Category: Meanwhile..

So in spite of (not) doing a steampunk comic, I don’t actually know very much about it– I think I’m more of a steam-ironist (steam– iron..ha-HAH!)  So myself and my Associate undertook an important research expedition to White Mischief (?) Saturday night.  I think I’ve started my recovery about now.  Results: I’m pretty sure it’s…

Like all overly-optimistic economic forecasts, the one predicting a 100% growth in comic posting over this week turns out to need rejiggering.  This is because I’m insane, and the projected growth in comic output percolating behind the scenes is around like 550%, and the good (?) news is that when part 3 of Economic Model…

Couldn’t do one of Babbage without doing one of Lovelace.  She’s much easier to draw though, being your basic Tintin oval head. I’ve already done her bio! Let it merely be said that she had me from, “She’s Byron’s daughter and was raised by mathematicians so her volcanic passions wouldn’t SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL!” Raised…

Last part of Economic Model should be up in a couple of days. In the meantime, it was driving me nuts that I couldn’t draw Babbage consistently so I drew a model sheet (click for larger if you like): I don’t know if it’s good or bad to have so much visual reference for this…

Hello, O totally unexpected large audience, This is called Dangerous Experiments in Comics not because these are Experimental Comics but because as normally a non-comics artist this is all an experiment.. as such you will have to put up with not only the disastrous chemical explosions, but also the tedious followup paperwork that is The…

I’m working on Part 2 of Lovelace and Babbage vs the economy but I had to draw this for some reason: Isambard Kingdom Brunel was like the Wolverine of the early Victorians.  He was short, ripped, had big sideburns, smoked 50 cigars a day, AND KICKED EVERYONE’S ASS!! Okay, I don’t know for a fact…

In which the Author Undertakes a Wild Goose Chase; Babbage Invents the Cable-strewn Skyline; and the Duke of Wellington Makes an Appearance.

This brief biographical sketch was done for Ada Lovelace Day 2009. I think I in was a pub at the time. From a humble beginning as a joke in a pub, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is now an Eisner-nominated graphic novel! New York Times Bestseller and winner of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Neumann Prize!…