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Merry Christmas - here is a Christmas cephalopod to make you feel all festive.

That's the painting I used on my Christmas card this year, if you didn't get one it's because I only posted about five of them, mainly due to laziness and being busy with other stuff, like partys, woo hoo!

This was the best jumper at the Christmas jumper party on Saturday.

And Johnny 5 was there, it was a great night. There was also the famous Phoenix Christmas party, this picture tells you all you need to know:

I've also joined comic space. And Matthew Badham, finally, has a blog.
And, this months issue of Martial Arts Illustrated has the first part of an amazing interview with Lynn Thompson by Andy. It's not to be missed, go buy it!

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Well, I haven't gotten too far with that new issue of Monstrum that I keep promising. I managed some new images of the characters (see above for part of the Ella one in black and white) which will probably get used on the intro page. I've got all the page break downs done, and I've decided to go with the new UK format, I got some very reasonable quotes from smallzone, so once I get my act together I'll give them a go. I joked a while ago that I was working on a novel, just for fun, which would probably be finished first. Well, it's going strong, so it probably will get finished first. I'm feeling a bit out of it all, having missed every convention this year.
I haven't had any freelance work in a while which has made me a bit mopey, and usually that makes me draw even more, but not this time. So I'm trying the age old trick of getting a beautiful new sketch book to fill up, then I'll go in for the second round with Monstrum. I've been pretty busy too....with Jaws unleashed, the best game ever. I don't know why this got such rubbish reviews. It's amazing. You're a huge shark who just wants to cause mayhem. What could be better?
I've just read the new Spirit/Batman comic, it's great. But it's by Darwyn Cooke and Jeph Loeb, (with Dave Stewart on colours) so how could it be anything but great? Darwyn Cooke will also be doing the new Spirit series, so I think it'll be amazing. I've also been reading some great small press stuff, but you'll have to read the review section of Comics International to find out more about that.

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