He wants to draw comics when he's older and has already self published a few. Also on the shelf is a picture of Spider-Man my son Jake drew when he was about four. The DVDs are for reference for all that tough stuff writers ask me to draw. I don't watch TV or DVDs while I work, I get too easily distracted.

Below that are some old sketchbooks and some DVDs. I buy a lot of those Essentials that Marvel puts out!īelow are more files with copies of the comics I've drawn. More trades on the bookcase, mostly grouped by artist: Mignola, Kirby, Colan and Buscema. On the far right of the bookcase is a broken train set bridge I've been promising to fix for him a couple of years too…. Behind them is a broken C-3PO figure I've been promising my son I'd fix for the last few months. Next to that is my Scream Award from Spike TV for Best Comic Book Artist 2006. The trophy only arrived a couple of weeks ago, so I'm still pretty excited about it.

I won as Eisner last year for 'Criminal' for Best New Series. Along the top of all these bookcases are files of comics too big for longboxes or just stuff I haven't got around to sorting through yet. This one mostly contains books about comics and artists as well as some oversized hardcovers and some National Geographics and other reference books I used to have to buy before Google was invented. Then it's the first of five bookcases containing most of my trades and hardcovers. Next is one of two photo floodlights I use when shooting photo reference. Behind is a big cupboard about six feet-deep full to the ceiling with longboxes, mostly containing copies of my own comics, piles of original art and FedEx supplies. Above that is a board I'm going to paint on in a few weeks for a local exhibition I'm taking part in. On the easel is a life painting I did a couple of years ago which was featured in volume three of Ash Wood's 'Swallow' book.

The pieces I really wanted, some painted magazine illustrations, had already been bought by Rian Hughes the day before. There was an exhibition of his art including non comic stuff at Acme Comics in Brixton about twenty years ago and I picked them up there. Above the filing cabinet are two framed 'Garth' newspaper strips by the late, great Frank Bellamy.

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