks?  Erm… here!  Look at some process art!

Please understand that at present my priories are necessarily:  1. Job 2. Pub 3. Comic 4. Food, laundry, etc.
I tend to do roughs while waiting for renders (that invaluable source of idleness in the visual effects industry).  Something else I do is Scholarship.  Some [...]

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