Pumpkin 2007
Decided to go with a traditional cartoony pumpkin face this year. We could only afford one Hallowe'en decoration, so I thought it best to stick with the classics. It's a bit happier than last years pumpkin:
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October 30, 2007
October 28, 2007
drink and draw #2
Drink and draw last night, we didn't hang around too long, some photos on flickr.
We were given some amazing spleenal figures to customise. Very exciting. He even included a little spleenal sketch book for doodling ideas as I was complaining that I'd mess it up.
October 27, 2007
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Mooo! QuackQuack!
Me and Andy went to a farm on Thursday. I don't know why, it just seemed like the thing to do. It was good fun, but they don't let you take any of the animals home. I would've liked one of the ducks. Some photos at Flickr.
October 24, 2007
diving suits
I don't know why, but I love looking at different designs for diving suits. Here's ten of the best:
http://www.oobject.com/diving-helmets/carmagnolle-diving-suit/667/
The Carmagnolle is my favourite:
It may make an appearance in a future Monstrum strip. I'm just finishing up a Monstrum strip that will be free to read online. That's right, free!
If you're interested in diving stuff too, there's a great book I read a few years ago by Trevor Norton called 'Stars beneath the sea', about the pioneers of diving. They're all crazy. Very entertaining.
October 22, 2007
More tag team and also the Observer competition.
More about Tag Team over at Tizer Soze. If you're a contributor, go check it out because the one line summaries of each story are very good.
Myfanwy Tristram is collecting together all the entries of the recent Observer graphic story competition. This is a great idea, when I got the paper to see who had won I was surprised that I hadn't heard of any of the entrants (where were all the stars of the small press?) and I really wanted to see the other work that hadn't made it to the final selection. I'm glad to see some familiar names up on the site and I'm also enjoying the debates that have been springing up. There are also so many other names that I hadn't come across before in my geeky exploits, granted I have missed a lot of conventions and I don't review as much as I used to, so it makes me think: Are there more people making comics in the UK than there are people reading them? It could happen.
October 18, 2007
Tag Team Comic now available
Tag Team is now available to buy.
Stories by Dave West, Nigel Auchterlounie, Andrew Richmond, Michael O'Keefe, Colin Mathieson, Tony Hitchman and Ian Mayor and artwork by me. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
Original pages can be bought at bargain prices over at my main website: www.lomoore.com
More updates to my site: Illustration and Painting pages have been merged, new buy art page added, and some other little changes here and there. Check it out.
October 16, 2007
hallowe'en drink and draw
Next drink and draw session - 27th October, at the sports bar in newcastle.
here's their myspace page.
October 11, 2007
Website updates
Apparently you can't improve on perfection, but I thought I would try anyway.
Some new illustrations and a bit of a re-shuffle of the comics section.
Please check it out and let me know if there are any mistakes!
www.lomoore.com
October 08, 2007
Some other blogs
Hurrah! More kind words about my book 'Some Forgotten Part', this time over at : http://tizersoze.wordpress.com/. Tizer Soze is a pretty genius title.
It's a blog with lots of webcomics and musings and other such interesting stuff which you should go check out. And the author has also contributed to the upcoming 'Tag Team' comic. Oh, the world of comics is so incestuous!
While I'm at it, here's some more blogs from 'Tag team' contributors:
October 07, 2007
New stuff
Preview of my strip'The creator' over at Accent UK. It's for their 2008 Accent UK anthology, 'Robots', and it was written by Tony Hitchman.
New comic 'Tag Team' is pretty much ready to go to print, woo hoo! I'm also finishing off some comic strips for the web.
But it's not all hard work, I have managed to squeeze in numerous cups of tea, some light television viewing and I picked up my Phase 2 grading in the IKAEF (International Kali Arnis Eskrima Federation) system. I've also been sorting out the new Team Phoenix website, myspace and other general designy stuff. (I also designed the new uniforms and the door sign and welcome packs and stuff)
October 02, 2007
Art Rant
There's an article over at the new Indie Review website which caught my attention. In it, Tom Humberstone briefly touches on a topic which most people working or striving to work in a creative industry will find familiar.
Art - Comic Art.
For years I tried to dress up my comic work as sequential art, going so far as to submit an entire dissertation which ultimately concluded that 'comics are art and I'm not wasting my time, so there, now leave alone you big meanies'. Once I accepted that comics didn't need to be art and that it's okay to be me, I fell in to exactly the same trap all over again. This time I tried to apologise for my 'commercial' work as a designer and remarket my work as fine art. Again, I realised that segregating the different elements of my work was not the answer, and that the 'arts scene' was generally horrendous anyway. I do design, illustration, comics, even write stuff, and it's all the same because it's all by me. Why don't some people get that? Why do comic artists need to validate what they do and why do artists get respect, grants and kudos for intangible conceptual weirdness? Perhaps that bitter thought could form the basis of a new dissertation. Okay, rant over. Just be glad I wasn't drunk when I wrote this! DISCLAIMER:I have many good friends who are artists and, before I get inundated with grumpy mails from them, I'm not specfically talking about any individuals, I'm just making general sweeping statements.